UV light-induced immunoglobulin heavy-chain class switch in a human lymphoblastoid cell line
- 1 November 1983
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Nature
- Vol. 306 (5939), 189-190
- https://doi.org/10.1038/306189a0
Abstract
During attempts to select nonsecretory variants from 0.467.3, and Epstein-Barr virus-transformed human lymphoblastoid cell line that secretes small amounts of IgM lambda, we exposed the cells to UV light. Cells that survived the irradiation were subcultured and their supernatants were screened for immunoglobulin production by an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Although stable nonsecretory variants were not isolated, we report here that an immunoglobulin class switch occurred in the UV-treated cell population. All survivors were found to produce large quantities of IgG lambda. Some cell cultures also produced the original IgM lambda. The UV-light-induced class switch was regularly reproducible with this target cell line.Keywords
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