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T-cell and antibody response to Parietaria Judaica allergenic fractions in atopic and nonatopic individuals
Authors:F. Sallusto  F. Quintieri  O. Pugliese  G. Reale  C. Pini  G. Di  Felice
Affiliation:Department of Immunology, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy;Divisione di Broncopneumologia, Ospedale S. Filippo Neri, Rome, Italy
Abstract:The in vitro proliferative response to separated immunologically relevant components of Parietaria judaica pollen extract (PjE) was investigated by proliferation assay and limiting dilution analysis, in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from Parietaria-allergic subjects and nonallergic controls. In the same subjects, the profile of the antibody response to the PjE fractions was also studied by immunoblotting to evaluate the functional significance of allergen-induced T-cell activation in the two groups. The estimated frequency of PjE-reactive T cells in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells was low in both groups. No difference was found between the Parietaria-allergic subjects and nonallergic controls. To assess the overall contribution to the cellular response of PjE components of different molecular weights, we separated the extract by the SDS-PAGE technique, and the fractions were blotted onto nitrocellulose and solubilized. Almost all the 14 fractions tested induced T-cell proliferation, at different degrees of magnitude. Responses were similar in the allergic subjects and nonallergic controls. Immunoblotting demonstrated specific IgG antibodies to the 14 PjE fractions not only in the allergic subjects, but also in the healthy controls, whereas IgE antibodies were found, as expected, only in the sera from atopic subjects. These findings indicate that PjE fractions elicit similar T-cell activation and IgG production in allergic and normal subjects.
Keywords:allergen    blotting    IgE    IgG    Parietaria judaica    proliferation    SDS-PAGE
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