Schistosoma japonicum egg antigen-specific T cell lines in man. Induction of helper and suppressor T cell lines and clones in vitro in a patient with chronic schistosomiasis japonica.

N Ohta; T Itagaki; M Minai; K Hirayama; Y Hosaka

doi:10.1172/JCI113383

Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Health, Tokyo, Japan.

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Published in Volume 81, Issue 3 on March 1, 1988
J Clin Invest. 1988;81(3):775–781. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI113383.
© 1988 The American Society for Clinical Investigation

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T cell lines (TCLs) specific for Schistosoma japonicum egg antigen were established from a patient with chronic schistosomiasis japonica to investigate the regulatory mechanism of S.japonicum egg antigen-driven T cell responses in man. All five TCLs tested were CD2+, CD4+, CD8-, and were strongly proliferative only to S. japonicum egg antigen in the absence of exogenous IL-2. All but one TCL produced IL-2-like lymphokines in vitro, indicating their helper T cell functions. One TCL, SjE-3, failed to produce IL-2-like lymphokines. Moreover, this TCL suppressed the specific proliferation of autologous peripheral blood lymphocytes to S. japonicum egg antigen. This TCL produced a soluble suppressor factor(s). These functional diversities among established TCLs were also confirmed by cloned T cells. Our observations might suggest that the regulatory system through helper and suppressor T-T interactions somehow involved in T cell responses to the egg antigen in human chronic schistosomiasis japonica.