[Localization of the site of human transferrin interacting with cellular receptors using monoclonal antibodies]. / Lokalizatsiia uchastka vzaimodeistviia transferrina cheloveka s kletochnym retseptorom s pomoshchiu monoklonal'nykh antitel.

Antigenic determinants of the human transferrin molecule on the sublobe and lobe levels were localized for 7 monoclonal antibodies. Antibodies used have different effects on the interaction of the transferrin with its receptor. It was concluded that transferrin-receptor recognition was determined by NH2-lobe, the N2-sublobe playing major part. Dimerization of the transferrin molecules in solution was detected. Using the panel of monoclonal antibodies it was shown that dimerization accomplished by means of the COOH-lobes of transferrin molecules, the sites of interaction of the NH2-lobe with receptor being exposed. A model of the transferrin - receptor complex is proposed.

Molecular and cellular studies of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase using monoclonal antibodies. Evaluation of a common antigenic determinant in eukaryotic, prokaryotic and archaebacterial enzymes which maps outside the catalytic domain.

Monoclonal antibodies referred to as Am1, Am2 and Am3 against highly purified bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase were prepared. Am2 antibodies inhibit the Trp-tRNA synthetase activity and interact with the active truncated enzyme forms (dimers of either 40-kDa or 51-kDa fragments) produced by limited proteolysis. Am1 and Am3 antibodies exert no effect on the Trp-tRNA synthetase activity; epitopes recognized by them are mapped close to one another and reside at the dispensable part of the Trp-tRNA synthetase molecule. Am1 cross-reacts with Trp-tRNA synthetases of eukaryotic, prokaryotic and archaebacterial species, as revealed by immunoblot analysis. A rapid two-step technique was developed for isolating electrophoretically homogeneous Trp-tRNA synthetase from Escherichia coli. The purified enzyme interacted with Am1, but not with Am2 and Am3 antibodies taken at the same concentrations. As in the case of eukaryotic Trp-tRNA synthetase, Am1 did not influence the activity of Trp-tRNA synthetase from E. coli. From the aforementioned results it follows that: (a) the conservation of part of the Trp-tRNA synthetase structure which is not directly involved in the formation of the catalytic centre of prokaryotic and eukaryotic Trp-tRNA synthetases suggests that the dispensable part of the molecule might be involved in some additional biological function(s) of Trp-tRNA synthetase besides tRNA(Trp) charging; (b) the common antigenic determinant in Trp-tRNA synthetase of eukaryotes, prokaryotes and archaebacteria indicates that this enzyme was presumably present in the common ancestor of the above organisms.

[Monoclonal antibodies to an artificial immunogen, specifically demonstrating phosphotyrosine-containing proteins]. / Monoklonal'nye antitela k iskusstvennomu immunogenu, spetsificheski vyiavliaiushchie fosfotirozinosoderzhashchie belki.

The importance of protein phosphorylation at tyrosyl hydroxy groups in the control of cell proliferation has recently been established. For identification of tyrosine-phosphorylated proteins, monoclonal antibodies (Mabs) against artificial immunogens containing O-phosphotyrosine (pTyr) or tripeptide pTyr-Gly-Gly as haptens were generated; the haptens were coupled to carrier proteins (bovine serum albumin, human immunoglobulin, keyhole limpet hemocyanin). After immunization of mice with pTyr coupled to keyhole limpet hemocyanin, Mabs were generated which were highly specific for pTyr and did not cross-react with O-phosphoserine, O-phosphothreonine, tyrosine or nucleoside-5'-monophosphates. The Mabs specifically react with tyrosinephosphorylated proteins in the Rous sarcoma virus-transformed rat XC-cell.

Bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase and glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase form a complex.

Bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase is able to form a complex with glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase. The complex formation (i) does not influence the tryptophan-dependent PPi-ATP exchange reaction and (ii) involves predominantly the N-terminal dispensable domain of the synthetase. Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase was shown to be capable of interacting simultaneously with tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase and with ribosomal RNA to form a ternary complex. It is proposed that compartmentation of some aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases in certain cases might be achieved via 'adapter' molecules which can bind at once to ribonucleic acids and to aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases.

[Identification of the segment for binding of transferrin using a cellular receptor]. / Identifikatsiia uchastka sviazyvaniia transferrina s kletochnym retseptorom.

Methods of proteolysis, radio-immunoblotting and affinity chromatography were used for identifying the human transferrin molecular binding site with cellular receptor. Monoclonal antibody HTF-14 which inhibits binding of the transferrin molecule with the receptor was employed. We showed that this monoclonal antibody has an antigenic determinant of the conformational type which is localized on the COOH-sublobe of the NH2-lobe of the molecule of the transferrin.

A general approach to the localization of antigenic determinants of a linear type in proteins of unknown primary structure.

A method is proposed which permits the localization of antigenic determinants of a linear type on the polypeptide chain of a protein molecule of unknown primary structure. An antigen modified with maleic anhydride at the amino-terminal groups and at the epsilon-NH2 groups of lysine residues was subjected to partial enzymic digestion, so that the antigenic protein had, on average, less than one cleavage site per polypeptide chain. The resultant ends were labeled with 125I-labeled Bolton and Hunter reagent and the maleic group removed. The detection of the two larger labeled fragments (a longer one which still could bind to a monoclonal antibody and a shorter one which was incapable of binding) made it possible to determine the distance from the antigenic determinant to the C-terminus of the polypeptide chain. The position of the antigenic determinant could be established in more detail using partial chemical degradation of the original antigen using information about the maximal length of a fragment which has lost its ability to interact with the monoclonal antibody. The method has been applied to bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (EC 6.1.1.2).

[A method for detecting protein-protein interactions. Detection of proteins with the molecular weight of approximately 37 kD binding with tryptophanyl-tRNA-synthetase]. / Metod vyiavleniia belok-belkovykh vzaimodeistvii. Obnaruzhenie belkas M 37 kDa, sviazyvaiushchegosia s triptofanil-tRNK-sintetazoi.

A procedure for detecting protein-protein interactions is proposed. It is based on blotting of electrophoretically separated protein mixtures followed by detection of the proteins interacting with a given 125I-labelled protein used as a probe. Application of this approach to lysates of cultured mammalian cells enabled us to reveal a unique 37 kDa polypeptide interacting with 125I-labelled bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase (EC 6.1.1.2).

[Localization of antigenic determinants using monoclonal antibodies and alpha-NH2-terminal labeling of polypeptide chains]. / Lokalizatsiia antigennykh determinant s ispol'zovaniem monoklonal'nykh antitel i vvedeniia alpha-NH2-kontsevoi metki v polipeptidnye tsepi.

A method for localization of antigenic determinants in a polypeptide chain of unknown primary structure was proposed. A protein is modified at NH2-terminal and epsilon-NH2-groups of lysine residues with maleic anhydride and then is subjected to partial enzymatic cleavage. Newly formed NH2-terminal groups are tagged with radioiodinated Bolton--Hunter's reagent. The labeled fragments of the antigen are then demaleylated. Comparison of the two longest labeled fragments, only one of which still binds monoclonal antibody, makes it possible to define the location of the antigenic determinant along the polypeptide chain. The method was tested on the bovine tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase using earlier prepared monoclonal antibodies against this enzyme.