[Hetero-organic antigens of renal nature in the composition of the nuclear nonhistone proteins in the regenerating rat liver].

In the nuclear non-histone proteins of the rat liver, on the 4th day after a partial hepatoectomy or hepatocarcinogen injection as well as in the hepatocellular tumour cells, some heteroorganic antigens of kidney nature (HAkid) are found and characterized immunochemically. These HAkid can be eluted at 0.4-0.5 M NaCl during gradient chromatography on phosphocellulose. They possess some proper phosphoproteinkinase activity. The appearance of HAkid in rat liver may be considered, on the one hand, as a manifestation of some malignant factor (carcinogen action, tumour cells) and, on the other hand, they are obviously connected with proliferative activity of the regenerative rat liver cells (hepatectomy effect). It is very likely that both the sides of this phenomenological effect of HAkid in rat liver are the consequence of a specific expression along the cell oncogens.