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The lack of mitogenic response of neuraminidase-treated and untreated human blood lymphocytes to divalent, hexavalent, or insoluble Helix pomatia a hemagglutinin
Authors:Marie-Louise Dillner  S Hammarstrm  P Perlmann
Institution:Department of Immunology, Wenner-Gren Institute, S-11345 Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract:The mitogenic effects on human blood lymphocytes of Helix pomatia A hemagglutinin (HP) were measured by assaying incorporation of 14C]thymidine into cellular DNA. This highly purified lectin binds to human lymphocytes, treated with neuraminidase, but not to untreated lymphocytes. HP, which is hexavalent in its native form, totally failed to induce DNA synthesis in neuraminidase-treated as well as in untreated cells. Divalent HP, prepared by partial reduction and alkylation, and HP insolubilized by coupling to nylon sheets, also lacked mitogenicity. Control experiments indicated that neuraminidase-treated lymphocytes responded well to mitogenic lectins such as PHA. The lack of mitogenicity of HP was in contrast to the effects of soy bean agglutinin (SBA), which resembled HP in regard to carbohydrate specificity and ability to bind to neuraminidase-treated lymphocytes only. SBA was strongly mitogenic for neuraminidase-treated lymphocytes. The mitogenic effects of SBA were not inhibited by including varying doses of HP in the incubation mixtures. The results indicate that binding of lectin to carbohydrate receptors on the lymphocyte surface is not by itself sufficient to trigger DNA-synthesis.
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