Specific IgG subclass antibodies, IgE and IgG S‐TS antibodies to wheat gluten fraction B in patients with coeliac disease
RAWCLIFFE PM., JEWELL DP., FAUX JA.
SummaryAntibodies were measured in the sera of fifteen patients with untreated coeliac disease and twenty‐eight patients with inflammatory bowel disease. Increased levels of specific IgG, IgG1, IgG2, and IgG4 antibody to wheat gluten fraction B, measured by an enzyme‐linked immunosorbent assay, were shown in the coeliac disease group, but not in the inflammatory bowel disease group. No specific IgE antibody to fraction B was detected but 33% of the patients with coeliac disease had specific short‐term sensitizing (anaphylactic) IgG antibody activity (IgG S‐TS) to fraction B. There was no correlation between the IgG2 or IgG4 specific antibody and the presence of IgG S‐TS activity.