PMID- 33659325 OWN - NLM STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE LR - 20220210 IS - 2331-8325 (Electronic) IS - 2331-8325 (Linking) VI - 10 IP - 12 DP - 2020 Jun 20 TI - Assessments of HLA-I Specificities of Anti-HLA-I Monoclonal Antibodies Using Solid Phase Bead Arrays. PG - e3655 LID - 10.21769/BioProtoc.3655 [doi] LID - e3655 AB - Human leukocyte antigen class I (HLA-I) molecules are a group of structurally-related cell surface proteins with a high degree of variability within the population. While only up to six variants are expressed in an individual person, the whole population contains thousands of different variants. The ability to distinguish specific variants is important in the clinic to determine compatibility during organ and bone marrow transplantation and in the laboratory to study the biological properties of individual variants. Solid phase bead arrays contain purified, individually identifiable HLA-I molecules that can be used to determine antibody specificity for individual HLA-I proteins. This method is high-throughput, highly specific, and allows for simultaneous screening of antibodies against multiple HLA-I allotypes. The beads are particularly useful for screening patient sera for the presence of donor-specific antibodies against individual HLA-I variants (which can arise during pregnancy, blood transfusion, or organ transplantation). Alternate approaches, such as the use of individual HLA-I-expressing cell lines, are more time consuming, and such cell lines are difficult to procure and standardize. The HLA-I beads are also useful to study HLA-I specificity and selectivity for other receptors and binding partners. CI - Copyright (c) The Authors; exclusive licensee Bio-protocol LLC. FAU - Zaitouna, Anita J AU - Zaitouna AJ AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Michigan Medicine, 1150 W. Medical Center Drive, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. FAU - Ramon, Daniel S AU - Ramon DS AD - Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic, Arizona, USA. FAU - Raghavan, Malini AU - Raghavan M AD - Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Michigan Medicine, 1150 W. Medical Center Drive, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. LA - eng GR - R01 AI044115/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AI126054/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 AI007413/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States GR - T32 AI007528/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200620 PL - United States TA - Bio Protoc JT - Bio-protocol JID - 101635102 PMC - PMC7842659 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Affinity OT - Bead array OT - Immunology OT - Luminex beads OT - Monoclonal antibodies OT - Specificity COIS- Competing interestsThe authors do not have any competing interests. EDAT- 2021/03/05 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/05 06:01 PMCR- 2021/06/20 CRDT- 2021/03/04 05:55 PHST- 2020/01/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/04/14 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/04/27 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/03/04 05:55 [entrez] PHST- 2021/03/05 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/05 06:01 [medline] PHST- 2021/06/20 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - e3655 [pii] AID - 3655 [pii] AID - 10.21769/BioProtoc.3655 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Bio Protoc. 2020 Jun 20;10(12):e3655. doi: 10.21769/BioProtoc.3655. eCollection 2020 Jun 20.