PMID: 2485085Jan 1, 1989Paper

Identification of the main immunogenic region of retinal S-antigen: subordinate influence of MHC, IGH, species or strain differences on the specificity of the antibody response

Autoimmunity
V KnospeL A Donoso

Abstract

The factors which lead to selection of dominant antigenic sites concentrated in discreet regions of proteins and polypeptides are important to the development of antigen-specific immunotherapies for autoimmune diseases and for vaccine design. In this study, the main immunogenic regions of the immunopathogenic autoantigen, retinal S-antigen, have been identified by examination of the specificity of antibody responses of different species. Using cyanogen bromide and synthetic peptides in western blots and the ELISA, the specificities of antisera from rabbits, guinea pigs, rats and 19 inbred strains of mice were tested. All animals produced high titers of antibody to S-antigen with the exception of PL/J mice. Antibodies which bound epitopes contained in peptide CB46, a 46 amino acid-containing peptide located at the C-terminus of S-antigen, were dominant in all species and strains tested. The epitopes in CB46 were multiple, overlapping, and concentrated in a stretch of approximately 30 residues. Two overlapping synthetic peptides from that region substantially competed the anti-CB46 response of all animals. Antibodies which recognized peptide CB47, a 47 residue peptide from the N-terminus, comprised the next most common group. Thi...Continue Reading

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