Bo. Lim et al., INHIBITION OF IMMUNOGLOBULIN PRODUCTION IN HUMAN NAMALWA CELLS AND RAT SPLEEN LYMPHOCYTES BY BILE-ACID, Bioscience, biotechnology, and biochemistry, 58(6), 1994, pp. 1107-1111
The effects of bile acids on the proliferation and IgM production of h
uman lymphoblastoid Namalwa cells and on the Ig production of rat sple
en lymphocytes were examined. Among the free bile acids examined, two
dihydroxy bile acids, CDCA and DCA, inhibited the proliferation of Nam
alwa cells and Ig production by rat spleen lymphocytes at concentratio
ns above 20 mu g/ml, while the inhibitory effect of a trihydroxy bile
acid, CA, was much weaker. The inhibitory effects of their conjugated
bile acids were weaker than those of the free ones, and the DCA deriva
tives were more toxic than the CA ones. These results suggest that dih
ydroxy bile acids were more toxic to Ig production by spleen lymphocyt
es than trihydroxy ones. The effect of bile acids on Ig production by
the lymphocytes was examined in the presence of such mitogens as LPS,
PHA, ConA, and PWM. As a result, TDCA inhibited their IgG and IgM prod
uction at 200 mu g/ml independently of the mitogen addition, while TCA
was almost ineffective. It thus seems likely that the bile acid inhib
its the Ig production by spleen lymphocytes through non-specific inhib
ition of the both T and B cell functions.