Abstract
Administration of an excessive dose of Bacillus subtilis alpha-amylase [EC 3.2.1.1, alpha-1,4-glucan 4-glucanohydrolase] (BalphaA) induced the production of non-precipitating (non-ppt) IgG2 antibody in guinea pigs, whereas immunization with a normal dose produced precipitating (ppt) IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies. The non-ppt IgG2 antibody thus produced could be isolated from the coexisting ppt IgG2 antibody by means of the precipitin reaction at maximum precipitation. The non-ppt antibody was incapable of forming a precipitin arc with BalphaA in a conventional agar plate. In the presence of 4% polyethylene glycol (PEG), however, it formed a single arc which fused completely with those of the ppt IgG1 and IgG2 antibodies. The non-ppt antibody could not fix complement, but inhibited BalphaA activity, though with less efficiency than the ppt antibodies. These properties of the non-ppt IgG2 antibody may be due to a low affinity for BalphaA, since both gel filtration and precipitation of soluble antigen-antibody complexes with 20% PEG showed that the antibody was easily dissociable from BalphaA.
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