title: Monoclonal antibodies against a C-terminal peptide of human brain acetylcholinesterase distinguish between erythrocyte and brain acetylcholinesterases.
abstract: Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) were raised against a peptide of the 10 C-terminal amino acids of human brain acetylcholinesterase (AChE): H-Tyr-Ser-Lys-Gln-Asp-Arg-Cys-Ser-Asp-Leu-OH. Two positive clones (mAbs 190-1 and 190-2) were selected and tested for their ability to distinguish between mammalian brain and erythrocyte AChEs. In a solid-phase enzyme antigen immunoassay as well as by Western- and dot-blot analysis, both antibodies showed clear binding to AChE from human and bovine brain but not to AChE from erythrocytes. MAbs 190-1 and 190-2 reacted with neither AChE from electric eel nor butyrylcholinesterase from human serum. Both antibodies were used in a quantitative assay for AChE in amniotic fluids, where AChE activity could be found only in samples from open neural tube-defect pregnancies, but not in fluids from normal pregnancies or in artificially blood-contaminated samples.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Bern, Switzerland.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Boschetti
authors.forename: U
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Brodbeck
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Jensen
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Nørgaard-Pedersen
mesh_terms: D000110:Acetylcholinesterase / Q000032:analysis* / Q000276:immunology; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015153:Blotting, Western; D001921:Brain / Q000201:enzymology*; D002417:Cattle; D004912:Erythrocytes / Q000201:enzymology*; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010446:Peptide Fragments / Q000276:immunology*; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D010446:Peptide Fragments; D000110:Acetylcholinesterase