IMMUNOCHEMICAL STUDIES ON MOUSE MYELOMA PROTEINS REACTIVE WITH DEXTRANS OR WITH FRUCTOSANS AND ON HUMAN ANTILEVANS

Abstract

Four BALB/c IgA mouse myeloma proteins (W3129, W3434, QUPC 52, and UPC 102) reactive with dextran, four myeloma proteins reactive with fructosans, three IgA (W3082, UPC 61, and Y5476), and one IgG2a (UPC 10), and two human antilevans were studied immunochemically. Quantitative precipitin and inhibition assays showed that W3129, W3434, and QUPC 52 had specificities for isomaltose oligosaccharides similar to those previously found with α(1 → 6)-specific human antidextrans. W3129 and W3434 were most complementary to IM5 but W3129 reacted equally with IM4 and IM3 while W3434 had a greater affinity for IM4 than IM3. QUPC 52 had a larger combining region and was most complementary to IM6. Protein UPC 102 (IgA), like MOPC 104E (IgM) (27), was most complementary to the α(1 → 3)-linked trisaccharide, nigerotriose, and thus differed from J558 (29), which was inhibited best by nigeropentaose. UPC 102 was similar to J558 but they differed from MOPC 104E in their reactions with non-α(1 → 3)-linked disaccharides.