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Usefulness of IgG4 subclass antibodies for diagnosis of human clonorchiasis

  • Hong, Sung-Tae;Lee, Me-Jeong;Sung, Nak-Jin;Cho, Sang-Rock;Chai, Jong-Yil;Lee, Soon-Hyung
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.37 no.4
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    • pp.243-248
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    • 1999
  • The present study analyzed serum IgG subclass antibody reaction to major antigenic bands of Clonorchis sinensis to investigate improvement of its serodiagnosis. Of the four subclass antibodies, IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies were produced but not specific, IgG3 antibody was least produced, and IgG4 antibody was prominent and specific. The serum IgG antibody reaction to any of 43-50, 34-37, 26-28, and 8 kDa bands was found in 65.5% of 168 egg positive cases while IgG4 antibody reaction was found in 22.0% of them. The positive rates of IgG and IgG4 antibodies were directly correlated with the intensity of infection. All of the sera from heavily infected cases over EPG 5,000 showed positive reaction for specific IgG and IgG4 antibodies. The specific serum IgG4 antibody disappeared within 6 months after treatment. The bands of 35 kDa and 67 kDa cross-reacted with IgG antibodies but not with IgG4 antibodies in sera of other trematode infections. The present findings suggest that serum IgG4 antibody reaction to 8 kDa band is specific but not sensitive. Any method to increase its sensitivity is required for improved serodiagnosis.

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Changes of Antigen Binding Activities of Hen′s Egg Yolk Immunoglobulins after Proteolysis (효소 분해에 의한 난황 항체의 항원 결합력 변화)

  • 이경애
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.168-172
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    • 1997
  • Yolk immunoglobulins (yIgG) from hen's egg were purified. To investigate the stability of yIgG to digestive enzymes, the changes of antigen binding activities (ABC) after in vitro proteolysis were examined by competitive ELISA. After 30 min exposure to pepsin, the ABC of yIgG was lost. However, comparing with native yIgG, the ABC of pepsin digested yIgG was decreased, but considerable amount of ABC was remained after 30 min exposure to pepsin in 50% saccharose solution. Therefore, the stability of yIgG to pepsin digestion was improved by the addition of saccharose to yIgG solution. The ABC of yIgG was considerably remained after exposure to trypsin and chymotrypsin for 8 hr. YIgG showed especially good stability to chymotrypsin proteolysis.

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Activities of different cysteine proteases of Pcrogonimn westermani in cleaving human IgG (발육단계별로 정제한 폐흡충 시스테인계열 단백분해효소의 IgG 분해양상)

  • 정영배;양현종
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.35 no.2
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    • pp.139-142
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    • 1997
  • Cleaving host immunoglobulins is a well known mechanism of evading host immune reactions exploited by helminth parasites, Secreted cysteine proteases of helminth are a part of enzymes cleaving host IgG. Porogonimw westemani produces at least six different species of the cysteine protease in its developmental stages. This study was undertaken to evaluate comparatively the activities against human IgG by the different enzymes. When the metacercariae, which secrete 27 and 28 kDa cysteine proteases, were incubated in human IgG solution, IgG was degraded at its hinge region. Further incubation resulted complete hydrolysis. From 4-week and 7-week old juveniles and 16-week old adults of p. westemani, five different enzymes at 15, 17. 27 28 and 53 kDa have been purified, if the enzyme with the same molecular mass is regarded to be identical. In cleaving human IgG, each cysteine protease exhibited decreasing activities with age.

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Comparison of Direct-labeling Method of Antibody with $^{99m}Tc$ and $^{188}Re$ (농양이식백서에서 $^{99m}Tc,\;^{188}Re$ 직접표지항체의 비교)

  • Choi, Tae-Hyun;Lim, Sang-Moo;Choi, Chang-Woon;Woo, Kwang-Sun;Chung, Wee-Sup;Lim, Soo-Jeong
    • The Korean Journal of Nuclear Medicine
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    • v.33 no.1
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    • pp.84-93
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    • 1999
  • Purpose: We investigated the direct labeling method of antibody with $^{99m}Tc$ and $^{188}Re$ and examined the stability and function of these labeled compounds in in vitro and in vivo. Materials and Methods: Disulfide bond of nonspecific human IgG was reduced to -SH group by 2-mercaptoethanol. Stannous ion was used to reduce $^{99m}Tc$ and $^{188}Re$. The stability of $^{99m}Tc$-IgG and $^{188}Re$-IgG was estimated upto 24 hrs. Biodistribution was evaluated in abscess bearing rats at 4 and 24 hr post-injection of $^{99m}Tc$ or $^{188}Re$ labeled IgG. Results: The number of -SH group per reduced IgG molecule was 2.34. The labeling yield of $^{99m}Tc$-IgG and $^{188}Re$-IgG were 90% and 95%, respectively The stability of $^{99m}Tc$-IgG at 1, 4, 6 and 24 hr was 91%, 83%, 78%, 7% and that of $^{188}Re$-IgG at 1, 4, 16 and 24 hr was 94%, 80%, 47%, 42%, respectively. At 4 hr post-injection of $^{99m}Tc$-IgG, high uptake was found on kidney, blood, stomach and abscess ($9.42{\pm}0.68,\;1.43{\pm}0.24,\;0.86{\pm}0.18,\;0.72{\pm}0.10$ %ID/g, respectively). The uptakes at 24 hr were kidney, abscess,.itomach, and blood in descending order. In case of $^{188}Re$-lgG, high uptake at 4 hr post injection appeared on kidney, blood, abscess and stomach ($3.92{\pm}0.62,\;1.32{\pm}0.08,\;0.88{\pm}0.01,\;0.26{\pm}0.06$, respectively). The uptakes at 24 hr were kidney, abscess, blood and stomach in descending order. The abscess to blood uptake ratio of $^{99m}Tc$-IgG was 0.5 at 4 hr and 2.02 at 24 hr and that of $^{188}Re$-IgG was 0.67 and 1.29. Conclusion: $^{99m}Tc$-IgG and $^{188}Re$-IgG canbe labeled efficiently with direct labeling method. However, $^{99m}Tc$-IgG and $^{188}Re$-IgG, labeled with direct method, was unstable. Further study is needed to enhance the stability of the antibody labeling.

