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Identification of J-Chain in Polymeric Immunoglobulins from a Variety of Species by Cross-Reaction with Rabbit Antisera to Human J-Chain¹

From the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Louvain, Avenue Chapelle-aux-Champs 4, B-1200 Bruxelles, Belgium

Abstract

Two rabbit antisera, rendered specific for human J chains, were shown to cross-precipitate extensively with J chains of completely reduced and alkylated polymeric immunoglobulins (IgA, IgM, and/or SIgA) from the dog, cat, cow, goat, sheep, pig, horse, hedgehog, guinea pig, rat, mouse, and chicken. The data emphasize the great evolutionary stability of the J polypeptide chain.

Footnotes

¹ The financial support of the Ministère de l'Education Nationale et de la Culture Française (Belgium), the Naito Foundation (Japan), the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique Médicale (Grant n° 1192) and the Fonds de la Recherche Fondamentale Collective (Grant n° 10.013) is gratefully acknowledged.

² Scholar of the Belgian Government.

³ Staff member of EURATOM Biology Division—Publication 923.

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