We reported previously that CBA mice pretreated with dinitrophenyl-Bordetella pertussis (DNP-BP) conjugates exhibited sharply decreased anti-DNP IgE, and increased IgG2a antibodies following immunization with DNP-ovalbumin (DNP-OA) in alum. The objective of the present experiments was to determine whether the decrease in anti-DNP IgE was attributed to a regulatory effect exerted by IgG2a antibodies. Anti-DNP monoclonal antibodies (Mab) of the IgG1 or IgG2a isotype were passively transferred to mice, 24 h before a primary immunization with DNP-OA in alum. Anti-DNP IgE production was drastically suppressed in recipients of IgG1 but not of IgG2a Mab. Similar results were obtained when the Mab were endogenously produced by intraperitoneal implantation of anti-DNP-secreting hybridomas into (BALB/ cxCBA)F1 (BCF1) mice. However, neither IgG1 nor IgG2a isotypes suppressed IgE antibody production if the hybridoma implantation took place 10 days after hapten priming. These results are, to our knowledge, the first to show a clear dissociation between the effect of either passively transferred or endogenously secreted IgG1 and IgG2a antibodies in their ability to inhibit a primary anti-hapten IgE antibody response.
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