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The IgM plaque-forming response to the alpha 1–6 epitope of dextran B512 is linked to the Ig-1 heavy chain allotypes j and b characteristic of CBA and C57BL strains, respectively, and the response typically induces the formation of autoanti-idiotypic antibodies that can distinguish between anti-dextran antibodies of CBA and C57BL origin. Nevertheless, some substrains of Balb/c mice (allotype a) and some Bailey recombinant stains give a PFC response although they do not possess allotypes j or b. The anti-dextran antibodies in these strains lack the idiotypes characteristic of either CBA and C57BL antibodies to dextran, but they possess their own particular idiotype. F1 hybrids between two responder strains possessing different idiotypes on their antibodies against dextran, produce both idiotypes and two different autoanti-idiotypic antibodies. CBA(Ig-1b) mice were high responders to dextran and possessed the idiotype of C57BL, whereas C57BL/6(Ig-1a) mice were low responders. The VH recombinant strains BAB.14 and CB-8KN that possess the Ig-1b allotype of C57BL, but have some of theV H genes from Balb/c and the rest from C57BL/6 were high responders to dextran, but did not possess the C57BL idiotype, suggesting that the genes determining the response against dextran and the idiotype may have different locations in the heavy chain locus.
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Fernandez, C., Mäkelä, O. & Möller, G. Genetics of the anti-dextran B512 and the autoanti-idiotypic response: Codominant expression in F1 hybrids and dichotomy of response and allotype-linked idiotype. Immunogenetics 10, 573–582 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01572591
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