Abstract:
:An approach to the preparation of antigen-specific human monoclonal antibodies focuses on mice transgenic for human immunoglobulin gene miniloci; the V gene segments in these miniloci undergo productive rearrangement to yield mouse B cells expressing human immunoglobulin (Ig) chains. The general usefulness of this strategy hinges on whether it is feasible to obtain specific, high-affinity antibodies following immunization of such animals with a variety of antigens. To test this, we have investigated the antigen-specific responses in mice which carry human IgH miniloci (constaining just one or two VH segments) instead of a functional mouse IgH locus. Although serum responses were relatively weak, monoclonal antibodies were readily obtained to all immunogens tested (a hapten, foreign proteins and human lymphoma cells). The affinities of two of the hapten-specific (anti-2-phenyl-oxazol-5-one) antibodies were 60 and 160 nM, values intermediate between what is typically obtained in the primary and secondary response of normal mice. Sequence analysis of the rearranged V genes revealed that junctional events made a major contribution to diversity with a considerable amount of apparently non-templated sequence at the V-D and D-J borders. Somatic hypermutation was also evident within the expressed V gene segments of many of the antigen-specific hybridomas. These findings augur well for the general usefulness of the transgenic approach for the isolation of high-affinity human antibodies to a wide range of antigens and suggests that the miniloci need not be particularly large.
journal_name
Eur J Immunoljournal_title
European journal of immunologyauthors
Wagner SD,Popov AV,Davies SL,Xian J,Neuberger MS,Brüggemann Mdoi
10.1002/eji.1830241116subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1994-11-01 00:00:00pages
2672-81issue
11eissn
0014-2980issn
1521-4141journal_volume
24pub_type
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