Sepharose coupled with insulinantibody was used for the extraction of insulin from serum samples. The principle of this method is based on the absorption of insulin to Sepharose particles which were attached by its specific antibody to make advantage for the separation of antigen-antibody complex from the solution.
A globulin fraction of guinea pig anti-insulin serum (AIG) prepared by salt precipitation was allowed to react with Sepharose 2 B which had been activated with CNBr according to Axen-Porath's method. One g wet Sepharose bound 5.4 mg to 10 mg AIG protein. AIGSepharose complex adsorbed 134 insulin at pH 8.2 while its binding to control Sepharoses (CNBr-activated Sepharose, Anti-HGH globulin-Sepharose and Normal guinea pig globulin-Sepharose) was almost negligible. On the other hand 125I-HGH was bound to Anti-HGH globulin- Sepharose whereas its absorption to AIG-Sepharose was minimal. Thus was the specificity of antigen-antibody reaction preserved even after the coupling of antibody to Sepharose. The maximal binding capacity of AIGSepharose to pork insulin was about 420-460 mU per g of the complex.
Most of the bound insulin was dissociated by the addition of 1 M acetic acid or 0.01 N HC1 to AIGSepharose. The matrix restored its insulin binding capacity by washing with Tris-HCl-albumin buffer (pH 8, 2)
290 m
l of solution of pork insulin (109 μU/ml) was applied to the AIG-Sepharose column to fix insulin to the matrix, and then 1 M acetic acid was passed through this column to dissociate the bound insulin. The insulin concentration of effluent reached the maximum of 2, 980μU/m
l during the dissociation.
The application of this complex for the extraction of insulin in serum was studied with the use of dog pancreatic vein serum samples containing insulin from 740 to 1, 575 μ/m
l as measured by immunoassay. The recovery of serum IRI was in the range of 80 to 90 96.
Our present study suggests that the anti-insulin globulin-coupled Sepharose is applicable for the extraction of insulin from the various biological fluids. The method using antibody-Sepharose column seems also useful for the separation of various peptide hormones or macromolecules, whenever their antibodies are available.
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