Interferon inhibits PWM induced B cell differentiation but not onset of proliferation

Leukemia Research
A YenD Fairchild

Abstract

The dependence of B lymphocyte differentiation into plasmacytes on anteceding B and T cell proliferation was studied using interferon as a probe. Possible correlations of the effect of interferon on PWM induced T and B cell proliferation and B cell differentiation into either kappa or lambda light chain immunoglobulin synthesizing plasmacytes have been investigated. The hypothesis that the observed inhibition of the PWM induced formation of plasmacytes by interferon is due to putative enhanced suppressor cell activity resulting from increased T cell proliferation is tested. Human, peripheral blood lymphocytes were exposed to PWM in the presence or absence of human leukocyte interferon. Proliferation was assayed by pulse cytophotometric analysis of cell kinetics, as well as [3H]TdR labelling of S-phase cells. Incidence of plasmacytes was detected by immunofluorescence using kappa or lambda light chain specific antibody. During continuous [3H]TdR labelling of stimulated cells, interferon inhibited incorporation of precipitable label by 40% at 96 and 144 h, indicating reduced net DNA synthesis by interferon treated cells. The relative fraction of cells in S-phase as well as G1- and G2 + M- was similar for treated and untreated cel...Continue Reading

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