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Identification and Characterization of a Human Proliferation-associated Nucleolar Antigen with a Molecular Weight of 120,000 Expressed in Early G₁ Phase¹

Department of Pharmacology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030

Tumor nucleoli were treated with polyclonal antisera to normal human tissue nucleoli to block some determinants common to tumor and normal tissue nculeoli. Immunization of mice with these immune complexes resulted in the development of a monoclonal antibody (FB2) to a novel M_r 120,000 nucleolar proliferation-associated antigen. By indirect immunofluorescence, antibody FB2 produced bright nucleolar staining in a variety of malignant tumors, including cancers of the breast, liver, gastrointestinal tract, genitourinary tract, blood, lymph system, lung, and brain. Although specific nucleolar immunofluorescence was not detectable in most normal tissues, it was detectable in some proliferating nonmalignant tissues including spermatogonia of the testes, ductal regions of hypertrophied prostates, and phytohemagglutinin-stimulated lymphocytes. The M_r 120,000 antigen was not detectable in 48-h serum-deprived HeLa cells but was readily detectable (within 30 min) following serum refeeding. The M_r 120,000 antigen was not detected in retinoic acid-treated HL-60 cells following morphological differentiation but was detectable in 48-h phytohemagglutinin-treated lymphocytes. These studies suggest that the M_r 120,000 antigen is a proliferation-associated antigen which plays a role in the early G₁ phase of the cell cycle.

¹ Supported by Cancer Research Center Grant CA-10893, P1, awarded by the National Cancer Institute, Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service; The DeBakey Medical Foundation; the Davidson Fund; the Pauline Sterne Wolff Memorial Foundation; the H. Leland Kaplan Cancer Research Endowment; the Linda and Ronnie Finger Cancer Research Endowment Fund; the William S. Farish Fund; and the Sally Laird Hitchcock Fund.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

Received 4/13/87. Revised 8/10/87. Revised 11/ 2/87. Accepted 11/11/87.

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