title: Chemically humanized murine monoclonal antibody against a cell nuclear antigen: usefulness in autoimmune diagnostics.
abstract: The cellular nuclear antigen SS-B/La is known to be a major antigenic target to an autoantibody in patients with Sjogren's syndrome and systemic lupus erythematosus. It is useful to detect an anti-SS-B/La antibody from patients' sera in a clinical point of view. We purified SS-B/La from rabbit thymus acetone powder by affinity chromatography with a murine anti-SS-B/La monoclonal antibody (1C3-H7). An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay method, in which SS-B/La was used to coat a plate, was also successfully established. It is difficult to obtain a large volume of patient's serum with high antibody titer and high specificity as a positive control. We investigated whether or not a positive control from human could be replaced by a murine monoclonal antibody to SS-B/La. The 1C3-H7 was conjugated with a human IgG Fc' fragment using N-gamma-maleimidobutyryloxysuccinimide as a cross-linker. The chemically humanized murine monoclonal antibody (1C3-Fc') was recognized by antiserum specific for human IgG Fc fragment. 1C3-Fc' reacted to SS-B/La but not to other antigens. Furthermore, the titration curve of this conjugate ran parallel with those of patients' sera specific for SS-B/La. It is concluded that a chemically humanized murine monoclonal antibody is useful as a positive control in place of a human patient's serum.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory for Immunology, Hoechst Japan Limited, Saitama.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Miyachi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Doi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kitamura
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Jitsukawa
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000974:Antibodies, Antinuclear / Q000737:chemistry; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000737:chemistry; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000302:isolation & purification; D015153:Blotting, Western; D006801:Humans; D007141:Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments; D007159:Immunologic Tests / Q000379:methods*; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins / Q000302:isolation & purification; D012859:Sjogren's Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology; D013045:Species Specificity; D000097585:SS-B Antigen
chemical_list: D000974:Antibodies, Antinuclear; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001324:Autoantigens; D007141:Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments; D012261:Ribonucleoproteins; D000097585:SS-B Antigen; C035357:SS-B antibodies