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标题：Identification of Horse Anti-Ferritin Autoantibody
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作者：Koichi ORINO ; Shuichiro HAMADA ; Masafumi HASHIMOTO 等
期刊名称：Journal of Equine Science
印刷版ISSN：1340-3516
电子版ISSN：1347-7501
出版年度：2006
卷号：17
期号：4
页码：113-119
DOI：10.1294/jes.17.113
出版社：Japanese Society of Equine Science
摘要：Ferritin-binding proteins (FBPs) in horse serum were characterized by immunoblotting and ferritin-binding experiments. FBPs purified from horse serum by horse spleen ferritin-Sepharose 4B affinity chromatography were separated into two fractions by Sephacryl S-300 gel chromatography: FBP 1 and FBP 2. On sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis under reducing conditions, FBP 1 separated into 79.0- and 25.3-kDa bands, and FBP 2 separated into 62.7- and 25.3-kDa bands. Immunoblotting analysis using antibodies specific for horse IgM and IgA heavy chains and IgG F(c) fragment showed that the 79.0- and 62.7-kDa bands were IgM and IgG heavy chains, respectively. After forming complexes of horse FBPs with horse spleen ferritin, rabbit anti-horse ferritin antibody was used to form immune complexes against ferritin, allowing co-precipitation and subsequent identification by monoclonal antibodies to horse immunoglobulin (IgM, IgA, IgGa and IgGb). Horse serum was positive for IgM, IgGa, IgGb and IgA complexes and affinity-purified FBPs for IgM and IgGb complexes. FBP 1 was identified as an IgM complex that forms with ferritin but FBP 2 did not form any complexes with ferritin. These results suggest that circulating horse serum ferritin is in the form of IgM, IgG (IgGa and IgGb) and IgA complexes.
关键词：autoantibody;ferritin;ferritin-binding protein;horse