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http://dx.doi.org/10.5352/JLS.2005.15.3.439

Characterization of Ferritin Isolated from Dog Spleen  

Park Jae-Hag (Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
Jun Do Youn (Institute of Genetic Engineering, Kyungpook National University)
Kim Young Ho (Laboratory of Immunobiology, Department of Microbiology, College of Natural Sciences, Kyungpook National University)
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Journal of Life Science / v.15, no.3, 2005 , pp. 439-446 More about this Journal
Abstract
Ferritin is known to be the principle iron-storage protein in a wide variety of rganisms. The electro­phoretic mobility and immunological cross-reactivity of dog splenic ferritin were compared with those of horse, bovine, and pig splenic ferritin after isolation using heat treatment, salting out, column chromatography, and ultrafiltration. These isolation methods allowed the recovery of $\~84{\mu}g$ of the ferritin per g of spleen. The iron content in the dog ferritin was $22.7\%$, which appeared to be higher than those in the other mammalian ferritins tested. The electrophoretic mobility of the dog ferritin under nondenaturing conditions was similar to its bovine counterpart, whereas it was more identical to pig and horse ferritins on an SDS-polyacrylamide gel. The molecular weight of the dog ferritin subunit was 19.5 kDa on an SDS-polyacrylarnide gel, and the subunit was unable to bind with iron. The polyclonal anti-dog ferritin raised in rats was able to cross-react with the pig, bovine, and horse ferritins, upon Ouchterlony double immunodiffusiion. A Western blot analysis also revealed that the anti-dog ferritin, which specifically bound with the dog ferritin subunit, could also recognize the horse, bovine, and pig ferritin subunits and the maximum cross-reactivity was exhibited with the pig ferritin subunit, indicating that the dog ferritin is immunochemically more similar to the pig ferritin than its other mammalian counterparts. Accordingly, these results elucidate the biochemical and immunochemical characteristics of dog ferritin that might have a potential to be applied as an oral iron supplement to treat iron deficiency anemia.
Keywords
dog splenic ferritin; iron content; rat polyclonal anti-dog ferritin; immunological crossreactivity;
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