scholarly journals ANTIGENIC STRUCTURE OF CELL SURFACES

1969 ◽  
Vol 130 (5) ◽  
pp. 979-1001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tadao Aoki ◽  
Ulrich Hämmerling ◽  
Etienne de Harven ◽  
Edward A. Boyse ◽  
Lloyd J. Old

The representation of mouse alloantigens belonging to three systems, H-2, θ and TL, on the surface of cells from thymus, spleen, lymph nodes, and peritoneal cavity, was studied by electron microscopy with ferritin-labeled antibody. As expected from earlier serological data, TL was confined to thymocytes, θ was found on thymocytes and lymphocytes, and H-2 occurred to some extent on all cell types observed. On reticular cells, lymphocytes, plasma cells, and eosinophils, the majority of the cell surface was occupied by H-2; thymocytes had considerably less H-2, and erythrocytes and peritoneal macrophages least of all. In every instance the representation of antigen was discontinuous, the fraction of the cell surface covered being characteristic both of the antigen and of the type of cell. H-2 and θ provide a striking example of this; H-2 is present in far higher amounts on lymphocytes than on thymocytes, whereas the converse is true of θ. Within areas positive for H-2 or θ, protuberances of the surface membrane were often antigen-negative. A better definition of cell surface structure, gained from studies such as this, is necessary for further inquiry into how the cell surface is assembled, and into selective gene action in relation to cellular differentiation.

Author(s):  
Michael Edidin

Cell surface membranes are based on a fluid lipid bilayer and models of the membranes' organization have emphasised the possibilities for lateral motion of membrane lipids and proteins within the bilayer. Two recent trends in cell and membrane biology make us consider ways in which membrane organization works against its inherent fluidity, localizing both lipids and proteins into discrete domains. There is evidence for such domains, even in cells without obvious morphological polarity and organization [Table 1]. Cells that are morphologically polarised, for example epithelial cells, raise the issue of membrane domains in an accute form.The technique of fluorescence photobleaching and recovery, FPR, was developed to measure lateral diffusion of membrane components. It has also proven to be a powerful tool for the analysis of constraints to lateral mobility. FPR resolves several sorts of membrane domains, all on the micrometer scale, in several different cell types.


Author(s):  
Robert D. Nelson ◽  
Sharon R. Hasslen ◽  
Stanley L. Erlandsen

Receptors are commonly defined in terms of number per cell, affinity for ligand, chemical structure, mode of attachment to the cell surface, and mechanism of signal transduction. We propose to show that knowledge of spatial distribution of receptors on the cell surface can provide additional clues to their function and components of functional control.L-selectin and Mac-1 denote two receptor populations on the neutrophil surface that mediate neutrophil-endothelial cell adherence interactions and provide for targeting of neutrophil recruitment to sites of inflammation. We have studied the spatial distributions of these receptors using LVSEM and backscatter imaging of isolated human neutrophils stained with mouse anti-receptor (primary) antibody and goat anti-mouse (secondary) antibody conjugated to 12 nm colloidal gold. This combination of techniques provides for three-dimensional analysis of the expression of these receptors on different surface membrane domains of the neutrophil: the ruffles and microvilli that project from the cell surface, and the cell body between these projecting structures.


2012 ◽  
Vol 23 (15) ◽  
pp. 2917-2929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Deutsch ◽  
Aubrey V. Weigel ◽  
Elizabeth J. Akin ◽  
Phil Fox ◽  
Gentry Hansen ◽  
...  

Voltage-gated K+ (Kv) channels regulate membrane potential in many cell types. Although the channel surface density and location must be well controlled, little is known about Kv channel delivery and retrieval on the cell surface. The Kv2.1 channel localizes to micron-sized clusters in neurons and transfected human embryonic kidney (HEK) cells, where it is nonconducting. Because Kv2.1 is postulated to be involved in soluble N-ethylmaleimide–sensitive factor attachment protein receptor–mediated membrane fusion, we examined the hypothesis that these surface clusters are specialized platforms involved in membrane protein trafficking. Total internal reflection–based fluorescence recovery after photobleaching studies and quantum dot imaging of single Kv2.1 channels revealed that Kv2.1-containing vesicles deliver cargo at the Kv2.1 surface clusters in both transfected HEK cells and hippocampal neurons. More than 85% of cytoplasmic and recycling Kv2.1 channels was delivered to the cell surface at the cluster perimeter in both cell types. At least 85% of recycling Kv1.4, which, unlike Kv2.1, has a homogeneous surface distribution, is also delivered here. Actin depolymerization resulted in Kv2.1 exocytosis at cluster-free surface membrane. These results indicate that one nonconducting function of Kv2.1 is to form microdomains involved in membrane protein trafficking. This study is the first to identify stable cell surface platforms involved in ion channel trafficking.


