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. 1987 Jul;61(3):357–362.

Antigenicity and uveitogenicity of partially purified peptides of a retinal autoantigen, S-antigen.

J P Banga, E Kasp, B A Ellis, E Brown, S Suleyman, D C Dumonde
PMCID: PMC1453400  PMID: 3497091

Abstract

S-antigen, a potent retinal autoantigen involved in human inflammatory eye disease, has been chemically digested with cyanogen bromide to generate various peptide fragments. Cleavage of bovine S-antigen at methionyl residues generates seven major polypeptide fragments of apparent molecular weight 26,000, 22,000, 19,000, 18,000, 12,500, 8000 and 3000, respectively. Immunoblotting following SDS-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis either with monoclonal antibodies known to be directed to two separate antigenic determinants on S-antigen or with various polyclonal antisera identified two peptide fragments of 26,000 and 18,000 MW. The extreme insolubility of the larger peptide fragments in aqueous or organic buffers makes the purification of the polypeptides by biochemical procedures difficult. However partial purification of the remaining soluble peptides by gel filtration in urea containing buffers made it possible to ascertain that the 18,000 MW peptide is an important constituent that carries a uveitogenic determinant of this autoantigen.

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