TY - GEN A1 - Nowak, Elisabeth A1 - Martin, F. A1 - George, Sandra A1 - Röber, Nadja A1 - Conrad, Karsten A1 - Küpper, Jan-Heiner T1 - Bacterial production and purification of immunoreactive paraneoplastic neurological syndrome autoantigen Ma2 T2 - Journal of Cellular Biotechnology N2 - Paraneoplastic neurological syndromes (PNS) are caused by an immune response against neuronal proteins upon their ectopical expression in tumor cells. Ma2 belongs to the protein family of paraneoplastic Ma antigens (PNMA). Detection of Ma2-specific autoantibodies is relevant for diagnostics of anti-Ma2 PNS and an underlying tumor such as germ testicular cancer, small cell lung cancer or breast cancer. Thus, early tumor treatment should improve the outcome for PNS therapy either. Dot blot immunoassay based on recombinantly expressed and purified autoantigens could offer a sensitive method for identification of paraneoplastic autoantibodies from sera of PNS patients. Here we present purification with IMAC and FPLC of human Ma2 autoantigen upon its recombinant expression in E.coli. Furthermore, we provide evidence that dot blot immunoassays with purified Ma2 autoantigen can be used for detection of Ma2-specific autoantibodies from sera of PNS patients. KW - Autoimmune disease KW - autoantibodies KW - dot blot immunoassay KW - FPLC KW - IMAC KW - Ma2 KW - PNMA2 KW - PNS KW - T7 expression system Y1 - 2018 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-UBICO/frontdoor/index/index/docId/21677 UR - https://content.iospress.com/articles/journal-of-cellular-biotechnology/jcb15029 SN - 2352-3697 VL - 2 IS - 2 SP - 85 EP - 91 ER -