Journal article
Specific absorption with monoclonal antibodies to muramyl dipeptide of the pyrogenic and somnogenic activities of rabbit monokine
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, Vol.81(18), pp.5888-5891
09/1984
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/106830
PMID: 6207533
Abstract
It is well established that muramyl dipeptide (MDP) can induce fever and enhance slow-wave sleep. Recently, crude or purified supernatants of activated macrophages containing endogenous pyrogen (EP) were also shown to enhance slow-wave sleep. These similarities and the recent finding that a mammalian factor that enhances slow-wave sleep is a muramyl peptide triggered us to study the possibility of the presence of this bacterial structure in the EP molecule. In the present study, EP was produced by stimulation of rabbit peritoneal cells with a nonpyrogenic, nonsomnogenic analog of MDP. The EP-containing supernatant lost its pyrogenicity and somnogenicity after passage over an immunoadsorbent column of monoclonal anti-MDP but not of another monoclonal antibody of different specificity. High percentage of the EP was recovered by elution of the anti-MDP columns with HCl/glycine buffer. Results suggest that bacterial muramyl peptides may be incorporated by mammalian cells into substances that act in picomole quantities to mediate immunological and physiological processes. In addition, the technique may be useful to extract interleukin 1 for structural studies.
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- Title
- Specific absorption with monoclonal antibodies to muramyl dipeptide of the pyrogenic and somnogenic activities of rabbit monokine
- Creators
- L ChedidG M BahrG RiveauJ M Krueger
- Publication Details
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS, Vol.81(18), pp.5888-5891
- Academic Unit
- Integrative Physiology and Neuroscience, Department of
- Publisher
- United States
- Identifiers
- 99900546550901842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article