1965 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 149-177 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leon Weiss ◽  
Alan C. Aisenberg

The thymus, spleen, and lymph nodes were studied in runt disease induced by a graft of intravenously injected homologous splenic cells into newborn rats and mice. Adult Long-Evans cells (70 x 106) were injected into Sprague-Dawley rats. Adult DBA cells (7 x 106) were injected into C57BL/6 mice. Runted rats were sacrificed at 14 to 28 days of age; mice at 10 to 20 days. The thymic cortex is depleted of small lymphocytes. Those remaining are severely damaged and phagocytized. Evidence of damage includes swelling of mitochondria, myelin figure formation, margination of chromatin, and sharp angulation in nuclear contour. Large numbers of macrophages are present. Epithelial-reticular cells which envelop small cortical blood vessels are often retracted, with the result that the most peripheral layer in the thymic-blood barrier suffers abnormally large gaps. Lymphocytes of the periarterial lymphatic sheaths of spleen and of the cortex of lymph nodes are reduced in number and damaged. Vast numbers of plasma cells and many lymphocytes are evident throughout lymph nodes, in the periarterial lymphatic sheaths, and in the marginal zone and red pulp of the spleen. Plasma cells are of different sizes, the larger having dilated sacs of endoplasmic reticulum. Lymphocytes are small to medium in size. They contain, in varying quantity, ribosomes and smooth membrane-bounded cytoplasmic vesicles approximately 350 to 500 A in diameter. Most plasma cells and lymphocytes are damaged and many of these are phagocytized. Many lymphocytes in lymph nodes, however, show no evidence of damage. Reticular cells and other fixed cells of the connective tissues seldom appear affected. Thus, the major cell types reacting in runt disease are lymphocytes, plasma cells, and histiocytes or macrophages. It appears, therefore, that both the delayed and immediate types of sensitivity play a part in this disease.


Blood ◽  
1963 ◽  
Vol 22 (6) ◽  
pp. 674-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
WILLIAM O. RIEKE ◽  
RUTH W. CAFFREY ◽  
N. B. EVERETT

Abstract Single and multiple injections of tritiated thymidine were combined with radioautography to study the rates of proliferation and interrelationships of the various cell lines in the mesenteric lymph node of the rat. The appearance and labeling patterns of the different cells are described from studies of both smears and tissue sections. Reticular cells exhibit wide variations in labeling intensity, phagocytize labeled lymphocytes, and become labeled in high percentages only when TTH is administered over a period of many days. Other slowly proliferating cell types include small lymphocytes, fat cells, endothelial cells and mast cells. Rapidly proliferating cell lines include plasmablasts, hemohistioblasts, proplasmacytes and large lymphocytes. The generation time of plasmablasts and hemohistioblasts was determined to be approximately 9 and 12 hours respectively. Mature plasma cells constitute a non-dividing population which is renewed in lymph node in not more than 5 days. Evidence is presented that the most primitive cells in the lymphocyte and plasma cell lines are the hemohistioblasts and plasmablasts respectively. Reticular cells most probably are not stem cells. No evidence is found to support previous reports that plasma cells derive from lymphocytes.


1970 ◽  
Vol 131 (6) ◽  
pp. 1325-1341 ◽  
Author(s):  
Toshitada Takahashi ◽  
Lloyd J. Old ◽  
Edward A. Boyse

A serological study of immunoglobulin-forming cells of the mouse, normal and malignant, shows that they lack all known surface differentiation antigens of the thymocyte-lymphocyte axis: TL, θ, Ly-A, Ly-B, and MSLA. Two systems of normal alloantigens are expressed on these cells, H-2 and a new system named PC. The gene Pca (Plasma cell antigen) which specifies PC.1 alloantigen segregates as a mendelian dominant not closely linked with H-2. This cell surface antigen is absent from thymocytes, leukemias, and very probably from thymus-derived lymphocytes also; it is present on cells of the liver, kidney, brain, and lymph nodes as well as on hemolytic plaque-forming cells of the spleen, and on myelomas. So PC.1 is properly classified as a differentiation alloantigen. The strain distribution of PC.1 does not conform to that of any known immunoglobulin allotype or cell surface alloantigen previously described. Thus the cell surface antigens of immunoglobulin-producing cells are clearly different from those of cells belonging to the thymocyte-lymphocyte axis. Each family of cells has distinctive alloantigens, and the two families share alloantigens of only one known system, H-2. This implies that either immunoglobulin-producing cells are not derived from thymic lymphocytes, or if they are, the program responsible for the transition must include extensive revision of cell surface structure.


