Abstract
Radiolabeled human β2-microglobulin (β2m) can bind to mouse histocompatibility (H-2) antigens on the cell surface or to partially purified H-2 antigens in solution. The complexes containing human β2m and H-2 antigens from C3H (H-2k) mice could be immunoprecipitated specifically with alloantisera, rabbit anti-H-2 xenoantisera, and with monoclonal H-2-specific antibodies. Specific association with H-2 antigens was also observed with other haplotypes. The only exception was B10.D2 (H-2 d) from which complexes containing human β2M could only be precipitated with anti-H-2 xenosera. Thus radiolabeled human β2M can be used as a specific label for mouse H-2 antigens in precipitation and radioimmunoassays. The application of this finding extends to major histocompatibility complex antigens of other species, and to differentiation antigens with primary association with β2m.
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Abbreviations
- MHC:
-
major histocompatibility complex
- β2m:
-
β2-microglobulin
- LcH:
-
Lens culinaris hemagglutinin
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Schmidt, W., Festenstein, H., Ward, P.J. et al. Interspecies exchange of β 2-microglobulin and associated MHC and differentiation antigens. Immunogenetics 13, 483–491 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00343716
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