Yee A M, Buyon J P, Yip Y K
Department of Microbiology, Sackler Institute of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, New York, New York.
J Exp Med. 1989 Mar 1;169(3):987-93. doi: 10.1084/jem.169.3.987.
The physicochemical properties of apparently acid-labile IFN-alpha from patients with SLE have been studied. The antigenicity, apparent molecular size, and isoelectric point of SLE IFN-alpha are indistinguishable from those of conventional, previously characterized, acid-stable subspecies of IFN-alpha. However, after partial purification by anion-exchange chromatography, SLE IFN-alpha no longer exhibits acid lability, suggesting that other plasma factor(s) are responsible for the acid lability of SLE IFN-alpha. Addition of SLE plasma, but not normal plasma, to conventional acid-stable IFN-alpha renders the exogenous IFN-alpha acid labile. Preliminary results demonstrate that an acid-dependent IFN-inactivating activity can be partially purified from SLE plasma by anion-exchange chromatography.
对系统性红斑狼疮(SLE)患者中明显酸不稳定的α干扰素的理化特性进行了研究。SLEα干扰素的抗原性、表观分子大小和等电点与传统的、先前已表征的酸稳定α干扰素亚型无法区分。然而,通过阴离子交换色谱法进行部分纯化后,SLEα干扰素不再表现出酸不稳定性,这表明其他血浆因子对SLEα干扰素的酸不稳定性负责。将SLE血浆而非正常血浆添加到传统的酸稳定α干扰素中,会使外源性α干扰素变得酸不稳定。初步结果表明,一种酸依赖性干扰素灭活活性可以通过阴离子交换色谱法从SLE血浆中部分纯化出来。