Ezaki T, Skinner M A, Marbrook J
Immunology. 1983 Nov;50(3):343-9.
Cytotoxic T cells that arise spontaneously in culture (SCTL) have been characterized using a sensitive plaque reduction (PR) assay. Although SCTL effector cells are highly susceptible to anti-Thy-1 antibody plus complement treatment, they are derived from precursor cells having very low levels of Thy-1 antigen. SCTL are barely detectable in cultures of thymus cells, bone marrow cells, and spleen cells from athymic nu/nu and very old mice. Since SCTL have some similarities to both natural killer cells and normal cytotoxic T cells, SCTL may represent a stage in the T-cell lineage that links these two forms of cytotoxicity.
利用一种灵敏的蚀斑减少(PR)试验对培养过程中自发产生的细胞毒性T细胞(SCTL)进行了特性鉴定。尽管SCTL效应细胞对抗Thy-1抗体加补体处理高度敏感,但它们来源于Thy-1抗原水平极低的前体细胞。在无胸腺裸鼠和老龄小鼠的胸腺细胞、骨髓细胞及脾细胞培养物中几乎检测不到SCTL。由于SCTL与自然杀伤细胞和正常细胞毒性T细胞均有一些相似之处,SCTL可能代表了T细胞谱系中连接这两种细胞毒性形式的一个阶段。