Biological properties of factors secreted by antigen-reactive suppressor cells in mice infected with Mycobacterium lepraemurium

Author:

Richard L1,Forget A1,Turcotte R1

Affiliation:

1. Institut Armand-Frappier, Université du Québec, Laval, Canada.

Abstract

Antigen-reactive cells were isolated from the spleens of Mycobacterium lepraemurium-infected C57BL/6 mice on petri dishes coated with mycobacterial antigens. When adoptively transferred to syngeneic mice, the mycobacterial antigen-reactive cells were found to depress the induction and expression of the delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) reaction to M. lepraemurium antigens. The adoptive transfer of soluble suppressor factors (SF) secreted by these cells inhibited only the expression of DTH. The cells depressing the induction of DTH mainly belonged to the L3T4+ (CD4+) T-lymphocyte subset, whereas those depressing its expression differed from the L3T4+ and Lyt-2+ (CD8+) subsets. Treatment of M. lepraemurium-infected mice with SF reduced their mean survival time and enhanced the multiplication of bacilli at the site of infection and their dissemination to the spleen and liver. In vitro at least, SF appeared to interfere at the level of mycobacterial antigen recognition by T lymphocytes rather than at the levels of antigen processing and presentation by macrophages.

Publisher

American Society for Microbiology

Subject

Infectious Diseases,Immunology,Microbiology,Parasitology

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