PROLIFERATIVE RESPONSE OF TAX1-TRANSDUCED PRIMARY HUMAN T-CELLS TO ANTI-CD3 ANTIBODY STIMULATION BY AN INTERLEUKIN-2-INDEPENDENT PATHWAY

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作者
AKAGI, T [1 ]
SHIMOTOHNO, K [1 ]
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[1] NATL CANC CTR,RES INST,DIV VIROL,5-1-1 TSUKIJI,CHUO KU,TOKYO 104,JAPAN
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10.1128/JVI.67.3.1211-1217.1993
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Q93 [微生物学];
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071005 ; 100705 ;
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The growth properties of human T-cell leukemia virus Tax1-transduced primary human T cells derived from peripheral blood lymphocytes were compared with those of the same subset of T cells transduced with a control vector. Tax1-transduced T cells exhibited slightly elevated responsiveness to externally added interleukin-2 (IL-2) and a markedly higher proliferative response to stimulation with anti-CD3 antibody. The proliferation after anti-CD3 antibody stimulation was mainly via an IL-2-independent pathway. Therefore, some other mechanism than the previously proposed IL-2 autocrine model seems to be involved in the process of deregulation of T-cell proliferation by Tax1. Moreover, Tax1-transduced T cells have continued to proliferate in medium containing IL-2 long after control T cells ceased to grow, and so they are considered to be immortalized.
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页码:1211 / 1217
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