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Fine specificity, idiotypy, and nature of cloned heavy-chain variable region genes of murine monoclonal rheumatoid factor antibodies.

We investigated the immunochemical and molecular characteristics of murine monoclonal rheumatoid factors. Study of the fine specificity of 20 monoclonal rheumatoid factor antibodies shows a wide degree of heterogeneity. However, many express an interstrain cross-reactive idiotype. We show that our rheumatoid factors utilize a restricted set of the heavy-chain variable region (VH) repertoire representing the more 3' VH families. Preferential expression of 3' VH families is known to occur early in development. We report the nucleotide sequence of two cloned rheumatoid factor VH genes, Y19-10 (VH J558) and 129-48 ( VH 7183) in which no major differences are observed between VH genes encoding the heavy chain of autoantibodies and antibodies against foreign antigens.[1]

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  1. Fine specificity, idiotypy, and nature of cloned heavy-chain variable region genes of murine monoclonal rheumatoid factor antibodies. Manheimer-Lory, A.J., Monestier, M., Bellon, B., Alt, F.W., Bona, C.A. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (1986) [Pubmed]
 
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