Limited enzymatic cleavage of pig immunoglobulin G and of specific antibodies. I. Different resistance of various antibody types to cleavage by pepsin
Jazyk angličtina Země Česko Médium print
Typ dokumentu časopisecké články
PubMed
6807724
Knihovny.cz E-zdroje
- MeSH
- dinitrofenoly imunologie MeSH
- gelová chromatografie MeSH
- imunoelektroforéza MeSH
- imunoglobulin G analýza MeSH
- koncentrace vodíkových iontů MeSH
- pepsin A metabolismus MeSH
- prasata MeSH
- protilátky analýza MeSH
- spektrofotometrie ultrafialová MeSH
- zvířata MeSH
- Check Tag
- zvířata MeSH
- Publikační typ
- časopisecké články MeSH
- Názvy látek
- dinitrofenoly MeSH
- imunoglobulin G MeSH
- pepsin A MeSH
- protilátky MeSH
Limited proteolysis by pepsin at pH 4.5 of non-specific pig IgG and of two types of pig anti-dinitrophenyl antibodies revealed striking differences in susceptibility to proteolytic cleavage. The digests were resolved on a column of Sephacryl S-200 and the elution profiles analysed using a computer programme. The individual fragments were characterized by immunoelectrophoresis, SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and molecular mass determination. Whereas the non-precipitating antibodies and the non-specific IgG yielded F(ab')2 and pFc' fragments in reasonable quantities, the precipitating antibody proved to be stable even at the 70th h of digestion. The precipitating antibody became susceptible to peptic cleavage only when the pH was lowered to 4.0. It was concluded that the precipitating antibody represents a subclass of pig IgG with an anomalous resistance to proteolysis at acidic pH and that this subclass constitutes only a few per cent, at most, IgG of the healthy, non-immunized animals.