NIEHS Breaks Ground on Future Research

The expression of heat shock proteins (HSP) of the 65kD family (groEL) has been observed by flow cytometry using murine monoclonal antibody (MoAb) anti-HSP 65kD (ML30) on the surface of B (Daudi) or T (H9) lymphoma cells, on a moncyte cell line (U937) and also on a primary culture of a human pancreatic carcinoma (HPC). Moreover, the MoAb ML30 was coupled to Saporin 6, a ribosome-inactivating protein recovered from the seeds of Saponaria officinalis, to kill HSP-expressing cells with a specific immunotoxin. An indirect method using first MoAb ML30 and then anti-mouse IgG, immunotoxin was also performed. With this method a human serum positive for HSP65-antibodies was tested using anti-human IgG,