A monoclonal antibody, VM64, reacts with a 130 kDa glycoprotein common to platelets and endothelial cells: heterogeneity in antibody binding to human aortic endothelial cells.
A new monoclonal antibody (mAb), VM64, reacts with a common antigen on the surface of human platelets and vascular endothelial cells (EC). Under nonreduced conditions it recognized in immunoblotting a protein of 130 kDa both in platelets and EC. VM64 precipitated the same 130 kDa protein from the lysate of surface radioiodinated platelets. Electrophoretic mobility of this protein was not altered by reduction and differed from the bands precipitated by reference mAb against platelet glycoproteins (GP) Ia-IIa, Ib, IIb-IIIa and GMP130. VM64 binding to platelets and EC was specific and saturable. The number of binding sites on platelets was 9.9 +/- 3.5 x 10(3) per platelet and on the surface of EC monolayer -2.40 +/- 0.32 x 10(6) per cell. VM64 also binds to platelets from Glanzmann's thrombasthenia patients which lack GPIIb-IIIa. VM64 did not affect platelet aggregation induced by ADP, collagen, thrombin and ristocetin. In the monolayers of EC from umbilical vein and human aorta, VM64 stained the area at the periphery of the cells adjacent to the cell-cell boundaries. In preconfluent cultures preferential staining was observed at the active leading margins of the cells. Unlike EC cultures from umbilical vein, where all cells were positively stained, in aortic EC cultures some unstained or poorly stained cells were constantly present, indicating a heterogeneity of EC population related to the expression of VM64 antigen. The biochemical characteristics of VM64 antigen, its presence both on platelets and EC and typical distribution on the surface of EC suggested that this antigen is identical to PECAM (CD31) protein.
Mazurov
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AV
Institute of Experimental Cardiology, Cardiology Research Center, Moscow, USSR.
Vinogradov
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DV
Kabaeva
N V
NV
Antonova
G N
GN
Romanov
Y A
YA
Vlasik
T N
TN
Antonov
A S
AS
Smirnov
V N
VN
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D000937:Antigen-Antibody Reactions / Q000276:immunology*; D001011:Aorta; D015153:Blotting, Western; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D008970:Molecular Weight; D010974:Platelet Aggregation / Q000276:immunology; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000276:immunology*; D011233:Precipitin Tests
D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D010980:Platelet Membrane Glycoproteins