Abstract
AbstractA simple procedure is described for the preparation of the monospecific immunoglobulins (Ig) to bovine pineal hydroxyindole O‐methyltransferase (HIOMT) (EC 2.1.1.4). We observed that anti‐serum to HIOMT was produced in rabbits which had received subcutaneous inoculations of the crude pineal extract. The monospecific Ig to HIOMT were isolated by an immunoadsorption technique in which the brain extract was coupled to the CNBr‐activated Sepharose. The purified Ig gave a single precipitin line against the pineal extract on an Ouchterlony double diffusion plate and also by immunoelectrophoresis. All other extracts tested, cerebral cortex, cerebellum, thalamus, caudate nuclei, superior coliculus, liver, adrenal gland, kidney, retina and serum did not express precipitin lines to the purified Ig. When immunochemical titration was used, the pineal HIOMT was quantitatively precipitated by the monospecific Ig.
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