Antisera have been developed against the wholecell antigens of Desulfovibrio africanus Benghazi and Walvis Bay, D. vulgaris Hildenborough, D. salexigens British Guiana, D. gigas, and D. desulfuricans Essex 6. An enzymelinked immunoadsorption assay (ELISA) was developed to measure the reaction of these antisera with the homologous and heterologous antigens. The ELISA method demonstrated a reaction between pre-immune sera and cells of D. africanus, D. gigas and D. desulfuricans, suggesting the presence of a lectin-like substance on these cell surfaces. Extensive cross-reactions were seen between the antisera and heterologous cells, suggesting the sharing of a number of surface antigens amongst the Desulfovibrio. However, the pattern of these cross-reactions was different from that observed for an ELISA reaction developed for the cytochrome c3 from various Desulfovibrio.Abbreviation ELISA
enzyme-linked immunoadsorption assay 相似文献
Summary An atmosphere containing 10% CO2 has been generally accepted as optimal for the growth of Syrian hamster embryo cells in a clonal transformation assay. Data
presented in this paper show that 10% CO2 may not be the optimum environment for this assay.
Using 10 or 20% (analytically measured) CO2 in air (1 atm pressure), hamster embryo cell pools were examined for clonal growth characteristics and transformability using
five known carcinogens and a single noncarcinogenic compound. At 10% CO2, only 2 of 11 pools weee transformed by the five carcinogens but not by the noncarcinogen. At 20% CO2, six of seven pools were transformed by the five carcinogens and not by the noncarcinogen. Further, the transformation frequencies
were found to be greater in cultures incubated in an atmosphere consisting of 20% CO2 in air. The data also show that 20% CO2 increased the cloning efficiency of these cells.
A comparison of the 10 and 20% CO2 data to results reported from other conflicting interlaboratory results with this assay system may be due, in part, to variations
of CO2 concentrations. In some instances, the CO2 levels indicated by incubator flow meters vary considerably from analytically determined CO2 values. To prevent these CO2 discrepancies and their resultant effects on transformation and cloning efficiency, methods for monitoring the CO2 environment other than flow meters are recommended.
The observation of increased cloning efficiencies and transformation rates strongly suggests that culture incubation at 20%
CO2 is a preferred environment for the conduct of this assay. 相似文献
Activity levels of 7-ethoxycoumarin O-deethylase (ED), aminopyrine N-demethylase (APD), p-nitroanisoleO-demethylase (p-NAD) and glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PDH) were determined in incubation mixtures for the liver-microsomal assay (LMA) at time 0 and after 1 and 2 h incubation under conditions for mutagenic assay. The experiments were performed with S9 liver fractions from mice (induced with Na-phenobarbital and β-naphthoflavone) and rats (induced with Aroclor 1254) with and without G-6-PDH in the incubation mixtures.
In the absence of G-6-PDH the activities were significantly lower at time 0 in the mouse. The pattern of stability, however, was similar for the activities, with an increase of stability after 1 and 2 h of pre-incubation (an exception for p-NAD).
Only ED activity showed a similar behaviour in the rat. No differences were present for APD and p-NAD activities at time 0 in the rat, but the enzyme stabilities were significantly decreased after 2 h of incubation (about 15% and 10% for APD and p-NAD respectively) in the absence of G-6-PDH.
