title: GM1b and GM1b-GalNAc: major gangliosides of murine-derived macrophage-like WEHI-3 cells.
abstract: WEHI-3 cells, derived from a BALB/c mouse, are a myelomonocytic leukemic cell line with macrophage-like properties. We have isolated, purified and characterized the monosialogangliosides from WEHI-3 cells by 1D-HPTLC, 2D-HPTLC, enzymatic degradation, HPTLC-immunostaining, gas-liquid chromatography and fast atom bombardment-mass spectrometry (FAB-MS). Quantitative 2D-HPTLC shows two monosialogangliosides are the major components, constituting 77% of the total, with a third monosialoganglioside being 3%. The two major components were identified as (NeuAc)GM1b and (NeuAc)GM1b-GalNAc and the minor component as (NeuAc)GM1b-GalNAc-Gal. The presence of GM1b in this myelomonocytic cell line is consistent with its presence in other murine immune cells and tissues. GM1b-GalNAc and GM1b-GalNAc-Gal have been reported in T-lineage cells but not in resident or stimulated murine macrophages. Each of these monosialogangliosides belongs to the asialoGM1 synthetic pathway. Preliminary results indicate a disialo member of this pathway, GDlc, may also be present as a minor component. This ganglioside pathway, containing species which are not sialylated on the internal galactose, appears to be dominant in and may be characteristic of murine immune cells.
authors.affiliation: Infectious Disease Section, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, West Haven, CT 06516.
authors.forename: H C
authors.initials: HC
authors.lastname: Yohe
authors.forename: L J
authors.initials: LJ
authors.lastname: Macala
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Giordano
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: McMurray
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002240:Carbohydrate Sequence; D002849:Chromatography, Gas; D002855:Chromatography, Thin Layer; D005732:Gangliosides / Q000032:analysis*; D008264:Macrophages / Q000737:chemistry*; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D016339:Spectrometry, Mass, Fast Atom Bombardment; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D005732:Gangliosides; C025447:sialogangliosides