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Development and cross-reactive properties of monoclonal antibodies to bovine matrix vesicle alkaline phosphatase.

Abstract
Alkaline phosphatase (ALPase), concentrated in the membranes of matrix vesicles, is believed to play a role in initial calcification. To further purify, characterize, and identify this enzyme in tissue, a monoclonal antibody was developed against the ALPase of isolated fetal calf matrix vesicles. Splenic lymphocytes derived from mice immunized with Sepharose 6B-purified fetal calf matrix vesicle ALPase were fused with mouse plasmacytoma cells (line X63-Ag-8.653) using standard hybridoma technology. Hyperimmune sera and hybridoma culture supernatants were screened for the presence of specific antibody using a newly developed double-immunosorbent assay in which putative antibody is added to microtiter plate wells precoated with affinity-purified rabbit antimouse immunoglobulin. After incubation and washing, partially purified fetal calf matrix vesicle ALPase is added to each well. The enzyme adheres only to wells that contain specific anti-ALPase antibody. These wells are identified by adding the enzyme substrate p-nitrophenyl phosphate and reading the wells in a plate-reading spectrophotometer at 405 nm. A hybridoma-producing specific antibody was subsequently cloned and grown as ascities-producing tumors in pristane-primed mice. Ouchterlony analysis indicated that the cell line secretes an immunoglobulin of IgG1 class. This antibody reacts specifically with ALPase derived from calf matrix vesicles and cross-reacts with ALPase of bovine kidney, liver, and placental origin and human bone but does not cross-react with bovine intestinal ALPase or ALPase derived from matrix vesicles isolated from rachitic rat growth plate cartilage.
AuthorsI Oppliger, H K Vaananen, P A Munoz, H H Hsu, D C Morris, H C Anderson
JournalBone (Bone) Vol. 7 Issue 5 Pg. 373-8 ( 1986) ISSN: 8756-3282 [Print] United States
PMID3539156 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal
  • Immunosorbents
  • Alkaline Phosphatase
Topics
  • Alkaline Phosphatase (immunology, metabolism)
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Monoclonal (immunology)
  • Bone Matrix (enzymology, immunology)
  • Cattle
  • Cross Reactions
  • Immunologic Techniques
  • Immunosorbents
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred BALB C
  • Rats

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