Monoclonal autoantibodies against mouse red blood cells: a family of structurally restricted molecules |
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Authors: | P Poncet H P Kocher J Pages J C Jaton A E Bussard |
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Affiliation: | 1. Service d''Immunologie Cellulaire, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France;2. Departement de Biochimie Médicale, Université de Genève, SuisseFrance |
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Abstract: | Cultured mouse peritoneal cells from unstimulated mice developed plaque-forming activity against isologous bromelain-treated erythrocytes. Several IgM monoclonal autoantibodies obtained by fusion of peritoneal cells from NZB or CBA origin with BALB/c myeloma cells were purified by affinity chromatography on trimethyl ammonium (TMA) column on the basis of their cross-reactivity with TMA, phosphorylcholine (PC) or choline haptens. Binding affinity for PC hapten was of the order of 10(3) M-1. Idiotypic studies with a polyclonal rabbit anti-idiotypic reagent revealed strong cross-reactions with all hybridoma autoantibodies thus far tested. In addition, the rabbit anti-idiotypic serum detected idiotypes or cross-reactive idiotypes in the sera of NZB and CBA as well as BALB/c mice. N-terminal amino acid sequence analyses of three hybridoma autoantibodies from NZB mice and one from CBA mice were carried out. The sequences of the first 32 residues of the four heavy chains showed that three were identical while one had one amino acid interchange; they belong to the VHIII-subgroup. The light chains were identical in the first 35 residues with the exception of a substitution at position 3 in two light chains and are members of the VK-9-subgroup. These results entirely support the idiotypic data. These monoclonal autoantibodies from NZB and CBA mice although isolated and eluted from PC-related haptens do not have any apparent structural nor idiotypic relationship to PC-specific antibodies. Idiotypic and V-region N-terminal sequence data suggest that these autoantibodies constitute a highly restricted family of molecules likely to be encoded by unique germ-line genes which may be expressed as such or as somatic variants in different mouse strains. |
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Keywords: | CBr choline bromide CP peritoneal cells hybridoma(s) HPC anti-phosphoryl choline hybridoma(s) HRBC horse red blood cell(s) MA monoclonal antibodies MAA monoclonal autoantibodies MRBC mouse red blood cell(s) MRBC(Br) bromelinized red blood cell(s) PAPTMA paraaminophenyl TMA PC phosphorylcholine PFC plaque-forming cell(s) PPM PTMA phenyl TMA SRBC sheep red blood cell(s) PC-SRBC phosphorylcholine coupled to sheep red blood cells TMA trimethyl ammonium |
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