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  • Title: Evidence for IL-2 independent proliferation in human T cells.
    Author: Laing TJ, Weiss A.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1988 Feb 15; 140(4):1056-62. PubMed ID: 2830333.
    Abstract:
    Previous models of human T cell proliferation have assumed IL-2 to be largely responsible for the clonal expansion observed after TCR complex (CD3/Ti)-mediated stimulation. By using mAb to the CD3 component of CD3/Ti as well as mAb to other nonpolymorphic T cell surface molecules, we demonstrate T cell proliferation in the absence of detectable IL-2 and define some of the conditions necessary for IL-2 production in vitro. PBL cultured with soluble OKT3 alone or OKT3 plus PMA proliferated nearly equally, but IL-2 was detectable only in the supernatants in the latter condition. RNA blot analyses at 8, 16, and 36 h consistently showed high levels of IL-2 transcripts in the OKT3 + PMA stimulated cells. In contrast, when stimulated with OKT3 alone IL-2 transcripts were barely detectable at the 8-h time point only. Anti-Tac only partially inhibited proliferation induced by either OKT3 or OKT3 + PMA, but consistently prevented it when PBL were stimulated by PMA plus exogenous human rIL-2. Cyclosporin A (CsA) was added in varying doses to PBL cultured in the presence of OKT3 + PMA. At 0.05 microgram/ml, proliferation was only partially inhibited, whereas IL-2 was undetectable. To examine the possibility that IL-4 could account for the observed proliferative response, CsA was added to PBL cultured with either OKT3 alone or OKT3 and PMA. Although IL-4 transcript levels were detectable in the presence of OKT3 alone or OKT3 + PMA, CsA at 0.05 microgram/ml allowed proliferation to occur in the absence of detectable IL-2 as well as IL-2 and IL-4 transcripts. Finally, T cell-enriched PBL were shown to proliferate and also to produce substantial quantities of IL-2 in response to immobilized OKT3 + either OKT11 or 9.3. These results strongly suggest the existence of an IL-2 and IL-4 independent pathway of human T cell proliferation and demonstrate that IL-2 production may result only when a closely defined set of stimuli are present.
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