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Running Title: Hybrid Resistance to Parental Marrow Grafts Number of Tables: 8 Number of Figures: 6 Send proof to: Dr. Gustavo Cudkowicz Biology Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory P. O. Box Y Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831 INTRODUCTION According to the predictions of the genetic laws of transplantation, F, hybrid mice from crosses between two inbred strains should be considered fully susceptible to tissue transplants of either parent, since the genetic factors of hisiocompatibility are thought to be inherited as codominant genes in mice (1). No exceptions have been noticed when grafts of normal as parental skin tissue have been placed on F, hybrids; however, in 1958 Snell reported the first apparent departure from the predicted pattern of growth when transplantable lymphoma cells of parental origin were grafted into F, hybrids (2). The lymphomas grew less and/or slower in the F, hybrid mice than in mice of the susceptible parental strain. From the time of this observation, an increasing number of communications have been published which established that F, hybrid mice of certain genetic constitutions are not able to support as well, mice of the native strains the growth of transplantable lymphomas (3-6), sarcomas (7,8), carcinomas (7), and of transplantable normal cells, such as antibody-forming (9,10) and hematopoietic (11-13) cells. It is not possible to say at the present time whether or not the deficient growth on transplantation into F, heterozygotes of such a variety of cell types of homozygous origin is due to similar mechanisms. For example, the existence of genetic factors could only be determined for each graft type by tests in segregating generations of mice or, alternatively, in F, progeny from congenic-resistant parents, if the deficient growth of the grafts were determined by histocompatibility factors. Results of genetic analysis are available, however, only for a few of the aforementioned transplantable tissues; such results suggest that deficient growth in F, wybrid mice of C57BL 2 lymphomas (2,3) and of normal parental hematopoietic cells (12,13) are under genetic control and that in either case heterozygostity of the recipient animals at I loci is responsible for the anomalous homozygous graft behaviour, Furthermore, by studying marrow grafts taken from selected donor strains, it was possible to recognize two types of hybrid resistance, similar with respect to their general properties, but determined by different genes. In fact, one case of hybrid resistance is controlled by a locus which lies very close to,or within H-2 in linkage group IX (12,14,15), whereas the other case appears to be related to a sex-associated gene, or to an autosomal gene expressing itself in male hybrids only (13). In this communication, I wish to describe the properties of the H-2- associated hybrid resistance to parental marrow grafts and to summarize the 'results of an immunogenetic analysis. It 18 hopeful that similar studies on the sex-associated hybrid resistance and on hybrid resistance toward transplantable tissues other than marrow will indicate whether one is dealing with a peculiar exception to the genetic laws of transplantation, relevant only for hematopoietic grafts, or with the prototype of a noncodominant pattern of inheritance of histocompatibility genes, affecting the survival of certain tissue grafts, but not of skin grafts. MATERIALS AND METHODS Mice. Several inbred strains of mice, their congenic-resistant lines, and F, hybrids were used; their origin and genotype are described elsewhere (2,3,16,17). Pedigreed breeding pairs were supplied by G. D. Snell in 1961-1964 and by J. H. Stimpfling in 19614; each line was maintained thereafter by strict single-line brother X sister matings in the animal colony of the Biology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The B10 designation stands for C57BL/10ScSn. The mice were used when 12-15 weeks old. C3H/Anf X C57BL F, mice were purchased from Cumberland View Farms, Clinton, Tennessee. F hybrids are designated by listing first the female and then the male strain. Assay for proliferative activity of transplanted marrow. An appropriate . number of femoral marrow cells suspended in Tyrode's solution was injected intravenously into X irradiated recipient mice. Marrow contains a class of , cells capable of seeding the depleted hematopoietic sites of irradiated host animals and of repopulating them through extensive proliferation and differentiation into hemic cells. Five days after transplantation, 0.5uc of 5-Iodo-2'-deoxyuridine-1341 (13IVAR), a specific DNA precursor, was injected into the peritoneal cavity of each animal to label the cells engaged in synthesis of DNA. Unincorporated 1541 radioactivity is excreted from the regenerating hematopoietic tissues within 12 hours. Therefore, the mice were killed 18 hours after injection of the label and their spleens were removed and placed in glass test tubes. Retained radioactivity was measured in a well-type crystal scintillation counter and expressed as percentage of the radioactivity injected into the animals, above the percentage of splenic retention of radioactivity in radiation control mice not injected with narrow. Under certain conditions, uptake of 13-IUAR in the spleens of marrow recipients 18 a linear function of the number of marrow cells transplanted (12); for this reason the uptake of ISAIUAR estimates the extent to which the grafted marrow is capable of producing DNA synthesizing (that is, dividing) hematopoietic cells and 18 referred to in the context of this paper as 'growth' or 'proliferative activity'. In certain experiments, it was necessary to estimate the growth of grafted marrow in the bone marrow cavities of the recipients. Both femurs were removed from the labelled animals and processed like the spleens. However, owing to the small mass of tissue in the femurs, it was desirable to increase incorporation of 13 IUNR Into DNA of hematopoietic cells. This was accomplished by injecting intraperitoneally 100% moles of 5-fluoro-2'- deoxyuridine (FUAR) one