... was capable of digesting factorVIII molecule [7], suggesting a pathological role of thisantibody in vivo. The Bence-Jones proteins, which arefound in the urine of patients with certain diseases,particularly ... The light chain of ECL2B mAb was capable of cleaving a pep-tide (RSSHFPYSQYQFWKNFQTLK) derived fromCCR5, a chemokine receptor, which plays a crucialrole in HIV infection. In all of these catalytic ... chain (HpU-9-L) strongly interacted with the b-subunit, but onlyweakly with the a-subunit. In this study, we investi-gated the binding and catalytic features of HpU-9 mAb subunits against...