title: Expression of alien H-2 and non-H-2 antigens on a murine mammary tumor cell line, MM46.
abstract: Tumor-associated surface antigens on MM46, a transplantable ascites tumor from a spontaneous mammary carcinoma in a C3H/He mouse, were investigated. A complement-dependent microcytotoxicity test showed the expression of MM antigen, whose specificity appeared to be identical or cross-reactive with that of Ly-6.2 antigen, as reported previously. Moreover, MM46 was also found to express alien H-2 antigenic specificities, H-2.31 and H-2.28. H-2.31 represents the private specificity of the H-2Kd molecule, while H-2.28 represents a public specificity among molecules encoded by H-2K, H-2D, and H-2L loci in the majority of original H-2 haplotypes, including H-2d, but not H-2k, of inbred laboratory mice. The expression of MM antigen was found to be closely associated with the appearance of hypotetraploid tumor cells. These results suggest that alien H-2 and non-H-2 antigens appeared during ascites tumor cell conversion.
mesh_terms: D000782:Aneuploidy; D000818:Animals; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology*; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000276:immunology; D002460:Cell Line; D003429:Cross Reactions; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000276:immunology; D007519:Isoantigens / Q000276:immunology; D008325:Mammary Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains; D009368:Neoplasm Transplantation; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D007519:Isoantigens