Lymphoid Dendritic Cells are Potent Stimulators of the Primary Mixed Leukocyte Reaction in Mice

Dendritic cells (DCs) are a new cell type initially identified in mouse lymphoid organs. Recently, DCs have been purified from mouse spleen. This paper demonstrates a functional role of DCs: they are potent stimulators of the primary mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR). As few as 300-1000 DCs doubled the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 1978-10, Vol.75 (10), p.5132-5136
Hauptverfasser: Steinman, Ralph M., Witmer, Margaret D.
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Zusammenfassung:Dendritic cells (DCs) are a new cell type initially identified in mouse lymphoid organs. Recently, DCs have been purified from mouse spleen. This paper demonstrates a functional role of DCs: they are potent stimulators of the primary mixed leukocyte reaction (MLR). As few as 300-1000 DCs doubled the proliferative activity of 5 × 106 allogeneic responder spleen cells, while 0.3-1.0 × 105 DCs induced a maximal stimulation of 30- to 80-fold. Between these extremes, the log of the MLR response increased linearly with the log of DC numbers. This dose-response assay was then used to compare the potency of purified DCs with that of other heterogeneous lymphoid populations, many of which gave dose-response curves with similar slopes. The potency of purified DCs as MLR stimulators was 100-300 times greater than that of unfractionated spleen cells. When spleen cells were fractionated by simple physical techniques, MLR-stimulating capacity in the subpopulations correlated closely with DC numbers. Removal of splenic B or T lymphocytes, by anti-immunoglobulin or anti-brain serum plus complement, did not reduce MLR-stimulating capacity. Finally, several populations, enriched in mononuclear phagocytes but lacking in DCs, stimulated weakly if at all. We conclude that DCs are a potent stimulating cell and are at least 100 times more effective than other major cell subclasses-i.e., B and T lymphocytes and macrophages.
ISSN:0027-8424
1091-6490
DOI:10.1073/pnas.75.10.5132