期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
电子版ISSN:1091-6490
出版年度:1973
卷号:70
期号:10
页码:2879-2883
DOI:10.1073/pnas.70.10.2879
语种:English
出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
摘要:Surface proteins of mouse thymus and spleen cells were radioiodinated with lactoperoxidase. After solubilization, the labeled proteins were precipitated by antibodies directed against mouse immunoglobulin chains; the precipitates were analyzed by radioautography after Na dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis. Radioactive {micro} and L chains were absent from thymocyte extracts and conspicuous in spleen-cell extracts. The following cells were biosynthetically labeled for 4 hr [35S]methionine or 24 hr with [14C]leucine: (1) Thymocytes, (2) cortisoneresistant thymocytes [both treated with rabbit antisera cytotoxic to bone marrow-derived (B) lymphocytes and IgM-containing plasma cells, to kill possible contaminating nonthymus-derived cells], (3) "activated thymocytes" (allogeneic cell cultures of cortisone-resistant thymocytes), (4) human Daudi cells (a B lymphoblastic cell line), and (5) purified mouse B spleen lymphocytes devoid of plasma cells. Again no {micro} and L chains could be detected in thymocyte or thymus-derived cell extracts by immune precipitation and gel electrophoresis, while these chains were conspicuous in B-cell extracts. "Educated thymocytes," obtained from spleens of lethally irradiated mice injected with syngeneic thymocytes and antigen, synthesized {micro} and L chains under similar conditions; this synthesis resulted from contamination of these cells by IgM-containing plasma cells.