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- Title
Continuous cell lines with specific killer T-cell activity.
- Authors
DIPAULI, RAIMUND; LANGMAN, RODNEY
- Abstract
THE establishment of continuous cell lines with effector T-cell activity is an obvious starting point in the isolation and characterisation of the T-cell receptor complex. Although nature provided the plasmacytomas which played a key part in elucidating B-cell immunoglobulin structure, there are no known examples of naturally occurring lymphomas with effector T-cell activity. Initial success with fusions between plasma cells and plasmacytomas encouraged extrapolation of this technique to T cells and thymic lymphomas1, but few promising results have so far been obtained. We have approached this problem by using the carcinogenic properties of mutagens to transform T lymphocytes responding in mixed lymphocyte culture (MLC), with the aim of isolating cell lines with killer T-cell activity. Here we report our success in the first step of isolating continuous, though antigen-dependent, killer T-cell lines.
- Publication
Nature, 1979, Vol 277, Issue 5692, p134
- ISSN
0028-0836
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/277134a0