Abstract
Structural features peculiar to the variable regions of antibodies are widely believed to interact with regulatory forces which help to control and fine-tune the specific immune responses in which these antibodies participate.(1) The serologically recognized features of antibody variable regions known as idiotypes(2,3) constitute structurally definable analogs of the sites which interact with regulatory forces in this way, and they may in some cases be identical to such sites. Over the last decade, a number of laboratories have devoted considerable effort to the detailed chemical characterization of idiotypic determinants on antibody molecules. Most of this research has centered on structural comparisons of antibodies or myeloma proteins which belong to families of related molecules sharing a common specificity for antigen but differing in their expression of a cross-reactive idiotype. Antibodies elicited in the mouse in response to the hapten P-azophenylarsonate (Ars) have been particularly well studied in this regard and illustrate many of the problems involved in the structural characterization of idiotypes in general.
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Slaughter, C.A., Capra, J.D. (1984). Structural and Genetic Basis of the Major Cross-Reactive Idiotype of the A Strain Mouse. In: Greene, M.I., Nisonoff, A. (eds) The Biology of Idiotypes. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4739-2_3
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