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. 1977 Apr 15;164(1):41–51. doi: 10.1042/bj1640041

Some factors affecting the production, by cultured baby-hamster kidney cells, of BHK glycoprotein I which cross-reacts immunologically with Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein.

F J Bloomfield, D R Dunstan, C L Foster, F Serafini-Cessi, R D Marshall
PMCID: PMC1164756  PMID: 328011

Abstract

Cultured baby-hamster kidney cells (BHK-21/C13), which are adapted to grow in suspension (strain 2P), roduce a glycoprotein, termed BHK glycoprotein I, which cross-reacts immunologically with hamster urinary (Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein. BHK glycoprotein I was isolated in an electrophoretically (sodium dodecyl sulphate/polyacrylamide gel) homogeneous form by application of affinity chromatography to the medium in which cells had been cultured. Insolubilized anti-(Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein immunoglobulin G) was used as the adsorbent. The amount of BHK glycoprotein I associated with the cultured cells was found by both radioimmunoassay and immunofluorescence to be related to the amount of Ca2+ in the medium and to the particular stage of the cell cycle. 5'-Nucleotidase was also shed by the cells into the culture medium in amounts related to the stage of the cell cycle. The turnover of hamster Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein in vivo appeared to be considerably more rapid than can be accounted for by cell turnover. Hamster Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein was shown to be ineffective in inhibiting agglutination of chicken erythrocytes caused by influenza virus.

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