Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 168, 1175-1180, Copyright © 1988 by Rockefeller University Press
Interleukin 5 and interleukin 2 cooperate with interleukin 4 to induce IgG1 secretion from anti-Ig-treated B cells
JM Purkerson, M Newberg, G Wise, KR Lynch and PC Isakson
Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia Medical School, Charlottesville 22908.
We have analyzed requirements for IL-4-induced secretion of IgG1 from
anti-Ig-activated B cells. Activated B cell blasts prepared by culture of
high density B cells with anti-Ig failed to secrete IgG1 upon subsequent
culture with LPS and IL-4. However, IL-4 markedly suppressed IgM secretion
in the same cultures. Addition of a mixture of T cell- derived lymphokines
or rIL-5 to LPS-stimulated anti-Ig blasts restored IL-4-stimulated IgG1
secretion; rIL-2 further enhanced the response to IL-4 + rIL-5. These
results suggest that IL-4, IL-5, and IL-2 cooperate in the regulation of B
lymphocyte Ig isotype expression.