title: Induction of proliferation and differentiation of murine B cells bearing surface Ig lambda by rat monoclonal antibody to lambda chain.
abstract: Rats were immunized with the purified BCL1-IgM lambda 3(1) and their spleen cells were fused with Sp2/0 cells. Hybridomas secreting antibodies reactive with lambda 1-, lambda 2-, and lambda 3-containing myeloma proteins were subcloned and propagated in spinner culture. The antibodies were tested in a solid-phase radioimmunoassay and by indirect immunofluorescence using either BCL1 cells or normal mouse spleen cells. One of the monoclonal antibodies was purified to 95% homogeneity on DEAE-Sephadex. The purified anti-lambda anti-body, coupled to Sepharose, was mitogenic for lambda-bearing normal B cells and BCL1 cells, and in the presence of a supernatant from Concanavalin-A (Con A) stimulated these cells to secrete IgM lambda.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000276:immunology; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D001402:B-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology*; D003208:Concanavalin A / Q000494:pharmacology; D006825:Hybridomas / Q000276:immunology; D007147:Immunoglobulin Light Chains / Q000276:immunology*; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains / Q000276:immunology*; D066298:In Vitro Techniques; D008213:Lymphocyte Activation; D051379:Mice; D051381:Rats; D011947:Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell / Q000276:immunology; D013154:Spleen / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D007147:Immunoglobulin Light Chains; D007146:Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains; D011947:Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell; D003208:Concanavalin A