Major polypeptide of duck hepatitis B surface antigen particles.
AUTOR(ES)
Marion, P L
RESUMO
The 40- to 50-nm pleomorphic particles found in the sera of domestic Pekin ducks infected with duck hepatitis B virus were purified by rate zonal and isopycnic centrifugation. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoretic polypeptide analysis of these particles, called duck hepatitis B surface antigen particles, revealed the major component to be a single 17,500-dalton polypeptide. This result is in contrast to polypeptide analyses of the surface antigens of related mammalian viruses, including hepatitis B, in which a major doublet of polypeptides is seen with molecular weights ranging from 23,000 to 29,000. Tryptic maps of 17,500-dalton polypeptide resembled that of the major non-glycosylated polypeptide of the adw subtype of hepatitis B surface antigen. A serological assay for antibody to the purified duck virus particles is also described.
ACESSO AO ARTIGO
http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=255377Documentos Relacionados
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