Relative noncovalent association constant between immunoglobulin H and L chains is unrelated to their expression or antigen-binding activity - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1987 Nov 1;139(9):3012-20.

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Relative noncovalent association constant between immunoglobulin H and L chains is unrelated to their expression or antigen-binding activity

P A Hamel et al. J Immunol. 1987.

Abstract

With H and L chains derived from the murine hybridoma and myeloma proteins NQ5-89.4, 93G7, AIDA10/3, AIDA10/16, HyHEL-10, HyHEL-9, HyHEL-8, HyHEL-5, XRPC25, J539, UPC10, 6684, and C101, the relationship between the relative affinity between H-L pairs, their antigen-binding characteristics, and the primary structure of their VH and VL domains was assessed. Using competitive chain reassociation assays in which two different L chains were allowed to compete for a limiting amount of an H chain, it was observed that different pairs of L chains tended to compete to the same degree regardless of which H chain was used as the limiting reagent and regardless of whether they were the autologous or heterologous L chain. In agreement with our previous results, it was also observed that when there was limited diversity between the Vk segments of the competing L chains, the relative competitive ability of an L chain was dictated by the nature of the first residue of the Jk segment, residue 96. However, when a high degree of diversity existed between the Vk segments of the competing L chains, the relative affinity was dictated by the V segment. It was further demonstrated that junctional diversity in the L chain may not necessarily be essential for antibody activity, determined using autologous and heterologous, noncovalently reassociated immunoglobulin molecules in antigen-binding assays. Combined with the results of the competitive reassociation assays, it was evident that no correlation between the competitive ability of these L chains existed or, by inference, the relative mutual affinity between different H-L pairs and their ability to form an antigen-binding site. These results were in agreement with the random rearrangement of VH and VL domain gene segments and argue against any restrictions in the expression of the full repertoire of immunoglobulin molecules due to combinatorial (H-L pairing) mechanisms.

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Relative noncovalent association constant between immunoglobulin H and L chains is unrelated to their expression or antigen-binding activity - PubMed (original) (raw)