TY - JOUR A1 - Krzymanski, Maciej A1 - Waaga, Ana M. A1 - Ulrichs, Karin A1 - Deja, Aadam A1 - Oko, Andrzej A1 - Rommel, Thomas A1 - Müller-Ruchholtz, Wolfgang T1 - The influence of MHC class II antigen blockade by perfusion with a monoclonal antibody on rat renal graft survival N2 - To decrease immunogenicity of the rat kidney, grafts were perfused with an anti-MHC class li monoclonal antibody (mAb ). How effectively this procedure blocked dass li-positive cells, which were mainly dendritic in appearance, was checked by immunostaining renal sections after perfusion and comparing them with in vitro stained sections. Optimum conditions were applied for graft pretreatment before transplantation. This procedure prolonged graft survival, though not satisfactorily from the biological point ofview (9.6 ± 0.8 versus 7.7 ± 0.5 days in the control group; P < 0.02). The dendritic cells were not killed but blocked. Several hours after transplantation, the mAb dissociated from these dass li-positive cells. It was also shown that donor cells migrate into the recipient's spieen early after transplantation. The number of these cells was smaller when the transplanted organ was perfused with the mAb. Further studies are suggested to deplete the graft of donor dendritic cells more adequately. They should also combine graft perfusion with antidass II mAb and recipient immunosuppression at reduced doses. KW - Chirurgie KW - Class II antigen blockade KW - rat KW - renal transplantation KW - Monoclonal antibody KW - dass II antigen blockade Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-64431 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Krzymanski, M. A1 - Waaga, A. M. A1 - Ulrichs, Karin A1 - Müller-Ruchholtz, Wolfgang T1 - Long-standing rat kidney graft survival by a combination of organ perfusion with MHC class II monoclonal antibody and immunosuppression with reduced doses of 15-deoxyspergualin. N2 - No abstract available KW - Niere KW - Ratte KW - MHC Klasse II KW - kidney KW - rat Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-64442 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kruse, N. A1 - Lehrnbecher, T. A1 - Sebald, Walter T1 - Site-directed mutagenesis reveals the importance of disulfide bridges and aromatic residues for structure and proliferative activity of human interleukin-4 N2 - Mutant proteins (muteins) of human lnterleukin-4 (llA) were constructed by means of in vitro mutagenesis. The muteins were expressed in E. co/1, submitted to a renaturation and purification protocol and analysed for biological activity. Exchange of the cysteines at either position 46 or 99 which form one of the three disulfide bridges resulted. in a nearly co•mplete loss · of biological actiyity and an unstable protein. The exchange of tyrosine 124 also inactivated the protein, while a mutation of tyrosine 56 left some residual activity. Exchange of the other four cysteines or of · the single tryptophane had smaller etTects. KW - Biochemie KW - Interleukin 4 (human) KW - Recombinant KW - ln vitro mutagenesis KW - Structure-function Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62505 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kraus, E. A1 - Schneider-Schaulies, Sibylle A1 - Miyasaka, M. A1 - Tamatani, T. A1 - Sedgwick, J. T1 - Augmentation of major histocompatibility complex class I and ICAM-1 expression on glial cells following measles virus infection: evidence for the role of type-1 interferon N2 - No abstract available KW - Virologie Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-62301 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Klotz, Karl-Norbert A1 - Vogt, H. A1 - Tawfik-Schlieper, H. T1 - Comparison of A\(_1\) adenosine receptors in brain from different species by radioligand binding and photoaffinity labelling N2 - Radioligand binding to A\(_1\) adenosine receptors at brain membranes from seven species was investigated. The antagonist 8-cyclopentyl-1 ,3-[\(^3\)H]dipropylxanthine ([\(^3\)H]DPCPX) bound with affinities between 0.17 nM in sheep brain and 2.1 nM in guinea pig brain. Competition of several antagonists for [\(^3\)H]DPCPX binding showed that the most potent compounds were DPCPX with K\(_i\) values of 0.05 nM in bovine brain and 1.1 nM in guinea pig brain and xanthine amine congener (XAC) with K\(_i\) values of 0.03 nM in bovine brain and 5.5 nM in guinea pig brain. The differences in affinity of the agonist radio Iigand 2-chloro-N\(^6\) -[\(^3\)H]cyclopen tyladenosine ([\(^3\)H]CCP A) were less pronounced, rauging from a K\(_D\) value of 0.12 nM (hamster brain) to 0.42 nM (guinea pig brain). Agonist competition for [\(^3\)H]DPCPX binding of photoaffinity labelling, however, exhibited marked species differences. N-Ethylcarboxamidoadenosine (NECA) and S-N\(^6\)-phenylisopropyladenosine (S-PIA) showed 20 to 25-fold different K\(_D\) values in different species. NECA had a particularly high affinity in guinea pig brain and was only two-fold less potent than R-PIA. Thus, the difference from the "classical" A\(_1\) receptor profile (R-PIA > -NECA > S-PIA) is not sufficient to speculate that A\(_1\) receptor subtypes may