title: Can insulin antibodies of diabetic patients distinguish human insulin from porcine insulin?
abstract: We examined antisera from patients treated with bovine-porcine mixture (hereafter referred to as bovine/porcine), porcine or human insulin, and compared their binding affinities to human insulin with those to porcine insulin. Patients treated with bovine/porcine insulin developed antisera with a higher affinity to porcine insulin compared with that to human insulin in five of nineteen cases. Furthermore, three of these five antisera had a comparable affinity to bovine and porcine insulin and appeared to recognize the amino acid residue at B-30. Treatment with porcine or human insulin, on the other hand, did not result in any significant difference in the affinity to porcine and human insulin in twenty-three patients. These results indicate the significant role of B-30 amino acid residue as an antigenic determinant, and suggest that the amino acid sequence of the A chain of bovine insulin may contribute to the development of antibody recognizing B-30 amino acid residue.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002417:Cattle; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007106:Immune Sera / Q000276:immunology*; D007328:Insulin / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*; D007330:Insulin Antibodies / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013552:Swine
chemical_list: D000939:Epitopes; D007106:Immune Sera; D007328:Insulin; D007330:Insulin Antibodies