Matsuda T, Nakashima I, Kato Y, Nakamura R. Antibody response to haptenic sugar antigen: immunodominancy of protein-bound lactose formed by amino-carbonyl reaction.
Mol Immunol 1987;
24:421-5. [PMID:
3657787 DOI:
10.1016/0161-5890(87)90015-0]
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Abstract
Several reducing sugars with structural analogy (glucose, galactose, lactose, melibiose, maltose and cellobiose) were bound to a carrier protein ovalbumin by amino-carbonyl reaction, and the non-enzymatically glycosylated proteins were injected into mice (BALB/c, C57BL/6, DBA/2 and C3H/He strains) with Freund's adjuvant. Antibody responses to the haptenic sugar antigens were analyzed quantitatively by enzyme-linked immunosorbent-assay using each sugar-bovine serum albumin complex. The haptenic sugar antigen from lactose induced a markedly higher response of specific antibody as compared with the haptenic sugar antigens from the other sugars. The antibody raised against the lactose adduct reacted well with lactulose (4-o-beta-D-galactopyranosyl-D-fructose) or alpha-N-acetyl-epsilon-N-deoxylactulosyl-L-lysine. The results suggested that immunogenicity of haptenic sugar antigens was remarkably different in sugar chemical structure, and that the lactose adduct formed by lactose-protein amino-carbonyl reaction could be an immunodominant antigenic determinant.
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