Kappa Chain (VχIII) Subgroup‐Related Activity in an Idiotypic Anti‐Cold Agglutinin Serum
- 29 June 1976
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Scandinavian Journal of Immunology
- Vol. 5 (6-7), 629-636
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3083.1976.tb03012.x
Abstract
In a search for H‐ or L‐chain‐related cross‐idiotypic specificity among human anti‐I and anti‐i cold agglutinins, two idiotypic antisera raised against the IgMχ cold agglutinin Da were tested for their binding activity to isolated cold agglutinin H and L chains. Negligible H‐chain binding activity was found, but there was high‐titre L‐chain binding activity in one of the antisera. This was an unsuspected VχIII subgroup activity which enabled the classification of VχIII proteins into three subgroups. The χ chains of five out of six anti‐I and anti‐i cold agglutinins belonged to the antigenically most active VχIII subgroup. Absorption of the idiotypic antiserum with a Bence Jones protein of this latter subgroup did Dot appreciably alter the precipitating cross‐idiotypic activity of the antiserum when tested with intact cold agglutinins. However, these studies do not rule out the possible existence of a VχIII subgroup‐associated conformational antigen in an intact Fab region, which is seen as a ‘cross idiotypic’ antigen by heterologous (rabbit anti‐human) antisera.Keywords
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