Journal: Cells
Article Title: Comparison of Monoclonal Gammopathies Linked to Poliovirus or Coxsackievirus vs. Other Infectious Pathogens
doi: 10.3390/cells10020438
Figure Lengend Snippet: Results of the “PV/CVB” Dot Blotting Assays obtained for the 6 Monoclonal Igs found to be Specific for the PALTAV/AETG Epitopes with the PEPperCHIP ® Infectious Epitope Arrays. Membranes were spotted with the following peptides: ( a ) HP-1a, HP-3a and HC-a, respectively relevant to PV1, PV3 and CVB1/B3; ( b ) irrelevant HP-1b, HP-3b and HC-b peptides; ( c ) irrelevant HP-1c, HP-3c and HC-c peptides (see ), then incubated with positive or negative controls or samples of serum from patients. After validation that no signal was obtained with irrelevant peptides for serum samples, purified monoclonal Igs were incubated with relevant peptides only. Immunoblot revelation with secondary antibodies (Materials & Methods). The assay confirmed that the purified monoclonal IgG of MGUS patients 4_38, 4_51 and 4_52 (in bold, left panel) bound specifically to PALTAVETG or PALTAAETG epitopes.
Article Snippet: Microarrays were placed in suited PEPperCHIP ® incubation trays (PEPperPRINT GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany).
Techniques: Incubation, Biomarker Discovery, Purification, Western Blot