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In an endeavor to further characterize human intercellular adhesion molecule-2 (ICAM-2), two murine monoclonal antibodies (mAb) were generated to ICAM-2 transfected COS cells, and designated CBR-IC2/1 and CBR-IC2/2. Immunoprecipitated, reduced ICAM-2 migrated as a broad band of Mr 60,000 in sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Treatment with N-glycanase revealed a peptide backbone of Mr 31,000, consistent with the size predicted from the cDNA. ICAM-2 had a broad distribution on hematopoietic cell lines and little expression on other cell lines, the sole exception being cultured endothelial cells which possess high levels of ICAM-2. Resting lymphocytes and monocytes expressed ICAM-2, while neutrophils did not. Staining of tissue sections with anti-ICAM-2 mAb confirmed their strong reactivity to vascular endothelium, but demonstrated a lack of ICAM-2 expression on other tissues. Small clusters of ICAM-2 positive cells were, however, seen in germinal centers. In contrast to ICAM-1 there was little or no induction of ICAM-2 expression on lymphocytes or cultured endothelium upon stimulation with inflammatory mediators. One of the two mAb, CBR-IC2/2, was found to totally inhibit binding of ICAM-2+ COS cells to purified lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 (LFA-1). Using this mAb, LFA-1-dependent binding to both stimulated and unstimulated endothelium was found to be totally accounted for by ICAM-1 and ICAM-2. Homotypic aggregation of an Epstein-Barr virus-transformed B cell line, JY, was found to be solely ICAM-1 and ICAM-2-dependent, while in the case of the T cell lymphoma cell line, SKW3, anti- ICAM-2 mAb in conjunction with anti-ICAM-1 mAb could not inhibit the LFA-1-dependent aggregation. This suggests an additional LFA-1 ligand exists. Using a cell binding assay to purified LFA-1 in conjunction with anti-ICAM-1 and anti-ICAM-2 mAb, we have demonstrated that this putative third ligand for LFA-1 exists on SKW3 and other cell lines.
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PMID:Characterization of ICAM-2 and evidence for a third counter-receptor for LFA-1. 167 48

The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) major membrane protein, gp350, induces antibodies that neutralize virus infectivity in vitro and is a potential candidate for an EBV vaccine. Full-length EBV gp350 and five protein fragments, encompassing the entire protein sequence, were generated in a baculovirus expression system. The recombinant proteins were analysed using a panel of 14 monoclonal antibodies (MAbs) (13 prepared against native gp350 derived from virus-producing cells and one prepared against an Escherichia coli recombinant protein). All 14 MAbs, including a virus-neutralizing antibody, reacted with the full-length recombinant gp350 in a dot blot immunoassay, but only four of the 14 MAbs reacted with polypeptides expressed by the five subclones, indicating that the full-length protein, but not the protein fragments, was antigenically similar to native gp350. Treatment of the six recombinant proteins with peptide-N-glycosidase F (PNGase F) indicated that the full-length gp350 protein and the N-terminal fragment were glycosylated and that the four internally initiated polypeptides were not glycosylated. PNGase F treatment of the full-length glycosylated gp350 did not eliminate its reactivity with all of the 10 MAbs examined (including the neutralizing MAb) in a dot blot immunoassay; however, denatured glycosylated gp350 lost reactivity with all but four of the 14 MAbs when analysed by either dot blot or Western blot immunoassay. The data suggest that conformational epitopes are more important in recognition of gp350 by this panel of MAbs than glycosylation sites, and that the epitope on gp350 recognized by the neutralizing MAb is conformation- and not glycosylation-dependent.
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PMID:Conformation-dependent recognition of baculovirus-expressed Epstein-Barr virus gp350 by a panel of monoclonal antibodies. 769 88