Methods in immunochemistry of viruses. 3. Simple techniques for labelling antibodies with 131-I and 35S.
Methods in immunochemistry of viruses. 3. Simple techniques for labelling antibodies with 131-I and 35S.
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病毒免疫化学方法。
DOI:
10.1038/icb.1962.36
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发表时间:
1961
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通讯作者:
S. FAZEKAS DE ST GROWTH
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作者:
R. Webster;W. Laver;S. FAZEKAS DE ST GROWTH
Methods for labeling antibody with S/sup 35/ and I/sup 131/ are described. The final product is serologically unaltered and thus suited to the study of immunologic interactions in dilute systems or in microquantities. The described iodination procedure involves the combination of iodine with tyrosyl and, to a smaller extent, histidyl residues of the protein, and the concomitant liberation of hydrogen iodide. Carrier 0.001 M KI (0.25 ml) was mixed with carrier-free radioiodide, the volume brought up to 3.5 ml with distilled water and acidified with 0.2 ml N H/sub 2/SO/sub 4/. Iodine was liberated by the addition of 0.2 ml of H/sub 2/O/sub 2/ (100 volumes), and the reaction mixture was shaken with 2.0 ml CCl/sub 4/ at intervals for 30 min to extract the free iodine into the organic phase. The aqueous phase was then removed and the CCl/ sub 4/ washed. Serum globulin, buffered at pH 8.9 with 0.1 M bicarbonate buffer, was added to the washed CCl/sub 4/ and mixed immediately. This globulin-CCl/sub 4/ mixture was gently agitated for 10 min, the 2 phases separated by centrifuging, and the aqueous phase dialyzed against running tap water for 12 hr and finally against ssline for 1 hr. Asmore » a result of the procedure described above, 20% of the input radioactivity was bound to protein. This amounts to 0.05 mu moles of iodine per 11.95 mg protein and hence to one atom of iodine per 3.96 x 10/sup -16/ mg protein, or 0.71 atoms of iodine per antibody molecule. The S/ sup 35/ label was incorporated into rabbit antibody by feeding the animals, during maximum antibody synthesis, S/sup 35/-labeled methionine and cystine obtained from Escherichia culi grown in a medium containing sulfate-S/sup 35/. On the fifth day after boosting rabbits for the third time with 5000 hemagglutinating doses of swine influenza virus a S/sup 35/-amino acid-containing hydrolyzate was injected intravenously. The rabbits were bled 24 hr later and the serum separated and stored at --15 deg C. About 43% of the label present in the bacteria was recovered in the amino acid fraction after hydrolysis of the protein and, assuming a recovery of 50 ml of serum from the rabbit, 3.5% of the injected label was incorporated into serum proteins. The biological properties of the antibody were identical with those of unlabeled antibody. Thus, internal labeling of antibody with S/sup 35/ offers a cheap source of tagged antibody, chemically indistinguishable from unlabeled antibody, which has a reasonably long half-life (87.1 days). However, this method is somewhat more complex and, as with all in vivo methods of labeling antibody, over 99% of the activity is incorporated into other proteins. The major disadvantage of using I/sup 131/ as a radioactive label is its relatively short half-life (8.1 days); but as the reagent is obtainable carrier-free and is inexpensive, it is possible to attain almost any desired level of radioactivity without increasing the degree of iodination beyond a single radioactive atom, on the average, per protein molecule. The other disadvantage inherent in this general method of labeling is that the labeled molecaie is not chemically identical with the original and that more than 1 or 2 atoms of iodine per antibody molecule can alter the immunological reactivity.(BBB)« less