Gessl A, Krugluger W, Langer K, Baumgartner I, Spittler A, Grabner G, Förster O, Boltz-Nitulescu G. Expression of MHC class II antigens on rat bone marrow cells and macrophages, and their modulation during culture with murine GM-CSF or M-CSF.
Immunobiology 1995;
192:185-97. [PMID:
7782094 DOI:
10.1016/s0171-2985(11)80096-3]
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Abstract
Flow cytometric analysis employing MRC OX 6 and MRC OX17 monoclonal antibodies recognizing determinants on RT1.B or RT1.D molecules, equivalent to murine I-A and I-E, respectively, was used to detect rat MHC class II antigen (Ag) expression. Approximately 5% of freshly isolated rat bone marrow cells (BMC) expressed RT1.B and over 30% displayed RT1.D molecules. The RT1.D+ cells were W3/13+, OX 7+, OX 19- and OX 22-. After one week culture of BMC with murine recombinant granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF), regardless of concentrations, 90 to 95% of the cells were scored as bone marrow-derived macrophages (BMDM phi), and over 30% expressed both RT1.B and RT1.D Ag. GM-CSF increases the percentage of BMDM phi bearing MHC class II Ag in a concentration-dependent manner. This effect seems to be specific because antibodies to interferon-gamma, tumor necrosis factor-alpha or interleukin-4 did not reduce the number of cells expressing RT1.B and RT1.D Ag. Furthermore, GM-CSF was able to trigger expression of class II molecules on rat peritoneal macrophages (M phi) and BMDM phi resulted from cultures of BMC with mouse M phi-CSF (M-CSF), and the RT1.B and RT1.D inducing effect of GM-CSF was opposed by M-CSF, and by anti-GM-CSF antibodies. The induction of MHC class II Ag synthesis by GM-CSF on rat BMDM phi was confirmed at the mRNA level by Northern blot analysis employing cDNA probes encoding the RT1.B alpha.
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