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Isolation and Preliminary Characterization of Two Varieties of Low Molecular Weight Immunoglobulin in the Bullfrog, Rana Catesbeiana¹

Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusettes 02139

Abstract

Two varieties of low m.w. immunoglobulins have been isolated from the serum of Rana catesbeiana frogs. They are highly cross-reactive, although each also contains unique antigenic determinants. Since both low m.w. immunoglobulins were identified in the serum of 22 individual frogs, it was concluded that they are isotypic variants. The light chains of R. catesbeiana and mammalian high and low m.w. immunoglobulins are similar in electrophoretic mobility on polyacrylamide gels containing sodium dodecyl sulfate. The heavy chains of frog high m.w. immunoglobulins have the mobility of mammalian µ-chains; the heavy chains of both variants of frog low m.w. immunoglobulins migrate between mammalian µ- and -chains, in approximately the position of mammalian -chains. An unusual structural feature of the R. catesbeiana high and low m.w. immunoglobulins is that the unreduced proteins are partially dissociated in sodium dodecyl sulfate.

Footnotes

¹ This investigation was supported by Grant AI-08054 from the National Institutes of Health.

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