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A J Szalai1, M T Norcum, J E Bly
1Department of Microbiology, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson 39216-4505.
Abstract:
1. Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) serum contains a protein that precipitates pneumococcal C-polysaccharide (CPS) in a calcium-dependent fashion. 2. The serum titer of this protein follows an acute-phase pattern in catfish injected with turpentine. 3. A non-glycosylated, phosphorylcholine (PC)-reactive protein (PRP) with molecular mass ca 100 kDa, was isolated from channel catfish acute-phase sera by affinity chromatography on PC-Sepharose 4B. 4. Contaminating proteins with molecular masses ca 700 kDa and ca 20 kDa that co-eluted with PRP from PC-Sepharose appear to be aggregated and native low-molecular weight factors (LMFs), respectively. 5. Purified PRP has gamma mobility but in serum samples PRP has gamma-beta mobility. 6. Electron microscopy confirmed that PRP has planar, pentagonal symmetry. 7. The amino terminus of PRP is blocked, but based on comparison of amino-acid compositions channel catfish PRP is clearly similar to human CRP and is most like CRPs from the dogfish (Mustelus canis) and rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss).
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