title: Antiserum specific for the intact isoform-3 of metallothionein.
abstract: The recombinant form of isoform-3 of mouse brain metallothionein (MT3) was used as an antigen to immunize rabbits and raise MT3-selective antiserum. The antiserum was essentially specific for MT3 with 100-fold greater sensitivity for MT3 compared to MT1 or MT2. Immunonblot analysis of whole mouse brain homogenates showed that MT3 was present only in the fraction retained by a 30,000-Da cut-off filter. The antiserum was used to immunoprecipitate MT3 from mouse brain extracts of Swiss Webster mice and provided evidence that MT3 was a member of a macromolecular complex of greater than 30,000 Da mass in brain. An ELISA was developed using purified, recombinant mouse brain Cd(7)-MT3 as the antigen and used to quantify MT3 in mouse brain extracts. The concentration of MT3 was found to be 3.0+/-0.8 microg/ml or approximately 3.5 microg/g mouse brain (wet weight).
authors.affiliation: Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, United States.
authors.forename: Abigail M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Tokheim
authors.forename: Ian M
authors.initials: IM
authors.lastname: Armitage
authors.forename: Bruce L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D005260:Female; D007106:Immune Sera; D015151:Immunoblotting; D047468:Immunoprecipitation; D008668:Metallothionein / Q000276:immunology*; D000090023:Metallothionein 3; D051379:Mice; D020033:Protein Isoforms / Q000276:immunology*; D011817:Rabbits; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D007106:Immune Sera; D000090023:Metallothionein 3; C000715430:Mt3 protein, mouse; D020033:Protein Isoforms; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D008668:Metallothionein