title: Probing the idiotype/anti-idiotype antibody interaction with a set of synthetic peptide homologues.
abstract: Anti-idiotypic (anti-Id) antibodies were raised against two murine monoclonal antibodies (mAb 1/1 and mAb 2/1) which recognise two distinct and well-characterised epitopes on a 24-residue synthetic peptide representing part of the haemagglutinin (HA) of influenza virus. A monoclonal anti-Id antibody, specific for mAb 2/1, could bind to mAb 2/1 when the paratope of the latter was occupied with peptide, indicating that this anti-Id antibody is directed to a framework idiotope. In contrast, an anti-Id mAb derived from mAb 1/1-immunised mice was inhibited in its binding to Id by the parent peptide and also by the heptapeptide NVPEKQT which constitutes the epitope recognised by mAb 1/1. The small size of this synthetic peptide eliminates the possibility of significant steric inhibition in the system, and establishes that this mAb is a true paratope-directed anti-Id antibody. The interaction of this anti-Id mAb with the paratope of mAb 1/1 in the presence of a set of peptide homologues of the epitope was also examined. A peptide as short as 5 residues, which contains two of the three irreplaceable residues of the epitope, could inhibit binding between the two mAbs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Microbiology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.
authors.forename: L E
authors.initials: LE
authors.lastname: Brown
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: McInerney
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Anders
authors.forename: D O
authors.initials: DO
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: D C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000276:immunology*; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D000914:Antibodies, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D001666:Binding Sites, Antibody / Q000276:immunology; D001667:Binding, Competitive / Q000276:immunology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral / Q000276:immunology; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010455:Peptides / Q000138:chemical synthesis / Q000276:immunology*; D011863:Radioimmunoassay
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000914:Antibodies, Viral; D000939:Epitopes; D019267:Hemagglutinin Glycoproteins, Influenza Virus; D006389:Hemagglutinins, Viral; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D010455:Peptides