Hybrid Antibody Molecules with Allotypically Different L-Polypeptide Chains
Mart Mannik 1 and
Henry Metzger 1
1 National Institute of Arthritis and Metabolic Diseases, Bethesda, Maryland
Isolated L-chains with either the A4 or the A5 allotypic markers from rabbit antibodies to 2,4-dinitrophenyl determinant recombine at random with antibody H-chains in the presence or absence of the hapten to produce hybrid precipitating antibody molecules.