A subset of OKT4+ peripheral T cells can generate colonies containing mixed progeny with OKT4+ helper and OKT8+ suppressor cells
- 31 December 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 15 (10), 1067-1073
- https://doi.org/10.1002/eji.1830151020
Abstract
The membrane phenotype of human T cell colony progenitors and that of their clonal progeny was studied for expression of the T4 and T8 determinants. Using clonal culture conditions, the colonies were grown in semi-solid agar medium from peripheral blood cells. Clonality was assessed using the glucose-6-phosphate-dehydrogenase isoenzyme marker. Combination of this marker with the culture of sorted cell fractions allowed us to ascribe the colony progenitors to a subset of OKT4+lymphocytes. The progeny consisted of the mixture of single OKT4+, single OKT8+and double OKT4+8+ cells, as determined by double staining. Double staining was performed on mass-harvested colony cells and on individual colonies expanded in liquid culture with fresh interleukin 2. Expression of the OKT8 positivity on colony cells deriving from OKT4+ progenitors required an interaction with radioresistant OKT8+ cells that were co-cultured with these progenitors. Furthermore, the functional capacities of the cell progeny were assayed on the pokeweed mitogen-driven immunoglobulin production by B cells. It was found that OKT4T colony cells were helper whereas OKT8+ colony cells were suppressor cells. It is concluded that a subset of OKT4+ peripheral blood T lymphocytes can generate colonies containing both helper OKT4+ cells and suppressor OKT8+ cells.This publication has 22 references indexed in Scilit:
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