A major mouse T-lymphoma surface glycoprotein (gp180) has been identified by labeling cells with 1251 and [3H]glucosamine. After ligand-induced receptor patching and/or capping, the amount of gp180 in the membrane-associated cytoskeleton fraction increases in direct proportion to the percentage of patched/capped cells. There is a parallel increase in the amount of fodrin in the membrane-associa...

In this study we investigated concanavalin A (Con A) induced changes in the locations of actin, myosin, 120K, and 95K (alpha-actinin) to determine the extent to which actin and myosin are reorganized during capping and the roles that 120K and 95K might play in this reorganization. We observed the location of each protein by indirect immunofluorescence using affinity purified antibodies. Four mo...

Crosslinking of membrane surface receptors may lead to their segregation into patches and then into a single large aggregate at one pole of the cell. This process is called capping. Here, a novel explanation of such a process is presented in which the membrane is viewed as a supersaturated solution of receptors in the lipid bilayer and the adjacent two aqueous layers. Without a crosslinking age...

Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite that invades human intestine leading to ulceration and destruction of tissue. Amoebic movement and phagocytosis of human cells is accompanied by characteristic changes in cell morphology. Amoebae become polarized, developing a frontal pseudopod and a well-defined rear zone of membrane accumulation designated the uroid. In motile eukaryotic cells, a ...

introduction: this study was carried out to investigate calcific tissue formation against mineral trioxide aggregate (mta) after pulp capping. materials and methods: the pulps of six teeth from four dogs were exposed and capped with mta. after extraction each tooth was sectioned into halves. each half was then further sectioned in the mesiodistal or buccolingual direction. calcified tissue of t...

Magnetic cores of passive components are required to have low hysteresis loss, which is dependent on the coercive force. Since it is well known that the coercive force becomes zero at the superparamagnetic regime below a certain critical size, we attempted to synthesize Ni nanoparticles in a size-controlled fashion and investigated the effect of particle size on the magnetic properties. Ni nano...

Optical properties of silicon quantum dots (Si QDs) are greatly influenced by their size and surface chemistry. We report the micro-emulsion synthesis of hydrogen terminated Si QDs, with the modification of quenching the remaining reducing agent LiAlH4 with CuSO4. Subsequent functionalization was carried out with different capping molecules, including 1-octene, phenylacetylene, and 1,4-diethyny...

Human and mouse lymphocytes of T- and B-cell lineages express a protein (Mr, 240,000) that crossreacts with antibodies raised against chicken erythrocyte alpha-spectrin as judged by immunofluorescence, immunoprecipitation, and immunoautoradiography; by the same criteria, antibodies raised against chicken erythrocyte beta-spectrin do not react with any lymphocyte polypeptide. In all T and B cell...