PMID: 1184963Dec 1, 1975Paper

Antibody-dependent cytolytically active human leukocytes: an analysis of inactivation following in vitro interaction with antibody-coated target cells.

The Journal of Immunology : Official Journal of the American Association of Immunologists
H K Ziegler, C S Henney

Abstract

A leukocyte population consisting of approximately 85% lymphocytes, prepared from human peripheral blood by centrifugation through a Ficoll-Hypaque gradient, was studied for its capacity to destroy antibody-coated human liver (Chang) cells in vitro. Cytolysis was a rapid event: increased ionic flux (86Rb) from the target cell occurred within 10 min of the addition of effector cells. Kinetic analysis of target cell destruction (51 Cr release) was compatible with a "one hit" hypothesis, thereby indicating that cytolysis resulted from a single collision was an effector cell. The initial rate of cytolysis was linear and related to the number of leukocytes added, but lysis at all of the leukocyte to target cell ratios tested ceased after 5 hr. The number of target cells killed at that time was directly proportional to the number of leukocytes added. While the lytic capacity of the effector population was totally depleted after incubation with antibody-coated target cells, cytotoxicity was not affected by co-culturing leukocytes with Chang cells treated with pre-immune serum. The cytotoxic effector cells functioning in this antibody-dependent lytic system are thus to be contrasted with killer T cells, whose lytic activity is not comp...Continue Reading

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