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Identification and Analysis of Myogenic Progenitors In Vivo During Acute Skeletal Muscle Injury by High-Dimensional Single-Cell Mass Cytometry

Skeletal muscle regeneration is a dynamic process driven by adult muscle stem cells and their progeny. Mostly quiescent at a steady state, adult muscle ...

Aarhus University

The enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and its derivatives are powerful tools used in research, in the clinic, and in many other analytical and quality control settings. In general, ELISAs are robust, reproducible and reliable. However, a number of pitfalls of ELISAs have been described over the years. The issue of rheumatoid factor (RF), autoantibodies against the Fc portion of IgG, is well recognized (yet often forgotten), as are problems arising from heterophilic antibodies induced by external antigens that cross-react with self-antigens. A few years ago focus was on human anti-mouse antibodies (HAMA) concomitant with the increased use of mouse monoclonal antibody therapy, a problem that is now diminishing due to development of humanized antibodies. Issues pertaining to food antigens or environmentally encountered antigens are less recognized. We report a recently encountered example of the latter resulting in interference in a solid-phase sandwich assay. Due to the set-up employing a monoclonal rat IgG for capture and a monoclonal rat IgM for development the interference had to be human antibodies reacting with rat light-chain. Out of 102 Danish Caucasian blood donors we found a prevalence of anti-rat kappa light chain antibodies of close to 40% (39/102, defined as at least 2-fold elevated measurements), with around 6% (6/102) having very high levels (defined as at least 4-fold elevated measurements), yielding significantly higher measurements in the assay designed to measure the complement component MAp19 in serum samples. The interference could be blocked by the addition of rat immunoglobulin to the sample buffer. An individual, who had been followed over time, demonstrated a periodic increase of interfering antibodies, highlighting that it is an independently varying parameter and thereby a variable interference in assays. Our results highlight a major pitfall of potential relevance to many sandwich-type assays, as well as an approach to rectify such problems.

Assay interference caused by antibodies reacting with rat kappa light-chain in human sera.

Heteroclitic monoclonal antibodies are characterized by the ability to bind multiple epitopes with little or no similarity. Such antibodies have been reported earlier, but insight into to the molecular basis of this propensity is limited. Here we report that the KIM185 antibody to human CD18 reacts with the plasma protein C4b-binding protein (C4BP). This was revealed during affinity purification procedures where human serum was incubated with surfaces coated with monoclonal antibodies to CD18. Other monoclonal antibodies to CD18 (KIM127 and TS1/18) showed no such interaction with C4BP. We constructed a sandwich-type time-resolved immunofluorometric assay using KIM185 both as capture and developing antibody. By use of proteolytic fragments of KIM185 and recombinant deletion mutants of C4BP the interaction sites were mapped to the variable region of KIM185 and the oligomerization domain of C4BP, respectively. C4BP is a large oligomeric plasma protein that binds activated complement factor C4b and other endogenous ligands as well as microorganisms. By use of the recent crystallographic data on the structure of CD11c/CD18 and prediction of the secondary structure of the C4BP oligomerization domain, we show that epitopes bound by KIM185 in these proteins are unlikely to share any major structural similarity. However, both antigens may form oligomers that would enable avid binding by the antibody. Our report points to the astonishing ability of heteroclitic antibodies to accommodate the binding of multiple proteins with no or little structural similarity within the confined space of the variable regions.

The role of higher-order protein structure in supporting binding by heteroclitic monoclonal antibodies: the monoclonal antibody KIM185 to CD18 also binds C4-binding protein.

Stig Henrik Andersen

Department of Biomedicine

Aarhus University

Identification and Analysis of Myogenic Progenitors In Vivo During Acute Skeletal Muscle Injury by High-Dimensional Single-Cell Mass Cytometry

Stig Henrik Andersen

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Aarhus University

Identification and Analysis of Myogenic Progenitors In Vivo During Acute Skeletal Muscle Injury by High-Dimensional Single-Cell Mass Cytometry

Department of Biomedicine