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Chinese Agricultural Science Bulletin ›› 2021, Vol. 37 ›› Issue (33): 142-147.doi: 10.11924/j.issn.1000-6850.casb2021-0017

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Research on Preparation of Artificial Antigen of Procymidone

Hu Xiaofei1(), Xing Yunrui1, Sun Yaning1, Pang Xinghao1,2, Wang Yao2   

  1. 1Henan Key Laboratory of Animal Immunology, Henan Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Zhengzhou 450002
    2College of Food and Bioengineering, Henan University of Science & Technology, Luoyang Henan 471023
  • Received:2021-01-08 Revised:2021-05-13 Online:2021-11-25 Published:2022-01-06

Abstract:

To prepare the artificial antigen of procymidone, the succinic anhydride method was applied to modify the structure of procymidone, and the modified procymidone was coupled with bovine serum albumin (BSA) and ovalbumin (OVA) by 1-(3-Dimethylaminopropyl)-3-ethylcarbodiimide (EDC) method to synthetize PCM-BSA and PCM-OVA. SDS-PAGE, UV scanning and animal immunization were used to identify the quality of artificial antigen of PCM. The results of SDS-PAGE and UV scanning showed that PCM was coupled with the carrier proteins successfully. The serum of mice immunized by PCM-BSA could react with PCM-OVA; the serum titer could be 1:6400. The PCM was applied as an inhibitor to prevent the reaction between serum and PCM-OVA. However, even the concentration of PCM reached to 256 µg/mL, there was no significant inhibition. When PCM was replaced by the prepared PCM-OVA solution, which could inhibit the reaction between serum and PCM-OVA coated on the microtiter plates, the 50% inhibition concentration (IC50) was 320 times diluted of the prepared PCM-OVA solution. In this study, PCM was coupled with carrier proteins successfully, but the serum sensitivity of mouse immunized with PCM artificial antigen was not high, which indicated that the benzene ring might be part of antigenic determinant of PCM. The epitope of PCM was destroyed during molecular modification by succinic anhydride, so this method was not suitable for the preparation of PCM artificial antigen.

Key words: procymidone, structural modification, artificial antigen, animal immunization, serum

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