A monoclonal antibody against erythrocyte spectrin reacts with both α- and β-subunits and detects spectrin-like molecules in non-erythroid cells

Autor: Janis Fleming, Paul Harrison, Kuppuswamy Kasturi
Rok vydání: 1983
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Zdroj: Experimental Cell Research. 144:241-247
ISSN: 0014-4827
DOI: 10.1016/0014-4827(83)90462-7
Popis: A panel of nine monoclonal antibodies against the characteristic erythrocyte membrane protein spectrin has been isolated. One antibody reacts with both the 240 000 and 220 000 D alpha- and beta-subunits of spectrin after denaturation. The same antibody reacts with a 240 000 D protein present in various hemopoietic and other cell lines, as well as some smaller polypeptides, as established by western blotting and immunoautoradiography. These results indicate that the alpha- and beta-subunits of spectrin, a polypeptide of 240 000, and some smaller polypeptides present in non-erythroid cell types possess a considerable region of sequence homology, but it is not yet clear just how extensively the spectrin-like molecules and other polypeptides are related.
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