IgM antibodies induce the production of antibodies of the same specificity.
AUTOR(ES)
Forni, L
RESUMO
Injection in normal mice of IgM antibodies against sheep erythrocytes or dextran, in the form of an immune serum depleted og IgG, induces direct plaque-forming cells of the same specificity as the injected antibodies. The response is 10--70 times higher than the background plaque-forming cell titer of untreated control mice. Nanogram amounts of IgM induce a detectable response, and a ceiling is reached with a few hundred nanograms of monoclonal IgM. The inducing agent is not residual antigen: (i) treatment of the injected material and the recipients with dextranase abolishes the immunogenicity of dextran, but not the response to anti-dextran IgM; (ii) monoclonal IgM specific for sheep erythrocytes or trinitrophenyl likewise induces plaque-forming cells of the respective specificity, but variant hybridoma products (in which the light chain is that of the myeloma parent) are inactive. In normal mice, IgM-induced antibody responses were observed with antibodies to both thymus-dependent and thymus-independent antigens, but such could not be induced in athymic (nude) mice. Because the mechanism underlying this phenomenon would operate also in a normal immune response and, presumably, in the normal dynamic state of the immune system of unstimulated animals, a network regulation among the elements of the immune system itself is implied.
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