PMID- 12175727 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20030303 LR - 20190906 IS - 0198-8859 (Print) IS - 0198-8859 (Linking) VI - 63 IP - 9 DP - 2002 Sep TI - Anti-peptide antibodies that recognize conformational differences of HLA class I intracytoplasmic domains. PG - 731-41 AB - Rabbit antibodies were raised against both long and short peptides derived from exon 7 sequences of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I alpha chains; anti-A/B against a 13-mer shared by most HLA-A alpha and HLA-B alpha chains, anti-C against a 15-mer characteristic of HLA-C alpha chains, anti-ACT against a 6-mer specific to HLA-A alpha chains, and anti-CCT against a 5-mer specific to HLA-C alpha chains. Binding activity of the antibodies was determined with peptides by enzyme-linked immunoabsorbent assay (ELISA) and with HLA class I transfectants and the parental cells by FACS analysis. Anti-A/B and anti-C were to a greater or lesser extent crossreactive with the long and short peptides, whereas anti-ACT and anti-CCT were specific to the corresponding short peptides. No binding was seen for anti-ACT and anti-CCT with HLA class I transfectants, C1R-A2, C1R-B7, and 221-Cw1 and the parental cells, C1R (Cw4, E) and 721.221 (E, F). Anti-A/B and anti-C were substantially protein-reactive and the binding order was C1R-B7 > C1R-A2, 721.221 > C1R, 221-Cw1 for anti-A/B, and C1R-B7 > 721.221 > C1R, 221-Cw1, C1R-A2 for anti-C. Thus, anti-A/B and anti-C bound better to HLA-B and HLA-E rather than to HLA-A and HLA-C. Computer modeling of the three-dimensional structure of the intracytoplasmic domains demonstrated that this may be due to structural differences despite the sequence similarities. FAU - Chersi, Alberto AU - Chersi A AD - Regina Elena Institute for Cancer Research, Rome, Italy. FAU - Galati, Rossella AU - Galati R FAU - Ogino, Takeshi AU - Ogino T FAU - Butler, Richard H AU - Butler RH FAU - Tanigaki, Nobuyuki AU - Tanigaki N LA - eng PT - Journal Article PL - United States TA - Hum Immunol JT - Human immunology JID - 8010936 RN - 0 (Histocompatibility Antigens Class I) RN - 0 (Protein Subunits) SB - IM MH - Amino Acid Sequence MH - Animals MH - Antibody Specificity MH - Antigen-Antibody Reactions MH - Cell Line MH - Computer Simulation MH - Cytoplasm/immunology MH - Histocompatibility Antigens Class I/*chemistry/genetics/*immunology MH - Humans MH - Mice MH - Models, Molecular MH - Molecular Sequence Data MH - Protein Conformation MH - Protein Structure, Tertiary MH - Protein Subunits MH - Rabbits MH - Transfection EDAT- 2002/08/15 10:00 MHDA- 2003/03/04 04:00 CRDT- 2002/08/15 10:00 PHST- 2002/08/15 10:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2003/03/04 04:00 [medline] PHST- 2002/08/15 10:00 [entrez] AID - S0198885902004287 [pii] AID - 10.1016/s0198-8859(02)00428-7 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Hum Immunol. 2002 Sep;63(9):731-41. doi: 10.1016/s0198-8859(02)00428-7.