title: Structural analysis of thymus-leukemia (TL) antigens in the mouse.
abstract: Thymus-leukemia (TL) antigens have been sequentially immunoprecipitated from glycoprotein pools prepared from lysates of biosynthetically labeled ASL-1w leukemia cells with a monoclonal antibody and a standard alloantiserum. Results suggest that on leukemia cells from Tlaa mice, as previously reported for thymocytes from these mice, all the alloantiserum-defined TL specificities (TL.1, 2, 3, 5, 6) as well as the specificity defined by the monoclonal antibody (TL.m3) are carried by a single molecular species. The degree of structural homology between the 45,000-m.w. heavy chains of TL and H-2 was investigated by the technique of comparative tryptic peptide mapping. Results indicate that TL is more distantly related at the primary structural level to H-2 than H-2 antigens are to one another.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D011232:Chemical Precipitation; D006023:Glycoproteins / Q000276:immunology; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D007942:Leukemia, Experimental / Q000276:immunology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D051379:Mice; D008805:Mice, Inbred A; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008819:Mice, Nude; D010455:Peptides / Q000378:metabolism; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D006023:Glycoproteins; D006183:H-2 Antigens; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D010455:Peptides; C028388:thymus-leukemia antigens