Publication Date:
1981-08-21
Description:
When bound to cell surfaces, certain lectins such as concanavalin A induce a drop in the average diffusion coefficients (D) of a number of cell surface molecules. To find whether such anchorage modulation occurs naturally, D of surface antigens on different cell and tissue types were measured by fluorescence photobleaching recovery. Values for cells of the same tissue origin under different conditions of growth and association - in tissues, in small aggregates, and as isolated cells - varied by less than twofold when polyspecific monovalent antibodies to cell surface antigens were used, a range much less than the sixfold decrease in D observed after lectin-induced anchorage modulation. Thus, if reversible modulation of the diffusion rate is used naturally as a means of cell signaling, it must involve only a few kinds of surface receptors not detected by the antibodies used in this study. In certain tissues, however, a significant proportion of cells showed no apparent receptor mobility. This "all or none" modulation of lateral diffusion may reflect relatively long-lasting alterations in the states of a single cell type or differentiation among the cells of the particular tissue.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gall, W E -- Edelman, G M -- AI-09273/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AI-11378/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- AM-04256/AM/NIADDK NIH HHS/ -- etc. -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1981 Aug 21;213(4510):903-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7196087" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Antigens, Surface/physiology
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Cell Adhesion
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Cell Division
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Cells, Cultured
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Chick Embryo
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Cytoskeleton/physiology
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Diffusion
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*Membrane Fluidity
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Mice
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
