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  • Title: A human myeloma cell line that does not express immunoglobulin but yields a high frequency of antibody-secreting hybridomas.
    Author: Pickering JW, Gelder FB.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1982 Jul; 129(1):406-12. PubMed ID: 6806365.
    Abstract:
    We selected an 8-azaguanine-resistant variant of a human myeloma cell line (RPMI 8226) by cloning the parental cells on a feeder layer of mouse spleen cells in the presence of increasing concentrations of 8-azaguanine. Culture media and cellfree extracts of both the parental and variant (8226 AR/NIP4-1) cell lines were assayed for production of immunoglobulin heavy and light chains by double immunodiffusion and for lambda-chain by radioimmunoassay. Secretion of free lambda-chain by the parental cell line was confirmed. In contrast, no immunoglobulin heavy or light chains were detected in culture medium of the variant cell line by either immunodiffusion or radioimmunoassay. No intracellular lambda-chain could be detected in the variant cells by radioimmunoassay of cellfree extracts or by immunofluorescence of fixed cells. Hybridomas were produced by fusion of 8226AR/NIP4-1 cells with lymphocytes from a mesenteric lymph node recovered at surgery from a hypertransfused renal transplant recipient. Twenty hybrid culture supernatants were assayed for immunoglobulin by double immunodiffusion, and 15 contained either IgG (lambda) or IgG (kappa). None produced IgM or IgA. An IgG (kappa)-producing hybridoma was shown by immunofluorescence not to express lambda-chain. A second fusion between the variant cell line and spleen cells from a renal transplant patient produced a stable hybridoma secreting IgM (lambda) antibody specific for the I antigen.
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