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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 145, Issue 3 995-1001, Copyright © 1990 by American Association of Immunologists

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Production and isolation of rabbit anti-idiotypic antibodies directed against the human monocyte receptor for yeast beta-glucans

JK Czop, MF Gurish and JL Kadish
Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA.

beta-Glucan receptors are present on mammalian phagocytic cells and provide an important physiologic mechanism for opsonin-independent clearance of yeasts and fungi. To prepare an immunologic probe to human monocyte beta-glucan receptors, an approach was taken that focused on the ligand specificity of the receptors as expressed by an anti-Id. The algal beta-glucan laminarin was chemically coupled to protein carriers to prepare an immunogenic beta-glucan. Three mouse IgG2a mAb were raised against laminarin, and one, mAb OEA10, exhibited specificity for the soluble unit ligand yeast heptaglucoside and the ligands present on zymosan and glucan particles that are recognized by monocyte beta- glucan receptors. These findings prompted usage of mAb OEA10 as immunogen for the preparation of an anti-Id. The resulting rabbit antiserum was subjected to sequential immunoaffinity chromatography to purify anti-idiotypic antibodies. The final product contained only IgG by SDS-PAGE and was shown to be specific by its selectively blocking binding of 125I-mAb OEA10 to laminarin. Pretreatment of adherent monocytes with 0.4 micrograms/ml of the anti-Id reduced the numbers of monocytes ingesting zymosan and glucan particles by 64 and 43%, respectively, whereas ingestion of IgG-coated SRBC was unaffected by as much as 16 micrograms/ml of the anti-Id. Incubation of adherent monocytes with increasing amounts of 125I-anti-Id in the absence and presence of 40-fold molar excess unlabeled anti-Id revealed dose- dependent specific binding, which approached plateau levels with 1 microgram/ml of labeled anti-Id. Thus, the anti-Id binds to monocytes and displays functional characteristics of soluble beta-glucan ligands, indicating that some of the anti-idiotypic antibodies recognize epitopes within monocyte beta-glucan receptors.


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