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. 1985 Jun;82(11):3894–3896. doi: 10.1073/pnas.82.11.3894

The 200- and 150-kDa neurofilament proteins react with IgG autoantibodies from chimpanzees with kuru or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease; a 62-kDa neurofilament-associated protein reacts with sera from sheep with natural scrapie.

B H Toh, C J Gibbs Jr, D C Gajdusek, D D Tuthill, D Dahl
PMCID: PMC397895  PMID: 3923483

Abstract

Sera from 46 chimpanzees with spongiform encephalopathy (18 kuru, 28 Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease) and sera from 12 sheep with natural scrapie were tested for reactivity with immunoblots of neurofilament preparations obtained from mouse brain. The sera from the chimpanzees reacted mainly with the 200- and 150-kDa proteins of the neurofilament triplet and less frequently with the 70-kDa component of the triplet and with a 62-kDa neurofilament-associated protein. In contrast, the sera of sheep with natural scrapie reacted exclusively against the 62-kDa protein. The specificity of the reactions was established by comparison of sera reactivities with those of rabbit and mouse polyclonal antibodies and mouse monoclonal antibody to neurofilament proteins.

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