title: A monoclonal antibody to an antigen present in cells from a patient with Hodgkin's disease.
abstract: A monoclonal antibody-secreting hybridoma cell line, VCD-1, was derived from the fusion of murine myeloma cells with splenocytes from a BALB/c mouse that had been immunised with chronic B-lymphocytic leukaemia cells. The cells came from a patient who had developed the leukaemia approximately 10 years after a course of radiotherapy for nodular sclerosing Hodgkin's disease. The antibody bound to a 30,000-dalton protein that was present in normal and malignant B cells, in monocytes, neutrophils, and interdigitating reticulum cells, and in malignant cells present in Hodgkin's disease lymph nodes. The reactive epitope was not accessible to antibody in viable intact cells; binding to peripheral blood cells could only be seen if the cells were fixed. The antibody recognises a determinant that probably resides on the alpha-chain of HLA class II molecules.
authors.affiliation: MRC Human Cell Biology Research Unit, University of Cape Town.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Veenstra
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Close
authors.forename: E B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Dowdle
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000096:biosynthesis / Q000276:immunology*; D000944:Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte / Q000276:immunology*; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D004591:Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel; D005260:Female; D005455:Fluorescent Antibody Technique; D006689:Hodgkin Disease / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D000944:Antigens, Differentiation, B-Lymphocyte; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm