Abstract
Ultrasonicated Toxoplasma gondii (RH strain) tachyzoites were fractionated into a water-soluble and a deoxycholate-soluble fraction. Polyclonal immune mouse serum was prepared by challenging chronically-infected mice with viable RH strain tachyzoites. The parasite functions were labelled with 125I, and the radiolabelled antigens were precipitated by the immune mouse serum or a monoclonal anti-Toxoplasma antibody (FMC 20), that reacts only in the indirect hemagglutination antibody test. Sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and autoradiography of the immunoprecipitates showed that the water-soluble fraction contained 10 antigenic polypeptides, and the deoxycholate-soluble fraction contained seven antigenic peptides. The FMC 20 reacted against a 98,000-dalton antigen that was present in the water-soluble fraction only.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 459-464 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Parasitology |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jun 1983 |
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