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Soluble liver antigen: isolation of a 35-kd recombinant protein (SLA-p35) specifically recognizing sera from patients with autoimmune hepatitis.

Abstract
Autoantibodies to soluble liver antigen (SLA) are considered a specific marker of autoimmune hepatitis. We have performed immunoscreening of a human liver gene expression library with an anti-SLA-positive serum. A reactive clone with a 35-kd open reading frame (ORF) and a 563 base pair (bp) 3' untranslated region (UTR) was isolated (soluble liver antigen [SLA]-p35), showing strong homology to an independently isolated putative SLA/liver-pancreas antigen (LP) sequence (Acc. No. AF146396), and a UGA serine tRNA-protein complex (tRNP)((Ser) Sec) related protein (AJ238617), as well as different expression sequence tag (EST)-clones from lymphatic and oncofetal tissues. Expressed in Escherichia coli, SLA-p35 showed dose-dependent and complete blocking of reactivity to native SLA antigen after preabsorption with the 35-kd recombinant protein. It recognized 67/85 (78.8%) precharacterized anti-SLA-positive sera in dilutions up to 1:40,000 in immunoblot, without detectable cross reactivity in the controls. The commercially available SLA/LP enzymelinked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), by comparison, recognized 63/85 samples (74.1%). Of the negative samples, 18% showed strong inhibition rates (80% and above) in the polyclonal inhibition ELISA. We conlude that the complementary DNA now isolated by 3 independent approaches encodes for the major but not sole antigenic component of soluble liver antigen. Although its truncated form presented here may serve to improve diagnostics based on the new recombinant polypeptide, it currently cannot fully replace the polyclonal inhibition ELISA.
AuthorsM Volkmann, L Martin, A Bäurle, H Heid, C P Strassburg, C Trautwein, W Fiehn, M P Manns
JournalHepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (Hepatology) Vol. 33 Issue 3 Pg. 591-6 (Mar 2001) ISSN: 0270-9139 [Print] United States
PMID11230739 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Autoantigens
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • liver antigen LA-1
Topics
  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Amino Acid Sequence (genetics)
  • Autoantigens (chemistry, genetics, immunology, isolation & purification)
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (methods)
  • Female
  • Hepatitis, Autoimmune (blood, immunology)
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Molecular Sequence Data
  • Molecular Weight
  • Recombinant Proteins (isolation & purification)

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