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Characterization of the progeny of pre-T cells maintained in vitro by IL-3: Appearance in the periphery and Vβ utilization in vivo
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Characterization of the progeny of pre-T cells maintained in vitro by IL-3: Appearance in the periphery and Vβ utilization in vivo

Rachel S Soloff, Deborah Dempsey, Stephen R Jennings, R.Michael Wolcott and Robert Chervenak
Cellular immunology, v 135(1)
1991
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/0008-8749(91)90260-I
PMID: 1902144
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Abstract

We have recently demonstrated that bone marrow-resident cells, which are able to repopulate the thymus of irradiated recipient mice (pre-T cells), can be maintained in vitro for at least 2 weeks in the presence of exogenous IL-3. Because this marrow culture system can be applied to the study of early T cell differentiation, it is important to ascertain the extent to which in vitro culture of the pre-T cells might alter the T cell progeny which can develop from them. In previous work, we showed that the progeny of cultured pre-T cells appeared to develop in a kinetically normal fashion within the thymus of recipients and that the acquisition of key developmental markers (IL-2R and CD3) was identical in the progeny of fresh and cultured pre-T cells. Here, we report the results of experiments carried out to characterize the progeny of cultured pre-T cells which were found in the peripheral lymphoid tissues several weeks following intrathymic transfer to irradiated recipients. We found no remarkable differences between the progeny of cultured or fresh marrow cells with respect to the timing of their appearance in the periphery nor their expression of CD4 or CD8. By studying the patterns of utilization of five different Vβ gene products by the T cells derived from fresh or cultured bone marrow, we were able to test the susceptibility of both sets of progeny to both positive and negative selection pressures during their in vivo maturation. These experiments established that the progeny of cultured marrow cells were equally susceptible to TCR repertoire selection, as were the progeny of fresh bone marrow cells, and that the process of in vitro growth did not alter the potential TCR repertoire of the pre-T Cells.

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