title: A human monoclonal antibody to high-frequency red cell antigen Jra.
abstract: A human-mouse heterohybridoma (HMR0921) secreting human monoclonal IgG3, lambda antibody was produced from peripheral blood lymphocytes of a healthy blood donor with serum antibody to Jra, by EBV transformation and hybridization with mouse myeloma cell line P3X63Ag8.653. The reactivity of HMR0921 antibody was assessed by antiglobulin test with a panel of red cells including 14 different rare blood types. Only Jr(a-) red cells were negative. The strict specificity of this antibody to Jra antigen was further confirmed by absorption test with fluorescence flow cytometry. On screening of 28,744 blood donor samples by HMR0921 antibody, we detected 19 agglutination-negative samples, which were confirmed as Jr(a-) by conventional anti-Jra antisera. Therefore, our HMR0921 antibody is extremely useful for detecting rare Jr(a-) blood.
authors.affiliation: Hokkaido Red Cross Blood Center, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Miyazaki
authors.forename: K W
authors.initials: KW
authors.lastname: Kwon
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tone
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ihara
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kato
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ikeda
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sekiguchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal / Q000276:immunology*; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D001782:Blood Donors; D001789:Blood Group Antigens / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D001788:Blood Grouping and Crossmatching; D002461:Cell Line, Transformed; D003298:Coombs Test; D005260:Female; D005787:Gene Frequency; D006386:Hemagglutination Tests; D006801:Humans; D006825:Hybridomas / Q000276:immunology; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000276:immunology*; D007564:Japan; D008403:Mass Screening; D051379:Mice
chemical_list: D000911:Antibodies, Monoclonal; D001789:Blood Group Antigens; D007074:Immunoglobulin G