A human Ia cytoplasmic determinant located on multiple forms of invariant chain (gamma, gamma 2, gamma 3) - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1984 Apr;132(4):1900-5.

A human Ia cytoplasmic determinant located on multiple forms of invariant chain (gamma, gamma 2, gamma 3)

V Quaranta et al. J Immunol. 1984 Apr.

Abstract

An antigenic determinant present in the cytoplasm, but not on the surface membrane of human Ia+ cells, is defined by a monoclonal antibody (VIC-Y1) and is shown by immunoprecipitation and by NEPHGE to be expressed by Ia oligomers. Immunoprecipitations of cellfree translates and of purified Ia subunits indicate that the VIC-Y1 determinant is located on the Ia gamma-(invariant) chain, as well as on two other related molecules, provisionally termed gamma 2 and gamma 3. Within our experimental conditions, the three forms of gamma-chains co-precipitate exclusively with Ia oligomers. As detected by VIC-Y1 and in the limits of our assays, gamma-chains could not be found at the cell surface; their tissue distribution, determined by cytoplasmic indirect immunofluorescence with VIC-Y1, closely resembles that of Ia antigens, with the possible exception of acute lymphatic leukemia cells (Ia+, gamma-chain-).

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