Quantitation of the number of molecules of glycophorins C and D on normal
red blood cells using radioiodinated Fab fragments of monoclonal antibodies
J Smythe, B Gardner and DJ Anstee
International Blood Group Reference Laboratory, Bristol, UK.
Two rat monoclonal antibodies (BRAC 1 and BRAC 11) have been produced. BRAC
1 recognizes an epitope common to the human erythrocyte membrane
glycoproteins glycophorin C (GPC) and glycophorin D (GPD). BRAC 11 is
specific for GPC. Fab fragments of these antibodies and BRIC 10, a murine
monoclonal anti-GPC, were radioiodinated and used in quantitative binding
assays to measure the number of GPC and GPD molecules on normal
erythrocytes. Fab fragments of BRAC 11 and BRIC 10 gave values of 143,000
molecules GPC per red blood cell (RBC). Fab fragments of BRAC 1 gave
225,000 molecules of GPC and GPD per RBC. These results indicate that GPC
and GPD together are sufficiently abundant to provide membrane attachment
sites for all of the protein 4.1 in normal RBCs.
Volume 83,
Issue 6,
pp. 1668-1672,
03/15/1994
Copyright © 1994 by The American Society of Hematology