Fig. 8.
Flow cytometric analysis of LIBS exposure on surface-expressed GPIIb-Arg560IIIa.
(A) Transfected CHO cells were incubated with 20 μg/mL LIBS antibodies for 45 minutes at RT, followed by FITC-conjugated goat anti–mouse IgG. The binding of LIBS mAbs to GPIIb-IIIa was expressed as a LIBS index (LI) by normalizing the MFI of each LIBS antibody to that obtained using AP2, a complex-specific mAb the binding of which is unaffected by the Cys560Arg mutation (LI = LIBS mAb MFI/AP2 MFI). (B) Flow cytometric analysis of the binding of the activation-dependent fibrinogen-mimetic antibody PAC-1 (20 μg/mL) to GPIIb-Arg560IIIa (bold histogram) was performed in the presence of buffer (left), 2 mM RGDW (middle), or RGEW (right). Peptides were synthesized at the Peptide Core Laboratory of the Blood Research Institute (Milwaukee, WI). The MFIs are indicated on the histograms.