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JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY
Volume 290, Issue 7, Pages 741-750Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/jez.1124
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- NIAID NIH HHS [AI 39685-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Coelomocyte-mediated nonspecific cell cytotoxic activity against human and murine target cells by the purple sea urchin Arbacia punctulata was investigated in vitro. Cytotoxic activity toward target cells was shown to be mediated by different coelomocyte populations isolated by discontinuous density gradient centrifugation. The population of phagocytic amebocytes showed the strongest cytotoxic activity and the highest binding to human NK markers by cytometry analysis. Our immunophenotypic studies showed that A. punctulata phagocytic amebocytes are CD14(+), CD56(+), CD158b(+), CD3(-), CD4(-), CD8(-), and CD16(-). The cytotoxic activity was independent of experimental incubation temperatures, required viable effector cells, and required cell-cell contact between the effector and target cells. Sodium azide significantly decreased coelomocyte cytotoxicity, indicating that cytotoxicity is metabolically dependent, and EDTA reduction of cytotoxic activity is consistent with the involvement of divalent cations in the cytotoxic process. These data describe a population of sea urchin coelomocytes (the phagocytic amebocyte) that are CD14(+), CD56(+), and CD158b(+), with cytotoxic activities. J. Exp. Zool. 290:741-750, 2001. (C) 2001Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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