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Article type: Research Article
Authors: Horgan, Carol; | Brown, Kathy | Pincus, Seth H.
Affiliations: Laboratory of Microbial Structure and Function, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, MT, USA
Note: [] Address reprint requests to Dr. Carol Horgan, Laboratory of Microbial Structure and Function, Rocky Mountain Laboratories, Hamilton, MT 59840, USA.
Abstract: We have examined the antigen binding characteristics of two chimeric IgG1 antibodies that differ only in the heavy chain variable region. Antibodies 10B and B11 were expressed from two different anti-(Tyr, Glu)-Ala–Lys murine VH genes joined to human IgG1 constant region genes in a murine anti-(Tyr, Glu)-Ala-Lys heavy chain loss variant hybridoma. The binding characteristics of the antibodies to (Tyr,Glu)-Ala–Lys and to a peptide conjugate, CYYYEEEEY:BSA, were measured in solution and solid phase assays. The antibodies exhibited similar affinities and binding characteristics when assayed in solution assays. However, when we measured binding of antibodies to immobilized antigens, we found that antibody affinity depended on the epitope density in the immobilized immune complexes. The binding of antibody 10B and of B11 to immobilized (Tyr,Glu)-Ala–Lys and to CYYYEEEEY:BSA were similar at high antigen density, but antibody B11 bound less well at lower antigen density. Fab fragments of 10B bound to immobilized (Tyr,Glu)-Ala–Lys and CYYYEEEEY:BSA, but Fab fragments of B11 did not bind to (Tyr,Glu)-Ala–Lys and bound less well to CYYYEEEEY:BSA than 10B Fabs.
Keywords: chimeric antibodies, affinity, soluble immune complexes, immobilized immune complexes
DOI: 10.3233/HAB-1992-3306
Journal: Human Antibodies, vol. 3, no. 3, pp. 153-157, 1992
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