title: A chicken monoclonal antibody with specificity for the N-terminal of human prion protein.
abstract: Chickens were immunized with human prion protein (PrP) peptide H25 (amino acid residues 25-49) coupled to keyhole limpet hemocyanin. From a fusion experiment using the chicken fusion partner cell line MuH1 and immune spleen cells, one mAb, HUC2-13, was generated which reacted with the peptide. HUC2-13 was specific for a pentapeptide (RPKPG) of the N-terminal of the peptide H25. In Western blotting analysis, the mAb reacted with PrP materials from a human Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (CJD) case and the membrane fraction from normal murine brain, but not with the same materials pretreated with proteinase K. When compared with the HUC2-13 and the conventional mouse mAb 3F4, the background stainings using the HUC2-13 were minimal. In immunohistochemistry, the HUC2-13 stained positively with kuru plaques in brain sections from patients with Gerstmann-Straussler syndrome (GSS), and also reacted with synaptic structures of the CJD patients. However, any immunolabelings using the HUC2-13 were not observed in the section from a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) as CJD-negative control. These results indicate that the mAb HUC2-13 is a suitable tool for immunological and diagnostic analyses of prion disease in humans and other mammals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Immunobiology, Faculty of Applied Biological Science, Hiroshima University, Japan. hmatsu@ipc.hiroshima-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Matsuda
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mitsuda
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Furusawa
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Mohri
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kitamoto
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002417:Cattle; D002460:Cell Line; D002645:Chickens; D006224:Cricetinae; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D011328:Prions / Q000276:immunology*; D012756:Sheep
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D011328:Prions