Polypeptide core of a human pancreatic tumor mucin antigen
Lan, M.S.; Hollingsworth, M.A.; Metzgar, R.S.
Cancer Research 50(10): 2997-3001
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0008-5472 PMID: 2334903 Document Number: 349436
This work describes the molecular properties of the polypeptide core of a human pancreatic mucin antigen isolated from a human pancreatic adenocarcinoma cell line, HPAF. Pancreatic tumor mucin was isolated by a combination of molecular sieve chromatography and CsCl/4 M guanidine-HCl density gradient ultracentrifugation. Trifluoromethane sulfonic acid was used to remove carbohydrate units from purified mucin molecules. A rabbit monospecific polyclonal antibody was generated against pancreatic apomucin and reacted with a Mr greater than 200,000 species. The antibody binding data indicated that the rabbit antiserum raised against pancreatic apomucin cross-reacted with a breast mucin synthetic peptide. Northern blot and immunodot blot analyses of various cell line extracts revealed that a tandem repeat sequence and a similar mRNA were detected in both pancreatic and breast mucin-producing cell lines. These results suggest that pancreatic apomucin and breast apomucin share some similarity in tandem repeated nucleic acid and protein sequences.