[Monoclonal antibodies against human erythrocyte membrane antigens and their reactivities with hematopoietic cells]

Nihon Ketsueki Gakkai Zasshi. 1989 May;52(3):569-82.
[Article in Japanese]

Abstract

Four monoclonal antibodies against human erythrocyte membrane antigens were established. The antigenic determinants of KOR-E1, E3, E6 were Pr1h antigen, Wrb antigen, and the trypsin sensitive portion of glycophorin A (EnaTS) respectively. The antigen recognized by KOR-E4 could not be determined. The reactivities of these antibodies with normal hematopoietic cells, malignant hematopoietic cell lines (N = 31), and fresh leukemic cells obtained from 128 patients with various types of leukemias were studied. All antibodies reacted only with erythrocytes among peripheral blood cells, and also KOR-E6 reacted only with erythroid cells among bone marrow cells. KOR-E3 had no reactivity with any cell lines examined, and KOR-E1 and KOR-E4 were reactive with some lymphoid cell lines. However, KOR-E6 had specific reactivities with erythroid (HEL, K562), megakaryocytic (CMK-1), multiphenotypic (KOPM-28), and basophilic (KU-812) cell lines. The antigen (glycophorin A) recognized by KOR-E6 was expressed on a small population of mononuclear cells separated from acute lymphoblastic leukemia (3/70), acute myelogenous leukemia (2/12), monosomy 7-myeloproliferative disorder (1/1), juvenile CML (1/1), and transient myeloproliferative disorder with Down's syndrome (4/12), although it could not be determined whether these cells were leukemic cells or not. KOR-E6 was reactive with a large population of leukemic blasts in erythroleukemia (2/2) and acute megakaryoblastic leukemia (3/6). Thus, KOR-E6 appears to be an erythroid marker of leukemic cells.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Aged
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal / immunology*
  • Antigen-Antibody Reactions
  • Antigens, Surface / immunology*
  • Child
  • Child, Preschool
  • Erythrocyte Membrane / immunology*
  • Female
  • Hematopoietic Stem Cells / immunology*
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Leukemia / immunology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antigens, Surface