Repertoire of BALB/c mice natural anti-carbohydrate antibodies
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ABSTRACT: One of the most common genetic backgrounds for mice used as model to investigate human diseases is the BALB/c strain. This work is aimed to characterize the pattern of natural anti-carbohydrate antibodies present in serum of BALB/c mice by printed glycan array technology. Natural antibodies from serum of BALB/c mice interacted with at least 70 glycans from a library of 419 different carbohydrate structures. However, only a restricted number of these (12, ~17%) were highly recognized by natural antibodies, and shared by more than 80% of mice under examination. This conserved pattern differed dramatically from that of humans. This finding together with not identical repertoires of antibodies between individual mice should be specially considered when mouse models are intended to be used for investigation of human natural antibodies in different biomedical research and diagnostic contexts.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE97151 | GEO | 2017/03/29
SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA380815
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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