RAT NEURAL ANTIGEN-2 (RAN-2) - A CELL-SURFACE ANTIGEN ON ASTROCYTES, EPENDYMAL CELLS, MULLER CELLS AND LEPTO-MENINGES DEFINED BY A MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODY
RAT NEURAL ANTIGEN-2 (RAN-2) - A CELL-SURFACE ANTIGEN ON ASTROCYTES, EPENDYMAL CELLS, MULLER CELLS AND LEPTO-MENINGES DEFINED BY A MONOCLONAL-ANTIBODY
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DOI:
10.1016/0006-8993(81)90593-x
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发表时间:
1981-01-01
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影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
WILLIAMS, CA
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作者:
BARTLETT, PF;NOBLE, MD;WILLIAMS, CA
Mice were immunized with enriched populations of cultured rat astrocytes; their spleen cells were fused with [mouse] NS-1 myeloma cells to generate antibody-secreting hybridomas. Two stable hybridoma clones were isolated which secrete monoclonal IgG2 antibodies that react with the surface of the great majority of rat astrocytes in culture. One of these antibodies was studied in indirect immunofluorescence assay; it binds to the surface of rat ependymal cells, retinal Mueller cells and leptomeningeal cells and to astrocytes, but not to cultured neurones, oligodendrocytes, Schwann cells, microglia or various non-neural cells. The antigen defined by this monoclonal antibody is protease-sensitive and rat-specific, it was designated rat neural antigen-2 (Ran-2). Isolated rat ependymal cells and cultured rat Mueller cells do not express other neural cell-type-specific markers, e.g., tetanus toxin receptors, rat neural antigen-1 (Ran-1), galactocerebroside or glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP). These cells do not express cell surface Fc receptors for IgG, phagocytose latex beads or make detectable amounts of the Thy-1 or fibronectin glycoproteins.