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Clinical Chemistry, Vol 32, 2112-2115, Copyright © 1986 by American Association for Clinical Chemistry

Inaccurate measurement of a polymeric IgA myeloma protein by nephelometric and fluorometric instrumentation

SS Levinson, JO Goldman, L Markyvech and LE Nathan Jr

The concentration of IgA in a serum was 5.99 g/L as assayed nephelometrically with reagent from one company, but varied between 5 and 3 g/L (for sixfold and 36-fold dilutions, respectively) without giving a definitive answer when assayed with reagent from another source. Immunofixation electrophoresis indicated an IgA lambda monoclonal protein of 45 g/L. Radial immunodiffusion showed two components, having a total concentration of 41 g/L. By fluorometry the IgA was 3.1 g/L. Increasing the dilution caused the (dilution- corrected) lower values to increase. Although the most frequent cause of such discrepant findings is an IgA2 myeloma, which occurs in about one of every 100 myeloma cases, Ouchterlony double diffusion indicated the major component to be IgA1. A polymer, Mr 670,000, was identified by column chromatography. Contrary to the usual behavior of polymers assayed with radial immunodiffusion, which underestimates their concentration, this polymer reached equivalency in agreement with its true concentration as assayed by the Mancini-Heremans technique.




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