title: Detection and preliminary characterization of a transmissible agent inducing autoantibody against Golgi-antigen.
abstract: A transmissible agent inducing autoantibody has been found in association with tumours induced in STU mice with the progressor strain of Moloney sarcoma virus (Mo-MSV). The activity of the agent detectable in serum from tumour-bearing hosts was expressed by development of autoantibody against Golgi-associated evolutionary conserved antigen (Weiland et al. 1984). This agent was tentatively designated 'AGIA', anti-Golgi inducing agent, on account of its most remarkable biological activity. Concomittant with autoantibodies were cytotoxic antibodies reactive with a Mo-MSV non-producer transformant (Sac). Both antibody activities were regularly detectable 2 weeks after inoculation of the agent. At that time the antibody containing serum possessed an infectivity titre of approximately 10(7.5) ID50/ml. Signs of illness were not observed during this period. The antibody-inducing agent was lost from progressor Mo-MSV transformants during their first passage in culture. Neither murine embryo fibroblasts nor murine tumour cells were permissive for propagation of the agent in vitro.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000920:Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D001681:Biological Assay; D002474:Cell-Free System; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D005260:Female; D006056:Golgi Apparatus / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D008980:Moloney murine sarcoma virus / Q000276:immunology*; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D009053:Sarcoma Viruses, Murine / Q000276:immunology*; D012513:Sarcoma, Experimental / Q000382:microbiology*; D013696:Temperature
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies