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Cell surface laminin-like substances and laminin-related carbohydrates of rat ascites hepatoma AH7974 and its variants with different lung-colonizing potential

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Rat ascites hepatoma AH7974 cells strongly expressed antilaminin antibody-reactive substances (laminin-like substances) andGriffonia simplicifolia isolectin B4 (GS)-reactive carbohydrate (alpha)-d-galactose; alpha-Gal) on their cell surface. The alpha-Gal expression was not apparently influenced by the pretreatment of cells with methanol. The cell membrane laminin-like substances had approximate molecular weights of 150, 62 and 56 kDa in denaturating reducing conditions, of which the 62 and 56 kDa bands were stained with GS. The cell membrane molecules bearing alpha-Gal were 62 and 56 kDa and were stained with antilaminin antibody. Therefore, the major molecules bearing alpha-Gal residues of AH7974 cell membrane are considered to be laminin-like substances. To determine the role of the substances in metastasis, we selected four cell lines (74AD, 74AD-f, 74FL, 74FL-a) from AH7974 in culture. 74AD and 74FL-a are adherent lines and 74AD-f and 74FL are floating lines. All of these cell lines strongly expressed laminin-like substances, but a marked difference was found in expression of alpha-Gal, which was most strongly expressed by 74FL, followed by 74AD, and rarely by 74AD-f and 74FL-a; the staining intensity was positively correlated with their experimental lung-colonizing potential. Cell membrane laminin-like substances were 200, 97, 62, 56 and 46 kDa and among them 62 and 56 kDa molecules were glycosylated with alpha-Gal. The pretreatment of 74FL cells with antilaminin antibody or with human type A serum (containing natural antibody to alpha-Gal epitope) depressed remarkably the lung-colonizing potential of the cells. These results suggest that the expression of 62 and 56 kDa laminin-like substances with alpha-Gal residues on tumor cell surfaces is one of the determinants associated with lung-colonizing potential of these cells.

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    Takanori Kawaguchi, Tomohisa Ono, Hironao Wakabayashi & Seiji Igarashi

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Kawaguchi, T., Ono, T., Wakabayashi, H. et al. Cell surface laminin-like substances and laminin-related carbohydrates of rat ascites hepatoma AH7974 and its variants with different lung-colonizing potential. Clin Exp Metast 12, 203–212 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01753888

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