Fig. 2.
Analysis of GMTag protein biologic activity.
The GM-CSF/IL-3 proliferation-dependent NFS-60 cells were incubated with decreasing concentrations of nontransfected (○) or pBK-CMV–GMTAg AU− transfected (●) HeLa cell supernatants. The first dilution of the pBK-CMV–GMTag AU−transfected cell supernatant contained 10 ng/mL GM-CSF as determined by ELISA. (■) Cells were incubated with 100 μL supernatant of pBK-CMV–GMTAg AU− transfected HeLa cells in the presence of decreasing concentrations of antimouse GM-CSF antibody. The transfected cell supernatant contained 20 ng/mL GM-CSF as determined by ELISA. Cell proliferation was measured by [3H]-thymidine incorporation (see “Materials and methods”).