Chromosome 11q localization of one of the three expected genes for the human alpha-3-fucosyltransferases, by somatic hybridization. |
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| Authors: | P Couillin R Mollicone M C Grisard A Gibaud N Ravisé J Feingold R Oriol |
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| Affiliation: | CNRS, Biochimie, Faculté de Pharmacie, Chatenay-Malabry, France. |
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| Abstract: | Seventy-one human x mouse hybrid cell lines were used to map the locus of a human alpha-3-fucosyltransferase to 11q. The enzyme transfers fucose onto H type 2 more efficiently than onto sialyl-N-acetyllactosamine, suggesting that it is the myeloid type of alpha-3-fucosyltransferase (Mollicone et al., 1990), which makes the 3-fucosyllactosamine epitope on polymorphonuclear cells and monocytes. This epitope is also known as CD15 (Tetteroo et al., 1987). |
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