title: Isolation of radiopure plasma and hepatic albumin in acute phase conditions.
abstract: It is essential to obtain biochemically and radioactively pure albumin in studies on albumin metabolism and kinetics in stress and nutrition related conditions. However, published work on albumin metabolism, in both animals and man with acute phase reactions has usually been based on inadequate chemical methods for isolation of homogeneous albumin free from acute phase proteins and other contaminants. Applications of conventional antibody precipitating techniques was usually either not sufficient to give radiopure albumin, or did not allow determination of the true specific radioactivity during in vivo experiments. Thus, the lack of applicable methods to achieve radiopure albumin from small plasma and tissue samples for subsequent analyses and determination of the true specific radioactivity in albumin initiated the present method development. The combination of HPLC ionchromatography (DEAE-sepharose), affinity chromatography (Blue sepharose CL-6B, Con A sepharose) and HPLC based size exclusion chromatography (Protein PAK 300 SW, Waters) was applied. By this procedure we obtained radiopure albumin from both plasma and hepatic samples from individual mice with acute phase response as confirmed by two-dimensional electrophoresis and immune precipitation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Institution I, University of Göteborg, Sahlgrenska Hospital, S 413 45 Göteborg, Sweden.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Andersson
authors.forename: B M
authors.initials: BM
authors.lastname: Iresjö
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Lundholm