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The production of heterophile antibodies in sera of patients receiving therapeutic injections of foreign serum was first described by HANGANUTIZIU (1924) and DEICHER (1926). Thereafter, these antibodies were called serum-sickness or H-D antibodies. The antibodies differ in specificity from other kinds of heterophile antibodies, such as FORSSMAN (1911) antibodies and PAUL-BUNNELL (1932) antibodies (P-B antibodies) of infectious mononucleosis. H-D antibodies react with erythrocytes and sera of various animal species (horse, sheep, ox and rabbit) and are absorbed by sediment of guinea-pig kidney homogenate (DAVIDSON and WALKER, 1935). Recently, “H-D antibodies” were detected in sera from almost of all patients who received γ-globulin fraction of goat anti-human thymocyte serum (PIROFSKY, RAMIREZ-MATEOS and AUGUST (1973) and also in sera from some patients, suffering from various diseases, who had never received a therapeutic injection of foreign serum (KASUKAWA et al., 1976). The nature of H-D antigen was unknown, except for some properties: heat-stable, extractable with hot ethanol (SCHIFF, 1937) and precipitable by 75% ethanol solution (KASUKAWA et al., 1976). Our previous studies (HIGASHI et al., 1977) succeeded in the isolation of H-D antigen from bovine and equine erythrocytes and demonstrated that this antigen is a ganglioside with N-glycolylneuraminic acid (GcNeu). The antigen of equine erythrocytes was identified as GcNeu-hematoside (YAMAKAWA and SUZUKI, 1951), and the antigen of bovine erythrocytes was identified as GcNeu-sialosylparagloboside (WIEGANDT and SCHULZE, 1969). The structures of both the gangliosides are shown in Table 1.
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Abbreviations
- Gal:
-
D-galactose
- Glc:
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D-glucose
- Fuc:
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L-fucose
- G1cNAc:
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N-acetyl-D-glucosamine
- GalNAc:
-
N-acetyl-D-galactosamine
- GcNeu:
-
N-glycosylneuraminic acid
- AcNeu:
-
N-acetylneuraminic acid
- Cer:
-
ceramide (N-acylsphingosine)
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Naiki, M., Higashi, H. (1980). Detection of Antibodies to Gangliosides in Pathologic Human Sera. Serum-Sickness Type Heterophile Antibodies. In: Svennerholm, L., Mandel, P., Dreyfus, H., Urban, PF. (eds) Structure and Function of Gangliosides. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology, vol 125. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-7844-0_34
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