Abstract

Supernatants of human lymphocytes incubated for 4 hr with extracellular products of group A streptococci (streptococcal filtrate) and then washed and reincubated had a mitogenic activity for homologous lymphocytes. Fractionation by isoelectric focusing of the lymphocyte supernatants and of the streptococcal filtrates showed mitogenic activity in fractions with different isoelectric points. Moreover, human lymphocytes stimulated either with a mitogenic fraction of the lymphocyte supernatant or with a mitogenic fraction of the streptococcal filtrate, after treatment with bromodeoxyuridine (BUdR) and reciprocal restimulation, were responsive only to the heterologous stimulant.

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