Fractionation of Purified Antibodies to the Dinitrophenyl Group with Cross-Reacting Immunoadsorbents

Abstract

Summary Purified anti-dinitrophenyl group antibodies from pooled antisera or antiserum of a single rabbit were fractionated by means of homologous and cross-reacting immunoadsorbents. Multiple fractions were obtained from all immunoadsorbents by means of stepwise hapten elution with dinitrophenol and when the homologous immunoadsorbent, 2,4-dinitrophenylaminoethyl cellulose, or the extensively altered immunoadsorbent, nitrobenzyl cellulose, were used only a few fractions or a single fraction were obtained. The most effective immunoadsorbent was found to be 2,4,6-trinitrophenylaminoethyl cellulose, which yielded eight major fractions of anti-DNP from the serum of a single rabbit. The chromatographic behavior appears primarily to be determined by differences of the binding ratio of various antibody fractions for the immunoadsorbent and the eluting hapten.