title: Quantitative variations of three different lectin receptors as a function of establishment and metabolism of normal and leukaemic human cell lines.
abstract: Lectin binding on the cell surface was measured by the method of Kornfeld [16] using three tritiated lectins: Robinia pseudo acacia, Concanavalin A and Ricinus. It has been shown that the number of binding sites for Robinia and Con A decreases after the establishment of a leukaemic cell line, whereas the affinity constant increases for Robinia. The relationship between lectin binding and cell growth was carried out on 5 cell lines, 3 of leukaemic and 2 of normal origin. In all cases the maximum number of sites was determined at the time of doubling for the cell population; the affinity constant reciprocally decreases at this moment. For Robinia, a difference was found in both cell growth and the number of sites between an Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) negative leukaemic cell line and the other EBV positive cell lines. Lectins offer a quantitative method for measuring membrane structure variations during and after establishment of cell lines.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001666:Binding Sites, Antibody; D002455:Cell Division; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism; D003208:Concanavalin A / Q000378:metabolism; D004854:Herpesvirus 4, Human / Q000302:isolation & purification; D006801:Humans; D037102:Lectins; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000382:microbiology; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D037102:Lectins; D003208:Concanavalin A