hour prior to the injection of "SIUR. FUAR acts by inhibiting the endogenous formation of thymi. ne precursors which would 'compete with 15-IUDR for incorporation into DNA. Preparation of cell suspensions. Marrow cells were obtained from femurs and tibias by flushing the bones with Tyrode's solution. Spleen cells were suspended by teasing the capsule of the organ with a needle and gently shaking the resulting spleen fragments in Tyrode's solution until most of the cells become free. The cell suspensions were filtered through a 200 mesh stainless steel screen, and nucleated cells were counted in an electronic particle counter, after red blood cells were lysed. Irradiation. Recipient mice were irradiated with 300 kv (peak) x rays, IN HVL 0.5 mm Cu, at an exposure rate of approximately 70 R per minute. During the exposure, the mice were housed in partitioned circular revolving Lucite cages. Exposure measurements were made under comparable conditions with a Victoreen R meter. .. . RESULTS me Description of Hybrid Resistance T: F-1-2 '- In a large series of experiments the growth of 10% to 10° grafted marrow cells in the spleens of Irradiated isogenic recipients has not varied considerably from strain to strain of nice nor has it varied as the result of grading the recipient's exposure to radiation in the range of 700 to 900 R of X rays (12,16,18). Such growth was characterized (1) by exponential expansion of the DNA synthesizing cell population in the recipient spleens from three to fire or six days after transplantation, with a doubling time of apporximately twelve hours; and (11) by linear relationship between grafted marrow cell dose and splenic repopulation five days after transplantation. Figures 1 and 2 illustrate the growth of (F-1-2 10° grafted C57BL marrow cells in the spleen of isogenic and of C3H/Anf x C57BL F, hybrid mice. Although the grafted cells were competent to proliferate in isogenic recipients, they failed to do so in the F, hybrids exposed to 700 R of X rays throughout the 12 day duration of the experiment (Fig. 1). Acute radiation injury in these F, mice is sublethal and, consequently, spontaneous regeneration of host hematopoiesis occurs in the survivors. Hence, the duration of the experiment could not be prolonged beyond 12 days owing to the difficulty of distinguishing 3-IUDR incorporation promoted by regenerated host cells as opposed to incorporation promoted by descendants of the grafted donor cells. Host hematopoiesis does not regenerate so promptly, however, in hybrids exposed to 900 R of X rays; under the latter condition growth of parental donor cells in the hybrids was dectable, but it occurred considerably later than 10 isogenic recipients (Fig. 1) and it was not adequate to prevent . . . . . . . . . . . . "Nii . . . *, . ... - .pr www r Wi death of the F, mice exposed to the lethal dose of radiation. In order to measure adequately the growth of C57BL marrow in F, recipients it was necessary to inject an increased number of cells, about ten times as many . as in isogenic recipients when the hybrids were born from C3H/Anf and C57BL parents (Fig. 2). Thus, hybrid resistance manifests itself by the deficient growth in the recipient's spleen of grafted parental marrow cells. Its strength is measured by the magnitude of the overdose of donor cells necessary to override it at a given exposure to radiation, for hybrid resistance is weakened by increasing doses of x rays (Fig. 1, refs. 12, 16). The strength of hybrid resistance varies considerably in hybrids of different parentage (16,19). However, the range of values found 18 of the same order: of magnitude as the range of values found for the resistance of inbred strains of mice toward allogeneic marrow grafts (16). Similarly, the weakening effect of whole-body X irradiation on the resistance to grafted C57BL marrow 18 not substantially different for C3H/Anf X C57BL F, hybrids than for allogeneic DBA/2 mice (16). To establish whether or not the spleen plays a role in the manifestation of hybrid resistance, 100 C57BL marrow cells were grafted into intact and into splenectomized mice exposed to 800 R of X rays. Splenectomy was performed at ten weeks of age, one month prior to the experiment., At varying intervals after marrow grafting, the production of hematopoietic cells was estimated in the bone marrow cavities, instead of in the recipient spleens, by measuring the uptake of 13 IUAR in two femur8. Isogenic recipients were able to support the growth of the grafted marrow in their fimurs, as indicated in Fig. 3. Expansion of the pool of DNA synthesizing cells was progressive between day five and eleven in the femurs of intact C57BL mice, but had already reached a plateau by day live in the femurs of splenectomized C57BL mice, presumably, because in the absence of the spleen a larger proportion of injected hematopoietic stem cells settled in the bones.' In contrast, the femurs of C3H/Anf X C57BL F, mice were not detectably repopulated by grafted C57BL marrow within 11 days after transplantation, irrespective of the presence or absence of the spleen (Fig. 3). This indicates that parental marrow grafts grow deficiently in both sites of hematopoiesis of resistant F, recipients, and furthermore, that manifestation of resistance is not dependent on the presence of the spleen at the time of parental marrow grafting. To determine at which age F, hybrids become resistant to parental marrow grafts, infant BlO B10.D2 F, mice of either sex, 14 to 25 days old, were exposed to 700 R of X rays and infused by tail vein injection with 5 X 105 B10 marrow cells harvested from aduit donors. In a previous experiment : : T + hybrids between the two congenic lines B10 and B10.D2 were found to be strongly 132 resistant to B10 marrow grafts (19). Recipient mice of different ages were injected with 0.5 uc of 15-IVAR, irrespective of their body weight. It was expected, therefore, that the uptake values of radioactivity in spleens of mice of different weight would vary in relation with the different dilution of the label in the body fluids, although each recipient mouse was given the same number of marrow cells. Consequently, the spenic uptake values of 'S-IUAR measured in F, mice of each age group were compared with the uptake values measured in genetically susceptible Blo recipient mice of comparable size and age, grafted with Bl0 cells of the same preparation. B10 x B10.D2 F1 mice are fully suceptible to grafted parental Bl0 marrow cells at the age of 14, 16, and 17 days, as shown in Fig. 4. At 20 days of age, the hybrids begin to support less well than BlO mice the growth of B10 cells, but only at 24 days of age do the hybrids become fully resistant. 