Recently, we have used synthetic peptides corresponding to the complementarity-determining regions (CDR) of Ig molecules to induce antiidiotypic antisera. Peptide PSH3, representing the third CDR of the IgM rheumatoid factor (RF) Sie heavy (H) chain, induced a private antiidiotype that reacted with only one out of five IgM-RF. Peptide PSL2, corresponding to the second CDR of Sie light (L) chain, induced an antibody against a crossreactive idiotype (CRI), expressed by 10 out of 12 human IgM-RF analyzed. Herein, we report that five additional antiidiotypic antibodies were generated by immunization with synthetic peptides identical to the third L chain CDR of IgM-RF Sie (PSL3), the second and third H chain CDR of IgM-RF Wol, and the second and third CDR of IgM-RF Pom. As analyzed by immunoblot assay, both anti-PSL3 and anti-PSL2 reacted with the majority of 16 IgM-RF. In contrast, all five antiidiotypes induced by the H chain peptides reacted only with the parent proteins, except anti-PSH3, which reacted weakly with one additional RF. These results suggest that one (or very few) VL gene(s), but a larger number of VH genes, are used to encode IgM-RF autoantibodies.
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August 01 1985
Characterization of human rheumatoid factors with seven antiidiotypes induced by synthetic hypervariable region peptides.
P P Chen
F Gõni
R A Houghten
S Fong
R Goldfien
J H Vaughan
B Frangione
D A Carson
Online ISSN: 1540-9538
Print ISSN: 0022-1007
J Exp Med (1985) 162 (2): 487–500.
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P P Chen, F Gõni, R A Houghten, S Fong, R Goldfien, J H Vaughan, B Frangione, D A Carson; Characterization of human rheumatoid factors with seven antiidiotypes induced by synthetic hypervariable region peptides.. J Exp Med 1 August 1985; 162 (2): 487–500. doi: https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.162.2.487
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