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[Immunology] Hela MHC type?

Haas Anna via immuno%40net.bio.net (by anna.haas from micro.biol.ethz.ch)
Tue Jun 5 06:09:26 EST 2007


Dear David Johnson,


searching for the MHC-II haplotype of HeLa cells


in the internet I found your entry on bio.net (please, see below).


Do you know anything about the HLA-II of HeLa cells?


I would greatly appreciate any hint.


Best regards from Switzerland,


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Hela MHC type?

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Hi,

We typed (our) HeLa as HLA-A*6802, -B*1503 or -B*1537, and -Cw*1604 
using RT-PCR [Johnson and Mook-Kanamori, JBC 275 (22) 16643-9 (2000)]. 
These were the best matches from single sequencing runs of PCR amplified

cDNAs, not rigorously checked.  HeLa have been serologically typed as 
HLA-A3, -A28, -Bw15, and Bw35 [Espmark et al Tissue Antigens 11:279-86 
(1978)] and genetically typed as HLA-A68 (a subtype of A28), -B75 (a 
subtype of B15) and NEGATIVE for B35 [Benham, Gromme and Neefjes, 
J.Immunol. 161:83-89 (1998)].

Obviously, these findings disagree.  You might consider HLA class I 
typing your own HeLa with the RT-PCR procedure that we described 
[Johnson, Biedermann and Mook-Kanamori, J. Immunol. Meth. 233:119-129 
(2000)].  It's very easy, quick, and requires only 4 primers.

I hope this helps.
Dave

John Ladasky wrote:
> iayork at panix.com
<http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biomail/listinfo/immuno>  (Ian A. York)
wrote in message news:<adm38p$sfb$1 at reader1.panix.com
<http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/biomail/listinfo/immuno> >...
> 
>>Does anyone know the MHC class I alleles expressed by HeLa cells?
I've 
>>found two HLA-A alleles associated with HeLa in Genbank, but I haven't

>>found any of the HLA-B alleles.  Someone must have looked, somewhere,
wome 
>>time.
>>
>>Thanks.
>>
>>Ian
> 
> 
> Hi, Ian!
> 
> We seem to encounter each other rather often in this newsgroup. 
> Perhaps one day we'll meet in person.  Where are you working these
> days?  Still with Kenneth Rock?
> 
> I am also working with HeLa and would like to know its class I
> genotype.  A former lab member told me that HeLa has been serotyped,
> by someone, on two separate occasions.  As you might expect from
> serotyping, the results of the two tests did not quite agree.  Test #1
> indicated the presence of the serotypes A3, A28, and B35.  Test #2
> gave A68, B15, and B35.
> 
> I just searched GenBank using the key words "HeLa" and "HLA."  I came
> up with the following IMAGE Consortium cDNA sequences from a
> Stratagene HeLa S3 cDNA library:
> 
> Accession #AA191477 and #AA191113: Both resemble Cw*1202.  Clones may
> be full-length, but it does not appear that they were sequenced fully.
> 
> Accession #AA190717: Resembles Cw*1401.  Again, it's short.
> 
> Accession #AA488534: Again incomplete, but resembles A*3402.
> 
> Accession #AA488401: Once more incomplete, but longer than the others.
>  Best match is A*2601.
> 
> Some time next week, I will be visiting an Immunogenetics lab down at
> the Medical School here at Johns Hopkins.  They have copies of the
> International Histocompatibility Workshop books.  If someone has typed
> HeLa cells, maybe the information is there.  Alternately -- is there
> someone reading this who has ready access to an IHW book?  If you
> would share anything that the IHW might say about HeLa, that would be
> most helpful!
> 
> --
> John J. Ladasky Jr., Ph.D.
> Department of Biology
> Johns Hopkins University
> Baltimore MD 21218
> USA
> Earth



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