Immunoregulatory Circuits among T Cell Sets: Effect of Mode of Immunization on Determining Which Lyl T Cell Sets Will be Activated

Abstract

Lyl T cells are able to induce B cells to make antibody and also to induce a resting Ly123 T cell set to exert potent feedback suppression. Which of these two pathways Lyl T cells take can be influenced by the mode of immunization. In particular, in vitro immunized Lyl T cells are more likely to induce suppression than are Lyl T cells immunized in vivo even when both populations deliver the same amount of help to purified B cells. The feedback suppression induced by the Lyl T cells immunized in vitro can be distinguished from suppression mediated by Ly2+ T cells; in the former case suppression is preceded by a precocious antibody response, whereas suppression mediated by Ly2+ T cells is apparent throughout the entire period of observation.