QUALITATIVE TESTING FOR CIRCULATING IMMUNE-COMPLEXES BY USE OF ZONE ELECTROPHORESIS ON AGAROSE
- 1 January 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 26 (3), 396-402
Abstract
On binding of antibody to antigen an immune complex is formed that has a net surface charge different from that of either of the 2 components. This, together with clonal restriction of the antibody response, gives rise to distinctive patterns that are readily apparent in stained agarose gels after routine zone electrophoresis. Most circulating immune complexes appear as a rectangular pattern, with well-defined edges, located in the .gamma.-region. The identity of the material responsible for these patterns was established by the following 3 experimental approaches: analysis of tetanus/anti-tetanus complexes formed in vitro, analysis of sera from rabbits with experimental immune complex disease and analysis of human type II and type III cryoglobulins. Studies of reproducibility, interfering substances and correlation with other assays for detecting immune complexes indicate that zone electrophoresis in agarose gel is a sensitive, highly specific technique for immune complex detection, of potential value as a screening tool.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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