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The Study of IgG subclasses in Acute stage of Kawasaki Disease (급성기 가와사끼병 환아의 IgG 아형항체에 대한 연구)

  • Kim, Minshik;Kim, Youngsook;Cho, Namji;Kim, Kyungsook
    • Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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    • v.4 no.1
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    • pp.140-149
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    • 1997
  • Purpose : Kawasaki Disease(KD) is a febrile disease with acute multisystemic vasculitis which is seen commonly in early childhood. The cause and etiologic agents are still unknown to identify using ordinary bacterial and viral culture, but the clinical labaratory studies suggest that KD is one of autoimmune disorder caused by infectious agents, but that is not proved yet. The study was performed to investigate the IgG subclasses in acute stage of KB before treatment of IVIG(Intravenous immunoglobulin). Method : The 35 cases in acute stage of KD before treatment of IVIG who were hospitalized from jan. 1995 to dec. 1996. The obtained sera were measured level of total IgG, IgM, IgA, IgE and IgG subclasses IgGl, IgG2, IgG3, IgG4 by using EIA and SRID method. Results : 1) The sex ratio is male to female is 1.5: 1.0, and male is prone to infected. 2) Total IgG, IgM, IgA and IgE level is normal range with age adjusted, but few cases are shown slight high level of total IgG compare to normal range of age adjusted. 3) acute phage reactants such as CRP, C3, ESR are all increased in acute stage of cases. 4) IgG subclasses IgGl, IgG2, IgG3 are shown normal range of age adjusted, but remarkably low level of IgG4 in all of cases. Conclusions : The low level of IgG4 is able to increasing the incidence of KD, and may use early diagnostic tools combine with other clinical symptoms and signs. But the resulsts of reported studies are different to each other, so it needs more times and cases to get final evaluation of changes of serum immnunoglobulin levels correlate to increase the incidence of high risk group of KD patients.

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Identification of the Chicken Meat Allergens (닭고기 중 알레르기 유발성분의 동정)

  • 조은득;김동섭;정기화
    • Biomolecules & Therapeutics
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    • v.9 no.1
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    • pp.7-14
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    • 2001
  • The chicken meat has been reported as one of the food causing allergic reactions predominantly to Korean. At present, several in vitro tests for immunoglobulinG (IgG)-mediated as well as IgE-mediated food allergy are available. 13 clinically chicken meat-allergic patients were investigated together with 4control subjects for identification of chicken meat-specific reactivity by ELISA. Also, protein profile and IgE, IgGtotal and IgG4-reacting allergens were detected by means of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electro-phoresis (SDS-PAGE)and immunoblotting. Chicken meat extracts were prepared as raw, heated, heat and simulated gastric fluid (SGF) treated samples to characterize the stability of allergen to physicochemical treatment. SDS-PAGE revealed 9~200 kDa bands. And in immunoblotting 7 sera were identified most major bands between 10 and 78 kDa. In case of IgE, six proteins (17, 26, 35, 40, 78 kDa) were predominant in heat-treated extract, and the one (35 kDa) was present in SGF-treated preparations. In case of IgG$_{total}$ and IgG4, most of them showed a patters simmilar to IgE. There were significant differences (P<0.05) in IgE, IgG$_{total}$ , IgG4 Abs to chicken meat between the allergic and control subjects in ELISA. In addition, the concentration of IgG4Abs in the challenge-positive subjects was significantly higher than that of control subjects. It is considered that the specific IgE response to chicken meat was rarely prevalent to Koreans. However, the specific IgG4 response play an important role in the development of allergic symptoms.

