Research Article

Adipocytes from New Zealand Obese Mice Exhibit Aberrant Proinflammatory Reactivity to the Stress Signal Heat Shock Protein 60

Table 1

Inhibition of Hsp60 binding to C57BL/6J and NOD mouse-derived preadipocytes by antibodies directed against defined Hsp60 regions.

Anti-human Hsp60 antibodyHsp60* binding (%)
CloneRecognized Hsp60 region (aa)C57BL/6J preadipocytesNOD preadipocytes

H11–50
24/HSP601–200
H-300274–573
4B9/89335–366
HSPD1383–419
LK-1383–447
K-19523–573

The binding of (fluorescent-labeled) Hsp60* (100 nM) in the absence of antibodies was set as 100%. The data represent residual Hsp60 binding in the presence of antibodies as mean ± SEM of three independent experiments. The application of adequate isotype controls to rule out unspecific inhibitory effects, showed no significant inhibition, whereas inhibition > 50% is regarded as biologically relevant, statistically significant inhibition of Hsp60* binding is indicated as ; .