title: Production and characterization of a bovine T cell-specific monoclonal antibody identifying a mature differentiation antigen.
abstract: A monoclonal antibody (MAb), BLT-1, with specificity for bovine mature T cells was prepared by somatic cell hybridization of myeloma NS-1 and spleen cells from BALB/c mice hyperimmunized with bovine T lymphocytes. The MAb reacted with over 92% of nylon wool-nonadherent lymphocytes (T cells) but not with nylon wool-adherent EAC-positive lymphocytes (B cells) in the indirect immunofluorescence assay. It is an IgM, with kappa-light chains, which fixed complement well and killed over 95% of mature T cells in complement-mediated cytotoxicity assays. It reacted with the same proportions of peripheral lymphoid cells (peripheral blood, lymph nodes, and spleen) as the polyclonal goat anti-bovine thymocyte serum (GABTS), but only with 25% of GABTS-positive thymocytes. Immunoperoxidase staining of frozen tissue sections showed that the BLT-1-positive cells were located in the medulla of the thymus and in the T lymphocyte areas of lymph nodes. Western immunoblotting assays showed that the BLT-1-reactive membrane antigen is a 22,000 m.w. protein which was inducible in bovine thymocytes with bovine thymic hormones, thymosin fraction 5, thymosin alpha 1, and thymopentin ORF-18150, indicating that it is a mature T lymphocyte differentiation antigen. The thymosin alpha 1 and thymopentin were found to show additive effects on mature T cell antigen expression by bovine thymocytes.
authors.forename: E D
authors.initials: ED
authors.lastname: Rabinovsky
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000032:analysis / Q000096:biosynthesis* / Q000502:physiology; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000945:Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000032:analysis / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000276:immunology*; D002417:Cattle; D002459:Cell Fusion; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D006825:Hybridomas / Q000378:metabolism; D007126:Immunoglobulin Allotypes / Q000032:analysis; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation / Q000187:drug effects; D008221:Lymphoid Tissue / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D013045:Species Specificity; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology* / Q000378:metabolism; D013947:Thymosin / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000945:Antigens, Differentiation, T-Lymphocyte; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D007126:Immunoglobulin Allotypes; D013947:Thymosin