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V Region Carbohydrate and Antibody Expression¹

Department of Microbiology, Immunology, and Molecular Genetics, The Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095

N-Linked carbohydrates are frequently found in the V region of Ig H chains and can have a positive or negative effect on Ag binding affinity. We have studied a murine anti-(16) dextran V_H that contains a carbohydrate in complementarity-determining region 2 (CDR2). This carbohydrate remains high mannose rather than being processed to a complex form, as would be expected for glycans on exposed protein loops. We have shown that the glycan remained high mannose when murine-human chimeric Abs were produced in a variety of cell types. Also, when another carbohydrate was present in CDR1, CDR2, or CDR3 of the L chain, the V_H CDR2 glycan remained high mannose. Importantly, we found that when the anti-dextran V_H CDR2 replaced CDR2 of an anti-dansyl V_H, the glycosylation site was used, but H chains were withheld in the endoplasmic reticulum and did not traffic to the Golgi apparatus. These results suggest that inappropriate V region glycosylation could contribute to ineffective Ab production from expressed Ig genes. In some cases, a carbohydrate addition sequence generated by either V region rearrangement or somatic hypermutation may result in an Ab that cannot be properly folded and secreted.

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