20 The reported data show that minimal numbers (10° or less) of viable parental marrow cells grafted into resistant hybrids exposed to 700 R of X rays do not produce detectable numbers of dividing descendent cells or more within a period of five days. This does not rule out, however, that grafted parental stem cells, although prevented from expanding and differentiating, survive in the F, recipient spleens. To establish whether. or not such F, spleens contain viable hematopoietic stem cells of Blo origin, capable of repopulating susceptible irradiated mice, a measurement was undertaken by a method of periodic sampling, as reported in the following. Two million nucleated BlO marrow cells were injected into irradiated (700 R) B10, B10 x B10.D2 Fy, and BlO.D2 recipient mice. One hour later, and at daily intervals thereafter, four cimera mice of each group were killed to remove their spleens. The cells of individual chimera spleens were dispersed to form a suspension in 1 to 1.5 ml of Tyrode's solution, each of which was assayed for its content of stem cells by injecting the whole suspension into one irradiated (700 R) test-recipient mouse. The latter mice were of the B10 strain and were, therefore, isogenic with the original marrow donors; the test-recipients were preimmunized against 1soantigens of the B10.D2 strain by two intraperitoneal injections of B10.D2 spleen cells given at weekly intervals, to prevent viable F, hybrid cells eventually present in the chimera spleens from proliferating upon transplantation into 'irradiated Bló test-mice. It has been shown previously that admixed BIO X BLO.D2 F, cells do not affect the hematopoietic competence of B10 cells (19). The extent to which the chimera spleens are capable of promoting on transplantation the uptake of 1S-IUR in the spleens of B10 test-recipients estimates the fraction of stem cells of the original BlO marrow inoculum which settled, survived, and subsequently expanded in the spleens of the primary Blo, BLO X BLO.D2 and B10.D2 recipients. 13 The results obtained are shown in Table 1. One hour after transplantation the spleens of B10, and BlO.D2 chimera mice are equally effective in promoting the uptake of 13-IUR in test-recipients, indicating that similar fractions of infused stem cells settled and survived in such spleens. One day after transplantation the hematopoietic competence of the spleens decreased in all types of chimeras. A similar observation has been reported earlier (20) and has been ascribed to non uniform efficiency of extraction of dispersal of stem cells from the irradiated spleens as a function of time. Two days after transplantation of the BlO marrow cells, the hematopoietic competence of isogenic chimera spleens recovered and during the following two days it increased steadily. In contrast, the 'hematopoietic competence of B10 x B10.D2 F, and B10.D2 chimera spleens was negligible two days after transplantation and remained so on the third and fourth day, indicating that viable BlO stem cells that settled in the spleens of resistant F, and B10.D2 recipients during the first hour after transplantation lost their ability to proliferate 24 to 48 hours afterwards. Genetics of Hybrid Resistance Genetic studies of hybrid resistance were made with segregating backcross progeny mice (12), with F, hybrids from outcrosses between several inbred strains of mice (16,18), and with F, hybrids from crosses between congenic-resistant? mice differing et single H loci or at regions of the H-2 locus (14-16, 18,19). The manifestation of resistance in hybrids appeared to be dependent on heterozygosity at the complex H-2 locus or at :D region, but not on heterozygosity at one or more other I loci, or at the C and K regions of H-. On the other hand, all the inbred strains of mice which have been found to possess marrow cells growing deficiently on transplantation into H-2 C57BL, heterozygotes shared the H-2° allele and were C57BL/6, C57BL/10. C57L, 129 and LP. (18). Mice carrying alleles other than H-2, namely H-2", H-24, H-2+, H-2k, H-29, and H-2®, possessed marrow cells which grew without appareat impairment on transplantation into the F, heterozygotes which were resistant to grafted H-2° parental marrow (18). Furthermore, the marrow cells of segregating C57BL X 101 F, mice grew deficiently in F, recipients if they were H-2'homozygotes (21), but not if they were H-2°/H-25 or H-2*/H-2* in phenotype. Lines of mice congenic with the strains A, C3H, and DBA/1 acquired the trait of deficient marrow growth if the H-2° allele was transferred into thej.r genome, but not when other H-2 alleles were transferred (18). Sneli (2,3) and Stimpfling (17) have produced a relatively large number 0:r mouse lines congenic with the B10 strain except for an allelic substitution at a single H locus. These mouse lines and their F, hybrids have been employed in experiments reported in the following to further demonstrate the close association with 1-2 or with one of its regions of the genetic factor or factors involved in hybrid resistance. Mice of congenic-resistant lines differing from the BlO strain (H-2°/H-2°) at an H locus other than K-2 have been mated with mice of strain B1O.D2 (H-2°/H-24) to provide F, hybrids H-2°/H-2° in phenotype. Mice of the congenic-resistant lines characterized by an allelic substitution at the H-2 locus were mated with mice of strain B10 to also provide H-2 heterozygous F, hybrids. Adult hybrids were exposed to 700 R of X rays and grafted with a standard dose of 10° nucleated marrow cells harvested from parental donorks of the strain congenic with Blo. Depending on whether the grafted