Antibody

Cards (58)

  • Two forms of antibodies?
    Free and membrane bound
  • Who formulated the side chain theory?
    Paul Ehrlich
  • This antibody diversity theory says that, antigen is produced and it will select a proper receptor for it. And upon interaction it will break off and become antibodies, and the cell will produce new receptor to replace it.
    Side chain Theory
  • Who formulated the instructive theory?
    Felix Haurowitz
  • Who formulated the clonal selection theory?
    Neils Jerne and MacFarlene Burnett
  • This theory proposes that individual lymphocytes are genetically pre programmed to generate a specific antibody?
    Clonal selection theory
  • What is the major drawback of of the clonal theory?
    Genetic Basis
  • Who proposed that the genes coding for the constant and the variable regions of IG regions are separate?
    Dreyer and Bennet
  • Received the Nobel prize when he discovered the genetic mechanism of antibody diversity?
    Susumu Tonegawa
  • What chromosome codes for the heavy chains of antibodies?
    Chromosome 14
  • What chromosome codes for the gene of kappa (k) light chains?
    Chromosome 2
  • What chromosome codes for the lambda (λ) light chains?
    Chromosome 22
  • What region of the antibody makes determines the specificity of it?
    Variable region
  • What is a classic monomeric antibody structure composed of?
    Two identical heavy chains and two identical light chains.
  • What kind of chemical bond, bonds the light chain to the heavy chains?
    Disulfide bond
  • What kind of chemical bond, binds the heavy chains together?
    Disulfide bonds
  • This is a unique amino acid sequence that is common to all IG molecules of a given class in each specie?
    Isotype
  • What are the 5 possible isotypes of an antibody?
    IgM, IgG, IgA, IgD, IgE
  • This is a minor variation in the heavy chain sequences that are present in some individuals but not the others?
    Allotype
  • This is the variable portion of each chain and that is unique to a specific antibody molecule, this gives the specificity of an antibody?
    Idiotype
  • What do you call the recognition domain of an antibody chain and that binds to the epitope of an antigen?
    Paratope
  • How many paratopes can be present in a single monomer?
    2 identical paratopes
  • Papain treatment of an antibody can yield how many fragments? Namely?
    3 fragments, 2 Fab and 1 Fc
  • In pepsin treatment of an antibody, how many fragments are produced? namely?
    2 fragments, F(ab')2 and Fc'
  • F(ab')2 is a result of pepsin treatment, how many Fab units does it have and how many antigens can it bind?
    F(ab')2 has 2 Fab units and can bind to 2 antigens.
  • This antibody is also known as the macroglobulin?
    Immunoglobulin M
  • How many monomers does IgM have?
    5
  • Where is IgM confined to?
    Intravascular pool
  • This immunoglobulin is the primary immune response antibody and is the first to elevate if there is an infection?
    IgM
  • This is other wise known as the immune antibody?
    IgG
  • How many subclasses does IgG have?
    4
  • What IgG subclass is has the least concentration in the serum?
    IgG4
  • What is the ONLY IgG subclass that cannot cross the placenta?
    IgG2
  • What is the first IgG subclass to do complement binding?
    IgG3
  • What IgG subclasses responses to protein antigenic stimulation?
    IgG1 and IgG3
  • What IgG subclasses responses to polysaccharide antigenic stimulation?
    IgG2 and IgG4
  • What IgG subclass has the greatest number of Disulfide bonds at the hinges? How many S-S bonds does it have?
    IgG3, 11 S-S bonds
  • What Ig can participate in agglutination reactions?
    IgG and IgM
  • Between IgG and IgM, what does best in agglutination reactions?
    IgM
  • Between IgG and IgM, what does best in precipitation reaction?
    IgG