Abstract
Spontaneously shed extracellular plasma membrane vesicles (ECM) of a highly metastatic murine tumor line (ESb) were compared (i) with plasma membrane vesicles (PM) of the same cells prepared by the nitrogen cavitation method and (ii) with ECM and PM preparations of the related low metastatic tumor line Eb. From a previous biochemical analysis it was concluded that the exfoliation of ECM vesicles, which is very pronounced in metastatic ESb cells, is not a random process. This conclusion is further corroborated by the present functional analysis. Compared to ESb PM, ESb-derived ECM were selectively enriched for Fc receptors and depleted in glycoproteins with affinity for hepatocytes. Tumor-derived ECM carried the same tumor antigen as the corresponding tumor line and showed in comparison to PM material an increased inhibitor capacity in a T-cell-mediated tumor-specific cytotoxicity test.
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