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. 1979 Jul;37(3):653-60.

Surface immunoglobulin on cultured foetal mouse thymocytes

D Haustein, T E Mandel

Surface immunoglobulin on cultured foetal mouse thymocytes

D Haustein et al. Immunology. 1979 Jul.

Abstract

Organ cultures of 14–15 day foetal mouse thymus were used as a source of non-neoplastic differentiating T cells, free of contaminating B cells. Viable cells obtained from such cultured thymuses were radio-iodinated and immunoglobulins (Ig) were isolated by co-precipitation from the 125I-labelled cell-surface proteins released during 1 h of incubation at 37°. The precipitates, both reduced and unreduced, were then analysed by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The unreduced material migrated in a 5% gel as a single peak with a mobility slightly faster than that of mouse IgG. After reduction, however, two peaks were obtained (in a 10% gel), one corresponding in migration to mouse light chain and the other which moved slightly faster than mouse μ chain. This pattern was identical with that previously seen for both surface Ig of normal mouse thymocytes and neoplastic T lymphoma cells. Uncultured, 15 day foetal thymocytes did not produce any detectable co-precipitated cell surface material. Ig detected in these experiments was therefore produced during in vitro culture by non-neoplastic T cells in a system free of contaminating B cells and mouse serum proteins.

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