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. 1986 Sep;83(18):7054–7058. doi: 10.1073/pnas.83.18.7054

Anti-idiotypic antibodies that inhibit immediate-type skin reactions in unsensitized monkeys on challenge with staphylococcal enterotoxin.

U Bamberger, P H Scheuber, B Sailer-Kramer, K Bartsch, A Hartmann, G Beck, D K Hammer
PMCID: PMC386651  PMID: 3462742

Abstract

The staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB)-induced immediate-type skin reaction in unsensitized monkeys was used as a nonimmunological mast cell stimulus to examine whether the toxin exerts its effect via specific receptors on the target cell membrane. Anti-idiotypic antibodies (anti-Id) were raised in BALB/c mice against monoclonal anti-SEB antibodies (anti-SEB) and purified by idiotype affinity chromatography. The anti-Id nature of the antibody was demonstrated by its ability to inhibit the binding of 125I-labeled anti-SEB to the ligand in a concentration-dependent manner. Moreover, binding of anti-SEB to anti-Id was antagonized by the SEB ligand in a competitive way. These antibodies completely abolished skin reactions in unsensitized monkeys on challenge with SEB and impeded those provoked by staphylococcal enterotoxins A and C1 but did not have the biological activity of the toxin. These data are compatible with the view that receptors for staphylococcal enterotoxins may exist on the membrane of mast cells in the skin of unsensitized monkeys. The data suggest an experimental approach for producing anti-cell receptor antibodies that are of potential value to influence the course of staphylococcal enterotoxin-mediated effects.

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