NYMC Faculty Publications
Concurrent Production of Macrophage Agglutination Factor and Factor VII by Antigen-Stimulated Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells
Journal Title
Immunology
First Page
77
Last Page
84
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
January 1986
Department
Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology
Keywords
Animals; Antigens/immunology; Cell Aggregation/drug effects; Cells, Cultured; Concanavalin A/pharmacology; Factor VII/biosynthesis; Fibronectins/immunology; Gelatin; Guinea Pigs; Heparin; Humans; Hypersensitivity, Delayed/immunology; Leukocytes/immunology/metabolism; Lipopolysaccharides/pharmacology; Lymphokines/biosynthesis; Macrophages/immunology; Receptors, Fibronectin; Receptors, Immunologic/immunology; Skin Tests; Tuberculin
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences
Abstract
We have studied concurrent production of macrophage agglutination factor (MAggF) and procoagulant activity by antigen-stimulated human blood mononuclear cells to gain insight into biochemical mechanisms underlying delayed hypersensitivity inflammatory reactions. After stimulation of cells from tuberculin-sensitive donors with tuberculin, MAggF was present in culture supernatants while the overwhelming majority of procoagulant activity remained cell-associated. Neither MAggF nor procoagulant activity was found in reconstituted control cultures, nor in tuberculin-stimulated cultures of non-sensitive cells. Concanavalin A and lipopolysaccharide elicited both activities from cultured mononuclear cells, regardless of donor sensitivity. Human MAggF bound to insolubilized gelatin, heparin and a monoclonal anti-fibronectin (FN) antibody, and its activity was inhibited by another monoclonal antibody directed against the gelatin-binding domain of FN. Treatment of indicator peritoneal exudate cells with monoclonal anti-FN receptor antibody inhibited their response to human MAggF. These results suggest that human MAggF, like the analogous guinea-pig activity, is FN-associated. Antigen-elicited procoagulant activity shortened the recalcification time of normal, factor VII- and factor IX-deficient plasma, partially corrected prothrombin times of factor VII-deficient plasma, had no effect on recalcification and prothrombin items of factor X- and factor V-deficient plasma, and was inhibited by specific anti-factor VII antibody. Thus, human mononuclear cell procoagulant consists of both tissue factor and factor VII, whether it is induced by antigen or mitogen. Antigen-stimulated blood mononuclear cells are able to provide a signal for local fibrin deposition and a protein mediating fibrin binding to mononuclear phagocytes and collagen at sites of delayed hypersensitivity reactions.
Recommended Citation
Godfrey, H. P., Angadi, C., Haak-Frendscho, M., & Kaplan, A. (1986). Concurrent Production of Macrophage Agglutination Factor and Factor VII by Antigen-Stimulated Human Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells. Immunology, 57 (1), 77-84. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/nymc_fac_pubs/1707