At time 0, the amounts of G-6-PDH differed between mouse and rat fractions; however, during the incubations for LMA they decreased by about 57% and 53% for the two species, respectively. In addition to the above biochemical results, the presence of exogenous G-6-PDH in the incubations for the mutagenic assay, significantly increased the mitotic gene conversion and mitotic crossing-over of dimethylnitrosamine (DMN) and AR2MNFN (a nitroimidazo[2,1-b]thiazole) in the D7 strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 相似文献
Thirty-nine antiserum preparations from eight rabbits were screened for their ability to precipitate the immunochemically distinct phytochrome that is obtained from green oat (Avena sativa L.) shoots. The antisera were obtained from rabbits immunized with either proteolytically degraded, but still photoreversible, 60-kDa (kilodalton) phytochrome, or approx. 120-kDa phytochrome, both of which were purified from etiolated oat shoots. The ability of these antisera to precipitate phytochrome from green oats was independent of the size of phytochrome used for immunization. While crude antisera immunoprecipitated as much as 80% of the phytochrome isolated from green oat shoots, antibodies immunopurified from these sera with a column of highly purified, approx. 120-kDa phytochrome from etiolated oats precipitated no more than about 5–10%.Abbreviations kDa
kilodalton
- mU
milliunit 相似文献
An African green monkey naturally infected with simian T-lymphotropic virus (STLV) developed spontaneous malignant lymphoma of diffuse pleomorphic type. The clinical, hematological and histopathological characteristics were very similar to those of human adult T-cell leukemia. 相似文献
Immunoaffinity purified Sm/RNP antigens from buffalo and goat liver were studied to determine the role of RNA and proteins
towards the antigenicity of Sm and RNP antigens. A more direct approach using enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay on nylon beads
has been utilized to look into the problem. The effect of enzyme treatment and the role of RNA and protein fractions in influencing
antigenicity have been described. RNA seems to be involved in the maintenance of RNP specific polypeptides in suitable conformation
so as to keep them in solution. Removal of RNA leads to insolubilization of RNP specific polypeptides. Antibodies to Sm and
RNP antigens have been shown to cross react with poly A containing heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein with no cross reactivity
with thymus RNA or DNA. 相似文献
The observations that liveMycobacterium leprae after entry into cultured peritoneal macrophages from mice, reduced the EA rosetting macrophages, have been exploited to
determine the minimum inhibitory concentration of diamino diphenyl sulphone and rifampicin. Diamino diphenyl sulphone showed
a minimum inhibitory concentration of 0.028 μg/ml and rifampicin 0.11μg/ml when given externally. However, there was accumulation of diamino diphenyl sulphone inside the macrophages. At an external
concentration of 0.028 μg/ml the concentration inside the macrophage was 0.5μg/ml. The minimum inhibitory concentration for diamino diphenyl sulphone in this assay system is higher by several folds and
that for rifampicin is slightly lower, than what is reported earlier with mice foot pad experiments. The minimum inhibitory
concentration reported in this assay system is quite close to what is observed forin vitro inhibition ofMycobacterium lufu with both the drugs 相似文献
Using a specific radioimmunoassay for gonadotropin releasing hormone, the presence of gonadotropin releasing hormone like
material in the first trimester human placenta has been demonstrated. The material has been partially characterized using
carboxy methyl cellulose chromatography, high pressure gel permeation chromatography and reverse phase C18 high pressure liquid
chromatographic analysis. Analysis for bioactivity revealed that placental gonadotropin releasing hormone is much more active
than synthetic gonadotropin releasing hormone inin vitro rat pituitary lutinising hormone release assay.In vitro biosynthetic studies using labelled precursors and immunoaffinity chromatography indicated that first trimester human placenta
synthesizes gonadotropin releasing hormone like material. 相似文献
Monoclonal antibodies were prepared against two species of Methanomicrobiaceae. Antibody 1A is specific for Methanospirillum hungatei strain JF1 and the determinant it recognizes is expressed on the surface of JF1 cells, where it is exposed and accessible to antibody. The determinant is found in a polypeptide (MW<12,000) in the sheath that covers the bacterial cell; it is not present in Methanospirillum hungatei strain GP1; and it is not expressed on the surface of whole cells of the other 24 methanogenic bacteria tested. It is therefore a marker of strain JF1, consequently, antibody 1A is potentially useful for tracking JF1 and fragments thereof in a variety of samples. Antibody 7A is specific for Methanogenium cariaci JR1c. It did not react with any other methanogen tested, not even with Mg. marisnigri or Ms. hungatei JF1, although these cross-react with Mg. cariaci if tested with polyclonal antisera. Therefore antibody 7A recognizes specifically a marker of Mg. cariaci JR1c.Abbreviations SIA
slide immunoenzymatic assay
- SDS-PAGE
sodium dodecylsulfate polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis 相似文献