Cytotoxic T lymphocyte-mediated lysis via the Fc receptor of target cells

Abstract

The murine monoclonal antibody F23.1 reacts with an allotypic determinant on the T cell receptors of about 25% of peripheral T lymphocytes in most common mouse strains. In this report we demonstrate that this IgG2a antibody bound to the receptor of a cytotoxic effector T cell can direct that cell to lyse any target cell which expresses receptors for IgG2a. Thus, allotype-positive, Lyt-2+ T lymphocytes from either concanavalin A- or F23.1-activated cell cultures are recruited as cytotoxic effector cells which lyse targets via the Fc receptor. Concanavalin A-induced T cell blasts depleted of Lyt-2+ cells do not mediate cytotoxic effects in this system. The data presented here confirm earlier observations that monoclonal anti-T cell receptor antibodies attached to the surface of a cell can act as target structures for T cell-mediated lysis.