Abstract:
:Cytolytic T-cell responses from 63 normal blood donors were monitored in a Mycobacterium bovis BCG infection system in vitro. We wanted to know whether cultured dendritic cells were capable of potentiating the cytolytic T-cell responses to M. bovis BCG. Infected cultured dendritic cells were up to ten times more effective antigen-presenting cells than macrophages in proliferative assays, while cytolytic T-cell induction did not differ significantly between dendritic cells and macrophages. Separated CD4+ and CD8+ T-cell subsets contributed equally to lysis of infected targets. Experiments comparing wild-type M. bovis BCG strain with two new recombinant M. bovis BCG strains secreting listeriolysin revealed statistically significant higher maximal lysis values for recombinant M. bovis BCG. We conclude from our in vitro infection system with mycobacteria that dendritic cells are superior to macrophages in proliferative assays but equal to macrophages in their ability to induce cytolytic T-cell responses. Moreover, our data suggest that recombinant M. bovis BCG vaccine strains secreting listeriolysin improve cytolytic T-cell responses.
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Microbes Infectjournal_title
Microbes and infectionauthors
Conradt P,Hess J,Kaufmann SHdoi
10.1016/s1286-4579(99)80077-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1999-08-01 00:00:00pages
753-64issue
10eissn
1286-4579issn
1769-714Xpii
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