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Immunological reactions of the organic matrix of developing bovine enamel

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Bovine amelogenin, the organic matrix secreted by the dental-enamel-forming cells, is antigenic in the rabbit. The purified gamma globulin fraction of the rabbit antisera when reacted with amelogenin in a double diffusion agar plate forms a single precipitin line. Subfractions isolated from amelogenin by acrylamide gel electrophoresis and by Sephadex gel filtration were found to be antigenically identical. The antigenic fraction of amelogenin was separated from the bulk of the enamel protein by a Sephadex G-100 column. On the basis of its electrophoretic and gel filtration properties, amelogenin is a multi-component system; however, immunologically, amelogenin acts as a single antigen.

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De l'amélogénine bovine, matrice organique secrétée par les cellules formant l'émail dentaire, est antigénique chez le lapin. La fraction purifiée de gamma-globuline de l'antisérum de lapin, en présence d'amélogénine, dans une boite d'agar à double diffusion, provoque une ligne simple de précipitine. Des fractions isolées de l'amélogénine, par électrophorèse sur gel d'acrylamide et par filtration sur gel de Sephadex, semblent identiques au point de vue antigénique. La fraction antigénique d'amélogénine est séparée de la protéine de l'émail à l'aide d'une colonne Sephadex G-100. L'amélogénine est un système complexe, si l'on se réfère aux résultats d'électrophorèse et de filtration sur gel: ai point de vue immunologique, l'amélogénine se comporte comme un antigène simple.

Zusammenfassung

Rinder Amelogenin, die organische Matrix, welche durch die Zahnschmelz-bildenden Zellen sezerniert wird, wirkt als Antigen auf das Kaninchen. Die gereinigte Gammaglobulinfraktion des Kaninchen-Antiserums ergibt auf einer Doppel-Diffusions-Agarplatte eine einzelne Koagulinlinie, wenn sie mit Amelogenin reagiert.

Unterfraktionen aus Amelogenin isoliert durch Acrylamid-Gel-Elektrophorese und durch Sephadex-Gel-Filtration wurden in ihrer Antigen-Wirksamkeit identisch gefunden. Die Antigen-Fraktion von Amelogenin wurde durch eine Sephadex G-100-Säule von der Gesamtmenge des Zahnschmelz-Proteins getrennt.

Auf Grund seiner bei der Elektrophorese und der Gel-Filtration beobachtetem Eigenschaften ist Amelogenin ein aus verschiedenen Komponenten zusammengesetztes System; Amelogenin wirkt jedoch immunologisch als ein einzelnes Antigen.

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Nikiforuk, G., Gruca, M. Immunological reactions of the organic matrix of developing bovine enamel. Calc. Tis Res. 4, 129–135 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02279114

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