Dissociation of ϰ- and λ-chains from reduced human immunoglobulins
- 1 November 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 97 (2), 460-465
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0970460
Abstract
1. The light chains of human immunoglobulin (Ig) exist in two forms, kappa (type K) and lambda (type L). The two types of chains can be partially separated by taking advantage of the fact that lambda-chains, for the most part, dissociate from reduced Ig at higher pH than do the kappa-chains. The same difference in dissociation of type K and L chains was observed with myeloma IgG and IgA proteins, but not with pathological IgM proteins. 2. When analysed in urea-glycine starch gels, pH7, both kappa- and lambda-chains show ten electrophoretic bands having the same mobilities as those of the whole light-chain subfractions. Normal kappa- and lambda-chains show similar differences in overall amino acid composition to those previously found with myeloma kappa- and lambda-chains and type K and L Bence-Jones proteins.This publication has 14 references indexed in Scilit:
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