title: Dimerization kinetics of the IgE-class antibodies by divalent haptens. II. The interactions between intact IgE and haptens.
abstract: Interactions between a monoclonal, DNP-specific IgE molecules (hybridoma A2) and divalent DNP-haptens in solution cause aggregation of the former predominantly into closed rings of two IgE and two divalent haptens (Schweitzer-Stenner, R., A. Licht, I. Lüscher, and I. Pecht. 1987. Biochemistry. 26:3602-3612). The time course of this process was now investigated by titrating the A2-IgE with divalent DNP-haptens having long and rigid oligoproline spacers (di(N epsilon-2,4-dinitrophenyl)-6-amino-hexanoate-aspartyl-(prolyl)n-L-ly- syl; n = 24, 27, 33). Binding was expressed in quenching of the IgE intrinsic tryptophan emission. As shown in the preceding paper, hapten addition to the IgE-A2 at rates faster than a distinct threshold value led to nonequilibrium titrations (NETs) from which kinetic processes slower than 2 s-1 can be resolved. Analysis of these titrations shows that the dimeric rings open at rates of approximately 10(-2) s-1, independent of the divalent hapten's spacer length. The ring closure rate, however, decreases with spacer length. The latter observation was qualitatively rationalized in terms of the diffusion process of a Gaussian chain which relates the ring closure rate constant to the expectation value for the distance between the free ends of the respective open chain.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Experimental Physics, University of Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Schweitzer-Stenner
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Licht
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pecht
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000378:metabolism*; D001666:Binding Sites, Antibody; D004140:Dinitrophenols; D006241:Haptens / Q000378:metabolism*; D007073:Immunoglobulin E / Q000378:metabolism*; D007700:Kinetics; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008433:Mathematics; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains / Q000276:immunology; D008962:Models, Theoretical
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D004140:Dinitrophenols; D006241:Haptens; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D007073:Immunoglobulin E