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DN4: a novel cell surface molecule on cortical epithelial cells of the human thymus.

Abstract：

:A novel cell surface molecule, DN4, defined by an mAb raised against human thymic epithelial cells, showed a specificity for epithelial cells of the thymic cortex. This antigen was not expressed at detectable levels on any other types of tissues in the human body except for the thymus and bone marrow. Immunohistochemical analysis revealed that the reactivity of anti-DN4 mAb was restricted to the thymic cortex, and the antigen-expressing cells were arranged in a reticular network with long processes between thymocytes. The cellular nature of DN4-positive cells was identified as cortical epithelial cells, as DN4 was expressed in a subpopulation of freshly prepared thymic stromal cells which contain a large amount of keratin and expression of DN4 was strictly confined to the cortical area within the thymus on immunohistochemical analysis of frozen tissues. Immunofluorescence and flow cytometric analysis revealed that a subpopulation of bone marrow cells was also positive for DN4 (20%). The large blasts of normal bone marrow cells were clearly labeled with anti-DN4 mAb, in contrast to small-sized bone marrow cells. This finding suggests that DN4 seems to be transiently expressed in certain blastic stages during the differentiation of bone marrow cells. Immunoprecipitation of 125I-labeled cell lysates from THP-1 and U937 cell lines with anti-DN4 mAb yielded a single chain glycoprotein with an approximate size of 80-85 kd. There was a reduction in apparent molecular weight of approximately 40 kd in the immunoprecipitation of cell lysates after endoglycosidase F treatment. Thus, DN4 seemed to have a considerable amount of carbohydrate group. DN4 appears to be a novel cortical epithelial cell antigen of the human thymus, and although the role of this molecule has not been well established experimentally, the possibility can be suggested that the DN4 molecule might be involved in the positive selection of thymocytes which occurs predominantly in the thymic cortical area.

journal_name

Hum Immunol

journal_title

Human immunology

authors

Chung DH,Choi EY,Lee GK,Bae YM,Hahn JH,Kim SS,Song HG,Park WS,Ahn HS,Park SH

doi

10.1016/0198-8859(95)00168-9

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1996-02-01 00:00:00

pages

124-30

issue

eissn

0198-8859

issn

1879-1166

pii

0198885995001689

journal_volume

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DN4: a novel cell surface molecule on cortical epithelial cells of the human thymus.