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Glycobiology vol 2 no 4 pp. 285-292, 1992
© 1992

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Identification and synthesis of a novel 15 kDa ß-galactoside-binding lectin in human leukocytes

Ashu Sharma, Richard A. DiCioccio and Howard J. Allen1

Department of Gynecologic Oncology, Roswell Park Cancer Institute Buffalo, NY 14263, USA

1To whom correspondence should be addressed

Received on February 19, 1992; accepted on April 2, 1992

Knowledge of the identity, synthesis and secretion of ß-galactoside-binding lectins by leukocytes is of importance because lactosaminoglycans present at the leukocyte cell surface may be physiologically significant lectin receptors that could mediate autocrine or paracrine functions and/or cell adhesion. This paper presents data that show that a previously identified 15.5–16.5 kDa lactose-binding protein synthesized in vitro by human peripheral leukocytes is actually comprised of three different polypeptides. One of these is related to a novel 15 kDa lectin isolated from human spleen and which is synthesized by B lymphoblastold cells. Spleen contains at least six lactose-binding polypeptides for which the carbohydrate-binding activity is independent of the presence of divalent cations and mercaptoethanol. The splenic 15 kDa polypeptide does not appear to be immunologically related to previously characterized ß-galactoside-binding lectins. It is separable from galaptin, another galactoside-binding lectin (subunit mol. wt 14.5 kDa) by chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel. Western blot analyses and immunoprecipitation/fluorography experiments with metabolically labelled cells showed the presence of the 15 kDa lectin in peripheral leukocytes and in Epstein-Barr virus-immortalized B lymphoblastoid cells. The 15 kDa lectin yielded polypeptide fragments of {small tilde}6.2 and {small tilde}8.6 kDa after cyanogen bromide (CNBr) degradation. These fragments were partially sequenced and 12 residues/fragment were identified. A similarity search of the SWISS PROT protein data base did not reveal a relationship of the 15 kDa polypeptide to known lectins, including galaptin. In addition to the 15 kDa lectin, peripheral leukocytes synthesize a 29 kDa lectin and two other low molecular weight ß-galactoside-binding lectins of 16 and 18 kDa that are immunologically distinct from the 15 kDa lectin and galaptin. The synthesis of these lectins was found to be modulated in peripheral leukocytes and B lymphoblastoid cells.

endogenous lectins galactoside-binding lectins human leukocytes human spleen lectin modulation


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