Figure 3. NS19-9 and GM35 bind to O-linked sLea.
T84 or HT29 IECs were pretreated with (A) 5μg/ml Tunicamycin or (B) 4mM Benzyl-GalNAc before whole cell lysis and western blotting with NS19-9. (C) Protein lysates isolated from T84 IECs were treated with neuraminidase before immunoblotting with NS19-9. (D) Representative immunoblot demonstrating that transfection of HT29 IECs with CD44 gene silencing plasmids (shRNA1-3) decreased the expression of sLea detected by NS19-9 as compared to scrambled control. Data depicts representative results from N=3 immunoblots. MALDI-TOF/TOF spectrometric analysis of the O-linked (E), and N-linked (F) derivatized and permethylated glycans isolated from T84 IECs.