title: Wheat germ agglutinin-resistant variant of EL4 containing altered oligosaccharides as a target cell for cytotoxic T cells.
abstract: A lectin-resistant variant of the murine EL4 lymphocytic leukemia cell line was selected in the presence of wheat germ agglutinin for low levels of cell-surface sialic acid. H-2Kb was the major internally radiolabeled H-2b molecule on the cell-surface of WD1, and it was not sialylated, as determined by two-dimensional gel analysis. Endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase H treatment of the WD1 membrane fractions suggested that the oligosaccharides on the cell-surface H-2Kb molecule were complex, but nonsialylated. Monoclonal antibody inhibition of the allogeneically primed cell-mediated cytotoxicity (CMC) reaction indicated that the T cells (BALB/c anti-EL4; H-2d anti-H-2b) were specific only for the H-2Kb target cell antigen. These WD1 variant cells were used as targets in the CMC assay using anti-H-2Kb T cells and compared with the parent EL4 in vitro line. The change in the cell-surface oligosaccharide did not affect the susceptibility to lysis by the cytotoxic T lymphocytes even though there were 2.5-fold more H-2Kb antigens on the WD1 variant cell (1.5 X 10(5) sites/cell) than on the parent EL4 in vitro cell (5.9 X 10(4) sites/cell). It was possible to isolate highly purified preparations of H-2Kb from either the EL4 or the WD1 line using a monoclonal antibody affinity column. Interestingly, the variant WD1 cell would no longer grow in the peritoneal cavity of the syngeneic C57BL/6 mouse.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000954:Antigens, Surface / Q000032:analysis / Q000235:genetics; D002460:Cell Line; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D014644:Genetic Variation; D006183:H-2 Antigens / Q000032:analysis; D037102:Lectins; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000276:immunology*; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000276:immunology*; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000276:immunology*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D014909:Wheat Germ Agglutinins
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000954:Antigens, Surface; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D037102:Lectins; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D014909:Wheat Germ Agglutinins