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Idiotypic control of the immune response

R Valderrama1, A E Eggers, S Revan

  • 1Department of Neurology, SUNY Health Science Center, Brooklyn 11203.

Journal of Neuroimmunology
|December 1, 1988
PubMed

Anti-idiotypic antibodies are antibodies against the antigenic determinants (idiotypes) of an antibody's antigen-binding region. Anti-idiotypes can bind near (Ab2 gamma) or away (Ab2 alpha) from the antigen-combining site or can carry the internal image of the antigen (Ab2 beta). Idiotypes and anti-idiotypes have been described in T- and B-cell systems. They have been used in basic research to purify and characterize receptors and ligands against receptors, to treat tumors, to make vaccines and to diagnose and suppress the immune response. In experimental myasthenia gravis anti-idiotypes protect animals against the disease, block idiotype binding and share idiotypic specificities.

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