title: Presence of the 55 kDa glycosylation inhibiting factor in human serum.
abstract: An ELISA system for the human glycosylation inhibiting factor (GIF) was established using polyclonal antibodies against highly purified 13 kDa recombinant human GIF, and the concentration of GIF in the sera of healthy donors and patients with various diseases was determined. GIF was detected in the sera of most healthy individuals and its concentration tended to increase with age. It was also found that the serum GIF levels markedly increased in some patients with rheumatoid arthritis or malignant tumors. Analysis of serum samples by SDS-PAGE and immunoblotting revealed a 55 kDa protein that has both the GIF antigenic determinant and the TCR alpha chain determinant. A 13 kDa GIF was not detected in the sera. In view of our previous findings on antigen-specific GIF from murine suppressor T cell hybridomas indicating that the 55 kDa GIF is a post-translationally formed conjugate of a TCR alpha chain with 13 kDa GIF, we suspect that the 55 kDa GIF detected in human sera is a human homologue of the murine 55 kDa GIF.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Internal Medicine, Sapporo Medical University, South 1 West 17, Sapporo 060-8543, Japan.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kasahara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Nakano
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Ishii
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ishizaka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Imai
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000906:Antibodies / Q000276:immunology; D001172:Arthritis, Rheumatoid / Q000097:blood; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000097:blood; D003429:Cross Reactions; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006967:Hypersensitivity / Q000097:blood; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008222:Lymphokines / Q000097:blood* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000097:blood; D029584:Prostatic Secretory Proteins; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D008222:Lymphokines; D029584:Prostatic Secretory Proteins; D016693:Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta; C043076:beta-microseminoprotein; C013059:immunoglobulin-binding factors