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J Gordon

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Antibodies directed against ribosomal protein determinants in the sera of patients with connective tissue diseases.

A collection of sera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, mixed connective tissue disease, Sjögren's syndrome, progressive systemic sclerosis, and the reflex sympathetic dystrophy syndrome was screened for the presence of antibodies recognizing determinants on the protein moiety of human ribosomes after electrophoretic separation in polyacrylamide and blotting on nitrocellulose. In addition to the antibodies already described against the RNA moiety or against the whole ribosome, some autoimmune sera contain antibodies against the protein moiety. The results obtained by this methodology were compared with those obtained by a microtiter procedure.

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[The regulation of the activation of cytotoxic lymphocytes may be mediated by a lymphokine].

MLC-CML reactivity declines after approximately the 7th day of culture. The experiments described were designed to probe the reason for this decline, envisaged as due to the signals (SD or LD determinants) required for CML activation. Either fresh stimulating cells or a lymphokine--blastogenic factor (BF)--were added daily to mixed cultures from the 5th to the 12th day of incubation. Whereas stimulating cells were without effect, added BF maintained both proliferative and cytotoxic activity of the cells in culture. These observations, together with previous results, were interpreted to suggest that helper cells may regulate the activation of cytotoxic lymphocytes by means of soluble mediators.

Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic↗