title: The immune response to bacterial dextrans. V. A "dominant" idiotype in IgCHb mice.
abstract: A battery of syngeneic monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies was prepared against a monoclonal C57BL/6 anti-Dextran B512 antibody (17-9). Two such anti-idiotypes were shown to bind to sites on the 17-9 molecule which are related to the Dex-binding site and were used to characterize the anti-Dex antibody response in a number of inbred mouse strains. The results show that the 17-9 idiotype is recurrently expressed by all mice carrying the IgCHb haplotype, regardless of H-2 or background genes, and that this idiotype accounts for roughly one-half of the primary, specific response to Dex B512 in C57BL/6 mice. Backcross analysis confirmed the allotype-linkage of idiotype expression in the antibody response. Mice carrying other allotypes, however, had detectable levels of the 17-9 idiotype in normal sera, which was not associated with anti-Dex antibody activity and was not raised by specific immunization. Together with previous observations, these results characterize a second "recurrent" idiotype in the anti-alpha,1-6 response of IgCHb mice, both of which are expressed in the normal serum of all mouse strains tested.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000276:immunology; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial / Q000276:immunology*; D003911:Dextrans / Q000276:immunology*; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D051379:Mice; D008815:Mice, Inbred Strains / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000907:Antibodies, Bacterial; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000942:Antigens, Bacterial; D003911:Dextrans; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes