Immortalization of immunologically committed Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines accompanied by a strong telomerase activity
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The immunological characteristics and immortalization processes of three EBV-transformed human B-lymphoblastoid cell lines, N0003, N0005 and N6803, with strong telomerase and infinitively proliferating activities are described. The three cell lines were apparently immortalized: they developed a strong telomerase activity at the population doubling levels (PDLs) between 11 and 135, and continued proliferation over 250 PDLs. All the cell lines expressed CD22, CD19 and CD20 antigens. They were uniformly stained with IgM (N0005), IgG (N6803) or IgA (N0003) at early PDLs between 17 and 20, and they secreted the corresponding class of Ig into the medium; the N6803 and N0003 cell lines continued to secrete each class of Ig at decreased levels while the N0005 cell line expressed or secreted virtually no Ig after immortalization. Karyotype analysis of the immortalized cell lines showed that they were derived from a single cell because they shared a set of abnormal chromosomes within each cell population, and two of the cell lines attained clonal characteristics before they developed a strong telomerase activity. These results indicate that the three immortalized cell lines with a strong telomerase activity correspond to the intermediate stages of B-cell differentiation naturally committed to a specific Ig class, and suggest that they were derived from a B-lymphoblastoid cell committed to a specific class of Ig with poor telomerase activity, rather than from a strongly telomerase-positive B-lymphoblastoid cell either committed or multipotential.

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