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The AChR is composed of two alpha subunits and one subunit of each beta, delta and gamma (fetal AChR), or epsilon (adult AChR), respectively. Serological diagnostics is commonly done by radioimmunoassay (RIA). Here we used an indirect immunofluorescence assay with MG patient sera on transiently transfected HEp-2 cells expressing selected components of the AChR. Our data show that already 12 out of 13 MG patient sera showed autoantibody binding to HEp-2 cells transfected to express the alpha subunit solely. Interestingly, 11 out of 13 patient sera reacted positive with cells transfected to reconstitute the complete fetal AChR, but only 6 out of 13 sera showed positive signals with cells expressing the components of adult AChR. Moreover, there was no strict correlation of the serum concentration required to obtain clear-cut fluorescence signals to the antibody titer as measured by RIA. 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