Regulation of the Anti‐Trinitrophenyl Response by Anti‐Idiotype Antibodies a
Regulation of the Anti‐Trinitrophenyl Response by Anti‐Idiotype Antibodies a
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抗独特型抗体对抗三硝基苯基反应的调节
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发表时间:
1983
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
E. Goidl
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作者:
G. Siskind;B. Bhogal;J. Gibbons;M. Weksler;G. Thorbecke;E. Goidl
It has been suggested by Jerne' that the immune system is self regulated as a consequence of a network of interactions between idiotypes (ids) and anti-idiotypes (anti-id). One of the key predictions from such a hypothesis is that anti-id should be spontaneously produced during the immune response to traditional foreign antigens. Such spontaneous production of auto-anti-id has been observed by several groups2-' including our own.61o We have employed the observation that in some cases the presence of a low concentration of hapten in the assay medium results in an increase in the number of plaque-forming cells (PFC) observed in a Jerne" assay, as the basis for the detection of auto-anti-idiotype We suggested that auto-anti-id can bind to Ig on the surface of potential antibody secreting cells, thereby causing a reversible inhibition of antibody secretion. Hapten competes with anti-id for cell-surface antigen receptors (id). Therefore, in the presence of hapten, bound auto-anti-id is displaced, the inhibition of secretion is reversed, and an increase in the number of PFC is observed. Thus, hapten-augmentable PFC represent B cells whose secretion of antibody has been blocked as a consequence of the binding of auto-anti-id to cell surface idiotype. Evidence justifying the use of this assay has been previously published6*" and includes (a) the ability to elute with hapten a factor from spleen cells that can cause a specific hapten-reversible inhibition of plaque formation and that has binding and antigenic properties consistent with its being an IgG auto-anti-id; (b) the fact that under certain experimental conditions the number of hapten-augmentable PFC detected in the spleen correlates with the results obtained using a conventional enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) for anti-id in the serum. With this approach we have demonstrated that auto-anti-id is produced spontaneously during the primary and secondary responses to both T-dependent and T-independent antigens;'.* auto-anti-id is produced spontaneously by mice38*'0 rabbits