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The Journal of Experimental Medicine, Vol 135, 938-955, Copyright © 1972 by The Rockefeller University Press

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SEROLOGICALLY DEMONSTRABLE ALLOANTIGENS OF MOUSE EPIDERMAL CELLS

Margrit Scheid 1, Edward A. Boyse 1, Elizabeth A. Carswell 1, and Lloyd J. Old 1

1 From the Division of Immunology, Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research, New York 10021

Single cells were prepared from mouse tail epidermis by a method which gives high viability counts and so permits their use in cytotoxicity tests.

According to tests with standard alloantisera, the antigen phenotype of mouse epidermal cells is H-2+theta+Sk+H-Y+TL-Ly-A-Ly-B,C-PC-.

The skin differentiation alloantigen Sk, which is responsible for homograft reactions directed selectively against skin, is expressed also on brain, but not on other cell types; it is present on the transplanted neuroblastoma C1300. Cytotoxicity tests with epidermal cells of H-2 congenic mouse stocks confirm that the Sk locus is not closely linked to H-2.

The lymphoid cell differentiation antigen theta also is present on both epidermal cells and brain. Mice frequently retain theta-incompatible or Sk-incompatible skin grafts although they have formed substantial titers of theta or Sk antibody in response to grafting.

Male (H-Y) antigen is demonstrable on epidermal cells by cytotoxicity tests with H-Y antibody, as it is also on one other type of cell, spermatozoa.

 Submitted on December 5, 1971


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