Mechanism of membrane damage mediated by human eosinophil cationic protein

Recent evidence suggests a role for eosinophil granule proteins in contact-dependent antibody-mediated cytotoxicity. Cytolysis may involve a secretory phenomenon whereby granule proteins are released at the site of contact between eosinophil and target cells. Several basic proteins have been isolated from eosinophil granules, including the major basic protein, eosinophil cationic protein, eosinophil protein-X and eosinophil peroxidase. One of the major granule proteins of human eosinophils is the eosinophil cationic protein (ECP) which has been shown to damage schistosomula of Schistosoma mansoni at concentrations as low as 10(-7). Here, we describe the formation of functional channels by purified human ECP. The transmembrane pores formed by ECP are relatively voltage-insensitive and non-ion-selective, suggesting a role for channel formation by ECP in target cell damage mediated by eosinophils. Channel formation by granule proteins of immune effector cells may represent a general and effective mechanism of target cell killing.     

An anti-idiotype vaccine against experimental schistosomiasis

Schistosomiasis is a parasitic infection of man which is widespread in tropical countries, and which so far has resisted attempts at control. We have been approaching the problem from an immunological angle. We have previously reported the production of a rat monoclonal IgG2a antibody against Schistosoma mansoni which exhibits marked cytoxicity for schistosomula in the presence of eosinophils and a high degree of protection by passive transfer in naive rats. This antibody, IPLSm1, was shown to bind specifically to a schistosomulum membrane target antigen defined as a glycoprotein of relative molecular mass 38,000 (38K), which is strongly immunogenic in schistosome infection of various animal species including man. Although theoretically the 38K protein represents an excellent candidate for a potential vaccine against schistosomiasis, the glycanic nature of the epitope recognized by IPLSm1 limits its production by DNA recombinant technology. It was, moreover, shown that, together with protective antibodies, the 38K molecule was able to induce the production of blocking IgG2c antibodies that inhibit the functional properties of IPLSm1 both in vitro and in vivo. Therefore, following Jerne's network theory, we considered an alternative approach, the possibility of immunization using anti-idiotype antibodies. In the present study, rat monoclonal anti-idiotype antibodies were produced against IPLSm1 (AB1). Anti-idiotype antibodies (AB2) were selected by their capacity to inhibit the binding of radioiodinated AB1 to its 38K target antigen. Sera from naive LOU rats immunized with a purified AB2 preparation contained specific anti-schistosome antibodies (AB3) which bound to 38K. AB3 antibodies were strongly cytotoxic for schistosomula in the presence of rat eosinophils and conferred highly significant protection by passive transfer. Most importantly, rats immunized with AB2 demonstrated marked protection (50-80%) to a challenge infection.     

Recruitment of cytosolic proteins to a secretory granule membrane depends on Ca2+-calmodulin

An increase in free calcium triggers catecholamine secretion from chromaffin cells and calmodulin is strongly implicated as the intracellular Ca2+ receptor. In our recent studies of calmodulin action in the chromaffin cell, micromolar Ca2+ concentrations resulted in calmodulin and cytosolic proteins becoming bound to the chromaffin granule membranes. We now report that calmodulin is bound with high affinity to granule membrane proteins of molecular weights (Mrs) 25,000 and 22,000 (25K and 22K) at low Ca2+ (less than 10(-8) M) and to proteins with Mrs 69K and 50K at high Ca2+ (greater than 1 microM). Other cytosolic components (Mrs 70K, 36K, 34K and 32K) require calmodulin for their interfraction with membrane. These proteins separately bound to calmodulin-Sepharose at high Ca2+ concentrations. Although the functions of these adrenal proteins have not been established, the 34K and 32K Mr components co-migrate with clathrin light chains isolated from medullary coated vesicles and the Mr 34K components from both sources share the same one-dimensional peptide map. These interactions were observed at micromolar Ca2+ levels at 'intracellular' conditions of pH and ionic strength and would be expected to occur during secretion from the chromaffin cell.     

