Extraction of a Murine Tumor-Specific Transplantation Antigen With 1-Butanol. I. Partial Purification by Isoelectric Focusing23
- 1 July 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute
- Vol. 65 (1) , 191-196
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jnci/65.1.191
Abstract
Treatment of whole viable MCA-F murine sarcoma cells from syngeneic female C3H/HeJ mice with a single-phase solution of 2.5% (vollvol) 1-butanol yielded a crude membrane protein extract without loss of cell viability. 1-Butanol-extracted cells were capable of in vitro proliferation. Variations in extraction conditions significantly influenced not only protein yield but also viability. The crude butanol extract (CBE) contained a tumor-specific transplantation antigen (TSTA) more potent than that obtained by 3-M KCl extraction of MCA-F cells: a specific activity of 40 TSTA U/mg protein in the former and 2 U/mg in the latter. The antigen was specific and protected hosts against challenge with MCA-F cells but not the antigenically different MCA-D cells. The growth of MCA-F cells was not reduced by pretreatment with equivalent doses of CBE obtained from MCA-D cells. Partial purification of the antigenic activity by preparative isoelectric focusing revealed that most activity focused in the pH 6.4 fraction, which increased the specific activity to 1,000 TSTA U/mg protein. Thus 1-butanol was an effective agent for the extraction of certain membrane polypeptides, including an immunogenic TSTA, from whole cells.Keywords
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