Normal rat spleens contain suppressor cells which can inhibit proliferative and cytotoxic responses of lymphocytes to alloantigens in vitro. The suppressor cells are adherent, phagocytic, resistant to treatment with ATS and C, radioresistant, resistant to treatment with mitomycin C, apparently absent from the thymus, and found in very high concentrations in peritoneal exudates. These characteristics indicate that the suppressor cell is a macrophages and not a T cell. When suppressor cells were removed from spleen cell suspensions, strong in vitro proliferative and cytotoxic responses to alloantigens could consistently be observed. 相似文献
The extracellular chitinase produced by Serratia marcescens was obtained in highly purified form by adsorption-digestion on chitin. After gel electrophoresis in a nondenaturing system, the purified preparation exhibited two major protein bands that coincided with enzymatic activity. A study of the enzyme properties showed its suitability for the analysis of chitin. Thus, the chitinase exhibited excellent stability, a wide pH optimum, and linear kinetics over a much greater range than similar enzymes from other sources. The major product of chitin hydrolysis was chitobiose, which was slowly converted into free N-acetylglucosamine by traces of β-N-acetylglucosaminidase present in the purified preparation. The preparation was free from other polysaccharide hydrolases. Experiments with radiolabeled yeast cell walls showed that the chitinase was able to degrade wall chitin completely and specifically. 相似文献
23,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 was isolated from the plasma of vitamin D3-toxic pigs. An ultraviolet absorbance spectrum confirmed its purity. The configuration of the 23-hydroxyl group was determined to be S by comparison of the natural product with synthetic 23,25- and 23,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 by high-pressure liquid chromatography. The affinity of both 23,25- and 23,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 for the plasma vitamin D binding protein was similar to vitamin D3. Thus, with respect to the plasma vitamin D binding protein, 23,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 is the least potent, naturally-occurring, dihydroxylated vitamin D3 metabolite known. 相似文献
Four hybridomas obtained from mice immunized with human adenocarcinomas of colon or stomach produce antibodies that bind specifically in solid-phase radioimmunoassay to the ceramide pentasaccharide that contains the lacto-N-fucopentaose III sequence of sugars. Binding of the antibodies to the glycolipid is inhibited by lacto-N-fucopentaose III, but not by structurally related oligosaccharides. The antibodies bind to glycolipids of erythrocytes, granulocytes, and certain normal and malignant tissues. 相似文献
1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3 [1,25-(OH)2D3] receptor was characterized after partial purification of thymus cytosol by ammonium sulfate fractionation. The 1,25-(OH)2D3 receptor sediments at 3.7S in 5–20% sucrose gradients. The binding of 1,25-(OH)2D3 in thymic cytosol was a saturable process with high affinity (Kd = 0.12?0.48 nM) at 4°C. Competition for 1,25-(OH)2[3H]D3 receptor by nonradioactive analogs demonstrated the affinities of these analogs to be in order; 1,25-(OH)2D3 = 1,24R,25-(OH)3D3 = 1,25S,26-(OH)3D3 = 1,25R,26-(OH)3D3 > 1,25-(OH)2D3-26,23 lactone > 25-OHD3 > 23R,25-(OH)2D3 > 24R,25-(OH)2D3 > 23S,25-(OH)2D3 ? 25-OHD3-26,23 lactone. The receptor bound to DNA cellulose columns in low salt buffer and eluted as a single peak at 0.21 M KCl. These findings provide evidence that the thymus possesses a 1,25-(OH)2D3 receptor with properties indistinguishable from 1,25-(OH)2D3 receptors in other tissues. 相似文献
The potentiometric acid-base titration curve of fully protonated lysozyme at ionic strengths of 0.10 and 1.0 m has been performed. The stoichiometry and the pKa values of each titratable group have been determined through the linearization of titration curves. Two types of carboxylic groups with pKa values of 3.76 and 5.02, the imidazole group with pKa 7.37 and the amine group with pKa 9.63, have been identified at an ionic strength of 0.10 m at 25.0°C. The number of titratable groups found per mole of protein has been 5.12 and 5.60 for the two types of carboxylic groups, 1.13 for the imidazole group, and 3.19 for the amino groups. The endpoint of the titration of the protein obtained by this method accords quite well with the endpoint obtained by the use of Gran function applied to the excess of strong base. 相似文献
Relative biological effectiveness of neutrons vs. X-rays in inducing crossing-over in males of D. melanogaster was investigated using 812 and 834 rad of neutrons and the same dose of X-rays. Crossing-over was induced in spermatocytes and spermatogonia of adults and pupae. Neutrons were 4 times more effective in spermatocytes of adults and their effectiveness in pupal spermatocytes was even more. Neutrons also induced more exchanges in spermatogonial cells including predefinitive spermatogonia. Higher effectiveness of neutrons can be attributed to their high linear energy transfer. 相似文献
A comparison was made between the induction of intragenic and intergenic recombinations during meiosis in a wild-type diploid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Under non-irradiated normal conditions, production of both intragenic and intergenic recombinants greatly increased in the cells with commitment to meiosis. The susceptibility of cells to the induction of both the spontaneous intra- and intergenic recombinations in meiotic cells was similar. However, under condition of UV irradiation, there were striking differences between intra- and intergenic recombinations. Susceptibility to induction of intragenic recombination by UV irradiation was not enhanced at meiosis compared with mitosis, and was not altered through commitment to meiotic processes. In contrast, however, susceptibility to the induction of intergenic recombination by UV irradiation was enhanced markedly during commitment to meiosis compared with mitosis. Genetic analysis suggested that the enhanced susceptibility to recombination during meiosis is specifically concerned with reciprocal-type recombination (crossing-over) but not non-reciprocal-type recombination (gene conversion). Hence it is concluded that the meiotic process appears to be intimately concerned with the mechanism(s) of induction of recombination, especially reciprocal-type recombination. 相似文献
The incubation of human peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) with the natural killer (NK)-sensitive MOLT-4 cell line results in PBL-target cell conjugate formation by certain lymphocyte subpopulations. Following velocity sedimentation, the PBL depleted of these conjugate-forming subpopulations are markedly diminished in the ability to mediate either antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) or NK activity. The immediate testing of highly pure PBL subpopulations isolated from the NK target conjugates does not reveal the expected recovery of augmented ADCC or NK levels. Following in vitro incubation, however, the PBL NK target-binding subpopulations do manifest augmented levels of both NK and ADCC, whereas the depleted PBL continue to display diminished NK and ADCC levels. In addition, the degree of augmented NK and ADCC levels recovered by the NK target-binding PBL subpopulations appears dependent on both the time and the temperature of in vitro incubation. Moreover, the ADCC recovery patterns are identical to those observed for NK activity regardless of the time and temperature of in vitro incubation. These results directly demonstrate that the PBL subpopulations isolated from certain NK target cells are functionally enriched in the ability to mediate from ADCC and NK activity. 相似文献