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In order to study the effect of stress on lymphocyte proliferation, SD rats were restrained with four limbs tied on a frame in supine position at room temperature (20 degrees C) for 20 h, and control animals were not disturbed in home cage. The blood was then collected from the heart under light ether anesthesia. The peripheral blood lymphocytes were separated from heparinized whole blood by density gradient (d 1.077) centrifugation, or the serum was obtained after the blood coagulated at 4 degrees C for about 6h. It was found that the blood lymphocyte proliferation induced by Con A was significantly inhibited in the stressed group as compared with the control (P less than 0.01, n = 8, ANOVA). The result was in accordance with our earlier study in which the animals were stressed with electric shock. In the present study, it was also found that the serum of the stressed animals was capable of suppressing Con A-induced lymphocyte proliferation of normal mice (P less than 0.01, n = 8, ANOVA) to a significant extent. Thus the present experiment suggests that there is some substance with suppressive activity on lymphocyte proliferation in the serum of the stressed rats. The serum lost its suppressive activity when it was heated to 100 degrees C (3 min), treated with 60% methanol or incubated with trypsin (64 micrograms/ml), thus suggesting that the suppressive factor(s) most likely is a kind of protein.
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PMID:[A study on serum suppressive factor(s) on lymphocyte proliferation in rats under restraint stress]. 203 67

A Triticum durum cDNA library prepared from developing endosperm (22 days after flowering (DAF] was screened using synthetic oligonucleotide probes covering part of the CM3 and CM16 N-terminal protein sequences. A full-length cDNA clone (pTd78) encoding the CM16 protein (chloroform/methanol-soluble protein) was isolated and characterized. To our knowledge this is the first characterization of a clone coding for a wheat CM protein. The CM16 protein is synthesized as a preprotein with a signal peptide of 24 residues, the molecular weight of the mature protein being 13,438 Da. As other members of the cereal trypsin/alpha-amylase inhibitor family, the CM16 protein contains 10 cysteine residues, their position being well conserved. In developing endosperm the highest level of CM16 mRNA was detected at mid-maturation.
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PMID:Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding the wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) CM16 protein. 210 17

Metabolic and growth inhibiting activities in immunoglobulin (of anti-S. aureus L-form serum and anti-S. aureus coccal form serum) could be absorbed by cell membranes of S. aureus L-form and its coccal form, respectively. These activities could not be absorbed by cell membrane of Micrococcus luteus, Streptococcus pyogenes or Actinomyces viscosus. These findings suggested the existence of species-specific antigens of cell membrane. The membrane antigens of L-form related to the metabolic and growth inhibiting activities were stable to trypsin, heating and periodate, and were not solubilized by trypsin. A large part of the antigen in a typsin-insoluble membrane precipitate of L-form could be extracted by acetone and the subsequent use of chloroform-methanol (2: 1). A fractionation study of chloroform-methanol extract by using silicic acid calum indicated that more than two components were involved in metabolic and growth inhibiting activities.
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PMID:[Studies of antigens related to metabolic and growth inhibitions of Staphylococcus aureus L-form]. 213 12

Intact neutrophils possess a cellular mechanism that efficiently deactivates the microbicidal O2-generating NADPH oxidase during the respiratory burst (Akard, L. P., English, D., and Gabig, T. G. (1988) Blood 72, 322-327). The present studies directed at identifying the molecular mechanism(s) involved in NADPH oxidase deactivation showed that a heat- and trypsin-insensitive species in the cytosolic fraction from normal unstimulated neutrophils was capable of deactivating the membrane-associated NADPH oxidase isolated from opsonized zymosan- or phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-stimulated neutrophils. This cytosolic species also deactivated the cell-free-activated oxidase. Deactivation by this cytosolic species occurred in the absence of NADPH-dependent catalytic turnover and was reversible, since NADPH oxidase activity could be subsequently reactivated in the cell-free system. The sedimentable particulate fraction from unstimulated neutrophils did not demonstrate deactivator activity. Deactivator activity was demonstrated in the neutral lipid fraction of neutrophil cytosol extracted with chloroform:methanol. Following complete purification of cytosolic deactivator activity by thin layer chromatography and reversed phase high performance liquid chromatography, the deactivator species was shown to be a lipid thiobis ester compound by mass spectroscopy. Cellular metabolism of this compound in human neutrophils may reveal a unique mechanism for enzymatic control of the NADPH oxidase system and thereby play an important role in regulation of the inflammatory response.
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PMID:Purification and characterization of a lipid thiobis ester from human neutrophil cytosol that reversibly deactivates the O2- -generating NADPH oxidase. 216 Apr 58