吸入白细胞介素-5对支气管哮喘患者外周血嗜酸性粒细胞数及其活化状态的影响

随机选择8例哮喘患者雾化吸入人重组IL-5,分别吸入前、吸入后2 h、24 h和48 h进行外周血有核细胞计数和分类,以放射免疫法测定血清中嗜酸性阳离子蛋白(ECP)及总IgE水平.结果,吸入IL-5后嗜酸性粒细胞(EOS)占细胞总数的百分比、EOS绝对细胞数以及ECP水平均随时间而明显升高,至24 h达最高值,48 h后仍维持在较高水平;IL-5在整个实验过程中对血清总IgE水平无明显影响.表明,吸入IL-5不仅可以促使循环中EOS数明显增多,且还能招致其活化从而参与哮喘的发病过程.     

改进双抗夹心ELISA用于筛选单抗杂交瘤细胞株

本文利用改进双抗夹心ELISA筛选一种可测定血清样品中与血浆蛋白结合的蛋白质药物的单抗。用兔抗K102多抗经亲和层析纯化并包被后,加入用10%猴血浆PBS还原后的抗原K102,再加入杂交瘤细胞株上清液和HRP-羊抗鼠IgG、底物反应液筛选阳性单抗杂交瘤细胞株。结果用改进后的双抗夹心ELISA筛成功地选出6株能稳定分泌针对K102的单抗杂交瘤细胞株,分别命名为1C9、2D7、3E2、5F4、5F6、6B9;细胞株产生的单抗用ELISA法能检测出血清样品中的K102的浓度。提示改进的双抗夹心ELISA可用于针对与血浆蛋白结合的蛋白质药物的单抗杂交瘤细胞株的筛选。     

吸入白细胞介素-5对支气管哮喘患者外周血嗜酸性粒细胞数及其活化状态的影响

随机选择８例哮喘患者雾化吸入人重组ＩＬ－５,分别吸入前,吸入后２ｈ,２４ｈ和４８ｈ进行外周血有核细胞计烽和分类,以放射免疫法测定血清中嗜酸性阳离子蛋白（ＥＣＰ）及总ＩｇＥ水平,结果,吸入ＩＬ－５后嗜酸性粒细胞（ＥＯＳ）占细胞总数的百分比,ＥＯＳ绝对细胞数以及ＥＣＰ水平均随时间而明显升高,至２４ｈ达最高值,４８ｈ后仍维持在较高水平,ＩＬ－５在整个实验过程中对血清总ＩｇＥ水平无明显影响,表明,吸入ＩＬ     

Hybrid hybridomas and their use in immunohistochemistry

A normal antibody-producing cell only expresses one antibody, resulting in the well-known phenomenon of allelic exclusion. When two myeloma cells are fused, the derived hybrids are capable of co-dominantly expressing the antibody genes of both parents. Although the respective variable (V) and constant (C) region genes remain expressed in the same cis configuration, heavy and light chains of both parents are scrambled, and hybrid molecules are formed. The same is true when a myeloma and an antibody-producing cell are fused to produce a hybrid myeloma (hybridoma). Fusion therefore allows the production of hybrid immunoglobulin molecules containing two different combining sites. Hybrid molecules of this type retain antigen-binding activity and specificity. Bispecific monoclonal antibodies secreted by hybridomas may have a variety of uses in biology and in medicine. Here we have focused on their application in histochemistry. As an example, we have prepared and tested an anti-somatostatin-anti-peroxidase bispecific antibody. This way of producing hybrid molecules is superior to the production of hybrid antibodies by chemical reconstitution methods because the drastic treatment required for chain separation in the latter is likely to lead to some protein denaturation and loss of antibody activity. Intracellularly synthesized and assembled hybrids do not suffer from this disadvantage. In addition, the recombination of heavy and light chains from different antibody molecules is likely to lead to considerable waste.     

