Isolation, sequence and expression of a cDNA encoding the alpha-chain of the feline CD8.
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Vol. 81 (1) , 127-31
Abstract
We have cloned, sequenced and expressed a cDNA encoding the alpha-chain of feline CD8. This clone, named FT8-10, has an open reading frame with 720 nucleotides in length encoding a protein with 239 amino acid residues. Sequence analysis has revealed that the feline CD8 alpha-chain (CD8 alpha) shares significant homology with human (T8/Leu-2), bovine (BoCD8), rat (MRC OX8) and mouse (Lyt-2) CD8 alpha subunits. Cysteine residues as well as the tyrosine kinase p56lck binding site are well conserved. Besides, no putative N-linked glycosylation site was found. Interestingly, immunofluorescence analysis of COS-7 cells transfected with feline CD8 alpha expression plasmid driven by SR alpha promoter showed that the expressed feline CD8 alpha cross-reacted with an anti-human CD8 alpha monoclonal antibody OKT8, but did not react with an anti-feline monoclonal antibody, FT-2, which is thought to recognize the feline analogue of the human T8/Leu-2 and murine Lyt-2 molecules expressed on cytotoxic/suppressor T cells.This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
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