Antibodies to Lactobacilli and Bifidobacteria in Young Children with Different Propensity to Develop Islet Autoimmunity

Table 1

Molecular weight ranges of proteins reacting with IgA and IgG antibodies and the number of detectable antigenic proteins present in different bacterial homogenates.

	Antigenic protein MW ranges		Number of reactive antigenic proteins
	IgG	IgA	IgG	IgA
L. rhamnosus GG	11–86 kDa	n.t.*	25	n.t.*
B. adolescentis DSM 20083	7–80 kDa	7–72 kDa	31	20
B. adolescentis DSM 20086	10–131 kDa	10–92 kDa	36	24
B. longum DSM 20088	10–127 kDa	10–104 kDa	57	44

 *n.t.: not tested.