InVivoMAb anti-mouse/rat MHC Class II (I-Ek/RT1-D)

Catalog #BE0167
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14-4-4S (HB-32)

$159.00 - $4,155.00

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Product Details

The 14-4-4S monoclonal antibody reacts with mouse MHC Class II alloantigen I-Ek and the rat MHC class II alloantigen RT1D. These MHC class II molecules are expressed primarily on the surface of B lymphocytes, macrophages, dendritic cells and other antigen presenting cells as well as a subset of T cells from H-2k bearing mice. These MHC molecules play a role in antigen presentation to T cells. The 14-4-4S antibody has been reported to block antigen presentation and induce differentiation of mouse cells expressing I-Ek.

Specifications

Isotype Mouse IgG2a, Īŗ
Recommended Isotype Control(s) InVivoMAb mouse IgG2a isotype control, unknown specificity
Recommended Dilution Buffer InVivoPure pH 7.0 Dilution Buffer
Immunogen C3H mouse skin graft and spleen cells
Reported Applications in vivo blocking of antigen presentation
Flow cytometry
Formulation PBS, pH 7.0
Contains no stabilizers or preservatives
Endotoxin <2EU/mg (<0.002EU/Ī¼g)
Determined by LAL gel clotting assay
Sterility 0.2 Ī¼M filtered
Production Purified from tissue culture supernatant in an animal free facility
Purification Protein G
RRID AB_10950190
Molecular Weight 150 kDa
Storage The antibody solution should be stored at the stock concentration at 4Ā°C. Do not freeze.
Flow Cytometry, in vivo blocking of antigen presentation
Positional identification of RT1-B (HLA-DQ) as susceptibility locus for autoimmune arthritis PubMed

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is associated with amino acid variants in multiple MHC molecules. The association to MHC class II (MHC-II) has been studied in several animal models of RA. In most cases these models depend on T cells restricted to a single immunodominant peptide of the immunizing Ag, which does not resemble the autoreactive T cells in RA. An exception is pristane-induced arthritis (PIA) in the rat where polyclonal T cells induce chronic arthritis after being primed against endogenous Ags. In this study, we used a mixed genetic and functional approach to show that RT1-Ba and RT1-Bb (RT1-B locus), the rat orthologs of HLA-DQA and HLA-DQB, determine the onset and severity of PIA. We isolated a 0.2-Mb interval within the MHC-II locus of three MHC-congenic strains, of which two were protected from severe PIA. Comparison of sequence and expression variation, as well as in vivo blocking of RT1-B and RT1-D (HLA-DR), showed that arthritis in these strains is regulated by coding polymorphisms in the RT1-B genes. Motif prediction based on MHC-II eluted peptides and structural homology modeling suggested that variants in the RT1-B P1 pocket, which likely affect the editing capacity by RT1-DM, are important for the development of PIA.