Affiliation:
1. 1Aquatic Animal Health Management Division, Central Institute of Fisheries Education, 400061, Mumbai, India
Abstract
AbstractAsian sea bass immunoglobulin M (IgM) was purified from the sera of Lates calcarifer by affinity chromatography. Analysis of the purified IgM on sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE) under reducing and non-reducing conditions revealed that the sea bass IgM was a tetrameric protein with a molecular weight of 896 kDa; it contained an equimolar heavy chain and light chain with molecular weight of 83 kDa and 27 kDa respectively. However, besides the covalently linked tetrameric IgM, noncovalently linked tetramer dissociated into dimeric and monomeric forms also demonstrated by non-reducing SDS-PAGE. Carbohydrate moieties were found to be linked with both heavy and light chains. A polyclonal rabbit anti-Asian sea bass IgM was prepared which showed a specific reaction of anti-fish IgM antibody with IgM of sea bass. Sea bass IgM concentration was determined in the serum by indirect ELISA. The average IgM concentration in the sera of the healthy sea bass was 5.4±1.8 mg ml−1; it amounted to 16.7% of the total serum protein.
Subject
General Agricultural and Biological Sciences,General Immunology and Microbiology,General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology,General Neuroscience
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