Two gene-targeted immunoglobulin heavy chain transgenic mouse strains, TgH(KL25) and TgH(VI10), expressing neutralizing specificities for lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus and vesicular stomatitis virus, respectively, have been generated. Three days after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection, TgH(KL25) mice showed a thymus-independent neutralizing IgM response followed by thymus-depend...

The major challenge in the generation of bispecific IgG antibodies is enforcement of the correct heavy and light chain association. The correct association of generic light chains can be enabled using immunoglobulin domain crossover, known as CrossMAb technology, which can be combined with approaches enabling correct heavy chain association such as knobs-into-holes (KiH) technology or electrost...

A B72.3 Fab/sTn(2) complex was modeled from the known structure of B72.3 Fab and the dimeric Tn-serine cluster (sTn(2)). In the complex model, the side chains of 15 heavy- and light-chain complementarity-determining region (CDR) residues and the main chains of two light-chain CDR residues contact the sTn(2) epitope. Among 15 CDR residues which contact sTn(2) in the model, two heavy-chain residu...

Active site structure-function analyses of anti-fluorescein single chain antibody 4-4-20 and anti-single-stranded DNA single chain antibody 04-01 were conducted studying the ligand binding properties of hybrid antibodies resulting from systematic transplantation of heavy chain complementarity regions (HCDRs) from monoclonal antibody 4-4-20 into 04-01. Two prototype monoclonal antibodies were ch...

Mouse monoclonal anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-ids) were raised against L6, a murine IgG2a monoclonal antibody specific for a cell surface antigen expressed by many human carcinomas. Ten distinct anti-ids were generated. Eight anti-ids were shown to inhibit the binding of L6 to its target antigen and were characterized in detail. The heavy and light chain variable region gene segments of the ...

Anti-2,4-dinitrophenyl (DNP) IgE producing hybridoma B 53 when injected subcutaneously is established equally well in syngeneic BALB/c (heavy-chain allotype a) and congenic CB20 (heavy-chain allotype b) mice. However, secretion of anti-DNP IgE monoclonal antibody is greatly suppressed in CB20 mice. B 53 cells taken from the subcutaneous tumors of CB20 mice produce anti-DNP IgE in vivo in BALB/c...

The overall quality of recombinant IgG antibodies in plants is dramatically compromised by host endogenous proteases. Different approaches have been developed to reduce the impact of endogenous proteolysis on IgGs, notably involving site-directed mutagenesis to eliminate protease-susceptible sites or the in situ mitigation of host protease activities to minimize antibody processing in the cell ...

Seasonal influenza vaccines elicit antibody responses that can prevent infection, but their efficacy is reduced in the elderly. While a subset of elderly individuals can still mount sufficient vaccine-induced antibody responses, little is known about the properties of the vaccine-induced antibody repertoires in elderly as compared to young responders. To gain insights into the effects of aging ...

A hybridoma cell line that produces a monoclonal antibody specific for indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) was prepared. The DNA fragments coding the variable regions of the light and the heavy chains of the antibody were prepared by PCR using the cDNA of the antibody as a template. A chimera DNA for a single chain variable fragment (scFv) was constructed, and expressed in Escherichia coli. The scFv ant...

The purpose of this study was to determine if human colon cancer cells transduced with monoclonal antibody (MAb) genes become sensitive to immune destruction through coexpression of both the MAb and its reactive antigen. Murine retroviral expression vectors were constructed with the heavy or light chain genes of an anti-human colon carcinoma MAb, D612, that mediates antibody-dependent cell-medi...