Avian neural crest cells migrating along the trunk ventral pathway are distributed throughout the rostral half of the sclerotome with the exception of a neural crest cell-free space of approximately 85 microns width surrounding the notochord. To determine if this neural crest cell-free space results from the notochord inhibiting neural crest cell migration, a length of quail notochord was implanted lateral to the neural tube along the neural crest ventral migratory pathway of 2-day chicken embryos. The subsequent distribution of neural crest cells was analyzed in embryos fixed 2 days after grafting. When the donor notochord was isolated using collagenase, neural crest cells avoided the ectopic notochord and were absent from the area immediately surrounding the implant (mean distance of 43 microns). The neural crest cell-free space was significantly less when notochords were isolated using trypsin or chondroitinase digestion and was completely eliminated when notochords were fixed with paraformaldehyde or methanol prior to implantation. The implanted notochords did not appear to affect the overall number of neural crest cells, and therefore were unlikely to exert this effect by altering their viability. These results suggest that the notochord produces a substance that can inhibit neural crest cell migration and that this substance is trypsin and chondroitinase labile.
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PMID:Absence of neural crest cells from the region surrounding implanted notochords in situ. 217 77

Streptococci of serological groups A, B, C and G displayed different binding activities for plasma proteins. Most of the streptococci studied, except those of group B, bound immunoglobulin G. All streptococci reacted with fibrinogen and, except those of group B, with fibronectin. The majority of streptococci, but none of group B, had an affinity for alpha 2-macroglobulin. Albumin was bound by all cultures of group G and a few of group C. Haptoglobulin interacted with only 1 group A culture. None of the streptococci bound transferrin. The specificity of binding sites for 125I-labelled plasma proteins was revealed in a series of inhibition experiments with the unlabelled proteins. The binding sites on streptococci of group G showed different sensitivities to trypsin and pepsin. Reactivities for immunoglobulin G, however, remained unaffected after treatments of the streptococci with trypsin. Exposure to heat (30 min, 80 degrees C) partially inactivated binding activities for the plasma proteins. Sodium dodecyl-sulphate and acetylimidazole strongly reduced binding of albumin and to a lesser extent that of alpha 2-macroglobulin. They had no or little effect on the interaction with the other plasma proteins. Dioxane decreased almost all binding activities. Ethanol partially diminished the binding of immunoglobulin G, fibrinogen, fibronectin and alpha 2-macroglobulin. Treatments of group G streptococci with guanidine, urea, formamide or methanol-HC1 did not affect their plasma protein binding activities.
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PMID:Interactions of plasma proteins with group A, B, C and G streptococci. 240 15

Various pretreatments of metaphase spreads were examined to obtain optimal DNA labelling patterns while maintaining chromosome integrity during in situ hybridization procedures. Preparations of African green monkey (AGM) chromosomes fixed in methanol-acetic acid (CV-1 cell line) were treated by coating with Denhardt's solution, dilute gelatin-chrome alum, nonfat instant dry milk dissolved in saline-citrate solution (SSC) and/or acetylation prior to denaturation of chromosomal DNA in 70% formamide-2 X SSC for 2 min at 70 degrees C. A 3H-labelled, cloned DNA fragment of the highly repetitive AGM component alpha DNA was hybridized to the chromosomes by incubation at 45 degrees C for 16 h. Treatment with gelatin-chrome alum prior to denaturation greatly improved chromosome morphology and decreased background, but reduced pericentromeric labelling. Sequential treatment with 5 X Denhardt's solution followed by gelatin-chrome alum resulted in enhanced specificity of labelling and excellent chromosome morphology, as well as reduced levels of background. Acetylation had little effect after pretreatment with gelatin-chrome alum, but reduced background levels after pretreatment with Denhardt's solution. Chromosomes treated with Denhardt's solution plus gelatin-chrome alum can be routinely G-banded using trypsin after in situ hybridization.
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PMID:Improved in situ hybridization and G-banding by pretreatment with Denhardt's solution and gelatin-chrome alum. 241 94

