title: Structural correlates of cross-reactive and individual idiotypic determinants on murine antibodies to alpha-(1 leads to 3) dextran.
abstract: For the first time V-region amino acid sequence differences have been correlated with the expression of cross-reactive and individual idiotypes through an analysis of 12 dextran-binding proteins. This correlation has been possible because of the apparent sequence identity of the corresponding lambda chains. Expression of a cross-reactive idiotype was localized to two residues and/or a carbohydrate in the second hypervariable region of the heavy chain. Two individual idiotypes correlate with the two amino acids within the third hypervariable region that comprises the D segment of the dextran-binding proteins. These results demonstrate that idiotype reagents can recognize two amino acid differences within V and D segments of classical variable regions. In anti-dextran antibodies, cross-reactive idiotypes involve V-region determinants, whereas individual idiotype determinants correlate with D-segment variation.
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D000916:Antibody Diversity; D003911:Dextrans / Q000276:immunology*; D005260:Female; D006822:Hybrid Cells / Q000276:immunology; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes; D007135:Immunoglobulin Variable Region; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D009194:Myeloma Proteins / Q000276:immunology; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship
chemical_list: D003911:Dextrans; D007143:Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes; D007135:Immunoglobulin Variable Region; D009194:Myeloma Proteins