New autoantibodies in primary sclerosing cholangitis: reactivity with distinct immunodominant epitopes of sulfite oxidase
BE Preuß, C Berg, F Altenberend, M Gregor, S Stevanovic, R Klein · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2010 · Heft 01
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Zusammenfassung
From preliminary data we had evidence that sera from patients with cholestatic liver diseases react with an antigen fraction prepared from chicken liver containing sulfite oxidase (SO). In order to analyze this reactivity in more detail, we produced human recombinant SO, and it will be shown, that anti-SO antibodies are confined to primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC). Human recombinant SO was expressed in E. coli. Sera from 16 untreated PSC-patients, 149 patients with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) or autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), and 73 patients with inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) were investigated by ELISA…