Boguniewicz M, Sunshine G H, Borel Y
Division of Immunology, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.
J Exp Med. 1989 Jan 1;169(1):285-90. doi: 10.1084/jem.169.1.285.
C5-deficient mice grafted with thymus from C5-sufficient donors and immunized with C5 failed to make humoral antibody to C5, suggesting that the transfer of thymus had induced tolerance. Irradiated C5-deficient hosts repopulated with lymphoid cells from thymectomized C5-deficient mice grafted with C5-sufficient thymus also failed to respond to immunization with C5, thus showing that the state of tolerance can be adoptively transferred. These results demonstrate that natural tolerance to self-protein antigen is "learned" in the thymus.
将来自C5充足供体的胸腺移植到C5缺陷小鼠体内,并对其进行C5免疫,这些小鼠未能产生针对C5的体液抗体,这表明胸腺移植诱导了耐受性。用来自移植了C5充足胸腺的胸腺切除的C5缺陷小鼠的淋巴细胞重新填充的受辐照C5缺陷宿主,对C5免疫也没有反应,从而表明耐受性状态可以被过继转移。这些结果证明,对自身蛋白抗原的天然耐受性是在胸腺中“习得”的。