Different methods for fixation and exposure of antigenic determinants were tested for detection of a granulocytic differentiation antigen by the monoclonal antibody L12-2, using an indirect immunoperoxidase method on semi-thin sections of undecalcified, glycolmethacrylate-embedded human bone marrow biopsies. Fixation in Bouin's solution for 3 hr gave a more intense and more homogeneous immunological staining than fixation in absolute methanol, 4% formalin, B5, or Michel's medium, and the morphological detail was excellent. Digestion by pronase or trypsin was required. Coating the glass slides with Alcian blue prevented loss of sections from the slides during the staining procedure. Bouin fixation also made possible detection of two other differentiation antigens expressed in the granulocytic series, using the monoclonal antibodies 1G10 and R1B19. Furthermore, the same technique also permitted detection of factor VIII-RAg in the megakaryocytes, as well as recognition of cells of the erythroid series by use of polyclonal rabbit antisera.
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PMID:Immunoperoxidase detection of myeloid antigens in glycolmethacrylate-embedded human bone marrow. 243 85

A monoclonal antibody was used to characterize a serogroup 1 specific Legionella pneumophila Philadelphia strain 1 antigenic determinant. A quantitative fluorometric assay was developed to quantitate the antibody sites (2.7 +/- 0.4 X 10(5)) on Legionella bacteria and to determine the physico-chemical parameters of the antibody-antigen interaction (at 4 degrees C: delta G = -10.9 Kcal X mol-1, delta H = 1.7 Kcal X mol-1, delta S = 45 cal X K-1 X mol-1). The same method was used to study the modification or the removal of the antigen by chemical and enzymatic means (trypsin, papain, lysozyme, acetone, chloroform-methanol and Tris-EDTA); only Tris-EDTA extraction resulted in a significant decrease in antibody binding sites. Inhibition studies of the fluorescein-labelled antibody binding were performed with different sugars of which only L-fucosylamine was inhibitory, and with other monoclonal antibodies to Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in order to compare their fine specificity and affinity. The results indicate that the epitope recognized was an immunodominant carbohydrate including an aminodideoxyhexose and carried by the lipopolysaccharide.
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PMID:Partial characterization of a Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 immunodominant antigenic determinant recognized by a monoclonal antibody. Legionella specific antigenic determinant. 243 83

Murine monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) HISL-5, -9, and -14, generated after immunization of mice with human pancreatic islet cell preparations, recognize a differentiation antigen expressed by the pancreatic islet cells. These MAbs react strongly with all endocrine cell subtypes of human pancreatic islets, but minimally if at all with the exocrine acinar cells, vascular cells, and stromal connective tissue cells of the pancreas. The antigen is located on the cell surface (plasma membranes), as indicated by immunofluorescence staining of viable cell preparations. Besides the pancreatic islets, HISL-5, -9, and -14 antigenic determinants are also expressed by thyroid follicular cells, parathyroid chief cells, and anterior pituitary cells, other commonly involved targets in organ-specific autoimmune disorders. Preliminary biochemical findings indicated that the MAb-defined epitope(s) is trypsin sensitive and resistant to periodate oxidation and exposure to chloroform-methanol. Further biochemical studies, including single step MAb immunoaffinity chromatographic purification, indicate that the antigen recognized by the MAbs HISL-5, -9, and -14 is a 100 K glycoprotein.
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PMID:A novel neuroendocrine cell surface glycoprotein: identification, isolation, and initial characterization. 245 15


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