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A comparison of detection capabilities of anti-IgG immobilizedby protein G and NHS (Protein G와 NHS를 이용하여 고정한 anti-IgG의 검출 성능 비교)

  • Sin, Eun-Jung;Sohn, Young-Ho;Sohn, Young-Soo
    • Journal of Sensor Science and Technology
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    • v.19 no.2
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    • pp.142-148
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    • 2010
  • We have compared and investigated the detection capabilities of antibody of immunoglobulin G(anti-IgG) immobilized by protein G and N-hydroxysuccinimide(NHS) at the end of the self-assembled monolayer(SAM). Surface plasmon resonance(SPR) sensor has been utilized to measure the interaction between biomolecules. After formation of the protein G and SAM, anti-IgG, bovine serum albumin(BSA) and IgG has been sequently injected. Through the reponse of the SPR, we can conclude that the protein G immobilized anti-IgG better than the SAM. In addition, IgG detection capability of the anti-IgG immobilized by the protein G showed better performance compared with that immobilized by the SAM.

Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies in Korean Mothers and Their Neonates (산모와 신생아의 Epstein Barr Virus 항체가에 관한 연구)

  • Shin, Young Kyoo;Eun, Baik Lin;Park, Sang Hee;Lim, Chae Seung;Kim, Young Sik
    • Pediatric Infection and Vaccine
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    • v.5 no.1
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    • pp.121-127
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    • 1998
  • Purposes : This study was performed to evaluate the seropositivities and levels of term pregnant women and their neonates, and the transplacental transfer rate of maternal Epstein-Barr Virus-specific IgG(VCA IgG and EBNA IgG) from term pregnant women to their neonates. Subjects and Methods : During Jan. 1, 1997 to Mar. 31. 1997, we collected the 42 pairs of sera from pregnant women and umbilical cord of their neonates in Korea University Ansan Hospital. The serum levels of VCA IgG and EBNA IgG were measured by the ELISA method. Results : 1) The seropositivities of VCA IgG were 100% in mothers and neonates. There was no statistical difference of mean VCA IgG levels between mothers and neonates. There was significant correlation of VCA IgG levels between maternal sera and neonatal umbilical cord sera(correlation coefficient r=0.5214, P<0.001). 2) The seropositivities of EBNA IgG were 100% in mothers and neonates. There was no significant difference of the mean EBNA IgG levels between mothers and neonates. There was significant correlation of EBNA IgG levels between maternal sera and neonatal umbilical cord sera (correlation coefficient r=0.7244, P<0.001). 3) There was no correlation between VCA IgG and EBNA IgG levels of maternal sera. Conclusion : Seropositivities of EBV CA IgG and EBNA IgG of term-pregnant women and their neonates were 100% and no significant differences of antibody levels were found in two groups. It seems that EBV Antibody levels in Korean mothers and neonates were high enough to protect primary EBV infection during early infancy.

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Preparation of IgG-$^{188}$Re Conjugate for Diagnosis of Abscess (농양진단을 위한 IgG-$^{188}$Re 표지화합물 제조)

  • 오옥두;최태현;임상무
    • Biomedical Science Letters
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    • v.3 no.2
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    • pp.131-138
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    • 1997
  • IgG-$^{188}$Re conjugate was prepared for the diagnosis of abscess. The IgG molecules reduced by 2-mercaptoethanol contained 1.5 free sulfhydryl groups per IgG molecule. The reduced IgG molecule was labelled with $^{188}$Re through chelate to 99% of labelling yield. The radiochemical purity of IgG-$^{188}$Re conjugate was maintained at 90% in the presence of human serum for 1 hour. The IgG-$^{188}$Re was intravenously administered into staphylococcal abscess-bearing rats and their biodistribution was monitored at 4 and 24 hours post injection. The IgG-$^{188}$Re conjugate was moderately localized in the abscess tissue. This result implies that the IgG-$^{188}$Re conjugate can be a tool for abscess diagnosis. This technique can be applied for the preparation of various monoclonal antibody labelled with $^{188}$Re.

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Intracranial synthesis of specific IgG antibody in cerebrospinal fluid of neurocysticercosis patients (뇌유구낭미충증 환자의 뇌척수액내 특이 IgG항체의 기원)

  • 조승열;김석일
    • Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.15-26
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    • 1988
  • To determine the source of Cysticercus·specIfic IgG antibody in cerebrospinal fluid(CSF), paired samples of serum and CSF were collected from confirmed neurocysticercosis, other neurologic diseases and normal control. The antibody levels in serum and CSF were measured by ensyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). With the measurement of total protein, albumin and IgG concentration in serum and CSF, the contribution of IgG in CSF were calculated in transudation, exudation and intracranial synthesis using the formula of Tourtellotte and Ma (1978). Mean concentrations of total protein, albumin, IgG and proportional IgG levels in CSF by transudation, exudation and intracranial synthesis were elevated in neurocysticercosis. But only the intracranial synthesis of IgG showed a statistically significant correlation with the specific IgG antibody levels in CSF. In CSF from lateral ventricle in the 4th ventricular neurocysticercosis, the protein concentrations were normal and the specific antibody levels were negative. However, in consecutively secured lumbar CSF from the same patients, the former were increased and the latter were positive. These results indicated that, in neurocysticercosis, the specific IgG antibody in CSF was a local product of intracranial synthesis.

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