title: Anti-allotype antibody response in mice: expression of a cross-reactive idiotype and its regulation by auto-anti-idiotypic antibodies in maternally allotype suppressed F1 hybrids.
abstract: Anti-IgGb2a allotype antibodies produced by various responder strains of mice expressed a cross-reactive idiotype. This cross-reactive idiotype was evidenced with BAB. 14 and CXBI anti-idiotypic sera raised following immunization with affinity chromatography purified BALB/c anti-CBPC 101 (IgGb2a) antibodies originating from a single BALB/c mouse. F1 hybrids of BALB/c X C.B20 parents, which have been maternally suppressed for IgGb2a allotype as a result of immunization with CBPC 101, produced anti-allotype antibodies lacking cross-reactive idiotype. Furthermore, these mice produced auto-antibodies directed at the IdX of anti-IgGb2a allotypic antibodies.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic / Q000235:genetics; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000276:immunology*; D003429:Cross Reactions; D005260:Female; D006822:Hybrid Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D000888:Antibodies, Anti-Idiotypic; D001323:Autoantibodies; D007130:Immunoglobulin Idiotypes