Heterogeneity of human anti-pig natural antibodies cross-reactive with the Gal(alpha1,3)Galactose epitope.
| Autor: | McMorrow IM; Transplantation Biology Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School, Boston 02129, USA., Comrack CA, Sachs DH, DerSimonian H |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Transplantation [Transplantation] 1997 Aug 15; Vol. 64 (3), pp. 501-10. |
| DOI: | 10.1097/00007890-199708150-00021 |
| Abstrakt: | Background: The cell surface carbohydrate moiety, Gal(alpha1,3)Galactose (alphaGal), has been implicated as the major determinant recognized by more than 80% of human anti-porcine natural antibodies (NAb). An ELISA system was developed for the detection of this subpopulation of porcine cell-reactive NAb using synthetic alphaGal conjugated to bovine serum albumin. Methods: A screen of 95 human serum samples by this method demonstrated marked variability in the alphaGal reactivity of unrelated donors. The percentage of alphaGal-reactive NAb relative to total immunoglobulin was determined for 10 donors. Results: alphaGal-reactive NAb comprised 1.0-2.4% of total serum IgG, whereas the range was from 3.9% to 8.0% for IgM. Conclusions: The higher level of alphaGal-reactive IgM suggests that xenoreactive NAbs may be the product of germ-line genes. Two-dimensional gel analysis of affinity-purified alphaGal-reactive NAb from two donors provided evidence suggesting that IgM from this subpopulation of NAb were restricted in protein charge heterogeneity. |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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