marrow proliferated or not within five days in the spleens W e * .. - of the recipients, the growth pattern of the donor marrow was clasvified as "optimal" or "deficient". Details on the experimental design and on the con'rolled variables were reported elsewhere (12). The results . Table 2) reconfirmed that allelic substitutions at the H-1, H-3, and . H-4 loci of strain Blo did not modify the deficient growth pattern of B10 marrow grafted into H-2 heterozygotes, whereas, substitution of the H-2 allele of strain B10 was invariably associated with loss of the trait and 1-2) * _ iar 'n ".. . with optimal pattern of marrow growth on transplantation. Jo In the course of studying the genetic structure of H-2, Stimpfling identified several mouse lines carrying H-2 variant alleles, presumably derived from crossing-overs with H-2 (17). The exceptional alleles, which derived from exchanges between H-2 and H-2", resembled the H-2” and H-21 alleles and were transferred, by repeated backcrossing, onto a genetic background congenic with B10 (17). Marrow cells of the variant lines were grafted into irradiated BlO X B10.A F, hybrids because the phenotype of the latter mice is H-2°/H-2" and should possess all the known codominant H-2 components of the variant lines. If the variant H-2 alleles maintained the chromosome segment of H-2 responsible for deficient marrow growth in heterozygotes, the BIO X B10.A hybrids should be adequate for demonstrating the trait. In fact, such hybrids are resistant to Blo marrow (14) and are heterozygotes with respect to components of H-2 in the D, C, and K regions. Marrow cells of variant mouse lines which possess components of H-2° in the D region, but not iu the C and K regions possess also the genetic determinants for deficient growth (Table 3). In contrast, marrow of mice which possess components of H-2° in the K region but not in the D and C regions are capable of optimal growth in B10 x B10.A F, mice. Thus, the genetic factor which controls hybrid resistance lies within or very closely adjacent to the D end of the H-2 locus. 14 It has been noticed before that H-2 heterozygous hybrids of different parentage differ sometimes with respect to the strength of their resistance to parental marrow grafts, as measured by the number of cells necessary to --- override it, although they may share the same H-2 alleles (16). To investigate whether the genetic background of the parental mice entering the F, crosses influences the strength of the hybrid's resistance, the following F, mice were produced from congenic-resistant pairs as prospective recipients of marrow grafts from their H-2 parents: B10 x B10.D2; C3H.SW X C3H; A X A.BY; and DBA/1 X D1.LP. Each of these hybrids is heterozygous at a chromosome segment of linkage group IX containing the complex H-2 locus, but should be homozygous for most of the genes contributed by the B10, C3H, A, and DBA/1 genomes, respectively. The hybrids were exposed to 700 R of x rays and injected a few hours later with graded doses of nucleated parental strain marrow cells. Donor cells of the same pool were also transplanted into similarly irradiated isogenic recipient mice to assay the competence of the cells to proliferate in the absence of histoincompatibilities. To avoid sex-associated resistance, the donor and recipient mice of all strain combinations were females. The promotion of splenic uptake of 15IUAR by grafted marrow in isogenic recipients was comparable for cells of strains Blo, C3H.SW, A.BY, and D1.LP, and was, furthermore, a linear function of the dose of grafted cells (Fig. 5). Splenic uptake of 13-IUAR was also a linear function of donor cell dose in resistant F, hybrid recipients; however, it was necessary to graft larger numbers of cells than into isogenic mice to colonize the recipient spleens, ab 16 indicated by the displacement to the right of the dose-response lines (Fig. 5). The number of donor cells required to overcome resistance varied markedly in the four hybrids studied. Spleen repopulation in B10 x B10.D2 F, mice required 15-to-20 times as many cells as spleen repopulation in isogenic recipients, whereas lower multiples of the cell doses inoculated into isogenic mice were adequate for repopulating the spleens of c3H.SW X C3H F, and A X A.BY F, mice. It is noteworthy that DBA/1 x D1.LP F, hybrids (H-2°/H-2") were fully susceptible to D1.LP marrow grafts (Fig. 5), although the grafts were donated by H-2° homozygous mice. To further investigate exceptional the absence or weakness of resistance in H-2 heterozygous hybrids, one million nucleated marrow cells of strain A.BY and D1. LP donors were transplanted into a series of irradiated (700 R) F, recipients which had in common one or both H-2 alleles, contributed by parental mice of different strains. For example, A X A.BY F, and Blo.A X A.BY F, mice are identical at the H-2 locus (H-2/H-2°) since B10.A 18 a line congenic with strain B20 except for the H-2e allele derived from strain A (17); however, the former hybrid does not possess any trait of strain B10 and its resistance to A.BY marrow grafts is welak (Fig. 5 and Table 4). In contrast, BlO.A X A.BY hybrids possess a single dose of Bló genes and their resistance to A.BY marrow is strong (Table 4). In a similar way, the strength of resistance toward D1. LP marrow grafts varies considerably in the three H-2*/H-2 hybrids C3H x B10 F7, c3H X LP F7, and C3H x D1.LP F(Table 4), in the face of similarity or identity at the H-2 locus, since the H-2° allele of the D1. LP line was derived from strain LP (2). The failure of DBA/1 X D1. LP F, and of c3H x D1.LP F, hybrids to develop resistance toward parental marrow grafts may be related to the failure of DBA/1 mice, congenic with 01. LP nice, to resist the transplantation of a number of otherwise strasn specific tumors indigeneous to inbred lines 1 unrelated to DBA/1 (23). From these data it appears that the strength of (hybrid resistance depends on determinants contributed by the genome of the parental strains (other than H-2), which may interact with the H-2 associated alleles primarily responsible for hybrid resistance. C57BL marrow cells maintain their