Production of β2‐Microglobulin by Normal and Malignant Human Cell Lines and Peripheral Lymphocytes
Production of β2‐Microglobulin by Normal and Malignant Human Cell Lines and Peripheral Lymphocytes
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正常和恶性人类细胞系和外周淋巴细胞产生 β2-微球蛋白
作者:
K. Nilsson;P. Evrin;K. Welsh
/Js-microglobulin {[^T/I) is a low molecular weight protein (MW 11.800) originally isolated by Berggard & Beam (1968) from human urine. /?2-/i was later found in human serum, cerebrospinal fluid, saliva and colostrum (Berggard & Bearn 1968, Evrin et al. 1971). The serum levels have been shown to vary within a narrow range for normal individuals (Evrin & Wibell 1972). High levels are recorded regularly in sera from patients with renal diseases (Bemier et al. 1968, Peterson et al. 1969, Wibell et al. 1973) and irregularly in patients with malignant diseases (Evrin & Wibell 1973, Kithier et al. 1974). Studies of the primary structure have shown a high degree of homology of p2-u with the constant domains of human IgG (Peterson et al. 1972, Smithies & Poulik 1972). This finding and the fact that ^2-/^ has an intrachain disulphide loop suggested that /?2-/( was a free immunoglobulin domain with effector function similar to that of the C H 3 domain of IgG (Peterson et al. 1972). Consequently early work on the production of ^2-^ by human cells was concentrated on lymphocytes. Peterson et al. (1972) and Evrin & Pertoft (1973) showed that ^2-fiwas present at the cell surface of