Lp. Saschenko et al., CONTRIBUTION OF MEMBRANE-ASSOCIATED CYTOTOXIC PROTEINS TO CYTOLYSIS OF L929 AND K562 TARGET-CELLS MEDIATED BY LAK CELLS WITH DIFFERENT PHENOTYPES, Immunology letters, 39(3), 1994, pp. 243-247
We have demonstrated that the relative contribution of secreted and me
mbrane-associated proteins to the cytotoxicity of LAK cells depended o
n LAK cell phenotype: the cytotoxicity of CD16(+) CD8(+) CD3(-) LAK ce
lls was associated mainly with membrane-bound proteins, and the activi
ty of CD3(+) CD8(+) CD16(-) LAK cells was due mainly to secreted solub
le proteins. The cytotoxic activity of membrane fractions of LAK cells
against cell line L929 was determined by 40-, 32- and 21-kDa proteins
for LAK cells bearing NK-specific markers and due to proteins of 34 a
nd 21 kDa in the case of 'CTL-like' LAK-cells.