The work presented here represents the first report of the induction of experimental immune complex (IC) disease in mice using monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) derived from somatic cell hybridization. IC were formed using two antigens of either high (DNP19BSA) or low (DNP4BSA) epitope density and five MoAb (four IgGl with varying affinities for the dinitrophenol hapten and one IgM with a similar affinity to that of the lowest affinity IgGl). Circulating levels and sizes of IC were dependent on the affinity of the antibody component of the complex. When antigen of high epitope density was used, the glomerular localization of injected IC was diffuse mesangial for the IgM antibody, focal mesangial for the highest affinity IgG and diffuse, and predominantly capillary for the low affinity IgG antibodies. Subepithelial electron dense deposits were observed only with IC made with the low affinity IgG antibodies. When IC containing antigen of a lower epitope density were injected, localization was only observed with IC made near equivalence. Deposition of these IC was less prominent than that found when IC containing antigen of higher epitope density were injected. The relevance of these findings to the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis is discussed.
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