Purification, quantification, and functional analysis of Complement Factor H.

Complement Factor H (FH) is an abundant, non-enzymic plasma/serum glycoprotein, which has a major role in regulating activation of the complement system. It can be purified from human plasma/serum by affinity chromatography, using a monoclonal anti-FH antibody as ligand. Other affinity chromatography ligands, including cardiolipin and trinitrophenyl-bovine serum albumin (TNP-BSA), can be used to purify human FH and also FH from a wide range of vertebrates, including mammals, birds, bony fish.

[Study on the properties of solid substrate room temperature phosphorescence of the antibody labeled with fluorescein isothiocynate].

The properties of room temperature phosphorescence (RTP) of the labeled goat anti-human antibody(with fluorescein isothiocynate GAHAb-FITC) and labeled rabit anti-goat antibody(RAGAb-FITC) with FITC in different dilution ratios on many kinds of solid substrates were studied in detail. It is found that on the polyamide membrane, only using Pb(Ac)2 as a heavy atom perturber, both the labeled antibodies and their antigen-antibody conjugated compound with the human immunoglobulin G remained excellent RTP properties of isothiocyanate fluorescein, lambda ex(max)/lambda em(max) = 525/650 nm, the relation of RTP intensity to the concentration was linear in a certain range. The conditions for immunological reaction and RTP emission were optimized.