title: [Artificial H-2 dependent carrier determinants of the insulin molecule].
abstract: The known tertiary structure of insulin allows the study of carrierdeterminants of insulin: their nature, their distance to antigenic determinants and their H-2 dependance. We examined the influence of "foreign " amino acids of insulins from two different species and the influence of chemically coupled new amino acids at the B-chain of insulin in congenic resistant mice. Three strains were immunized with bovine insulin and three derivatives: LeuB-insulin, LysB-insulin and GluB-insulin. H-2d mice were high responders to insulin and all derivatives, while H-2k mice showed no detectable antibodies. The H-2b strain had an intermediate antibody response to bovine insulin. LeuB-insulin, LysB-insulin and GluB-insulin produced similar titers as unmodified insulin in H-2d mice. In H-2b mice, GluB-insulin produced significantly more antibodies than did all other insulins tested with antibody specificities directed against A8-A10. Therefore Glu at position B0 acts as a carrierdeterminant and A8-A10 as antigenic determinant at the dose utilised in H-2b mice. The distance between both determinants is about 15-20 A, allowing therefore the cooperation of T and B cell.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002352:Carrier Proteins / Q000276:immunology*; D000939:Epitopes; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens / Q000032:analysis*; D007328:Insulin / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008819:Mice, Nude
chemical_list: D002352:Carrier Proteins; D000939:Epitopes; D006649:Histocompatibility Antigens; D007328:Insulin
vernacular_title: Déterminants porteurs artificiels, H-2 dépendants, de la molécule d'insuline