exist that are coupled to different effector systems. Our data show that these difference can easily be explained by species differences. KW - Toxikologie KW - A1 adenosine receptors KW - Species differences KW - Radioligand binding KW - Photoaffinity labelling Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-60388 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaupp, Martin A1 - Stoll, Hermann A1 - Preuss, Heinzwerner A1 - Kaim, Wolfgang A1 - Stahl, Thomas A1 - van Koten, Gerard A1 - Wissing, Elmo A1 - Smeets, Wilberth J. J. A1 - Spek, Anthony L. T1 - Theoretical and Experimential Study of Diamagnetic and Paramagnetic Products from Thermal and Light-Induced Alkyl Transfer between Zinc or Magnesium Dialkyls and 1,4-Diaza-1,3-butadiene Substrates N2 - No abstract available KW - Anorganische Chemie Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-60173 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaupp, Martin A1 - Schleyer, Paul. von Rague A1 - Stoll, Hermann A1 - Preuss, Heinzwerner T1 - The Question of bending of the Alkaline Earth Dihalides MX\(_2\) (M = Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba; X = F, C1, Br, I). An ab Initio Pseudopotential Study N2 - No abstract available KW - Anorganische Chemie Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-60166 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaupp, Martin A1 - Schleyer, P. v. R. A1 - Stoll, H. A1 - Preuss, H. T1 - Pseudopotential Approaches to Ca, Sr and Ba Hybrides. Why are some Alkaline Earth MX\(_2\) Compounds Bent? N2 - Quasirelativistic and nonrelativistic lo-valence-electronp seudopotentialsf or Ca, Sr, and Ba are presented. Results of calculations with 6s6p5d basis sets for MH, MH\(^+\) , and MH\(_2\), are compared with all-electron and 2-valence-electron pseudopotential calculations with and , without core-polarization potentials. The lo-valence-electron pseudopotential approach agrees well with all-electron calculations. It circumvents problems for the 2-valence-electron pseudopotentials arising from an incomplete separation of valence and subvalence shells in polar molecular systems due to strongly contracted occupied (n - 1 )-d orbitals. All higherlevel calculations show SrH\(_2\) and BaII\(_2\), to be bent with angles of - 140° and 120°, respectively, while CaH\(_2\) is linear with a flat potential-energy surface for the bending motion. The use of a core-polarization potential together with the 2-valence-electronp seudopotentiala pproach allows an investigation of the relative importance of core-polarization vs direct d-orbital bonding participation as reasons for the bent structures. The calculations strongly suggest that both contribute to the bending in SrH\(_2\) and BaII\(_2\). Even at the Hartree-Fock level of theory lovalence- electronp seudopotentialc alculations given reasonablea nglesw hen the potentialenergy surface is not exceedingly flat, and only moderately contracted basis sets including both compact d functions and diffuse p functions are used. The effect of core-valence correlation and the importance off functions also are discussed. KW - Chemie Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-31646 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kaupmann, Klemens A1 - Sendtner, Michael A1 - Stöckli, Kurt A. A1 - Jockusch, Harald T1 - The gene of ciliary neurotrophic factor (cntf) maps to murine chromosome 19 and its expression is not affected in the hereditary motoneuron disease 'wobbler' of the mouse N2 - The cDNA for ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF), a polypeptide involved in the survival of motoneurons in mammals, has recently been cloned (Stöckli et al., Nature, 342, 920 - 923, 1989; Lin et al. Science, 246, 1023 - 1025, 1989). We have now localized the corresponding gene Cntf to chromosome 19 in the mouse, using an interspecific cross between Mus spretus and Mus musculus domesticus. The latter was carrying the gene wobbler (wr) for spinal muscular atrophy. DNA was prepared from backcross individuals and typed for the segregation of species-specific Cntf restriction fragments in relation to DNA markers of known chromosomal location. The M.spretus allele of Cntf cosegregated with chromosome 19 markers and mapped closely to Ly-1, to a region of mouse chromosome 19 with conserved synteny to human chromosome 11q. Cntf is not linked to wr, and the expression of CNTF mRNA and protein appears close to normal in facial and sciatic nerves, of affected (wr/wr) mice, suggesting that motoneuron degeneration of wobbler mice has its origin in defects other than reduced CNTF expression. KW - Mus spretus KW - interspeific backcross KW - spinal muscular atrophy KW - linkage KW - restriction fragment length polymorphism Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-42626 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kaitschick, J. A1 - Ulrichs, K. A1 - Müller-Ruchholtz, W. T1 - The New Immunosuppressant Leflunomide Appears To Be a Potent Inhibitor of Humoral Xeno Sensitization N2 - No abstract available KW - Immunbiologie Y1 - 1991 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-45727 ER -