title: Production of monoclonal antibodies against a cell surface concanavalin A binding glycoprotein.
abstract: Concanavalin A-binding (Con-A)-binding cell surface glycoproteins were isolated, via Con A-affinity chromatography, from Triton X-100-solubilized Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell plasma membranes. The Con A binding glycoproteins isolated in this manner displayed a significantly different profile on sodium dodecyl sulfate--polyacrylamide gels than did the Triton-soluble surface components, which were not retarded by the Con-A-Sepharose column. [125I]-Con A overlays of the pooled column fractions displayed on sodium dodecyl sulfate--polyacrylamide gel electro-phoresis (SDS-PAGE) demonstrated that there were virtually no Con A receptors associated with the unretarded peak released by the Con A-Sepharose column, whereas the material which was bound and specifically eluted from the Con A-Sepharose column with the sugar hapten alpha-methyl-D-mannopyranoside contained at least 15 prominent bands which bound [125I]-Con A. In order to produce monoclonal antibodies against various cell surface Con A receptors, Balb/c mice were immunized with the pooled Con A receptor fraction. Following immunization spleens were excised from the animals and single spleen cell suspensions were fused with mouse myeloma P3/X63-Ag8 cells. Numerous hybridoma clones were subsequently picked on the basis of their ability to secrete antibody which could bind to both live and glutaraldehyde-fixed CHO cells as well as to the Triton-soluble fraction isolated from the CHO plasma membrane fraction. Antibody from two of these clones was able to precipitate a single [125I]-labeled CHO surface component of approximately 265,000 daltons.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000032:analysis*; D002460:Cell Line; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000276:immunology; D002846:Chromatography, Affinity; D002999:Clone Cells; D003208:Concanavalin A; D006224:Cricetinae; D003412:Cricetulus; D005260:Female; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000032:analysis*; D006822:Hybrid Cells; D008565:Membrane Proteins / Q000032:analysis*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C / Q000276:immunology; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010053:Ovary; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
chemical_list: D000954:Antigens, Surface; D006023:Glycoproteins; D008565:Membrane Proteins; D003208:Concanavalin A