T-cell-mediated protection of mice against virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Infection and Immunity
C LevetonG A Rook

Abstract

We sought to protect CBA mice against tuberculosis using in vivo transfer of a T-cell line previously shown to be capable of I-A-restricted recognition of peritoneal macrophages infected in vitro with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. This line induces total bacteriostasis in vitro. In mice that received 500 rads of irradiation 48 h before infection, the T-cell line caused significant prolongation of life when given intravenously with a challenge dose of 5 x 10(6) organisms. Similar experiments with two other T-cell lines showed that these lines offered no protection. Bacterial load at the time of death was inversely related to the time of survival. Thus, death occurred at a lower bacterial load in adoptively protected mice, implying the contribution of an immunopathological component in these animals. The protective T-cell line, which was CD4+ CD8-, had no effect on the rate of growth of strain BCG in CBA nu/nu mice or M. tuberculosis in fully T-cell-deprived mice. This could indicate that CD8+ cells play a role in this system or that there is a need for the recruitment of interleukin 2-producing cells in the recipient. Experiments with monoclonal antibodies to selectively deplete T-cell subsets in normal CBA mice showed that deplet...Continue Reading

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