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Antigen - Antibody Interactions Precipitin Reactions. Hugh B. Fackrell. Antigen-Antibody Interactions. Assigned Reading Content Outline Performance Ojectives Key terms Key Concepts Short Answer Questions. Assigned Reading. Chapter: 6 pp 144-164 Janis Kuby’s Immunology 3rd Ed.
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Antigen -Antibody InteractionsPrecipitin Reactions Hugh B. Fackrell
Antigen-Antibody Interactions • Assigned Reading • Content Outline • Performance Ojectives • Key terms • Key Concepts • Short Answer Questions
Assigned Reading • Chapter: 6 pp 144-164 • Janis Kuby’s Immunology 3rd Ed
Content Outline • Strength of Antigen-Antibody Interactions • Cross Reactivity • Precipitin Reactions • Agglutination Reactions
Strength of Antigen-Antibody Interactions • affinity • avidity
Precipitin Reactions • reactions in fluids • reaction in gels • radial immunodiffusion • Ouchterlony • immunoelectrophoresis
Counter Immuno Electrophoresis Fig 12-7 Barrett 1988
Agglutination Reactions • hemagglutination • bacterial agglutination • passive agglutination • agglutination inhibition
Performance Objectives Key terms, concepts short answers
Key Terms • agglutination, direct agglutination reaction, indirect agglutination reaction • antibody affinity, antiserum, association constant (K), average affinity, • average intrinsic association constant(Ka), avidity, ELISA, equilibrium constant, • equilibrium dialysis, fluorescein, fluorochromes, hemagglutination,
passive hemagglutination, passive hemagglutination inhibition, • reverse passive hemagglutination, immune precipitation, immunoelectrophoresis • immunofluorescence, Indirect fluorecent antibody test, ring test,
Ouchterlony methods, plasma, primary antigen-antibody interactions, Radioimmunoassay(RIA • Rhodamine, secondary antigen-antibody interactions, serology, • serum, titer, zone phenomena (antibody excess, antigen excess, equivalence)
Key Concepts • Explain a primary antigen-antibody interaction and include at least three important characteristics. • Describe the forces that encourage primary antigen-Antibody interactions • Assess the reasons for using the different gel preciptitin reactions
Distinguish betweeen antibody affinity and avidity. • Describe the strength of the primary antigen-antibody interactions using equilibrium dialysis. Include the terms K and Ka • Compare and contrast RIA and ELISA • Describe direct and indirect fluorescent antibody methods. • Explain zone phenomena.
Describe a secondary antigen-antibody interaction in terms of lattice formation and antigen:antibody ratios. • Construct a table to compare the various procedures used to determine the presence of soluble antigen or antibody in a fluid and in a gel. • Distinguish between agglutination and preciptin reactions and give the advantages and disadvantages of each.
Cross reactivity of antibodies creates problems for their application in serology. Explain. • Differentiate between a primary and a secondary antigen-antibody reaction. • What are three important characteristics that distinguish the two reactions?
What kinds of noncovalent interactions are important in antigen-antibody interactions? What aspect of these interactions is most important and why? • How is equilibrium dialysis used to measure PRIMARY antigen-antibody reactions? • Differentiate between avidity and affinity.
Discuss the term lattice formation. • What are the pros and cons of RIA? • Describe two types of immunofluorescence tests. • What is the advantages of the indirect procedure over the direct procedure? • What are some commonly used fluors? • What colour does each fluor emit? • What makes precipitin reactions visible?
What two factors are important in the development of precipitin reactions? • Three patterns can be observed in the Ouchterlony test. DRAW and LABEL diagrams to illustrate these patterns. What does each pattern show? • What is the major advantage of immunoelectrophoresis over immunodiffusion? • What are the disadvantages?
How does agglutination differ from precipitation? • Why are agglutinatin tests more sensitive that precipitin tests? • Differentiate between direct and indirect agglutination reactions? • What is a major advantage of indirect agglutination reaction over direct reactions?