Avaliação da espressão de glicoproteinas potencialmente especificas na membrana plasmatica de celulas Natural Killer uterinas de camundogos / Evaluation of expression of potentially specific glycoproteins in plasmatic membrane of mouse uterine Natural Killer

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2006

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The phenomenon of pregnancy in mammalians with hemochorial type placenta ions where the allogeneic fetus presenting the half of gene from paternal origins growth in tight contact with maternal tissues, without triggering the rejections responses of maternal immune system is still a non-solved question of immunology of reproduction. The cross-talk at maternal-fetal interface in the pregnant uterus involves a range of Th1rrh2 cytokines, as well as, several cell populations with accentuated participation of uterine Natural Killer (uNK) Iymphocytes. The uNK .are transient leukocyte population that migrate from precursor cells localized at secondary Iymphoid organs such as Iymph nodes and spleen into the pregnant uterus and proliferate and differentiate during the gestation. The presence of these cells in the pregnant uterus has been related to recognition of the HLAG and HLA-E antigen present in the trophoblast, which results in inhibition of both innate and adaptive immune response. This peculiar activity of uNK suggests that the modulation of such cells in the pregnant uterus should be related with the expression of specific receptors not shared with peripheral blood circulating NK (cNK) cell. In the mouse uNK, the DBA (Dolichos biflorus agglutin) lectin identify n-acetyl D-galactosamine containing glycoconjugates present on the surface of these cells not expressed by other Iymphocytes, which corroborate the hypothesis of uNK expressing specific receptors not shared by cNK. The present work aimed to evaluate the presumed expression of specific molecules on mouse uNK cell surface and identify the candidate proteins by proteomic methods. Initially were used uNK cells isolated and purified from pregnant mice uteri as antigen to be inoculated in the male mice and evaluate the capacity of induction of immune response with production of antibodies reactive to these antigens. Other strategy was to realize procedures of protein isolation from uterine homogenates, uNK cells and the membrane of these cells, in the attempt to isolate and identify those reactive to DBA lectin. As results of inoculation of uNK cells were verified responses in the inoculated males by presence of serum antibodies that recognized uNK with immunocytochemistry. These results confinn the expression of specific molecules in uNK cells which characterize these cells as specific NK subset of pregnancy. From two animaIs with highest levei of antibodies in 1he serum were collected the spleen to isolate the Iymphocytes clones for monoclonal antibodies obtantion. One of these antibodies recognized antigen molecules found on the surface and cytoplasm of the uNK cells of several mice strains, as well as, molecules in cells present in the pregnant rats and human beings endometrium, which suggests the expression of homologous molecules in uNK of other species. However, this mouse anti-mouse uterine NK (mamuNK1) was reactive with citoplasmatic components the other cells, suggesting not be specific to uNK. About the isolation of DBA lectin reactive glycoconjugates by purification in gel filtration chromatography revealed low efficiency to the pool of proteins contained in the uterine homogenate, or even in the homogenate of isolated uNK cells due to the multiple DBA lectin positive protein fractions. By restriction of protein pool to those obtained from the uNK cells membrane and by two dimension electrophoresis was delimited the target proteins that were submitted to the proteomic analysis. The identification of isolated proteins of the membranes of uNK cells with proteomics methods suggested the Conserved proteins oligomeric Golgi complex Component (4 COG4) and Heat shock 7D-like protein 1 (Hsp 70 L1) as potential candidates related to the activity of the natural to killer cells in the pregnant uterus

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immunoglobulins membrane proteins uterine natural killer cells proteinas da membrana glicoconjugados celulas natural killer uterinas imunoglobulinas glyconjugates

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