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Surface and gene expression of immunoglobulin E receptors on mast cells and mast-cell numbers in interleukin-4-gene knockout mice.

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:We quantified immunoglobulin E (IgE) on peritoneal mast cells of interleukin-4 (IL-4)-gene knockout (-/-) mice and wild-type (+/+) controls using a cytofluorometric method, and examined the expression of IgE receptors, estimated by quantifying the total binding of IgE on the mast cells of IL-4 (-/-) mice. The mast cells of IL-4 (+/+) mice, identified and measured using microscope fluorometry, had a fluorescence intensity five to six times higher than that of non-mast cells, while the mast cells obtained from IL-4 (-/-) mice had fluorescence intensities within the range of those of non-mast cells. Two weeks after an infection with Nippostrongylus brasiliensis, the fluorescence intensity of the mast cells of IL-4 (+/+) mice increased to a level about twice as high as that before immunization. However, no significant increase after infection was observed in IL-4 (-/-) mice. Furthermore, the mast cells of IL-4 (-/-) mice did not bind IgE when incubated with IgE at concentrations that saturated IgE receptors on the mast cells of wild-type controls, thereby indicating that the expression of IgE receptors on mast cells was impaired in the IL-4-deficient mice. Using a reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction, we found gene expression of all three subunits (alpha-, beta- and gamma-chains) of the IgE receptor in IL-4 (-/-) like that in IL-4 (+/+) mice. The results thus suggest that the binding of IgE may be essential to induce the translation of mRNA to IgE-receptor proteins. We also observed that there were about twice as many peritoneal mast cells in the IL-4 (-/-) mice as there were in the IL-4 (+/+) mice, in both immunized and non-immunized animals. This was unexpected in view of previous findings suggesting that IL-4, in concert with stem cell factor and IL-3, stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of mast cells in vitro.

journal_name

Immunology

journal_title

Immunology

authors

Chen XJ,Lycke N,Enerbäck L

doi

10.1046/j.1365-2567.1999.00727.x

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pub_date

1999-04-01 00:00:00

pages

544-50

issue

eissn

0019-2805

issn

1365-2567

pii

imm727

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Surface and gene expression of immunoglobulin E receptors on mast cells and mast-cell numbers in interleukin-4-gene knockout mice.