1988 ◽  
Vol 36 (7) ◽  
pp. 729-739 ◽  
Author(s):  
P Odin ◽  
M Asplund ◽  
C Busch ◽  
B Obrink

CellCAM 105 is an integral membrane glycoprotein, with apparent Mr 105,000, which has been purified from rat liver plasma membranes. It consists of two structurally similar, highly glycosylated polypeptide chains and is involved in cell-cell adhesion of adult rat hepatocytes in vitro. In this communication we report on the distribution and cell surface location of cellCAM 105 in rat tissues, obtained by using highly sensitive immunodetection systems based on complex formation between biotinylated antibodies, biotinylated peroxidase and avidin, or on antibodies coupled to alkaline phosphatase. CellCAM was found in many organs and organ systems, including liver, kidney, blood, blood vessels, glands, respiratory system, and gastrointestinal tract. It was mainly localized to epithelial structures but showed a varying cell surface distribution. In some cell types it was predominantly localized to cell-cell contact areas. In other cell types the highest concentrations were seen in brush-border areas containing densely packed microvilli. In addition to epithelial structures, cellCAM 105 was found in rat platelets, where it became strongly expressed on the cell surfaces after activation with ADP or collagen, suggesting that it might be involved in platelet adhesion and/or aggregation mechanisms. Granulocytes also contained cellCAM 105. By SDS-PAGE/immunoblotting, significant differences were found in the apparent Mr values of cellCAM 105 in different tissues. The collected data suggest that cellCAM 105 participates in several different cell surface membrane interactions, of which the common denominator might be membrane-membrane binding.


2019 ◽  
Vol 97 (Supplement_3) ◽  
pp. 209-210
Author(s):  
Kirill Plemyashov ◽  
Suleyman Suleymanov ◽  
Konstantin Lobodin ◽  
Olga Pavlenko

Abstract In this regard, the cytological picture of the lymphoid tissue in calves’ inguinal lymph node with spontaneous leptospirosis was studied. The study material was taken from the inguinal lymph node of the 11 calves who died of leptospirosis during the enzootic period in Azerbaijan. The study material samples were fixed in 10% neutral formalin solution, followed by pouring in paraffin, coloring azur sections with 2-eosin and counting 13 cell types (lymphoblast, prolymphocyte, lymphocyte, free reticular cell, process sinus reticular cell, endothelium, fibroblast, histiocyte, macrophage, polyblast, plasmablast, protoplasmocyte, plasmacyte) using MOV-15. It was established that the number of lymphoblasts in the inguinal lymph node with subacute leptospirosis decreased 2.2 times, the number of prolymphocytes decreased 1.4 times, the number of lymphocytes decreased 4.4 times. The number of free reticular cells from the cells of the reticuloendothelium decreased 3.7 times. However, the number of grown sinus reticular cells and the endothelium of the sinuses fluctuated within the normal range. The number of fibroblasts increased 1.7 times, histiocytes - 6.6 times, macrophages - 11.8 times, and polyblasts - 11 times (Table 1). At the same time, there was a sharp increase in the number of cells in the plasma row. Of those, the number of plasmablasts increased 8.5 times, protoplasmocytes - 30.4 times, plasma cells - 17 times. Overall, the cytological picture in the inguinal lymph node during spontaneous leptospirosis in calves was characterized by an increase in the number of plasma cells, fibroblasts, histiocytes, macrophages, polyblasts and a decrease in the number of lymphoblasts, prolymphocytes, lymphocytes and free reticular cells.


1981 ◽  
Vol 89 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
H R Petty ◽  
D G Hafeman ◽  
H M McConnell

We have employed the method of Burwen and Satir (J. Cell Biol., 1977, 74:690) to measure the disappearance of surface folds from resident guinea pig peritoneal macrophages after antibody-dependent phagocytosis. Unilamellar phospholipid vesicles containing dimyristoylphosphatidylcholine and 1 mol % dinitrophenyl-epsilon-aminocaproyl-phosphatidylethanolamine, a lipid that possesses a hapten headgroup, were prepared by an ether injection technique. These vesicles were taken up by macrophages in a time- and temperature-dependent fashion. Vesicles that contained ferritin trapped in the internal aqueous volume were identified within macrophages by transmission electron microscopy. Scanning electron microscopy has shown that macrophage surface folds decrease dramatically after phagocytosis. The surface fold length (micrometer) per unit smooth sphere surface area (micrometer2) decreases from 1.3 +/- 0.3 micrometer-1 to 0.53 +/- 0.25 micrometer-1 when cells are incubated in the presence of specific anti-DNP antibody and vesicles at 37 degrees C. No significant effect was observed in the presence of antibody only or vesicles only. Our studies shown that phagocytosis is associated with a loss of cell surface folds and a loss of cell surface area, which is consonant with current views of the endocytic process. On the basis of our uptake data, we estimate that approximately 400 micrometer2 of vesicle surface membrane is internalized. The guinea pig macrophage plasma membrane has a total area of approximately 400 micrometer2 in control studies, whereas the cells have roughly 300 micrometer2 after phagocytosis. These estimates of surface areas include membrane ruffles and changes directly related to changes in cell volume. We suggest that during antibody-dependent phagocytosis a membrane reservoir is made available to the cell surface.


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