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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-7-10
pubmed:abstractText
Gangliosides are implicated in cell signal transduction. Prior to investigating this phenomenon in macrophages, the in situ accessibility of gangliosides to macromolecules was assessed for peritoneal macrophages isolated from normal C3H/HeN and endotoxin-hyporesponsive C3H/HeJ mice. C3H/HeJ resident and thioglycolate-elicited macrophage ganglioside patterns are the same as normal strains, and no strain differences in galactose oxidase accessibility for resident or thioglycolate-elicited macrophage gangliosides were found. The only gangliosides accessible to galactose oxidase in resident macrophages are GM1a structures. In thioglycolate-elicited macrophages, an additional ganglioside is accessible. For Escherichia coli-activated macrophages, where ganglioside distribution differs between strains, a difference in galactose oxidase-accessible gangliosides also exists. Escherichia coli-activated C3H/HeN patterns show three triplets absent in C3H/HeJ patterns. There were no differences in ganglioside accessibility to Vibrio cholerae sialidase between the thioglycolate-elicited C3H/HeJ and C3H/HeN macrophages. However, despite differences in sialidase-sensitive ganglioside content between E.coli-activated macrophages of these strains, sialidase accessibility for E.coli-activated macrophages was also similar. Sialidase-susceptible GM3 was cryptic in either strain under all conditions examined. The accessibility of murine macrophage gangliosides to galactose oxidase or sialidase was independent of their sialic acid species and chain length of the ceramide fatty acid. With the exception of GM3, major murine macrophage gangliosides are accessible in situ to macromolecules, especially to exogenous pathogenic bacterial sialidase which can alter macrophage cell surface characteristics. Altered macrophage ganglioside accessibility appears sometimes as a consequence, but not a cause, of C3H/HeJ endotoxin hyporesponsiveness.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0959-6658
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
5
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
67-75
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1995
pubmed:articleTitle
In situ accessibility of murine macrophage gangliosides.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.