title: [A Novel Method for Detecting p53 Autoantibodies in Sera of Patients with NSCLC.].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Serum autoantibody detection is useful means for the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer. So our objective was to synthesize peptide array to analyse p53 autoantibodies in the sera of patients with non small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).
  
  
  METHODS
  Cellulose-bound overlapping peptides (12 mers) derived from p53 wild type protein were synthesized using SOPTs synthesis technique by an AutoSpot robot -ASP SL (Intavis, Germany). The membrane was incubated with 1/400 dilutions of p53 monoclonal antibody (Sc-53394) to establish a new approach to detect p53 antibody, and the epitopes of the p53 monoclonal antibody is already known. We analysed the p53 autoantibodies from the sera of NSCLC and controls by peptide array and ELISA.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We synthesized on cellulose membranes twelve-amino-acid overlapping peptides which included all of the sequences of the polypeptide chain of p53. The p53 autoantibody was positive in seven cases of thirty patients sera with NSCLC and was negative in sera of the controls, with the same result of ELISA CONCLUSIONS: The peptide array could be applied not only to detect the autoantibodies in the sera of patients with lung cancer, but also to map the epitopes of the autoantibodies which might be useful for the early diagnosis and prognosis of cancer.
authors: Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Beijing TB and Thoracic Tumor Research Institute, Beijing 101149, China.
authors: Kai
authors: K
authors: Tang
authors: Wentao
authors: W
authors: Yue
authors: Yue
authors: Y
authors: Wang
authors: Lina
authors: L
authors: Zhang
authors: Shaofa
authors: S
authors: Xu