Neutrophil activation detected by monoclonal antibodies

J Immunol. 1986 May 1;136(9):3427-32.

Abstract

Monoclonal antibodies have been produced against three neutrophil-associated membrane proteins (p 90, p 170, and p 70) expressed at different maturation stages of the cells. The reactivity of the antibodies against p 90 (B13.9) and p 170 (CLB-gran 10), as measured by quantitative flow cytofluorometry, increased after stimulation of the neutrophils by the calcium ionophore A23187, by phorbol myristate acetate, or by the chemoattractant formylmethionyl-leucyl-phenylalanine in combination with cytochalasin B. This increase is regulated independently of the simultaneously increased expression of the C3bi receptor, because neutrophils of a patient deficient for the C3bi receptor showed a normal increase in membrane expression of p 90 and p 170. Neutrophil cytoplasts were not inducible to increased membrane expression, suggesting that the cytoplasts lack the internal pool of these proteins. The reactivity of the antibody against p 70 (CLB-gram 5) was not affected by activation. The antibodies B13.9 and CLB-gran 10 may be useful to detect neutrophil activation.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal*
  • Antigen-Antibody Reactions
  • Antigens, Differentiation*
  • Antigens, Surface / immunology
  • Antigens, Surface / isolation & purification
  • Azure Stains
  • Chemotaxis, Leukocyte*
  • Cytoplasmic Granules / analysis
  • Cytoplasmic Granules / immunology
  • Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel
  • Hematopoiesis
  • Humans
  • Membrane Proteins / immunology
  • Membrane Proteins / isolation & purification
  • Neutrophils / cytology
  • Neutrophils / immunology*
  • Neutrophils / metabolism
  • Precipitin Tests
  • Receptors, Complement / metabolism
  • Receptors, Complement 3b

Substances

  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Antigens, Differentiation
  • Antigens, Surface
  • Azure Stains
  • Membrane Proteins
  • Receptors, Complement
  • Receptors, Complement 3b
  • neutrophil differentiation antigens