In article <7sv492$hfi$1 at nnrp1.deja.com>, <ladasky at my-deja.com> wrote:
>In article <Pine.OSF.3.91.990929165822.20662A-100000 at imtech.ernet.in>,
>nsharma at IMTECH.ERNET.IN (Naresh Sharma) wrote:
>> Has anybody raised antibodies against MHC-peptide complex ?
>> reply to
>>>>naresh76 at bigfoot.com>>There are many anti-MHC antibodies that recognize MHC complexed with
>peptide.
>>Or do you mean to ask whether there are antibodies against *specific*
>peptides bound to *specific* MHC molecules? Well, no, there are none of
>those. There are a few antibodies which recognize portions of the alpha
>helices plus an amino acid or two of the peptide, but that's as specific
>as they get.
There is an antibody called Y-Ae, generated by Rudensky/Janeway, which
recognizes a peptide from the I-E alpha chain complexed to the I-A(b)
molecule, and another called 30-2 generated by Morkowski/Rudensky, which
recognizes a peptide from murine invariant chain bound to I-A(b). I
believe there is also an antibody against the SIINFEKL/K(b) complex.
Ken Frauwirth
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Ken Frauwirth (MiSTie #33025) kfrauwir at midway.uchicago.edu
Abramson Cancer Research Institute
University of Pennsylvania
http://mail.med.upenn.edu/~kfrauwir
