Polyclonal Antibody Production in Murine Spleen Cells Induced by Staphylococcus
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Polyclonal plaque-forming cell (PFC) responses in murine spleen cells induced by <I>Staphylococcus aureus</I> and <I>S. epidermidis</I> were studied. Injection of Balb/ c mice with <I>S. aureus</I> strain 248βH resulted in the generation of anti-trinitrophenyl (TNP) and anti-sheep red blood cell PFC in their spleens. Cultures of Balb/ c spleen cells in the presence of <I>S. aureus</I> 248βH, Cowan I, or a protein A-deficient mutant yielded many anti-TNP PFC. The larger the number of organisms that were added to the cultures, the better was the PFC response. Both living and killed organisms were capable of inducing the response, but an excess of living 248βH organisms in the cultures abrogated the response. All of the organisms (12 strains of <I>S. aureus</I> and 11 strains of <I>S. epidermidis</I>) freshly isolated from patients had the ability to induce the polyclonal PFC response in cell cultures.<BR>These organisms stimulated cultured C3H/HeJ mouse spleen cells, which were unresponsive to bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS). Cultured cells from the spleens of athymic nu/nu mice also responded to these organisms, and the number of PFC in nu/nu cell cultures was always greater than that in nu/+ cells prepared from a haired litter mate. Moreover, the responses of nu/nu spleen cell cultures to which nylon wool column-filtered splenic nu/+ T cells were added were lower than expected. These findings suggest that the polyclonal PFC response to staphylococci is thymus independent, but that the magnitude of the response is regulated by mature T cells. Cultures of macrophage-depleted spleen cells responded to the organisms to an extent similar to that of the control.<BR>The 248βH organisms were less capable of stimulating spleen cells of 2-week-old mice (<I>i.e</I>., early maturing B cells) than LPS. However, spleen cells from adult (7-week-old) and aged (9-month-old) mice responded well to both the organisms and LPS. Previous sensitization with the organisms <I>in vivo</I> did not affect any polyclonal responses of spleen cells <I>in vitro</I> to either the organisms or LPS. The role of staphylococcal protein A in the polyclonal PFC response to staphylococci is discussed.
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