In:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 74, No. 4 ( 1977-04), p. 1672-1675
Kurzfassung:
A zymogram method, following thin-layer isoelectric focusing in a polyacrylamide gel, allows resolution of the lytic activity of serum C2 complement protein in a spectrum of molecular forms. This spectrum is characteristic in each of the species studied (man, rhesus monkey, guinea pig, and hamster). Moreover, two different alternative patterns are observed in man: each of the six major lytic bands characteristic of the most common pattern (herein designated C2(1) is duplicated in the least common pattern (C2(2-1), with an additional band displaced cathodally by not more than 0.04 pH unit. Distribution of phenotypes C2(1) and C2(2-1) in a Caucasion population is in agreement with the hypothesis that they are controlled by two alleles, C2(1) and C2(2), with frequencies 0.96 and 0.04 +/- 0.01. Segregation studies show that the two alleles are codominant and identify a locus in the HLA region. No recombinants with HLA-B were detected among 27 informative meioses, generating a cumulative lod score of 6.321 at equals 0. These findings suggest that the individuals with the C2-deficient trait might be interpreted as homozygotes for a third and rarest amorph C2 degrees of the same locus.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0027-8424
,
1091-6490
DOI:
10.1073/pnas.74.4.1672
Sprache:
Englisch
Verlag:
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Publikationsdatum:
1977
ZDB Id:
209104-5
ZDB Id:
1461794-8
SSG:
11
SSG:
12
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