杀鲑气单胞菌单克隆抗体的制备及其特性分析

应用杂交瘤单克隆抗体技术制备了6株分泌抗杀鲑气单胞菌杀鲑亚种的单抗细胞株,并对其特性进行分析。结果显示：6株单抗中IgM有3株,IgG1有2株,IgG2a有1株,且抗体效价为1：12800-1：51200,检测灵敏度为1．0×10^5-1．0×10^8cfu·mL^-1。进一步实验证实这些单抗与其他病原菌都无交叉反应。但单抗5C7、7H6与杀日本鲑亚种有交叉反应;单抗8A2与无色亚种存在阳性反应。表明杀鲑气单胞菌亚种之间既有独特的抗原决定簇,又有共同抗原位点。制备的单抗可用于杀鲑气单胞菌的快速诊断和亚种鉴定,为该菌的进一步研究提供必要手段。     

Neutralizing antibodies derived from the B cells of 1918 influenza pandemic survivors

Investigation of the human antibody response to influenza virus infection has been largely limited to serology, with relatively little analysis at the molecular level. The 1918 H1N1 influenza virus pandemic was the most severe of the modern era. Recent work has recovered the gene sequences of this unusual strain, so that the 1918 pandemic virus could be reconstituted to display its unique virulence phenotypes. However, little is known about adaptive immunity to this virus. We took advantage of the 1918 virus sequencing and the resultant production of recombinant 1918 haemagglutinin (HA) protein antigen to characterize at the clonal level neutralizing antibodies induced by natural exposure of survivors to the 1918 pandemic virus. Here we show that of the 32 individuals tested that were born in or before 1915, each showed seroreactivity with the 1918 virus, nearly 90 years after the pandemic. Seven of the eight donor samples tested had circulating B cells that secreted antibodies that bound the 1918 HA. We isolated B cells from subjects and generated five monoclonal antibodies that showed potent neutralizing activity against 1918 virus from three separate donors. These antibodies also cross-reacted with the genetically similar HA of a 1930 swine H1N1 influenza strain, but did not cross-react with HAs of more contemporary human influenza viruses. The antibody genes had an unusually high degree of somatic mutation. The antibodies bound to the 1918 HA protein with high affinity, had exceptional virus-neutralizing potency and protected mice from lethal infection. Isolation of viruses that escaped inhibition suggested that the antibodies recognize classical antigenic sites on the HA surface. Thus, these studies demonstrate that survivors of the 1918 influenza pandemic possess highly functional, virus-neutralizing antibodies to this uniquely virulent virus, and that humans can sustain circulating B memory cells to viruses for many decades after exposure-well into the tenth decade of life.     

The synthesis and in vivo assembly of functional antibodies in yeast

The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae can synthesize, process and secrete higher eukaryotic proteins. We have investigated the expression of immunoglobulin chains in yeast and demonstrate here the synthesis, processing and secretion of light and heavy chains, the glycosylation of heavy chain, the intracellular localization of these foreign proteins by immunofluorescence, and the detection of functional antibodies in cells co-expressing both chains. This may provide the basis of a microbial fermentation process for the production of monoclonal antibodies. The co-expression of light and heavy chains in Escherichia coli has been reported but functional antibodies were not assembled in vivo. Furthermore, only low-level assembly of these chains was found in vitro.     

Inhibition of antigen-induced T-cell clone proliferation by antigen-specific antibodies

Attempts to inhibit the recognition of soluble antigens by T lymphocytes using antibodies specific for the antigen in question have been uniformally unsuccessful, in contrast to the observed specific inhibition of antibody generation by B cells. One exception is the unique situation whereby anti-hapten antisera inhibit the T-cell proliferative responses observed when hapten-specific T lymphocytes or clones are cultured with hapten-derivatized cells or proteins. The inability to inhibit T-cell functions by antigen-specific antibodies has been interpreted in several ways: (1) T cells possess a different repertoire from B cells; (2) the antibodies tested recognize epitopes present on the native antigen, whereas T cells recognize non-native (processed) structures; (3) the antigenic determinant(s) recognized by T cells on the surface of antigen presenting cells are either not accessible to antibodies, or are present in low amounts. The development of antigen-specific T-cell clones and monoclonal antibodies both specific for the same antigenic determinants now allows this question to be investigated definitively. Here, we report for the first time the specific inhibition of antigen-induced T-cell clone proliferation by a monoclonal antibody directed against the relevant soluble protein antigen.     