deficient growth pattern in F, . hybrids even after one year of residence in heavily irradiated resistant F, hosts (21). To increase the probability of observing adaptive changes and selection of variant cell lines capable of optimal or suboptimal growth in H-2 heterozygous hybrids, Blo marrow cells were serially transplanted at 20-day intervals in C3H/Anf X C57BL F, hybrids esxposed to 900 R of x rays. 20 x 10° nucleated cells were grafted initially and an equal number of cells were regrafted on each passage for a total of three transplant generations. Sixty days after the initial cell transplantation, the chimeras were sacrificed and 10° nucleated cells of their femoral marrow were assayed for growth into irradiated (700 R) BlO mice, isogenic with the serially passaged B10 X marrow, and into c3H/Anf X C57BL F, and B10.A F, resistant hybrids. The B10 and B10 x B10.A F, test-mice were preimmunized against isoantigens of C3H/Anf X C57BL F, mice (two intraperitoneal injections of 10' spleen cells at weekly intervals, three and two weeks before the experiment) to prevent viable host cells of the B10 + F, chimeras from proliferating on transplantation. The marrow of five individual chimeras of the first and of the second transplant generations, and of severi chimeras of the third transplant generation was tested (Table 5) and in no instance was it found to contain variant Bl0 marrow 1-3 cells capable of optimal growth in resistant hybrids. Imunological Studies Hybrid resistance can be abrogated in adult F, mice by multiple injections of viable spleen cells gathered from H-2° parental strain donors 17 - . . . - . ' x ' . '- :: - - but not by injections of spleen cells from parental strain mice of different H-2 phenotype (19). Abrogation of the resistance has been accomplished consistently when l-to-2 X 10' viable spleen cells were given intraperitoneally with each injection, over a period of three to four weeks. A single administration, or two injections of viable spleen cells at weekly intervals do not affect the hybrid resistance. F, mice which become susceptible to parental marrow grafts following the prolonged treatement react normally to allogeneic marrow grafts and are not cellular However, chimeras with respect to dividing hematopoietic cells (19). , C3H/Anf x C57BL F, worids made susceptible to C57BL marrow grafts, susceptible also to marrow grafts from other H-2 homozygous donors, such as A.BY, C3H.SW, D1.LP, LP, and 129 mice (18). Pretreatment of certain resistant hybrids with multiple injections of 1.5 x 10' parental strain marrow cells instead of spleen cells enhances slightly the strength of their resistance to H-2 marrow grafts, without affecting, however, their ... are resistance to allogeneic grafts (19). A list of resistant bybrids which become susceptible upon treatment with parental strain spleen cells is given in Table 6. Also listed are the hybrids whose resistance has been found to increase or to remain unchanged upon treatment with parental strain marrow cells. Abrogation and enhancement of hybrid resistance, as described above, are reminiscent of acquired unresponsiveness and acquired immunity, in that they are effected by the parental cells toward which the hybrid 18 resistant but not by the parental cells histocompatible with the hybrids. Furthermore, once established, the new condition of the bybrids 18 specific for H-2° . 18 homozygous marrow grafts Pentidai in this respect with the cells used for the treatment. It was of interest to establish, therefore, whether the injection of parental strain hematopoietic cells into newborn F, mice would also abrogate or delay the appearance of hybrid resistance. BLO X'BlO.D2 F, nice were injected intraperitoneally, within 12 hours from birth, with 5 x 10° or 10' nucleated marrow cells from adult Bl0 female donors. A few mice of each litter were not injected with cells or were . injected with BlO.D2 marrow cells to serve as controls. In addition, one litter of Bl0 newborn mice were injected with B10 cells from one of the preparations used to inject the F7, mice. At 35 to 40 days of age, the surviving animals were tested for resistance to 5 X 10° grafted BlO . marrow cells following exposure to 700 R whole body X irradiation. Results of preliminary experiments are reported in Table 7; uninjected F, mice and F, mice given BlO.D2 cells were fully resistant, whereas six F, mice neonatally injected with 10' B10 cells and two F, mice injected with 5 x 10° B10 cells failed to develop resistance. Two of the four F, mice of the latter group were found to be resistant. It seems, therefore, th at the neonatal administration of parental hematopoietic cells to appropriate F, hybrids may delay the development of resistance or induce immunological tolerance to parental marrow grafts. Hybrid resistance to parental marrow grafts has been transferred adoptively by F, marrow or spleen cells to irradiated mice that do not possess isoantigens associated with the H-2° homozygous phenotype, namely to C3H, A and C3H x B10.BY mice (16). However, resistance was not transferred to irradiated H-2 mice, even if the latter were bearing functional F, hybrid hematopoietic grafts (16). Probably, F, hematopoietic cells and/or F, immunocytes became paralyzed or specifically unresponsive upon transplantation into H-2° homozygous mice, owing to the excess of parental 1soantigens in such recipients. To test this interpretation, the experiments were extended as to . ascertain whether F, cells from resistant donors that failed to transfer hybrid resistance upon infusion into irradiated parental H-2° mice, would still be capable of conferring resistance on retransplantation into secondary recipient mice lacking the isoantigens associated with the homozygous H-2 phenotype. If the F, cells were paralyzed or specifically unresponsive to parental 1soantigens when residing in irradiated H-2° mice, one would predict that upon removal from such recipients the F, cells would regain their reactivity toward the isoantigens of H-2° homozygous parental marrow grafts. The design of the experiment is shown in Fig. 6. The first passage of marrow was performed with 4 x 