Article: Studies on the induction of antigen-specific antibody in anti-CD40 cultured human B lymphocytes.
1998 Volume 6, Issue 3-4, Page(s) 261–271
Abstract: Costimulatory signals provided by T cells are required for B cells to produce specific antibody to T-dependent antigen. We have investigated the suitability of using the CD40 culture system for the proliferation and differentiation of Ag-specific human B ...
Abstract | Costimulatory signals provided by T cells are required for B cells to produce specific antibody to T-dependent antigen. We have investigated the suitability of using the CD40 culture system for the proliferation and differentiation of Ag-specific human B cells using cytomegalovirus (CMV) or tetanus toxoid (TT) as antigen. We modified the CD40 culture system (CD32-transfected L cells, anti-CD40, and IL-4) by applying a sequential cytokine stimulation and compared total B-cell cultures with antigen-specific B cells preselected by panning. The detection of specific antibody became possible when antigen-selected B cells were cultured for 7 days in the CD40 system to induce clonal expansion, followed by the addition of IL-2 and IL-10 for an additional 7 days to induce plasma-cell differentiation. We conclude that our initial inability to detect specific antibody in the CD40 system is due to overgrowth of nonspecific B-cell clones and that selection of antigen-specific B cells by panning overcomes this problem. Induction of antigen-specific antibody production was found to be optimal when the initial contact with antigen during panning was limited to between 1 to 24 hours. |
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MeSH term(s) | Antibodies, Bacterial/biosynthesis ; Antibodies, Viral/biosynthesis ; Antibody Formation ; Antibody Specificity ; Antigens, Viral/immunology ; B-Lymphocytes/immunology ; CD40 Antigens/immunology ; Cell Differentiation ; Cells, Cultured ; Cytomegalovirus/immunology ; Cytomegalovirus Infections/immunology ; Flow Cytometry ; Humans ; Immunoglobulin G/biosynthesis ; Immunoglobulin M/biosynthesis ; Interleukins/pharmacology ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Spleen/cytology ; Tetanus Toxoid/immunology |
Chemical Substances | Antibodies, Bacterial ; Antibodies, Viral ; Antigens, Viral ; CD40 Antigens ; Immunoglobulin G ; Immunoglobulin M ; Interleukins ; Tetanus Toxoid |
Language | English |
Publishing date | 1998 |
Publishing country | England |
Document type | Journal Article |
ZDB-ID | 1066447-6 |
ISSN | 1044-6672 |
ISSN | 1044-6672 |
DOI | 10.1155/1998/35259 |
Database | MEDical Literature Analysis and Retrieval System OnLINE |
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