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  • Title: Autologous rosette-forming T cells regulate responses of T cells. Phenotypic and functional analysis of suppressor cells generated from autologous rosette-forming T cells after autologous mixed lymphocyte reactions.
    Author: Kumagai S, Scher I, Green I.
    Journal: J Clin Invest; 1981 Aug; 68(2):356-64. PubMed ID: 6455444.
    Abstract:
    An average of 5--9% of human peripheral blood of T lymphocytes from rosettes with autologous erythrocytes (ARFT). This population responded only slightly against autologous and allogeneic non-T cells. In contrast, T cells that did not form rosettes with autologous erythrocytes (NRFT) proliferated to a greater degree in auto- and allogeneic mixed lymphocyte reactions (MLR) and also in reactions to trinitrophenyl (TNP) modified autologous non-T cells (TNP-auto-MLR) as compared with ARFT or unfractionated T cells. The ARFT populations could suppress the increased allogeneic (allo)MLR and TNP-auto-MLR of NRFT when the ARFT were added to the NRFT at the beginning of the cultures. Fluorescence-activated cell-sorter (FACS) analysis of these freshly obtained T cell fractions using monoclonal antibodies to subpopulations of T cells did not demonstrate any selective gain or less of T cell subsets in the ARFT and NRFT as compared with unfractionated T cells. But when each T cell fraction was cultured separately for a week in the presence of autologous non-T cells (auto-MLR) and the cells were again analyzed by fluorescence-activated cell sorter, there was an increase in OKT8-positive cells (suppressor/cytotoxic subset) only in the ARFT fraction. The above findings strongly suggest that suppressor T cells are generated from the ARFT fraction during an auto-MLR, these may then regulate the responses on NRFT.
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