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The membrane phospholipid organisation in the red cells of humans suffering from chronic myeloid leukaemia has been analysed using the amino-group labelling reagent trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid and the fluid-sensing fluorophore, Merocyanine 540. Unlike the normal human erythrocytes, trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid in intact chronic myeloid leukaemia erythrocytes modified about 30% phosphatidylserine, under controlled conditions. Also, the chronic myeloid laukaemia red cells, but not the normal cells, were found to bind the fluorescent dye Merocyanine 540. These results demonstrate that loss of the transmembrane phospholipid asymmetry in chronic myeloid leukaemia erythrocytes is accompanied by an enhancement in the outer surface fluidity and, therefore, suggest that the red cells membrane phase-state asymmetry originates probably from the asymmetric arrangements of phospholipids across the membrane bilayer.
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Abbreviations
- CML:
-
Chronic myeloid leukaemia
- CML erythrocytes:
-
red cells of humans afflicted with CML
- PS:
-
phosphatidylserine
- TNBS:
-
trinitrobenzenesulphonic acid
- Mc:
-
Merocyanine 540
- DTNB:
-
5,5′-dithiobis (2-nitrobenzoic acid)
- PE:
-
Phosphatidylethanolamine
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Kumar, A., Daniel, S., Agarwal, S.S. et al. Abnormal erythrocyte membrane phospholipid organisation in chronic myeloid leukaemia. J. Biosci. 11, 543–548 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02704703
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