Abstract
Guinea-pig erythrocytes have receptors for heterologous (human and rabbit) complement activated by the classical pathway on cell surfaces. This was shown in the present study by rosette-forming reactions of guinea-pig erythrocytes and human lymphocytes or sheep erythrocytes pre-treated with antibody and human R3 complement. The binding is temperature-dependent and is enhanced by treating the guinea-pig erythrocytes with neuraminidase. The receptors were shown to be specific for C4 by inhibition tests employing a range of anti-human complement antibodies (including anti-Clq, -Cl inhibitor, -C4, -C2, -C3 and -C3b inactivator). Of these reagents, only anti-C4 inhibited the receptor activity, indicating that the guinea-pig erythrocyte C4-receptors differ from those on lymphocytes, monocytes, polymorphonuclear leucocytes and human erythrocytes which are reported to react with both C3b and C4b. In contrast to the strong affinity observed for heterologous C4, guinea-pig erythrocytes appear to react very weakly, if at all, with homologous C4.
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