Abstract
It has previously been shown that bone marrow-generated dendritic cells (DC) are potent stimulators in allogeneic mixed leukocyte reactions and are capable of activating naive CD4+ T cells in situ in an antigen-specific manner. In this study we have investigated whether bone marrow-generated DC are capable of inducing antigen-specific CD8+ T cell responses in vivo. Initial attempts to induce specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses in mice injected with bone marrow-generated DC pulsed with ovalbumin (OVA) peptide were frustrated by the presence of high levels of nonspecific lyric activity, which obscured, though not completely, the presence of Ag-specific CTL. Using conditions that effectively differentiate between antigen-specific and nonspecific lyric activity, we have shown that bone marrow-generated DC pulsed with OVA peptide are potent inducers of OVA-specific CTL responses in vivo, compared with splenocytes or RMA-S cells pulsed with OVA peptide, or compared with immunization with free OVA peptide mixed with adjuvant. Antibody-mediated depletion experiments have shown that the cytotoxic effector cells consist primarily of CD8+ cells, and that induction of CTL in vivo is dependent on CD4+ as well as on CD8+ T cells. These results provide the basis for exploring the role of bone marrow-generated DC in major histocompatibility class I-restricted immune responses, and they provide the rationale for using bone marrow-generated DC in CTL-mediated immunotherapy of cancer and infectious diseases.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 255-260 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Journal of Experimental Medicine |
Volume | 182 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Jul 1995 |
Externally published | Yes |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Immunology and Allergy
- Immunology