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A common idiotype in IgE and its relation to recognition of the grass pollen allergen Phl p 2.

Persson, Helena ; Flicker, Sabine ; Sadegh, Mardjaneh Karbalaei ; Greiff, Lennart LU ; Valenta, Rudolf and Ohlin, Mats LU orcid (2008) In Molecular Immunology 45(9). p.2715-2720
Abstract
The variable regions of allergen-specific IgE, the isotype mediating allergic responses, are poorly defined to date. In this study we define the character of human antibody binding sites recognizing Phl p 2, a major allergen from timothy grass pollen. Independently raised specificities developed by phage display technology tended to have common sequence motifs (idiotypes), such as IGHV4-31 germline gene origin and heavy chain complementarity-determining region (CDR) 3 length and sequence. They also combined with highly related light chain sequences. Such heavy chain variable domain-encoding transcripts have also been found in the IgE-encoding transcriptome of yet other grass pollen allergic subjects. Altogether these data argue that a... (More)
The variable regions of allergen-specific IgE, the isotype mediating allergic responses, are poorly defined to date. In this study we define the character of human antibody binding sites recognizing Phl p 2, a major allergen from timothy grass pollen. Independently raised specificities developed by phage display technology tended to have common sequence motifs (idiotypes), such as IGHV4-31 germline gene origin and heavy chain complementarity-determining region (CDR) 3 length and sequence. They also combined with highly related light chain sequences. Such heavy chain variable domain-encoding transcripts have also been found in the IgE-encoding transcriptome of yet other grass pollen allergic subjects. Altogether these data argue that a common idiotype is used to establish specific antibodies with a potential to mediate allergic responses to Phl p 2. Such a restriction may contribute to the limited molecular diversity observed in some IgE populations. (Less)
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Molecular Immunology
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45
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9
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2715 - 2720
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1872-9142
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10.1016/j.molimm.2008.01.004
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Human IgE repertoires and an anti-allergome resource
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