title: Cell free ascitic fluid prevents loss of cell surface sialic acid from Zajdela Ascitic Hepatoma cells in culture.
abstract: In the Zajdela Ascitic Hepatoma (ZAH), a rat tumor, high levels of cell surface sialic acid residues are present which masked the immunogenicity of the cells. We have shown here that cell surface sialic acid level goes down rapidly when ZAH cells are put in culture. The reduction in surface sialic acid levels is due to a decrease in sialic acid residues on the major sialylated glycoprotein, gp 120, as well as a decrease in gp 120 polypeptide. The loss of sialic acid from the cultured cells is reduced if the cells are cultured in the presence of cell free ascitic fluid from ZAH tumor.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Hyderabad, India.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sudhakar
authors.forename: M R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Das
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001202:Ascitic Fluid / Q000503:physiopathology*; D002462:Cell Membrane / Q000378:metabolism*; D002474:Cell-Free System; D005260:Female; D008114:Liver Neoplasms, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid; D051381:Rats; D012794:Sialic Acids / Q000378:metabolism*; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured
chemical_list: D012794:Sialic Acids; D019158:N-Acetylneuraminic Acid