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Highly effective extraction of carcinoembryonic antigen with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C
Y Matsuoka1, Y Matsuo, N Okamoto
1Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Fukuoka University, Japan.
Abstract:
Carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA) was highly effectively extracted with phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (PI-PLC) from various source materials. The yield of CEA was, in some cases, 20-30 times more than that obtained by the usual method with perchloric acid. Addition of 0.1-0.2 units of PI-PLC to 1 g tumor tissue and incubation at 37 degrees C for 1 h with continuous shaking seem to be practically sufficient for CEA extraction. A simple purification procedure for CEA after extraction with PI-PLC is proposed. The immunochemical properties of CEA thus obtained were found to be identical to those of CEA obtained by the usual method.