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. 1973 Dec;52(12):2979–2985. doi: 10.1172/JCI107495

Neutralizing and Non-neutralizing Antibodies to Bovine Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone and its Subunits

Gildon N Beall 1,2,3, Inder J Chopra 1,2,3, David H Solomon 1,2,3, John G Pierce 1,2,3, James S Cornell 1,2,3
PMCID: PMC302571  PMID: 4750435

Abstract

To test the possibility that the long-acting thyroid stimulator (LATS) might represent an immune complex either of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) with anti-TSH or of a subunit of TSH with an appropriate antibody, we immunized rabbits with bovine TSH (bTSH), bLH (luteinizing hormone), and their α and β subunits (bTSHα and bTSHβ). Binding, neutralizing, and nonneutralizing antibodies were demonstrated in the antisera obtained. First, antisera to TSH, TSHβ, and TSHα all bound [125I]TSH and [125I]TSHβ. Anti-bTSHβ antisera bound [125I]bTSHβ better than did anti-TSH sera, while the binding of [125I]bTSH was similar with both types of antiserum. Second, the thyroid-stimulating activity (McKenzie bioassay) of TSH could be neutralized by incubation with various dilutions of anti-TSH or anti-TSHβ. Finally, when incubation mixtures containing TSH and dilutions of anti-TSHβ antisera that only partially neutralized TSH were treated with an antiserum against rabbit immunoglobulins to precipitate immune complexes, the bioassay response of the TSH was abolished. This phenomenon was not observed when antiserum to the intact hormone was substituted in the incubation mixture. The removal of TSH biological activity from a mixture of TSH and anti-bTSHβ by addition of an anti-immunoglobulin indicated that biologically active immune complexes were formed between TSH and anti-TSHβ but not between TSH and anti-TSH. The time-course of the bioactivity and several other characteristics of these complexes differentiate them from LATS.

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