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Aws Aljnabi1, Kelly A Hagadorn2, Louisa E Neumann1

  • 1B Cell Immunology in Malaria, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany.

STAR Protocols
|April 8, 2025
PubMed

Autoantibodies (AAbs) contribute to various immune-mediated diseases and are valuable biomarkers for diagnosis, classification, and disease activity. Here, we present a protocol for the affinity enrichment of AAbs from human plasma samples. We describe steps to generate a human cell line lysate, which is immobilized on Sepharose beads for affinity enrichment of AAbs. We then detail the quality-control procedure of verifying autoreactivity of AAb fractions. This protocol has potential application in functional and proteomic analyses of AAbs. For complete details on the use and execution of this protocol, please refer to Hagadorn et al.1.

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AntibodyCell-based AssaysImmunology

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