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Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry, Vol. 45, 1567-1582, Copyright © 1997 by The Histochemical Society, Inc.

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Production of a Monoclonal Antibody by In Vitro Immunization That Recognizes a Native Chondroitin Sulfate Epitope in the Embryonic Chick Limb and Heart

Anthony A. Capeharta, Matthew M. Wienecke1,a, Gregory T. Kittenb, Michael Solursh2,b, and Edward L. Kruga
a Department of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, South Carolina
b Department of Biological Sciences, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa

Correspondence to: Anthony A. Capehart, Dept. of Cell Biology and Anatomy, Medical U. of South Carolina, 171 Ashley Ave., Charleston, SC 29425.

We report the production of a monoclonal antibody (d1C4) by in vitro immunization that has immunoreactivity with a native chondroitin sulfate epitope in embryonic chick limb and heart. Murine lymphocytes were stimulated by direct exposure to unfixed, unsolubilized precartilage mesenchymal aggregates in high-density micromass culture derived from Stage 22-23 chick limb buds. Specificity of d1C4 reactivity was demonstrated by sensitivity of immunohistochemical staining to pretreatment with chondroitinase ABC or AC, preferential immunoreactivity with chondroitin-6-sulfate glycosaminoglycan (CS-C GAG) in ELISA, and competition of immunohistochemical staining with CS-C GAG. Immunohistochemical analysis of the expression of the d1C4 epitope revealed a striking localization of immunoreactivity in the extracellular matrix (ECM) of precartilage aggregates of chick limb mesenchyme in high-density micromass culture by 16 hr and the prechondrogenic limb core at Stage 23 in vivo. Immunoreactivity in both cultured limb mesenchyme and the embryonic limb continued through differentiation of prechondrogenic condensations into cartilage tissue. In the developing chick heart, d1C4 staining was found throughout the ECM of atrioventricular cushion tissue by Stage 25, but was localized to mesenchyme adjacent to the myocardium in the outflow tract cushions. There was an abrupt demarcation between d1C4-reactive intracardiac mesenchyme and unreactive extracardiac mesenchyme of the dorsal mesocardium in the Stage 22 embryo. This study demonstrates the efficacy of in vitro immunization of lymphocytes for the production of MAbs to native ECM constituents, such as CS-GAGs. Immunohistochemical data utilizing d1C4 suggest that CS-GAGs bearing this epitope may be important in early morphogenetic events leading to cartilage differentiation in the limb and valvuloseptal morphogenesis in the heart. (J Histochem Cytochem 45:1567-1581, 1997)

Key Words: in vitro immunization, monoclonal antibodies, extracellular matrix, chondroitin sulfate, proteoglycan, chondrogenesis, limb development, heart development


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