Genetic control of the antibody response to allotypes of murine C4
β Scribed by Dominic G. Spinella; Laurie A. Roper; Howard C. Passmore
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1984
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 318 KB
- Volume
- 19
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0093-7711
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β¦ Synopsis
The murine C4d allotypes are antigenic variants of the fourth component of the mouse complement system which are controlled by alternative alleles at the S region of the H-2 complex. The first of these to be defined was H-2.7, originally described by Hoecker and co-workers (1959) who detected the specificity on A.SW (H-2 ~) erythrocytes using an antiserum derived from immunization of strain A (H-Y) mice with lymphoid cells from A.CA (H-if) donors. This allotype was detected on erythrocytes of strains carrying the H-2 haplotypes f, j, p, and s by PVP
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The fourth component of routine complement (C4) is a ~200000 dalton glycoprotein that is synthesized as a single-chain intracellular precursor (pro-C4) and is subsequently cleaved to the e-,/%, and y-chains of native C4 (Roos et al. 1978, Parker et al. 1979, Fey et al. 1980). The molecular weights o
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