Immunological Evaluation of LCAT Deficiency

K. G. Varma Lipid Research Laboratories, Dept. of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Dept. of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

L. A. Soloff Lipid Research Laboratories, Dept. of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Dept. of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

J. Frohlich Lipid Research Laboratories, Dept. of Medicine, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Dept. of Pathology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

Abstract

Antibody towards a highly purified LCAT preparation was tested against LCAT-deficient sera by using the technic of immunodiffusion and immunoinhibition. Reaction of identity among normal serum, deficient sera, and purified LCAT was observed in immunodiffusion with two different antibodies obtained from two different goats. When the antibodies were mixed with deficient sera and tested for immunoinhibition of LCAT activity of normal serum, inhibition was not observed in antigen excess with one of the antibodies, suggesting that deficient sera contained an enzymatically inactive LC AT. The other antibody preparation showed inhibition of enzyme activity even in antigen excess. It appears that the precipitin lines observed in immunodiffusion do not represent LCAT in serum. In view of the higher titre of antibody in immunoinhibition experiments with this antibody, it remains to be determined whether at lower ratios of antibody to deficient serum, immunoinhibition by the antibody will be abolished in this case too.

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