Isolation of human complement subcomponents C1r and C1s in their unactivated, proenzyme forms |
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Authors: | P D Lane V N Schumaker Y Tseng P H Poon |
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Institution: | Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, Los Angeles 90024. |
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Abstract: | We have modified a standard isolation procedure for C1r and C1s, which employs IgG-Sepharose affinity chromatography followed by DEAE chromatography. As usual, all steps were performed at low temperature and two proteolytic inhibitors, PMSF and NPGB, were added during affinity chromatography on IgG-Sepharose. The novel condition was to keep the pH at pH 6.1 during the entire procedure, where activation was markedly depressed. In addition, purification was improved by washing the IgG-Sepharose column with a buffer free of added divalent cations immediately prior to elution of the C1r and C1s with EDTA. The final yields of highly purified C1r and C1s were about 20%; little or no activated material was detected in these highly purified fractions. |
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