Article
The repertoire of somatic antibody mutants accumulating in the memory compartment after primary immunization is restricted through affinity maturation and mirrors that expressed in the secondary response.
The Journal of experimental medicine - 1 Dec 1990
Weiss U, Rajewsky K
Abstract excerpt
The anti-(4-hydroxy-3-nitro-phenyl)acetyl (NP) response is dominated by lambda 1 chain-bearing antibodies expressing the VH gene V186.2 in combination with the D element DFL16.1. lambda 1-positive B cells were isolated from the spleens of mice immunized with NP-chicken gamma globulin 6 wk earlier...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Animals
- B-Lymphocytes
- Base Sequence
- Female
- Gene Rearrangement
- Genes, Immunoglobulin
- Haptens
- Immunization
- Immunoglobulin Variable Region
- Immunoglobulin lambda-Chains
- Immunologic Memory
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Mutation
- Nitrophenols
- Phenylacetates