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  • Title: The differential effect of cholera toxin on the lymphocyte stimulation induced by various mitogens.
    Author: Vischer TL, LoSpalluto JJ.
    Journal: Immunology; 1975 Aug; 29(2):275-82. PubMed ID: 169198.
    Abstract:
    BALB/c spleen cells (5 x 10(6)) were cultured in 1 ml of serum-free RPMI 1640 medium for 3 days in order to examine the effect of cholera enterotoxin (CN) and its spontaneously formed toxoid (CD) on lymphocyte stimulation. Stimulation was assessed after addition of [3H] thymidine for the last 16 hours of culture. One microgram of CN per culture markedly reduced the baseline of [3H] thymidine incorporation and the stimulation due to phytohaemagglutinin (PHA), concanavalin A (con A) and bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). One microgram of CD diminished the base-line to half, abolished the response to PHA, reduced the response to con A and had very little effect on the LPS-induced stimulation. One-tenth the amount (0-1 mug) of both CN and CD affected only the PHA reaction. A secondary response to haemocyanin in vitro was not decreased by this lower dose. The effect of 1 mug on CN on the LPS response could be reduced by pretreatment of the cells with CD, whereas the PHA reaction remained markedly diminished. Dibutyryl-cAMP added to culture tubes had a similar effect ot 1 mug of CN, affecting the PHA response much more than the response to LPS. Spleen cells of mice immunized with CD gave a significant proliferative response to both 1 mug of CD and CN. The results are interpreted as indicating a strong inhibitory effect of CN mediated by accumulation of intracellular cAMP. CD-immunized cells contain specific receptors for both CD and CN which probably compete with the sites responsible for adenylate cyclase stimulation by CN.
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