International Immunology, Vol. 11, No. 4, 491-498,
April 1999
© 1999 Japanese Society for Immunology
The nature of the subset of MHC class II molecules carrying the CDw78 epitopes
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Institute of Molecular Genetics, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Vídenská 1083, 142 20 Prague, Czech Republic
1 Department of Immunology, Institute for Cancer Research, The Norwegian Radium Hospital, 0310 Oslo, Norway
Correspondence to:
V. Hoejí
A CDw78 mAb FN1 was shown to recognize DP and/or DR molecules under the conditions of Western blotting. DP molecules were specifically retarded on a column of the FN1 immunosorbent; binding of FITC-labeled FN1 to B cell lines was completely blocked by excess of mAb to DR/DP ß chains, partially by several mAb to DP and weakly by some mAb to DR. The binding of two other CDw78 mAb, FN4 and MR11, to the B cell surface was most strongly inhibited by excess of different mAb to DR. Kinetics of stable binding of the CDw78 mAb indicated that their monovalent binding is of low affinity and that the stable binding to the surface is due to bivalent binding to two spatially close MHC class II molecules. FN1-based immunosorbent effectively immunoisolated complexes of MHC class II proteins with several tetraspanin molecules from a mild detergent lysate of a B cell line. It is concluded that FN1 and most likely also the other two CDw78 mAb recognize with low affinity determinants on MHC class II molecules (DP or DR) and preferentially bind in a stable fashion to dimerized or aggregated MHC class II molecules. Such dimers or aggregates may either exist as preformed on the cell surface or may be gradually formed and stabilized by bivalent interaction with mAb. These structures may be related to the previously described `superdimers' of MHC class II and/or `MHC–tetraspanin complexes'. CDw78 mAb may be valuable tools targeting such aggregated fraction of MHC class II molecules which can exhibit important signaling and antigen-presenting properties.
Keywords: B lymphocyte, low affinity, mAb
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