Abstract
Complement-dependent sperm-immobilizing antibodies (SI-Abs) are exclusively detected in the serum of infertile women. We generated a number of sperm-immobilizing monoclonal antibodies to examine antigenic epitopes for SI-Abs. The epitope for Mab H6–3C4, a human monoclonal antibody generated from peripheral B lymphocytes of a patient with strong SI-Abs was found to be present in the carbohydrate moieties of CD52. CD52 is known as a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) anchor glycoprotein present in lymphocytes and male reproductive tracts (mrt) including mature sperm and seminal plasma. However, the immunochemical property of mrt-CD52 is different from that of CD52 in the lymphocytes. In this article, biological and immunological functions of mrt-CD52 epitope analyses for different monoclonal antibodies reactive to mrt-CD52 are described.
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Hasegawa, A., Koyama, K. (2009). Sperm-Immobilizing Antibody and Its Target Antigen (CD52). In: Krause, W., Naz, R. (eds) Immune Infertility. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01379-9_11
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