10' nucleated B10 X A F, cells injected into the tail veins of irradiated (850 R) BIO recipients. After 122 days, the peripheral blood hemoglobin of all the chimeras, analyzed by the method of Popp and Cosgrove (24) was found to be of donor type. At this time, six chimeras were reexposed to 700 R of X rays and tested for hybrid resistance by grafting 10° nucleated Bl0 marrow cells. Regenerated marrow from the remaining F, + parent chimeras was harvested and 2 x 10' nucleated cells were retransplanted into each of several groups of irradiated recipients. The experimental groups were strain A mice exposed to 800'R of x rays and strain B1O X A F, mice exposed to 900 R of x rays. The different exposure levels correspond to the LD, 100/30 of each strain. Control groups (not listed in Fig. 6) were strain BlO mice injected with marrow of the primary F, + BLO chimeras and strain B10 and A mice injected, respectively, with 18ogenic, serially transplanted marrow cells. Forty days after the second marrow . 20 passage, the secondary chimeras were tested as before for resistance to B10 marrow grafts. ' The results of this experiment are presented in Table 8. BlO marrow test-grafts promoted the uptake of 134IUAR in the spleens of B10 isogenic chimeras and, to a lesser extent, in the spleens of A strain isogenic chimeras. This indicated that the chimeric.state, as it was produced here, did not alter per se the ability of recipients to support the growth of B10 marrow grafts. B10 marrow cells were also able to promote splenic uptake of 15-IUAR in primary F, + Bl0 and in secondary Fi + B10 + B10 chimeras, as if these animals were fully susceptible. In contrast, Blo marrow cells were not able to grow in F, + B10 + A and in F, + B10 + F, secondary chimeras, as if these animals were fully resistant. Although this experiment is not yet complete with respect to the number of transplant generations and to the variety of precipient strains contemplated it cleary shows that the F, cells which failed to transfer hybrid resistance to Blo recipients, were competengt to transfer resistance upon retransplantation into strain A and B10 X A F, mice. The findings strengthen, therefore, the interpretation given to earlier results (16) that the competent cells of resistant F, mice become paralyzed or specifically unresponsive when exposed to an excess of parental 1soantigen( 8) * .. . - . . .- DISCUSSION Inbred mouse strains homozygous for the H-2 allele possess in the D region of the complex H-2 locus, or in close association with it, a genetic determinant controliing a requirement for the optimal growth of transplanted marrow cells in the hematopoietic sites of irradiated . . . . recipients. Since F, hybrid mice heterozygous for this genetic determinant do not support the growth of minimal numbers of grafted homozygous cells, it is, concluded that this genetic determinant is not expressed in H-2° heterozygotes. Allogeneic strains of mice homozygous for H-2 alleles other than H-2 may, however, support the growth of H-2 /H-2° marrow grafts (11, 12, 16). Therefore, the resistance of F, heterozygotes toward grafts of homozygous parental origin has been attributed to interallelic genetic interactions rather than to heterozygosis for a recessive gene. Infant F, hybrid mice are not resistant to grafted parental marrow cells until they reach 20 days of age. However, once established the hybrid resistance appears to be relatively strong: the proliferative integrity of . parental marrow cells grafted into F, mice is inactivated within 24-48 hours and the weakening, effect of whole-body X irradiation on hybrid resistance is rather low (16). In general, the strength of hybrid resistance, as measured by these two parameters and by the overdose of parental donor cells necessary to override it, appears to be of the same' order of magnitude as the strength of the resistance displayed by allogeneic inbred mice toward H-2 homozygous marrow grafts. Studies with a varient) of H-2 heterozygous hybrids have provided evidence that the strength of resistance may vary 22 .. .. .. .. ...." L I YO 1Y: '.* * considerably among hybrids of different parentage, although the hybrids may be identical with respect to their H-2 constitution. It appears as if one or more independent allelomorphic genes may act as modifiers, since the resistance of hybrids was strong when one or both parents contributed the genetic background of strain C57BL, or of one of its sublines (16), but decreased in strength in the following order when the parents contributed the genetic background of strains C3H, A, and DBA/1. An example of gene interaction modifying the expression of red blood cell 1soantigens of the H-29 phenotype in DBA/1 mice has been reported by Stimpfling and Snell (25). Thus, hybrid resistance, or conversely, deficient growth of parental marrow grafts in F, hybrids, can be ascribed to genetic interaction in the inheritance of a histocompatibility gene affecting specifically the fate of hematopoietic cell grafts. It can be speculated that interallelic interaction leads to suppression in F, heterozygotes of one or more isoantigens associated with the H-2 phenotype. The following events can then be postulated: (1) hematopoietic tissues of H-2° homozygous mice should be isoantigenic to H-2 heterozygous F, mice and capable of inducing, under appropriate conditions, a state of specific unresponsiveness and/or immunity in resistant F, mice; (2) skin tissue of H-2° homozygotes should not share with hematopoietic tissue the parental isoantigens; (3) hybrid resistance should þe transferred adoptively by F, hematopoietic cells to mice lacking the parental 1soantigens. In the presence of large amounts of such 1soantigens, as in H-2°/H-2 mice, transferred F, cells should rather become unresponsive. The results of a series of experiments described here and still elsewhere (16, 19), some of which in a preliminary phase, are consistent with the predictions, except for the fact that the induction of immunity in resistant hybrids,(i.e., an induced state in which parental marrow grafts become unacceptable to F, recipients which otherwise would accept them) has so far