ABNORMAL GLYCOPROTEINS AND GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES IN HUMAN HEPATOMA
ABNORMAL GLYCOPROTEINS AND GLYCOSYLTRANSFERASES IN HUMAN HEPATOMA
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人肝癌中的异常糖蛋白和糖基转移酶
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发表时间:
1980
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
R. Schmied
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作者:
S. Waxman;Chen;R. Schmied
We have reported extraordinary elevations of serum vitamin BIZ content and serum unsaturated BIZ-binding capacity in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (N. Engl. J. Med. 1 9 7 3 . m 1053-1056). Studies using sera from two of these patients indicated that the elevations of serum BIZ and unsaturated B12-binding capacity was due to the presence of an abnormal BIZ-binding protein (Br. J. Haematol. 1974. 27: 229-239). This hepatoma-related BIZ-binding protein (hepatoma B12BP) was isolated in homogeneous form from the plasma and pleural fluid of two of these patients by the use of affinity chromatography with vitamin BIZ-Sepharose (J. Clin. Invest. 1975. 56: 1262-1270). This hepatoma BlzBP belongs to the R-type group of B12-binding glycoproteins and is essentially indistinguishable from the purified human milk and saliva R-type proteins in terms of: (a) immunologic properties; (b) amino acid composition; (c) molecular weight; and (d) absorption spectra. However, hepatoma BlzBP is abnormal in that it contains more sialic acid and less fucose than the milk and saliva BIZ-binding proteins. Differences in sialic acid content appear to account for the differences in electrophoretic mobility that were observed among the four proteins. Tumor tissue from one of the patients contained 10 times as much R-type protein as did normal liver tissue from the same patients. A perfusate of the tumor in the liver had 5 times more Blz-binding protein than did the serum and was the same as the serum hepatoma BIzBP. Furthermore, a cell line (SK-H-MA) derived from human hepatoma produces significant amounts of BIZ-binding protein similar to hepatoma BIzBP, whereas cell lines from normal liver (Chang) and other neoplasia did not (Can. Res. 1977. 37: 1908-1914). These data suggest that some hepatomas produce increased hypersialylated BIZ-binding protein that is cleared slowly from the plasma and accumulates there as hepatoma BIPBP. The SK-H-MA cells contain more surface and cellular sialyltransferase activity than Chang cells. The SK-H-MA cells also release large amounts of sialytransferase into the culture medium, whereas Chang cells and other neoplastic cells do not (Clin. Chim. Acta. 1979. 98: 225-233). Chang cells have more surface galactosyltransferase activity and release twice more into the medium than SK-H-MA cells. These two sources of galactosyltransferase have similar pH optima, Km values for UDP-gal, asialo-, agalacto-futuin, asialo-mucin, and ovalbumin, and are inhibited to the same extent by N-acetylglucosamine, N-acetylgalactosamine and UTP. However, polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed an additional slower moving band of galactosyltransferase produced by the SK-H-MA cell, but not by the Chang cell (Proc. Am. Assoc. Can. Res. 1979. u): 285), which is similar to isoenzyme GT I1 found in the serum of patients with various types of cancer. SK-H-MA cells also release more fucosyltransferase and N-acetylglucosaminytransferase than Chang cells. These data