Identification and characterization of a hapten-modifiable TEPC 15 cross-reactive idiotype in swine.
Rabbits and swine immunized with TEPC 15 IgA, goats immunized with T15-positive IgM and swine immunized with affinity-pure swine anti-phosphorylcholine (PC) all produce antibodies which recognize a hapten-inhibitable idiotypic determinant on swine anti-PC. The similarity in reactivity and order of inhibitability with various PC analogs of the heterologous (swine anti-TEPC 15) and isologous (swine anti-swine anti-PC) reagents indicates that they recognize a related idiotype and suggest it may be the predominant idiotype expressed on swine anti-PC antibodies. The heterologous and isologous anti-idiotypic reagents generated in this study recognize swine and mouse anti-PC but not normal swine IgM, IgG or MOPC 460. Only reactions with swine anti-PC and mouse T15-positive anti-PC proteins are hapten-inhibitable. The greater inhibitory capacity of trimethylammonium and acetylcholine than PC suggests that the idiotope(s) recognized on swine anti-PC by the anti-idiotypic reagents is integral rather than peripheral to the anti-PC binding site. The nearly exclusive IgM anti-PC response of swine to Streptococcus pneumoniae R36A and PC-Brucella have so far hindered attempts to study the isotypic distribution of the idiotype.
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Cambier
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Klobasa
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D000818:Animals; D003429:Cross Reactions; D000939:Epitopes / Q000276:immunology*; D006241:Haptens / Q000276:immunology*; D007070:Immunoglobulin A / Q000276:immunology; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes / Q000276:immunology*; D007075:Immunoglobulin M / Q000276:immunology; D010767:Phosphorylcholine / Q000276:immunology; D013552:Swine
D000939:Epitopes; D006241:Haptens; D007070:Immunoglobulin A; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes; D007075:Immunoglobulin M; D010767:Phosphorylcholine