Immunoreactive forms of human erythrocyte ankyrin are present in diverse cells and tissues (original) (raw)

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Ankyrin is a polypeptide of molecular weight (MW) 200,000 which is tightly bound to the cytoplasmic surface of the human erythrocyte membrane and has been identified as the high-affinity membrane attachment protein for spectrin1–3. This protein has also been shown to be associated with band 3 (ref. 4), the major transmembrane protein in erythrocytes. Ankyrin is thus an example of a polypeptide which links a cytoplasmic structural protein to an integral membrane protein. A water-soluble, 72,000-MW, proteolytic fragment of ankyrin has been purified which retains the ability to bind to spectrin, and competitively inhibits reassociation of spectrin with membranes5. Monospecific antibodies directed against this fragment have been prepared1 and demonstrated to cross-react only with ankyrin among the erythrocyte membrane proteins1,4. The present study reports the use of these antibodies to develop a radioimmunoassay capable of detecting femtomolar quantities of ankyrin, and demonstrates the presence of small but significant amounts of immunoreactivity in a variety of types of cells and tissues.

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Bennett, V. Immunoreactive forms of human erythrocyte ankyrin are present in diverse cells and tissues.Nature 281, 597–599 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1038/281597a0

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