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. 1971 Oct;68(10):2616–2620. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.10.2616

Similar Idiotypic Specificities in Immunoglobulin Fractions with Different Antibody Functions or Even without Detectable Antibody Function

J Oudin 1, P A Cazenave 1
PMCID: PMC389480  PMID: 4109410

Abstract

Idiotypy has been studied in antibodies against a protein antigen: hen ovalbumin. Various fractions of antisera to hen ovalbumin have been compared from the standpoint of the idiotypic specificities found on the immunoglobulins that they contain. Idiotypic specificities were found to be common to (a) antibodies that were not eluted from the same immunoadsorbent by the same MgCl2 concentration, but by four different concentrations. (b) Antibodies that were precipitable only by hen ovalbumin, only by hen and turkey ovalbumin, or also by duck ovalbumin. (c) Antibodies that were precipitated or not precipitated by the homologous ovalbumin, and proteins apparently devoid of antiovalbumin antibody function. These findings are discussed from the standpoint of (i) the differences in function between the various fractions with the same idiotypic specificities, and (ii) what may be common in the cellular origin of immunoglobulins with a common idiotypic specificity, and what may be different in immunoglobulins with different antibody functions or without antibody function.

The same idiotypic specificities have been found in certain IgG and IgM antiovalbumin antibodies.

Keywords: ovalbumin, immunoadsorption

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