A New Preparative Method for Isolation of Human C3 with Affinity Chromatography
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- 1 June 1973
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in The Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 110 (6) , 1570-1574
- https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.110.6.1570
Abstract
A new preparative method for isolation of highly purified human C3 was developed by using a reversed application of affinity chromatography. Antisera against contaminations usually present in crude C3 preparations were produced. These antibodies were irreversibly coupled to Sepharose 4B and as a whole used in column form. When crude C3 preparations were applied to these columns the impurities were bound and thus eliminated. The resulting C3 preparations were pure when tested in concentrations of 5 mg/ml against anti-human serum and when tested by immunizing rabbits. C3 appeared to be homogeneous in the analytical ultracentrifuge, in polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, and according to N-terminal amino acid analysis. The recovery from 400 ml normal human serum was about 65 mg.Keywords
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