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  • 标题:Monoclonal antibodies used to probe acetylcholine receptor structure: localization of the main immunogenic region and detection of similarities between subunits
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  • 作者:S J Tzartos ; J M Lindstrom
  • 期刊名称:Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 印刷版ISSN:0027-8424
  • 电子版ISSN:1091-6490
  • 出版年度:1980
  • 卷号:77
  • 期号:2
  • 页码:755-759
  • DOI:10.1073/pnas.77.2.755
  • 语种:English
  • 出版社:The National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
  • 摘要:Seventeen cell lines producing monoclonal antibodies against Torpedo californica (torpedo) acetylcholine receptor (AcChoR) and its subunits were established. By using these antibodies as probes, we identified: (i) a similar antigenic determinant on alpha and beta torpedo subunits, (ii) a similar antigenic determinant on gamma and delta subunits, (iii) antigenic determinants unique for alpha or beta torpedo AcChoR subunits, (iv) a small region on the alpha subunit that dominates the immunogenicity of native torpedo AcChoR in rats (a monoclonal antibody directed at this region could bind to rat AcChoR in vivo and cause passive experimental autoimmune myasthenia gravis), and (v) antigenic determinants on torpedo subunits recognized in AcChoR from other species. The unexpected similarities between alpha and beta and between gamma and delta subunits raise the possibility that the complex four-subunit structure of AcChoR was derived from a simpler precursor and suggests that these antigenic similarities might reflect some structural and functional homologies.
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