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The Cytotoxic Response to Murine Cytomegalovirus. III. Lymphokine Release and Cytotoxicity Are Dependent upon Phenotypically Similar Immune Cell Populations

Department of Microbiology, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, Australian National University, Canberra, A.C.T. 2601, Australia

Murine cytomegalovirus (MCMV)-immune lymph node (LN) cells were generated following 4 days culture of draining popliteal LN cells removed after bilateral hind footpad inoculation of mice with 4 x 10² p.f.u. MCMV. This cell population expressed both cytotoxic activity against MCMV-infected mouse embryo fibroblasts (MEF) and the capacity to release lymphokine upon stimulation with MCMV-infected MEF. Cytotoxicity and lymphokine release were Class I, H-2-restricted, virus-specific and dependent upon Thy1.2⁺, Lyt2⁺ cells. Mixing of 5 x 10⁵ MCMV-immune T cells with an excess of syngeneic MCMV-infected MEF stimulators produced detectable levels of the lymphokine interleukin-3 by 1 h, with a maximum rate of its release between 1 and 6 h and plateau levels by 14 h. The capacity to stimulate virus-specific MCMV-immune T cells was acquired by MEF at 1 h after MCMV infection with maximum stimulator ability attained by 8 h. In the presence of a fixed number of MCMV-immune T cells, and titration to excess of syngeneic 3 h or 18 h MCMV-infected MEF, lower interleukin-3 plateau levels were obtained with 3 h than with 18 h MCMV-infected stimulators. This suggested that fewer T cells responded to 3 h than to 18 h MCMV-infected MEF.

Keywords: MCMV, lymphokine, cytotoxicity

Received 3 June 1985; accepted 9 August 1985.