Pattern of endogenous lectins in a human epithelial tumor.
Cancer Res
; 45(1): 253-7, 1985 Jan.
Article
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| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-3965138
ABSTRACT
Salt and detergent extracts of a malignant epithelial tumor, obtained by extraction of acetone powder, were fractionated on different sets of Sepharose columns covalently derivatized with lactose, asialofetuin, melibiose, mannan, fucose, and heparin. Successive elution by chelating reagent and specific sugar resulted in isolation of different Ca2+-dependent and Ca2+-independent endogenous carbohydrate-binding proteins, as analyzed by gel electrophoresis. It appears from the analysis that certain bands represent newly identified proteins capable of binding to lactose (at Mr 64,000), melibiose (at Mr 28,000), and fucose (at Mr 62,000 and 70,000). Other carbohydrate-binding proteins isolated from this human tumor have been identified in normal, especially embryonic, tissues of different nonhuman vertebrates. The carbohydrate-binding proteins are assayable as agglutinin with rabbit erythrocytes and show no detectable enzymatic activity. They can thus be defined as lectins. The presence of a complex pattern of endogenous lectins and their biochemical characteristics may contribute to an understanding of intercellular interaction during the complex process of metastatic spread and may furthermore allow a new tool for diagnosis and a lectin-based therapy.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Apudoma
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Neoplasias do Colo
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Lectinas
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Middle aged
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Cancer Res
Ano de publicação:
1985
Tipo de documento:
Article