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The costimulatory effects were documented using two antigenic systems: a superantigen (SEB), and a conventional viral antigen (CMV).
For experiments examining cytokine production and CD69 induction, whole blood or PBMC were incubated with antigen or superantigen for 6 h at 37°C, with addition of 10 μg/ml Brefeldin A (Sigma) at 2 h.
Short-term CD81 cross-linking on normal human T cells is shown to co-stimulate T cell activation (via antigen or superantigen), extending previous findings in mouse splenocytes [ 16 ] and human PBMC [ 17 ] . The effect appears to be a direct consequence of CD81 triggering on T cells.
To determine whether costimulation through human CD81 affected these early activation events, peripheral blood cells from normal CMV seropositive donors were incubated for 6 h with a superantigen, SEB, or the viral antigen, CMV, in the presence or absence of an agonistic anti-CD81 mAb, 5A6.
Our results demonstrate that peptidoglycan, teichoic acid, LPS, and the staphylococcal superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA), when present in the osteoblast extracellular environment, do not induce TRAIL expression (Fig.