HUMAN AUTOANTIBODIES AS REAGENTS TO CONSERVED GOLGI COMPONENTS - CHARACTERIZATION OF A PERIPHERAL, 230-KDA COMPARTMENT-SPECIFIC GOLGI PROTEIN

Abstract

We have used a serum from a patient with Sjögren's syndrome containing high titer (100,000) anti-Golgi autoantibodies and lower titer (20,000) anti-nuclear autoantibodies to characterize the Golgi complex. The Sjögren's syndrome serum immunoprecipitated a number of components of molecular mass 35-230 kDa from detergent extracts of [35S]methionine-labeled HeLa cells; at high dilution, the serum precipitated one major 230-kDa component. Using the Sjögren's syndrome serum, cDNA clones encoding the Golgi autoantigen were isolated from a lambda gt11 HeLa cell cDNA library. Autoantibodies from the Sjögren's syndrome serum, affinity purified from a recombinant bacterial fusion protein generated fro..