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WB Labastide, MT Rana and CR Barker
Department of Haematology, University of Cambridge, UK.
We describe a new rat immunoglobulin M monoclonal antibody (CH-F42) that
recognizes a subset (1.5% to 8%) of normal peripheral blood T lymphocytes.
The phenotype of these cells was determined, using dual- color
immunofluorescence, to be CD2+, CD3+, CD4+, CD5+, CD7-, CD8-. They do not
express T-cell activation markers, and are positive for UCHL1 (CD45RO), but
negative for 2H4 (CD45RA). The antigen was expressed on circulating
malignant cells in Sezary syndrome (four of four cases) and adult T-cell
lymphoma-leukemia (ATLL) (four of six cases) and negative in a variety of
other hematologic malignancies tested. These included chronic and acute
lymphoid leukemias of B and T lineage, together with chronic and acute
myeloid leukemias. However, normal CH-F42+ cells do not display any of the
ultrastructural features associated with Sezary or ATLL cells. The marked
similarities between these conditions together with the shared expression
of an otherwise very restricted surface antigen (CH-F42) provide strong
evidence for the existence of a common normal counterpart. Preliminary
characterization studies of the antigen, which is also expressed by K562
and Jurkat cells, suggest the CH-F42 antigen is an O-linked, sialated
glycan on a glycoprotein.
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