IDENTIFICATION OF A THYROID MICROSOMAL ANTIGEN BY WESTERN BLOT AND IMMUNOPRECIPITATION
IDENTIFICATION OF A THYROID MICROSOMAL ANTIGEN BY WESTERN BLOT AND IMMUNOPRECIPITATION
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DOI:
10.1210/jcem-61-1-120
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发表时间:
1985-01-01
影响因子:
5.8
通讯作者:
DEGROOT, LJ
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作者:
HAMADA, N;GRIMM, C;DEGROOT, LJ
The molecular identify of the thyroid microsomal antigen was investigated by Western blot and immunoprecipitation using sera from 8 patients with autoimmune thyroid disease. All sera had high microsomal antibody titers by hemagglutination test and ELISA [enzyme linked immunosorbent assay] only 1 had thyroglobulin (Tg) antibody. In an immunoprecipitation study using Triton X-100-solubilized 125I-labeled microsomes, all of the sera precipitated a 107K protein. This 107K protein was visualized by only 3 patients'' sera by Western blot analysis under reducing conditions. In Western blots run under nonreducing conditions, 4 sera, including the 3 sera mentioned above, recognized poorly defined large MW proteins. One serum which also had Tg antibody recognized additional bands by both immunoprecipitation and Western blot. Preincubation of serum with 100 .mu.g/ml Tg or 100 mU/ml bovine TSH did not alter the binding of antibody to 107K protein in Western blot analysis. The 107K protein was not visualized in Western blots of liver and kidney microsomes using patients'' sera. Experiments were performed to characterize the difference between one serum (no. 1) which visualized the 107K [kdalton] band in Western blots and a serum (no. 4) which did not. Reactivity at different dilutions was compared by ELISA and Western blot studies. Serum 1 recognized the 107K protein even at a 1:3200 dilution, which gave a lower optical density value than a 1:200 dilution of serum 4 in ELISA, while serum 4 failed to recognize the 107K band at any dilution. An affinity gel prepared from serum 4 immunoglobulin G linked to agarose [Reacti-Gel (6 X)] removed from Triton X-100-solubilized microsomes the 107K protein which patient 1 serum recognized by Western blot analysis under reducing conditions. Apparently, serum 4 can recognize the 107K protein under nondenaturing conditions. Evidently, the 107K protein described here is the microsomal antigen; it may associate with another protein or maintain a unique conformation due to disulfide bonds present in the native state. In addition, the 107K protein includes at least 2 antigen epitopes and different patients have different antibodies or different populations of antibodies against these epitopes.