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Characterization of Macrophage Chemotaxins in Tumor Cell Cultures and Comparison with Lymphocyte-derived Chemotactic Factors

NIH, National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Biology and Diagnosis, Immunology Program, Laboratory of Immunobiology, Immunopathology Section, Bethesda, Maryland 20014

Culture fluids from five murine sarcomas were chemotactic for syngeneic peritoneal macrophages in vitro. Peritoneal macrophages from mice infected with Mycobacterium bovis, strain Bacillus Calmette-Guérin, were more responsive to the chemotactic factor in tumor cultures than were normal macrophages. Peritoneal granulocytes, however, did not significantly respond to this factor. The level of chemotactic activity in tumor cultures paralleled cell growth for all five tumors; maximal levels occurred during log growth. Culture medium alone or fluids from proliferating spleen cell cultures stimulated with mitogens did not have detectable chemotactic activity. Chromatography of the tumor culture fluids resulted in a single peak of chemotactic activity in the 15,000-molecular weight range on Sephadex G-100 and at about 7.5 mmho/cm specific conductance on diethylaminoethyl cellulose. By both biological and physicochemical characteristics, the chemotactic activity in tumor culture fluids was different from mouse lymphocyte-derived chemotactic factor.

Received 7/26/76. Accepted 12/ 1/76.

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