scholarly journals Defective lymphocyte glycosidases in the macrophage activation cascade of juvenile osteopetrosis

Blood ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 88 (4) ◽  
pp. 1473-1478 ◽  
Author(s):  
N Yamamoto ◽  
VR Naraparaju ◽  
PJ Orchard
Keyword(s):  
T Lymphocytes ◽  
B Lymphocytes ◽  
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Human Peripheral Blood ◽  
Serum Vitamin ◽  
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear ◽  
Blood Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Beta Galactosidase

Generation of macrophage-activating factor requires a precursor protein, Gc protein (serum vitamin D3-binding protein), as well as participation of beta-galactosidase of inflammation-primed B lymphocytes and sialidase of T lymphocytes. The treatment of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells with an inflammatory lysophospholipid induced beta-galactosidase and sialidase activity of lymphocytes, leading to the generation of macrophage-activating factor and activation of monocytes/macrophages. However, lysophospholipid treatment of peripheral blood mononuclear cells from three infantile patients with osteopetrosis resulted in no significant activation of monocytes/macrophages. The lysophospholipid-inducible beta- galactosidase activity of B lymphocytes as well as that of the sialidase of T lymphocytes was found to be defective in these patients.

HIV-1 gp4l Binding to Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells Occurs Preferentially to B Lymphocytes and Monocytes

Immunobiology ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 188 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 323-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-Hua Chen ◽  
Günther Bock ◽  
Rolf Vornhagen ◽  
Franz Steindl ◽  
Hermann Katinger ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
B Lymphocytes ◽  
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Human Peripheral Blood ◽  
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear ◽  
Blood Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Hiv 1

Mycoplasma fermentans infection promotes immortalization of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells in culture

Blood ◽  
2004 ◽  
Vol 104 (13) ◽  
pp. 4252-4259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shimin Zhang ◽  
Shien Tsai ◽  
Timothy T. Wu ◽  
Bingjie Li ◽  
James W.-K. Shih ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
B Lymphocytes ◽  
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Peripheral Blood ◽  
Mononuclear Cells ◽  
Human Peripheral Blood ◽  
Human Pbmcs ◽  
Peripheral Blood Mononuclear ◽  
Mycoplasma Fermentans ◽  
Cells In Culture ◽  
Blood Mononuclear Cells

Abstract Chronic infection or colonization by mycoplasma(s) could gradually and significantly alter many biologic properties of mammalian host cells in culture, including induction of malignant transformation. We examined effects of Mycoplasma fermentans infection on the continuing survival and immortality of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from healthy blood donors. Without specific supplemental growth factors, human PBMCs normally die rapidly, with few cells other than macrophages/monocytes surviving after 2 weeks in cultures. Only occasional Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)–positive B lymphocytes would continue to proliferate and undergo spontaneous immortalization. Our present study revealed that infection of human PBMCs in culture with the incognitus and PG18 strains of M fermentans, but surprisingly not with some other strains tested in parallel, markedly enhanced the rate of EBV-positive B lymphocytes to undergo immortalization (74% vs 17%). Compared with spontaneously immortalized PBMCs, the PBMCs immortalized in cultures infected with the mycoplasmas often had prominent karyotype changes with chromosomal loss, gain, or translocations. Furthermore, many of these immortalized B lymphocytes were found to be monoclonal in nature. The in vitro findings would be of relevance to lymphoproliferative disorders that occurred in patients with immune suppression. The mycoplasma-mediated promotional effect in cell immortalization and its potential clinical implications warrant further study.

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