DeWitt C L, Bosma M J
J Exp Med. 1979 Aug 1;150(2):351-8. doi: 10.1084/jem.150.2.351.
We have used a radioimmune assay to confirm our earlier findings of an unexpected immunoglobulin allotype in Igb-congenic BALB/c mice. Although these mice were bred to exclude the IgG2a allotype of BALB/c (Ig-la), an Ig-la-like antigen was detected in the 7S Ig fraction of two (of five) pooled serum samples, it represented 0.1--0.3% of the total 7S protein and was indistinguishable from a reference Ig-la. The detection of putative Ig-la in Igb-congenic mice is inconsistent with the notion that allotypes are products of allelic structural genes. It appears rather that expression of Ig-la is controlled by allelic regulator genes and that its low and transient production in Igb-congenic mice results from incomplete negative regulation.
我们已使用放射免疫测定法来证实我们之前在Igb同基因BALB/c小鼠中发现的一种意外免疫球蛋白同种异型的结果。尽管这些小鼠经过培育以排除BALB/c的IgG2a同种异型(Ig-1a),但在五个合并血清样本中的两个样本的7S Ig组分中检测到了一种类似Ig-1a的抗原,它占总7S蛋白的0.1 - 0.3%,并且与参考Ig-1a无法区分。在Igb同基因小鼠中检测到推定的Ig-1a与同种异型是等位结构基因产物的观点不一致。相反,Ig-1a的表达似乎受等位调节基因控制,并且其在Igb同基因小鼠中的低水平和短暂产生是由于负调节不完全所致。