Secretory component of epithelial cells is a surface receptor for polymeric immunoglobulins

Epithelial cells of human fetal intestines and of a colonic carcinoma cell line (HT-29) exhibited intracellular and surface binding of polymeric immunoglobulins of IgA and IgM classes; monomeric IgA and IgG did not bind to these cells. Secretory component was identified as the receptor involved in t...

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Format: Online
Language:English
Published: The Rockefeller University Press 1978
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2184320/