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Human Ia(-like) specificities controlled by gene loci other thanHLA-DR were searched for at the molecular level in cells of human B-cell-type cell lines which carrytwo established DR specificities. Chevalier cells of DRw3 and 7 and U698M cells of DRw2 and 4 were used. Their Ia molecules were partially purified, radioiodinated and analyzed for Ia specificities by the direct binding and sequential binding assays with a selected panel of human Ia alloantisera. It was possible in both the cell lines to define a third subset of Ia molecules carrying a new specificity in addition to two Ia subsets carrying the established DR specificities. The new specificity was detected by putative anti-DRw4 and anti-DRw7 antisera and was closely associated with DRw4 and DRw7 at population level. It was thus designated provisionally as BR4X7. These results suggest that the BR4X7 specificity is coded for by a separateIa locus closely linked toHLA-DR locus. The determinant(s) responsible for BR4X7 was located on the small subunit of Ia molecules.
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Tanigaki, N., Tosi, R., Pressman, D. et al. Molecular identification of human Ia antigens coded for by a gene locus closely linked toHLA-DR locus. Immunogenetics 10, 151–167 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01561564
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