title: A human B lymphocyte antigen (P-76) shared by B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia cells and hairy cell leukemia cells.
abstract: A membrane antigen with an apparent specificity to B lymphocytes was detected with immunochemical techniques and its properties were analyzed. Anti-B-CLL serum was raised in a rabbit by immunization with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) cells. This anti-B-CLL serum was absorbed with erythrocytes, liver homogenate and insolubilized immunoglobulins. After further absorption with T-CLL cells, chronic myelocytic leukemia (CML) cells and acute myelocytic leukemia (AML) cells, the anti-B-CLL serum still reacted with peripheral blood B lymphocytes, B-CLL cells and hairy cell leukemia (HCL) cells. In contrast, no reactivity was seen with peripheral blood T lymphocyte or monocytes, or leukemia cells of non-B cell origin. An immunoprecipitation of radiolabeled cell surface proteins was attempted using the anti-B-CLL serum in the presence of Staphylococcus Aureus Cowan 1 (SaCl), and the precipitates were analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). A membrane antigen with an apparent molecular weight of 76,000 daltons (P-76) was immunoprecipitated with the anti-B-CLL serum from the lysates of normal B lymphocyte, B-CLL cells and HCL cells. The antigen (P-76) is not composed of disulfide-linked subunits and has no structural relationship with HLA-DR (Ia-like) antigens or other known antigens. These results suggest that this antigen is B-lymphocyte specific, and favour the B-lymphocyte nature of HCL cells.
mesh_terms: D000918:Antibody Specificity; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006801:Humans; D007106:Immune Sera; D007120:Immunochemistry; D007553:Isotope Labeling; D007784:Lactoperoxidase; D007943:Leukemia, Hairy Cell / Q000276:immunology*; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000276:immunology*; D008970:Molecular Weight; D011961:Receptors, Fc
chemical_list: D000954:Antigens, Surface; D007106:Immune Sera; D011961:Receptors, Fc; D007784:Lactoperoxidase