been unsuccessful in most of the employed hybrids. In a few F, strains, resistance was specifically increased by pretreatment with parental hematopoietic cells, but the increase was relatively small (19). It is conceivable that hybrid resistance, which develops relatively after birth late at about weaning age, but manifests itself suddenly (Fig. 4), resulted from sensitization toward parental-like isoantigens during the . neonatal period of life. It has been shown by Tiu et al. (26) that isoantigenic variant cell lines are produced frequently by serial transplantation of fetal liver cells but not of adult marrow cells. If i soantigenic variation were to occur also spontaneous ly in the hematopoietic cell population of H-2° heterozygous near-term embryos or newborn mice, variant clones of cells may arise with isoantigens controlled by the D region of H-2 similar to the isoantigens of parental H-2° homozygotes. Such clones .would induce a homograft response which tends' to eliminate them and to generate at the same time resistance toward parental homozygous cells. The hybrid resistance phenomenon, as described herein, differs with respect to several properties from the 'syngeneic preference' phenomenon, i.e., the deficient growth of certain transplantable parental tumors in F, hybrids (5-7, 27). The major differences seem to reside in 24 the effect of radiation (5, 7) and of pretreatment with parental cells (27) on the two phenomena; in the occurrence of adaptive changes on serial transplantation of lymphoma cells (6), but not of marrow cells; and in the different ability of the two types of parental cells to withstand the presence of foreign isoantigens (11, 12, 19, 27). Nevertheless, both phenomena way be part of the homeostatic mechanisms maintaining homogeneous the phenotype of heterozygous somatic cells by eliminating variant clones which lack certain isoantigens. The search for isoantigenic . variants in hematopoietic cell populations of F, hybrid fetuses and of infant F, mice before the development of hybrid resistance may provide the means of verifying the validity of such a hypothesis. 25 SUMMARY The growth of parental marrow grafts in the hematopoietic sites of X irradiated F, hybrids is deficient if the donor mice are homozygotes for the D region of the H-2° allele and if the recipient mice are heterozygotes at the same locus. However, the extent to which F, heterozygotes resist the growth of parental marrow grafts depends also on other genetic determinants, presumably one or more modifier genes contributed by the genomes of the parental strains entering the F, crosses. Hybrid resistance develops relatively late in life, at about weaning age. It is moderately radiosensitive, but can be abrogated by multiple injections (ínto adult hybrids of viable parental strain spleen cellsVover a period of three to four weeks. Forty-day-old hybrids injected during neonatal life with parental strain marrow cells fail to develop resistance. Hybrid resistance can be slightly enhanced by multiple injections into adult animals of viable parental strain marrow cells, but only in some hybrid strains. Hybrid resistance is transferred adoptively by F, marrow or spleen cells tovirradiated recipient mice. (genetically susceptible These findings are consistent with the interpretation that genetic interaction lead to suppression of one or more parental isoantigen an diesel between alleles in or near the D region of the complex H-2 locuska Such isoantigens are relevant for the fate of hematopoietic cell grafts, but not for the fate of 102mal skin grafts. . : . . ,.. - !,' , 26 . .. FOOTNOTES .... Research sponsored by the U. S. Atomic Energy Commission under contract with the Union Carbide Corporation. 2. 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Spleens Following Irradiation (700 R) and Transplantation of 2 x 100 B10 Marrow cells: Days after Transplantation Splenic uptake of IVAR (%) in individual test-mice promoted by grafted spleen cells of the following chimeras* BlO 4 B10 10 B10 x B10.02 F, B20 — → B10.02 1/24 .45 .25 .26 .35 .39 .09 .11 .15 .18 .20 .27 .31 .33 .39 .47 .55 .59 .95 1.031.05 1.17 .27 .30 .33 .47 .07.07.11.12 .01 .02 .02 .04 .02 .02 .03 .03 .01 .02 .02 .03 .20 .30 .36 .01 .02 .03 .01 .01 .02 .01 .01 .01 .01 .01 .02 .03 .02 .03 *The cells of a whole spleen were infused into irradiated (700 R) B10 test-recipient mice preimmunized against isoantigens of strain B10.D2. Table 2 - The Effect of Allelic Substitutions at I Loci of B10 Mice on the Growth Pattern of Parental Marrow Grafts in H-2 Heterozygous F, Hybridst Allelic substitution Strain designation Growth pattern of marrow None BLO# · Deficient H-12 H-2° B10.BY B10.129(5M) Deficient A-36 B10.LP Deficient Deficient H-46 1-2 8-2 8-2d - 28-29 B10.129(21M) B10.A B10.BR B20.02 Optimal B10.M B10.Y *Data from Cudkowicz and Stimpfling (18,22) *The relevant genotype of strain B10 is H-1°, H-2, H-3°, -4*. . . 34 "able 3 - The Growth Pattern of Marrow Cells from Mice Carrying Variant 1-2 Alleles (resulting from crossing-over within H-2) Grafted into B10 x B10.A F, Hybrids* Straio H-2 Allele H-2 Allele H-2 Serotype Growth Pattern of marrow B10 Deficient H-2H-288 DM- C- H- K- D- M- C+ 8+ K+ [+ M+ C+ H+ K- D+ M+ C+ A+ K+ H-21-288 Deficient Optimal Optimal B10.A *Data of Cudkowicz and Stimpfling (22) - The hybrid recipients are heterozygotes for the five H-2 components listed in the table. - . in Table 4 - The Strength of Resistance to H-2°/-2° Marrow Grafts in Hybrids of Different Parentage* Donor Strain Classification . Recipients Strain H-2 Mean splenic uptake of 15-IVAR (% + Stand. error)t. A.BY AXA.BY Weakly resistant B10.A X A.BY 0.25 = .03 0.03 = .001 0.59 • .04 Strongly resistant Susceptible B10 X A.BY D1.LP DBA/1 X DI.LP a/b Susceptible' ; V k/b C3H x D.LP СЗН x IP 0.77 • .05 0.74 + .07 0.15** .02 0.02 + .001 0.83 = .05 Susceptible 21 Weakly resistant k/b C3H X Blo k/b Strongly resistant B10 X Dl.LP b/b Susceptible * Data from Cudkowicz and Stimpfling (22). + 5 days after irradiation (700 R) and grafting of 10° nucleated cells. Ten to fifteen mice per group. Tables Table 5 - Proliferative Capacity of B10 Marrow Cells Serially Transplanted in C3H/Anf X C57BL F, Recipients ng Marrow donors No. of marrow donors tested Splenic uptake of 131IUAR (%) in recipients of the following strains: B10 x B10.A C3H/Anf X C57BL . Blob Primary B20-F, chimeras 5 Secondary BlO-Fchimeras 5 0.60 10.45 - 0.69) 0.37 (0.28 - 0.55) 0.36 (0.22 - 0.42) 0.01 (0.01 - 0.03).. 