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A quantitative cellular radioimmunoassay (CRIA) for histocompatibility typing is described. Chicken red blood cells (RBC) were incubated in microtiter plates with specific anti-MHC (B) alloantisera and the alloantibody bound measured indirectly by a second binding step with125I-labeled rabbit anti-chicken IgG. The assay is objective, highly consistent, and three to four orders of magnitude more sensitive than conventional hemagglutination assays. The new CRIA was used to detect minor subpopulations of cells in artificial cell mixtures; as few as 1% of relevant cells were easily detected. Erythrocyte chimerism was induced following the injection of B2/B2 chicken embryos with B15/B21 embryonic stem cells. Five weeks after hatching, erythrocyte chimerism was precisely quantitated by comparing the reaction of RBC from the putative chimeras with artificial cell mixtures using specific anti-B15/B21 alloantisera. The percent varied from 13–40% in 13 chimeric animals. The new CRIA was also used for the sensitive detection of tumor-specific antigens on a T-cell lymphoma. An unexpected finding was that anti-B15 alloantibody bound almost as well to B15/B21 heterozygous RBC as to B15/B15 homozygous cells, suggesting that either the concentration or the steric arrangement of B15 alloantigen at the erythrocyte surface may not conform to conventional expectations.
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Longenecker, B.M., Singh, B., Gallatin, M. et al. Histocompatibility typing by cellular radioimmunoassay. Immunogenetics 7, 201–211 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01844008
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