Abstract
Purified type I topoisomerase from calf thymus as well as nuclear and cytoplasmic extracts from EGF-stimulated human and mouse fibroblasts in cell culture efficiently convert supercoiled plasmid DNA to the relaxed form. The purified IgG fraction from the sera of Japanese patients with the rheumatic disease scleroderma were shown to inhibit this relaxation activity. Thus, these patients likely produce autoantibodies to topoisomerase I. In addition, the human, bovine and murine enzymes share antigenic determinants recognized by the antisera.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 231-234 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | FEBS Letters |
| Volume | 209 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 15 1986 |
Funding
This work was supportedb y a grant from the NIH and a Grant-in-Aid from the Ministry of Education, Sciencea nd Culture, Japan. We thank Dr Yoshiko Shimizu for advicea nd MS TelsaM it-telmeierf or preparationo f supercoileds ubstrate DNA.
Keywords
- Epidermal growth factor
- Scleroderma antiserum
- Topoisomerase I