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Biophysical Journal 12: 933-947 (1972)
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Kinetic Studies of a Doubly Bound Red Cell Antigen-Antibody System

Bruce J. Oberhardt and Irving F. Miller

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The Polybrene method for detection of red cell antibodies which utilizes continuous flow equipment was modified so that kinetic studies could be performed on red cell antibodies doubly bound between adjacent red cells. In the anti-Rho-Rho erythrocyte system, deaggregation by temperature was studied over an antibody concentration range of from approximately 1 to 500 antibody molecules per erythrocyte, a residence time range of approximately eightfold, and a temperature range of from 10 to 55°C. The rate of dissociation of antigen-antibody complex, as determined from deaggregation of antibody-dependent red cell aggregates, was found to be of apparent zero order. The apparent activation energy for the antigen-antibody reaction under the experimental conditions was determined and found to be higher than would be expected for singly bound antigen-antibody systems. Possible explanations are considered for these findings in terms of an antigen-antibody bond-breaking model.






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