抗人尿激酶单克隆抗体的制备

采用常规免疫和脾内免疫相结合的方法，利用杂交瘤技术得到两个能分泌抗人尿激酶单克隆抗体的杂交瘤细胞株１０Ｈ１０，１０Ｄ１２。它们分泌的单克隆抗体主要识别Ｍｒ．５４，０００的高分子量尿激酶和Ｍｒ．１８，０００的尿激酶Ａ链。两种单克隆抗体与胰蛋白酶，胰蛋白酶原，胰凝乳蛋白酶和胰凝乳蛋白酶原等丝氨酸蛋白酶和酶原无交叉反应。     

制备和鉴定肝细胞胆管侧膜极性分布的单克隆抗体

为制备肝细胞胆管膜侧的呈极性分布单克隆抗体(mAb),并鉴定其特性,利用密度梯度离心法提取大鼠肝细胞胆管侧膜小体,测定特异酶活性。分离成功的肝细胞胆管侧膜小体免疫BALB/c小鼠,利用标准的杂交瘤技术制备单克隆抗体。利用ELISA法检测抗体分泌的效价。采用免疫组织化学方法观察其组织定位。Western blot对其识别的抗原进行分析。结果成功地获得1株特异性分布于肝细胞胆管膜侧的mAb1。免疫组织化学显示其分布在肝细胞胆管侧膜,在肾脏组织中也呈极性分布。Western blot结果显示mAb1分子量为110 kDa左右。说明成功地获得了肝细胞胆管膜侧特异性mAb1,并鉴定其作为极性分子分布于肝细胞胆管膜侧,它可能参与胆汁的分泌和代谢。     

用脾内免疫法制备抗人尿激酶单克隆抗体

用常规免疫法制备抗人尿激酶单克隆抗体费时、费样品。本文采用脾内直接注射的免疫方法,利用杂交瘤技术制备了3C_6抗尿激酶单克隆抗体,3C_6单克隆抗体属IgM亚类,主要识别MW 54,000的高分子量尿激酶和MW 33,000的低分子量尿激酶。3C_6单克隆抗体与结构类似的胰蛋白酶和纤溶酶原无交叉反应,与胰凝乳蛋白酶原和胰凝乳蛋白酶有一定程度的交叉反应。     

Construction of multivalent DNA vaccines forMycobacterium tuberculosis and its immunogenicity

The coding regions of Ag85B MPT-64, and ESAT-6 secreted proteins were cloned initially into the eukaryotic expression vector pJW4303, then transformed to E. coli Top 10 strain for plasmid DNA extraction and further analysis. Plasmids containing the right insertion were sequenced to confirm their identity. COS7 cells were transfected with a mixture containing serially diluted plasmid DNA encoding three secreted proteins and Lipofectin (Gibco). The supernatants and pellets prepared from various cell lines were run on SDS-PAGE gel and the expression of these proteins in COS7 cells were demonstrated by immunoblot using polyclonal or monoclonal antiserum of M.TBH37Rv. 21 days after first vaccination of C57BL-6 mice by all three recombinant eukaryotic expressing vectors, antibody titer for Ag85B reached 1∶3200. 21 days after second vaccination, the antibody titer reached 1∶102400. The highest antibody levels induced by multivalent vaccines after the second injection were equal to or even greater than the highest antibody levels of single DNA vaccine reported in literature after third injections. Antibody titer of MPT-64 was 1∶50 after the first injection and it reached 1∶200 after the second injection. No antigen-specific antibody against ESAT-6 was detected in sera harvested from immunized mice 21 days after both injections. Antigen-specific IFN-g level of Ag85B was 110 pg/mL while no antigen-specific IFN- g level of ESAT-6 and MPT-64 was detected even after third injections. To our knowledge, it is the first time that studies of polyvalent recombinant DNA vaccines against TB were carried out in C57BL-6 mice. Our results indicated that multiple DNA vaccines could be used to enhance protective responses against M.TB.     

