title: Studies of monoclonal antibodies specific for major histocompatibility complex products of the rat. IV. Production and characterization of polyclonal and monoclonal anti-anti-idiotypic antibodies.
abstract: Polyclonal syngeneic, allogeneic, and xenogeneic and monoclonal syngeneic anti-anti-idiotypic antibodies have been produced against previously described monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies with specificity for monoclonal RT1 alloantigen-specific antibodies. The anti-anti-idiotypes could again be shown to be highly specific for the monoclonal anti-idiotype used for the induction of the anti-anti-idiotypic antibodies and to carry the same, or a very similar, idiotype as the original monoclonal idiotypic antibody used to induce the monoclonal anti-idiotypic. Among the 30 syngeneic and allogeneic and the five xenogeneic polyclonal anti-anti-idiotypic antisera and the three monoclonal anti-anti-idiotypes, only one polyclonal antiserum showed binding capacity to the corresponding RT1-encoded antigenic determinants on spleen cells. All the other antibodies were idiotypic but not antigen binding.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000276:immunology*; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D005260:Female; D007126:Immunoglobulin Allotypes / Q000276:immunology*; D008285:Major Histocompatibility Complex; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011914:Rats, Inbred BN; D011917:Rats, Inbred Lew; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013154:Spleen / Q000166:cytology
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007126:Immunoglobulin Allotypes