0.03 (0.02 - 0.09) 0.02 (0.01 - 0.08 0.03 (0.02 - 0.05) 0.02 (0.02 - 0.04) 0.03 (0.01 - 0.07) Terfilary B10 -> F, chimeras & 5 days after transplantation of 10° nucleated chimera marrow cells. Average value is given; lowest and highest values in parenthesės. Immunized against isoantigens of C3H/Anf X C57BL F, spleen cells. · --..:. - -- - .-... -- -.. - -.- Table 6 - The Effect of Pretreatment with Parental Spleen or Marrow Cells on Hybrid Resistance . 37 - --- Resistant bybrids which become susceptible following multiple injections of parental spleen cells Hybrids whose resistance increases following multiple injections of parental marrow Hybrids whose resistance remains unchanged following multiple injections of parental ** marrow cells cells C3H/Anf X C57BL C3H/Anf X C57BL СЗН x Bio B10 x B10.02 C3H.SW X C38 c3H x 129 СЗН x Bio C3H X 129 Α.ΒΥΧΑ C3H.SW X C3H B10 ΧΑ A.BY X A BIO X FU Blo, x 4 DBA/1 X DI.LP B10 x B10.D2 C57BL/6 X DBA/2 B1O X FU C57BL/6 X DBA/2 Table 7 - he effect of neonatal exposure to parental marrow cells on the development of hybrid resistance, 38 Recipient Strain Treatment Splenic Uptake of 131IUAR (%) Promoted by Test Grafts In Individual Recipient Mice B10 X B10.D2 None .01 .01 .14 .08 .10 .06 .05 .01 .01 .14 .08 .18 10² B10.D2 Marrow cells 10' B10 Marrow cells 5 x 106 B10 Marrow cells 10'B10 Marrow cells .01 .01 .16 .19 .20 .03 .02 .22 .02 .01 .19 26 .28 ..05 .05 .23 BIO .28 .30 8 5 X 10marrow cells given after exposures of 35-40 day old recipients to 700 R of X rays * mention that ñ Table 8 - Serial Transfer of Hybrid Resistance by B1O X A F, Marrow Cells Chimeras to be Tested , 1st Host / 2nd Host Splenic Uptake of 131IUAR (% + Stand. Error) Promoted by Test Grafts (Donor B10 , B10 / Blo Α / Α Α B10 x A | Blo / None BLO XA , BLO | BLO ві0 xA | Bio І ві0 xA BLO XA , BLONA 0.58 1.07 1736 0.297.03 (5) 0.51 + .03 (6) 0.47+ .05 (7) 0.05 = .02 (7) 0.06+ .01 (5) 10° Blo marrow cells grafted after exposure of the chimeras to 700 R of X rays 'In parentheses - number of chimeras tested. - .. ** . FIGURE LEGENDS Figure 1 - Splenic uptake of SHIUR in isogenic and F, hybrid mice given 106 C57BL marrow cells, as a function of time after transplantation... Five mice per point. . O C57BL recipients exposed to 800 R O 038/Anf X C57BL F, recipients exposed to 900 R c3H/Anf X C57BL F, recipients exposed to 700 R Figure 2 - Splenic uptake of 13-IUAR in isogenic and in F, hybrid mice given C57BL marrow, as a function of the number of transplanted cells. Five to seven nice per point. C57BL recipients exposed to 800 R O c3H/Anf X C57BL F, recipients exposed to 900 R Figure 3 - Uptake of 13-IVAR in two femurs of irradiated (800 R) isogenic and F, hybrid mice given 10° C57BL marrow cells, as a function of time after transplantation. Splenectomy was performed one month prior to the experiment. Recipient mice were injected with FUAR before being labeled with 131 IUAR. C57BL recipients O c3H/Anf X C57BL F, recipients Figure 4 - Uptake of 13AIUAR in the spleens of irradiated (700 R) isogenic and F, hybrid infant mice given 5 x 10' B10 marrow cells at different ages. B10 recipients O B1O X B10.D2 F, recipients Figure 5 - Splenic uptake of 15-IUAR in relation to the number of parental marrow cells injected into irradiated (700 R) 18ogenic and F, hybrid recipient mice (five mice per point). . NII Parental strain donor cells. 'Isogenic recipients B10 cells. B10 x B10.D2 F, O C3H.SW cells C3H.SW X C3H F1 A A.BY cells · A X A.BY F1 D1. LP cells DBA/1 X D1.LP F - Figure 6 - Schematic outline of the procedure used for serial transfer of - - B10 X AF, marrow cells and of hybrid resistance. + - -: :- . . . - - - - ------ - 14,13.2 106 C57BL MARROW CELLS GRAFTED INTO: O C57BL-800 R O C3H/A-EX C57BL Fi - 900 R O C3H/AC-X032 - F-700R 2.00- 90 O-. e m -- La Na i e romana MEAN SPLENIC UPTAKE OF 13110R zw. me . ve- -.-.- oo -one - - ... meow.com ...? - panoramamayan 3 4 TIME AFTER 5 9 10 12 ROW TAVSPLANTION (days; 14,131 2.007 0 C57BL-800 R o C3H/Aní x C57BL F-900R --.. .- .- - .. kr. . . MEAN SILENIC UPTAKE OF 3*, GR (%) LAS 0.125 0.5 Ź ģ NO. OF TRANSPLANTED MARROW · CELLS X 106 N ''. .......................... 14,133 CO7SL-000 R 0 C3H/A > C575L F,- 800 R 0. 47 INTACT MICE со OC OOO O O Occo o 0 CcO000 0000 000 00 UPTAKE OF 131 UdR IN 2 TEMUKSI SPLENECTOMIZED MICE C o 000 00 co 0000 00 0000 000000 o 2000 0 19 NSPLANTION - . . . . now.romeni. ... mmmon .. 0 OCD? o oo IV O 000000 a comme-- .134 0 0.0. 24 O 000 o B10 x B10.D2 Fe MICE o BIO MICE 00 0000 000 22 20 ACE OF RECIPIENTS (days) 0 0 0 0 0 L 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9! :! sammen mengaman 0.27 SPLENIC UPTAKE OF 13? UUR (%) DONOR www RECIPIENT STRAINS 111 810 A O O PARENTAL - ISOGENIC PARENTAL - 1840 X 810.02)F, A.BY - (A X A.BY) 01. LP - (DBA/1 X 01. LP) FR C3H.SW - (C3H.SW X C3H)F, MEAN SPLENIC UPTAKE OF 1311 UdR (%) //////// -'.. .-.Nom .. ini en m . .;** ta ... . W ." A O ! ! * 3 - 104 (567891 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 2 § 4 5 6 7 8 1 105 106 NO. OF TRANSPLANTED MARROW CELLS - 10% E -' ' 14,162 -T THE PROCEDURE USED FOR SERIAL TRANSPLANTATION OF BIO XA F, MARROW CELLS AND FOR SERIAL TRANSFER OF HYBRID RESISTANCE .. ... B10 X A F, MARROW CELLS comme.... " . ... . REGENERATED MARROW . IST PASSAGE IN IRRADIATED 2ND PASSAGE IN IRRADIATED BIO HOSTS A HOSTS 122 DAYS 40 DAYS 2ND PASSAGE IN IRRADIATED BIO XA F, HOSTS 40 DAYS TESTED FOR HYBRID TESTED FOR HYBRID RESISTANCE AND FOR HEMOGLOBIN TYPE RESISTANCE 19. . . . : . { . ! PL NTCA , ! T 1 : . 2 . . LTE T ! AVT w 41 L ! AR DATE FILMED 6 / 29 /65 + S T I ly . .. - LEGAL NOTICE This report was prepared as an account of Government sporisored work. Neither the United States, nor the Commission, nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission: A. 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