Production of monoclonal antibodies that detect Hodgkin's high molecular
weight transforming growth factor-beta
SR Newcom, LH Muth and ET Parker
Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
High molecular weight transforming growth factor-beta (TGF beta) is a
physiologically active TGF secreted by nodular sclerosing Reed- Sternberg
cells. Five monoclonal murine antibodies were prepared that distinguished
Hodgkin's TGF beta from platelet-derived TGF beta using an enzyme-linked
immunosorbent assay, neutralization of biologic activity, and Western
blotting. These monoclonal antibodies directed at unique antigenic
determinants (epitopes) of Hodgkin's TGF beta will allow further
characterization of the role of Hodgkin's TGF beta in Hodgkin's disease and
related entities.
Volume 75,
Issue 12,
pp. 2434-2437,
06/15/1990
Copyright © 1990 by The American Society of Hematology