THE CYTOLYTIC PROTEIN OF HUMAN-LYMPHOCYTES RELATED TO THE 9TH COMPONENT (C9) OF HUMAN-COMPLEMENT - ISOLATION FROM ANTI-CD3-ACTIVATED PERIPHERAL-BLOOD MONONUCLEAR-CELLS
THE CYTOLYTIC PROTEIN OF HUMAN-LYMPHOCYTES RELATED TO THE 9TH COMPONENT (C9) OF HUMAN-COMPLEMENT - ISOLATION FROM ANTI-CD3-ACTIVATED PERIPHERAL-BLOOD MONONUCLEAR-CELLS
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.84.8.2426
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发表时间:
1987-04-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
MULLEREBERHARD, HJ
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作者:
ZALMAN, LS;MARTIN, DE;MULLEREBERHARD, HJ
A 70-kDa channel-forming protein has recently been isolated from human large granular lymphocytes maintained in interleukin-2-dependent culture. The protein was shown to be immunochemically related to the ninth component of complement (C9) and was therefore designated C9-related protein (C9RP). Using the procedure that was developed for the isolation of C9RP from large granular lymphocytes-i.e., affinity chromatography employing anti-human C9 linked to Sepharose, a cytolytic protein has now been isolated from OKT3-activated human peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Nineteen to 40 .mu.g of active protein was obtained from 1 .times. 109 human peripheral blood mononuclear cells after the cells were cultured for 3 days with OKT3 (monoclonal antibody to cell surface antigen T3). During this period, a marked increment occurred in the amount of the cytotoxic protein contained per cell, indicating that OKT3 induced de novo synthesis of the protein. By NaDodSO4/PAGE the molecular mass was determined to be 70 kDa. By ELISA the isolated protein and C9RP of large granular lymphocytes reacted to the same extent with anti-C9RP. Using K-562 or M21 human melanoma cells as targets, the cytotoxic activity of the isolated protein, in the presence of 5 mM Ca2+, was comparable to that of C9RP. The same cytolytic protein was isolated from peripheral blood mononuclear cells that were depleted of CD16+ cells prior to OKT3 activation and that consisted primarily of CD4+ and CD8+ T lymphocytes. These results suggest that the cytolytic protein of OKT3-activated cytotoxic T lymphocytes is identical with C9RP of interleukin-2-stimulated large granular lymphocytes.