Antibodies Flashcards
What do you call specific glycoproteins produced in response to an antigenic stimulation?
Immunoglobulins
What part of the antibody determines the immunoglobulin class?
heavy chain
The Heavy chain is encoded by what chromosome?
Chromosome 14
The light chain is encoded in what chromosome?
Kappa (ch 2) and Lambda (ch 22)
This links the H-H chain, H-L chain
Disulfide bonds
L-L chain is only found in where?
Bence Jones protein
This provides flexibility of the antibody due to Proline
Hinge region
The variable region contains what region?
Fab region (PARATOPE), antigen binding site
This determines the specificity of the antibody
Hypervariable region
Constant region contains the _________ region
Fc region (fragment crystallizable)
This is composed of 1 variable and 1 constant domain
Light chain
This is composed of 1 variable and 3/4 constant domain
Heavy chain
Rodney Porter described Ab structure using _____
papain
Rodney Porter described Ab structure using Papain, yields 3 products, what are those?
“ABOVE”
1 Fc, 2 Fab
Alfred Nisonoff described Ab structure using Pepsin, yields 2 products, what are those?
“BELOW”
1 Fc, 1 F(ab)2
What is considered an incomplete immunoglobulin?
IgG
What is the main antibody for SECONDARY immune response?
IgG
What IgG best in crossing the placenta?
IgG1
“PG 134”
What IgGs can fix complement?
“GC 312”
IgG3 > IgG1 > IgG2
IgG is best in what reaction?
Pecipitation