Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 148, 1216-1227, Copyright © 1978 by Rockefeller University Press
Anti-idiotype induced regulation of helper cell function for the response to phosphorylcholine in adult BALB/c mice
K Bottomly, BJ Mathieson and DE Mosier
An adoptive secondary antibody response to phosphorylcholine (PC) can be
generated by the transfer of keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH)-primed T
cells, PC-bovine gamma globulin-primed B cells, and PC-KLH into irradiated
syngeneic BALB/c mice. If the KLH-primed T-cell donors were pretreated with
anti-idiotype antibodies directed against the BALB/c PC- binding myeloma
TEPC 15, their T cells were unable to collaborate effectively with
PC-primed B cells; moreover, they could suppress the helper activity of T
cells from normal mice for the PC-KLH response. The Ly phenotype of these T
cells was found to be Ly 1-, 2+. The specificity of the suppressor T-cell
population induced by anti-T15 treatment appears to be both for idiotype
(hapten) and carrier, since the suppressor T cells fail to interfere with
the antibody response to PC on a heterologous carrier, nor do they suppress
the response to trinitrophenol-KLH.