Journal of Fisheries & Livestock Production
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Research Article

Purification of Schizothorax Immunoglobulin Raised Against Metazoan Parasite: A Preliminary Study

Feroz A. Shah^1*, J. Mohanty², M.H. Balkhi¹, F.A. Bhat¹ and Inayat Chishti¹

¹Faculty of Fisheries, SKUAST-K, Shuhama, J&K, India

²Central Institute of Freshwater Aquaculture, Kausalyagung, Bhubaneshwar, India

*Corresponding Author:

Feroz A. Shah
Faculty of Fisheries
SKUAST-K
Shuhama, J&K, India
E-mail: drferozshah@yahoo.com

Received Date: April 27, 2013; Accepted Date: May 20, 2013; Published Date: May 26, 2013

Citation: Shah FA, Mohanty J, Balkhi MH, Bhat FA, Chishti I (2013) Purification of Schizothorax Immunoglobulin Raised Against Metazoan Parasite: A Preliminary Study. J Fisheries Livest Prod 1:105. doi:10.4172/2332-2608.1000105

Copyright: © 2013 Shah FA, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Attempts were made to purify immunoglobulins from serum of Schizothorax, Schizothorax niger, which had been immunized with Pomphorhynchus (Acanthocephalan) antigen. Initially, the protein in the serum was salted out at 50% saturation with ammonium sulphate and was chromatographed successively by gel filtration and ion exchange columns. The Pomphorhynchus kashmirensis agglutination positive fractions from ion exchange column when concentrated and checked in SDS-PAGE, three bands where observed. Since teleosts immunoglobulins have been shown to belong to a single class, the two extra bands found in our study might be the degradation products of immunoglobulin or some unpurified contaminants.

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