IMMUNOLOGIC ADSORBENTS .1. ISOLATION OF ANTIBODY BY MEANS OF A CELLULOSE-PROTEIN ANTIGEN
IMMUNOLOGIC ADSORBENTS .1. ISOLATION OF ANTIBODY BY MEANS OF A CELLULOSE-PROTEIN ANTIGEN
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.37.9.575
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发表时间:
1951-01-01
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
LERMAN, LS
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作者:
CAMPBELL, DH;LUESCHER, E;LERMAN, LS
For the past several years we have been interested in devising methods that would afford practical procedures for the isolation and purification of antibodies from immune serums and in particular the isolation of non-precipitating antibodies from animal serums and allergic antibodies (re-agins) from human serums. 1 The general approach has been to attempt to produce an insoluble protein antigen which would combine specifically with antibody to give a complex that could be dissociated into soluble antibody and insoluble antigen, which could then be separated by centrifugation. Attempts were made to confer insolubility on protein antigens such as oval-bumin and crystalline bovine serum albumin without destroying their anti-genicity. Products were obtained by use of the usual denaturing agents, tannic acid, and bifunctional coupling reagents (eg, tetrazotized benzi-dine), and also by coupling to an insoluble substrate such as phenolic resins or insoluble proteins (such as fibrin). However, in every case the resulting product either had lost too much native antigenicity (ie, adsorbed serum always contained antibody which reacted with native antigen), was too soluble, or had too much power of adsorption for non-specific protein. A most promising antigen has now been prepared by coupling protein to a powdered cellulose (Solka-floc). The general method of synthesizing the cellulose-protein compound consists in conversion of the cellulose to a p-nitrobenzyl derivative, reduction of the nitro group, and subsequent diazotization and coupling to protein in the usual manner. p-Nitrobenzylcellulose.-Powdered cellulose (Solka-floc) was thoroughly washed with dilute acid, dilute alkali, and water, and then dried. Four grams of this material was then mixed with 12 g. of p-nitrobenzylchloride and 30 ml. of 40% sodium hydroxide and stirred vigorously at 95 C.(The reacting mixture was cooled during the first part of the exothermic reac-tion.) After 4 hrs. the mixture was poured into a large excess of cold water and filtered, and the residue was washed with water, with ethanol, and finally with acetone in a Soxhlet extractor. The product contained about 1.5 benzyl groups per glucose unit, and the yield, based on the cellu-lose used, was close to 100%. p-Aminobenzylcellulose.-Five grams of the nitro compound was sus-pended in 50 ml. of ethanol and heated to near boiling. The mixture was then stirred vigorously and 5 g. of sodium hydrosulfite (Na2S204 2H20) dis-