T-T hybridoma product specifically suppresses tumor immunity.

AUTOR(ES)

Nelson, K

RESUMO

Culture supernatants of spleen or thymus cells from BALB/c mice bearing transplanted, syngeneic, methylcholanthrene-induced sarcomas suppress T lymphocyte-mediated lysis of cells from the tumor borne by the donor of the spleen or thymus cells. On this basis, we hybridized thymus cells from mice bearing sarcoma MCA-1490 with cells from the T lymphoma BW5147. The hybrids (hybridomas) formed were tested for production of factors that could suppress T lymphocyte-mediated lysis of MCA-1490 cells. One hybridoma, and a clone derived from it, produced factors that suppressed the lysis of MCA-1490 cells in vitro. In addition, these factors enhanced the growth of MCA-1490 in immune mice and prevented the destruction of MCA-1490 cells by immune lymphocytes in tumor neutralization (Winn) assays. In vitro lysis of cells from another MCA-induced sarcoma by immune lymphocytes was not suppressed. The suppressor factors did not affect the proliferative response of BALB/c lymphocytes to mitogens or the generation of a cytotoxic response to C57BL/6 alloantigens. Neither did they inhibit the generation of primary or secondary cytotoxic responses to murine leukemia virus-related antigens present on a BALB/c lymphoma line, LSTRA. Although our findings suggest that these suppressor factors are specific for MCA-1490, their specificity for antigens restricted to this tumor needs further definition.

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