To be useful for immunoaffinity chromatography, an antibody must have high affinity for its antigen in order to bind the antigen in a dilute solution. This property, however, generally results in a complex that is difficult to disrupt in order to recover the antigen in an active form. Most elution conditions require extremes of pH values, chaotropic salts, or denaturing reagents. A unique type of mAb has high affinity for a protein antigen, but whose interaction with the antigen can be dissociated under gentle elution conditions (7,8). This type of mAb has been designated a polyol-responsive mAb (PR-mAb) because the eluting buffer is a neutral, aqueous buffer containing a low molecular weight polyhydroxylated compound (polyol) and a nonchaotropic salt, combinations that are 82 N. THOMPSON, ET AL.