[Aggregated immunoglobulins as antigen-binding receptors of immune lymphocytes].

At the peak of the primary immune response to sheep erythrocytes there appeared in the spleen of mice rosette-forming cells (RFC) effectively inactivated with antibodies against aggregated mouse immunoglobulins and with the complex of polyadenylic-polyuridylic acids (poly-A, poly-U, respectively). These cells disappeared from the spleen on the 9th day after the primary immunization and were not revealed at the peak of the secondary immune response. When small splenic lymphocytes obtained on the 5th day after the immunization with sheep erythrocytes were incubated in vitro for 24 hours the total amount of the RFC inactivated by antibodies to the aggregated mouse immunoglobulin disappeared completely. These data can be considered as an indication of the existence at the peak of the primary immune response of rosette-forming cells having the antigen-antibody complexes in the capacity of the antigen-binding receptors.