Chicken Antichromatin Antibodies: Specificity to Different Chromatin Fractions
- 28 June 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in European Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 55 (1), 231-238
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1432-1033.1975.tb02155.x
Abstract
Specific complement-fixing and precipitin antibodies were induced in chicken to chromatin from WI-38 human diploid fibroblast. Chicken antibodies were chosen because they present two major advantages with respect to rabbit antibodies: (a) the optimal NaCl concentration for chicken precipitin is 1.5 M, which is also an optimal solvent for chromatin proteins that are insoluble at the lower salt concentration required by rabbit precipitin; (b) chicken antichromatin antibodies require an antigen concentration much lower with respect to rabbit antibodies for saturation at the complement-fixation reaction. These antibodies are species specific and they react at the complement-fixation and precipitin assay not only with the whole chromatin but also with dissociated proteins, albeit at a higher concentration of both antigen and antibodies. The specificity of these antibodies to different fractions of chromosomal proteins and of the chromatin after washing with a solution at a different sodium chloride concentration has been investigated.Keywords
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