AKR leukemia-specific surface antigens acquired by malignant transformation: their common and individual specificities

Int J Cancer. 1976 May 15;17(5):640-6. doi: 10.1002/ijc.2910170513.

Abstract

Antisera against five newly established AKR spontaneous leukemias (KSL) prepared by immunization of KSL cells in (C57B1/6 X C3Hf/He)F1 mice were preabsorbed with non-leukemic AKR lymphoid cells to remove antibodies against virus-associated surface antigens and alloantigens. In absorption tests the antisera showed no cross-reaction by immunofluorescence microscopy with thymocyte, fetal, male-specific H-Y, E and X.1 antigens; with known Gross murine leukemia virus-associated antigens; or with cell surface antigens on Friend, Moloney and Rauscher virus-induced tumors. It was thus shown that the antigens detected were leukemia-specific, were acquired by malignant transformation, and consisted of two types: (1) a common antigen in all the KSL, and (2) individual antigens found in four of the KSL which showed distinct patterns of partial cross-reactivity with the other KSL.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Absorption
  • Animals
  • Antigens, Neoplasm*
  • Cell Membrane / immunology*
  • Cell Transformation, Neoplastic*
  • Epitopes*
  • Female
  • Fluorescent Antibody Technique
  • Immune Sera
  • Leukemia Virus, Murine / immunology*
  • Leukemia, Experimental / immunology*
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred AKR
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Neoplasm Transplantation

Substances

  • Antigens, Neoplasm
  • Epitopes
  • Immune Sera