injection with 4 × 106 splenocytes from C57 Bl/6 mice (MHC
haplotype H2b). Plasma from the sensitized Balb/c mice was harvested
21 days later. Flow cross-match was performed using C57 Bl/6 splenocytes as
targets to demonstrate donor antibody specificity as described previously [34 ]. Briefly, C57 Bl/6 splenocytes were
incubated with plasma, visualized with anti-CD3 (BioLegend, clone 17A2),
anti-CD45R (BD Pharmingen, clone RA3–6B2), anti-IgG (BioLegend, clone
Poly4053), anti-IgM (BD Pharmingen, clone R6–60.2), anti-IgG1 (BD
Horizon, clone A85–1), anti-IgG2a (BioLegend, clone RMG2a-62), anti-IgG2b
(R&D Systems, Cat N: F0133), anti-IgG2c (Southern Biotech, Cat N:
1079–02). Cells were gated for singlets and CD3+ cells, then the mean
fluorescence intensity (MFI) was determined for each isotype. Plasma was also
collected from non-sensitized Balb/c mice.