Aeromonas cytotonic enterotoxin cross reactive with cholera toxin.

Isolation by affinity chromatography from crude culture filtrate of Aeromonas sobria of protein that cross reacted with cholera toxin (CT) revealed a toxin that produced fluid accumulation in rat ileal loops and in infant mice and caused rounding of Y1 adrenal cells. All these activities were neutralised by antiserum to CT. There was no haemolytic or cytotoxic activity associated with this CT-cross reactive cytotonic enterotoxin.

Purification of cytotoxic enterotoxin of Aeromonas sobria by use of monoclonal antibodies.

Cytotoxic enterotoxin of Aeromonas sobria was purified by affinity chromatography with monoclonal antibodies. The purified enterotoxin gave a single protein band in polyacrylamide gradient gel electrophoresis and its mol. wt estimated by this technique was 63,000; it had a pI of 6.

Localization of carcinoembryonic antigen in mesenteric lymph nodes of patients with gastrointestinal cancer.

Mesenteric lymph nodes obtained at surgery from 36 patients with gastrointestinal tract cancer were studied by immunofluorescence for the presence of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA). Granular deposits of CEA in a homogenous mixture with immunoglobulins and complement were detected in the activated germinal centers in 12 lymph nodes from 8 investigated cases. Identification of CEA in germinal centers was confirmed by blocking and absorbtion procedures.

High and low Fc IgG-receptor expression in human chronic granulocytic leukaemia cells.

Discontinuous density-gradient centrifugation was used to separate chronic granulocytic leukaemia (CGL) cells in the chronic phase and blast crisis (BC) into fractions containing granulocytes in individual stages of maturation. The occurrence of the Fc IgG (FcR) and complement-component receptors (CR1 and CR2) in each fraction was estimated. It was established that, with increasing yields of mature granulocytes, the proportion of cells bearing Fc and C3 receptors increased.

Fc and C3 receptors as membrane differentiation markers of acute myelogenous leukaemia cells.

Acute myelogenous leukaemia cells (AML) and cells of chronic myelogenous leukaemia blast crisis (CGL-CB) were examined for the presence of receptors for Fc IgG fragment (FcR), receptors for the complement components (CR1 and CR2), and the surface immunoglobulins including the light kappa and lambda type chains. The leukaemia blasts were found to be the cells poor in receptors and poorly differentiated. As a rule, they contained very small amount of detectable FcR, CR2, and CR1.