Affiliation:
1. Key Laboratory of Chinese Materia Medica in Ministry of Education, Heilongjiang University of Chinese Medicine, Harbin, P. R. China
2. Department of Traditional Chinese Medicine, China Pharmaceutical University, Nanjing, P. R. China
Abstract
The cause of the immunogenicity of Acanthopanax senticosus injection has been studied. The method used for the preparation of the injection includes boiling the plant material in water, precipitation with ethanol, and filtration to produce the extract. In the current study, this extract was treated with saturated ammonium sulfate to collect the protein from the extract. Indicators of systemic allergy, including total immunoglobulin (IgE), interleukin -4 (IL-4), and interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) levels in the antiserum of Guinea pigs sensitized with this protein extract were used to determine the immunogenicity of the protein extract. Testing was performed using Western blotting to identify IgE in antiserum binding in Guinea pigs sensitized by injection. The target protein band was further identified by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry. The protein extract from A. senticosus caused positive reactions and significantly increased the levels of total IgE, IL-4, and IFN-γ in the serum of sensitized Guinea pigs. Western blotting showed that a group of proteins with a molecular weight of 60 000 in the A. senticosus protein extract acted as the major immunogenic protein by binding to serum IgE of Guinea pigs sensitized with A. senticosus injection. The protein was a pyruvate kinase homologous protein with high sequence similarity to the pyruvate kinase protein of Vitis vinifera. It was concluded that the allergic reaction caused by the injection of A. senticosus may be related to the interaction of these macromolecular proteins within the body.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
Subject
Complementary and alternative medicine,Plant Science,Drug Discovery,Pharmacology,General Medicine
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