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Precipitin Cross-Reacitons between Human and Animal J-Chains

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The J-polypeptide chain of polymeric IgA, secretory IgA and/or IgM has been identified in the human (1,2), dog (3), rabbit (1), mouse (4), pig (5), bovine (6), sheep (7), pheasant, toad, catfish (8), shark (9), chicken, rat, but not in tortoise (10) by means of gel electrophoresis in alkaline urea of the reduced-alkylated or S-sulfonated immunoglobulins. The finding of J-chain in such phylogenetically distant species as catfish and shark, points to the primitive character of this polypeptide (8,9).

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  1. Dept. of Experimental Medicine, Univ. Catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium

    J. P. Vaerman & J. F. Heremans

  2. Dept of Biochemistry, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan

    K. Kobayashi

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  1. Institute of Dental Research Departments of Microbiology and Medicine, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Jiri Mestecky

  2. Departments of Pediatrics and Microbiology, University of Alabama in Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama, USA

    Alexander R. Lawton

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Vaerman, J.P., Kobayashi, K., Heremans, J.F. (1974). Precipitin Cross-Reacitons between Human and Animal J-Chains. In: Mestecky, J., Lawton, A.R. (eds) The Immunoglobulin a System. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-4550-3_30

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