title: Expression levels of FUT6 gene transfected into human colon carcinoma cells switch two sialyl-Lewis X-related carbohydrate antigens with distinct properties in cell adhesion.
abstract: A human colon carcinoma cell line KM12-LX, expressing low levels of monoclonal antibody (mAb) FH6 epitope, was transfected with alpha 1,3-fucosyltransferase VI cDNA. Clonal populations with high or intermediate expression levels of the mRNA, shown by RT-PCR (FT6hi and FT6in cells, respectively) were obtained. FT6hi cells were found to express both mAb FH6 and KM93 epitopes by flow-cytometric analysis, whereas FT6in cells expressed mAb FH6 epitopes but not mAb KM93 epitopes. The mAb FH6-binding was abrogated by endo-beta-galactosidase treatment of FT6in, but not FT6hi, cells. FT6hi but not FT6in cells adhered to Chinese-hamster-ovary cells expressing human E-selectin. FT6in cells adhered to sections of mouse liver and the adhesion was blocked by treatment of the cells with endo-beta-galactosidase. The results indicate that endo-beta-galactosidase-sensitive and mAb FH6-reactive carbohydrate chains are generated under the control of expression levels of FUT6 and involved in the adhesion of colon carcinoma cells to liver sections.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Molecular Immunology, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan.
authors.forename: Akira
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kanoh
authors.forename: Masayuki
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ota
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Narimatsu
authors.forename: Tatsuro
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Irimura
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D016466:CHO Cells; D002448:Cell Adhesion; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000201:enzymology* / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D006224:Cricetinae; D019040:E-Selectin / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D005647:Fucosyltransferases / Q000235:genetics*; D015870:Gene Expression; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; D006801:Humans; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008099:Liver / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D051379:Mice; D009844:Oligosaccharides / Q000378:metabolism*; D012333:RNA, Messenger / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000080506:Sialyl Lewis X Antigen; D014162:Transfection; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D001616:beta-Galactosidase / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D019040:E-Selectin; D009844:Oligosaccharides; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D012334:RNA, Neoplasm; D000080506:Sialyl Lewis X Antigen; D005647:Fucosyltransferases; C031692:galactoside 3-fucosyltransferase; D006026:Glycoside Hydrolases; C026093:keratan-sulfate endo-1,4-beta-galactosidase; D001616:beta-Galactosidase