Selective loss of wheat germ agglutinin binding to agglutinin-resistant mutants of Chinese hamster ovary cells.
The binding of 125I-labeled wheat germ agglutinin (WGA) to parental and three distinct WGA-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cell lines possessing modified cell surface carbohydrate structures has been examined over a 10(6)-fold range of WGA concentrations. The Scatchard plot for WGA binding to parental cells was complex and exhibited positively cooperative binding at the high affinity sites. One of the WGA-resistant mutants (WgaRIII) was apparently not altered in its WGA-binding ability compared with parental cells. However, two of the WGA-resistant lines (WgaRI and WgaRII) had distinct alterations in their WGA-binding properties specific to certain regions of the binding curve. Neither appeared to be affected in either the highest or lowest affinity regions of the binding curve. Thus, lectin-resistant cell mutants altered in specific lectin-binding sites at the cell surface provide a direct approach to analysis of the complex binding parameters that characterize the interaction of WGA with the plasma membrane.
D002460:Cell Line; D037102:Lectins / Q000378:metabolism*; D009154:Mutation
D037102:Lectins
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