烟草花叶病毒单克隆抗体的制备和鉴定

经工程菌表达与纯化,得到了纯度95%以上的TMV-CP-F重组蛋白,配合提取的TMV天然病毒颗粒作为免疫原.通过杂交瘤技术获得了14株能分泌特异针对TMV外壳蛋白的单克隆抗体杂交瘤细胞株.经鉴定14株细胞所分泌的抗体亚类为IgG1型,抗体轻链均为κ型.经ProteinA一步法亲和层析纯化所得抗体经鉴定相对分子质量在149.36～157.23 ku之间,抗体纯度在80%以上.经间接ELISA测定,14株抗体均与TMV-CP重组蛋白和TMV病毒有良好特异性反应.所制备的抗TMV抗体的特异性高,可用于与其相关的免疫检测研究和应用.     

A role for calpactin in calcium-dependent exocytosis in adrenal chromaffin cells

Stimulation of bovine adrenal chromaffin cells results in a rise in the concentration of cytosolic calcium which triggers the release of catecholamines by exocytosis. Several cytosolic proteins that bind to secretory granule membranes in a calcium-dependent manner have been implicated in exocytosis and some belong to a family of calcium-binding proteins, the annexins. One of these, calpactin, is a tetramer consisting of two heavy and two light chains (relative molecular masses 36,000 and 10,000 respectively) and can aggregate and fuse membranes in vitro in the presence of arachidonic acid. Calpactin is found at the cell periphery and is phosphorylated when chromaffin cells are stimulated. We show here that both calpactin and calpactin heavy chain (p36) reconstitute secretion in permeabilized chromaffin cells in which secretion has been reduced as a result of leakage of cellular components. This effect is inhibited by an affinity-purified antibody against p36. Secretion from permeabilized cells is inhibited by a synthetic annexin-consensus peptide, but not by a nonspecific hydrophobic peptide; this inhibition is reversed by p36. Our results indicate that either calpactin or p36 is essential for exocytosis.     

Immunization to a syngeneic sarcoma by a monoclonal auto-anti-idiotypic antibody

Idiotypic networks regulate the immune response to a variety of antigens. Antibodies generated against other antibodies, called anti-idiotypic antibodies, can themselves mimic antigen and elicit a specific immune response. They have been shown to induce delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) to model antigens in the mouse. As anti-idiotypic antibodies are thought to be involved in the response to tumour-associated antigens we tested whether injection of monoclonal antibodies derived from mice hyperimmunized to a syngeneic, chemically induced sarcoma could mimic antigen and induce DTH to the sarcoma in naive mice. One of the monoclonal antibodies, 4.72, primed BALB/c mice for DTH to the sarcoma but not for DTH to another sarcoma or to sheep erythrocytes. Antibody 4.72 did not induce DTH in mice of immunoglobulin allotype congeneic strains nor did it bind to the sarcoma cells. As antibodies specific for this sarcoma have not been detected, we do not know whether idiotype on immunoglobulin molecules is recognized by antibody 4.72. However, as the response induced by antibody 4.72 was both antigen-specific and allotype-restricted, analogous to those induced by anti-idiotypic antibodies in other systems, we propose that antibody 4.72 is an anti-idiotypic antibody.     

Aggregation of chromaffin granules by calpactin at micromolar levels of calcium

Several cytosolic proteins bind to secretory granule membranes in a Ca2+-dependent manner and thus may be involved in the mediation of membrane interactions during exocytosis. One of these proteins, calpactin, is a tetramer consisting of two heavy chains of relative molecular mass (Mr) 36K (p36) and two light chains of 10K (p10). We report here that calpactin promotes the Ca2+-dependent aggregation and fatty acid-dependent fusion of chromaffin granule membranes at a level of Ca2+ that is lower than that reported for other granule-aggregating proteins, and which parallels the Ca2+ requirement for secretion from permeabilized chromaffin cells. We found subunits of calpactin to be inactive in promoting granule aggregation. Two distinct 33K proteolytic fragments of p36, differing at their N termini, also promote granule aggregation but with different Ca2+ sensitivities from calpactin. These differences suggest that the N-terminal portion of p36 modulates the Ca2+/lipid binding sites in the core portion of p36 (ref.5).