Human T cell proteins recognized by rabbit heteroantisera and monoclonal antibodies.

Many structural and functional features of the cell surface antigens of human T cells remain to be characterized. In these investigations, heteroantisera have been used to identify potentially interesting antigens not yet recognized by individual monoclonal antibody preparations. These antigens include patterns of bands (Mr 140-240K) on various T cells and T cell lines, at least six other bands on T cell lines and novel antigens on CTL lines. The majority of these antigens are different from the compiled list of antigens recognized by monoclonal antibodies against T cell proteins. The monoclonal OKT9 recognizes an antigen most prevalent on dividing cells, and this antigen is the same as that recognized by another monoclonal antibody, 5E9, and by previously described heteroantisera. The monoclonal antibody 4F2 has a distribution similar to OKT9, but it is structurally distinct, and is also present on monocytes. Three T cell surface proteins, two defined by the monoclonal antibodies OKT6 and OKT10, recognize proteins which resemble HLA antigens physiochemically. OKT6 and NAI/34 both recognize a 49,000 glycoprotein which is associated with a 12,000 subunit which reacts with anti-beta 2-microglobulin antibodies. OKT10 recognizes a 46,000 protein, also found with a 12,000 peptide, while the third protein, a beta 2-microglobulin-associated glycoprotein of 43,000 is not yet defined by a monoclonal Ab. Other monoclonals described here include 3A1 and PVR-11, which are on subsets of peripheral T cell, and B1-192 and B1-499 which are on some activated T cells.