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Antigen and epitope specificity of anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies in patients with Goodpasture disease with or without anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies

Yang, Rui LU ; Hellmark, Thomas LU orcid ; Zhao, Juan ; Cui, Zhao ; Segelmark, Mårten LU ; Zhao, Ming-hui and Wang, Hai-yan (2007) In Journal of the American Society of Nephrology 18(4). p.1338-1343
Abstract
Goodpasture disease (GP) is defined by the presence of anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. Besides anti-GBM, many patients with GP produce anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). For elucidation of the pathophysiologic significance of ANCA in this setting, epitope and antigen specificity of the anti-GBM antibodies and antigen specificity of ANCA were studied. Bovine testis a(IV)NC1 (tNC1); recombinant human alpha 1, alpha 3, alpha 4, and alpha 5(IV)NC1 (r alpha 1 through r alpha 5); and three chimeric proteins that contain previously defined epitope regions designated E-A, E-B, and S2 were used to examine the anti-GBM antibodies by ELISA in 205 Chinese patients with GP... (More)
Goodpasture disease (GP) is defined by the presence of anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. Besides anti-GBM, many patients with GP produce anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). For elucidation of the pathophysiologic significance of ANCA in this setting, epitope and antigen specificity of the anti-GBM antibodies and antigen specificity of ANCA were studied. Bovine testis a(IV)NC1 (tNC1); recombinant human alpha 1, alpha 3, alpha 4, and alpha 5(IV)NC1 (r alpha 1 through r alpha 5); and three chimeric proteins that contain previously defined epitope regions designated E-A, E-B, and S2 were used to examine the anti-GBM antibodies by ELISA in 205 Chinese patients with GP with or without ANCA. In the 205 anti-GBM antibody-positive sera, 63 (30.7%) were also ANCA positive (61 myeloperoxidase-ANCA and six proteinase 3-ANCA, four being triple positive). All 205 sera recognized tNC1 and r alpha 3(IV)NC1. In the double-positive group, 54.0, 66.7, 71.4% of the sera could recognize r alpha 1, r alpha 4, and r alpha 5, respectively, compared with 49.3, 60.6, and 55.6% for patients with anti-GBM antibodies alone. The levels of the antibodies to r alpha 3, tNC1, and the alpha 3/alpha 1 ratio were lower in the double-positive group than that in patients with anti-GBM antibody alone (P < 0.05). Most of the sera could recognize the epitope regions E-A,E-B, and S2, but the absorbance values to EA, EB, and S2 were lower in double-positive group (P < 0.05). Double-positive patients had a broader spectrum of anti-GBM antibodies and lower levels of antibodies against alpha 3(IV)NC1 compared with that of patients with anti-GBM antibodies alone. (Less)
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10.1681/ASN.2006111210
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English
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  abstract     = {{Goodpasture disease (GP) is defined by the presence of anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis. Besides anti-GBM, many patients with GP produce anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies (ANCA). For elucidation of the pathophysiologic significance of ANCA in this setting, epitope and antigen specificity of the anti-GBM antibodies and antigen specificity of ANCA were studied. Bovine testis a(IV)NC1 (tNC1); recombinant human alpha 1, alpha 3, alpha 4, and alpha 5(IV)NC1 (r alpha 1 through r alpha 5); and three chimeric proteins that contain previously defined epitope regions designated E-A, E-B, and S2 were used to examine the anti-GBM antibodies by ELISA in 205 Chinese patients with GP with or without ANCA. In the 205 anti-GBM antibody-positive sera, 63 (30.7%) were also ANCA positive (61 myeloperoxidase-ANCA and six proteinase 3-ANCA, four being triple positive). All 205 sera recognized tNC1 and r alpha 3(IV)NC1. In the double-positive group, 54.0, 66.7, 71.4% of the sera could recognize r alpha 1, r alpha 4, and r alpha 5, respectively, compared with 49.3, 60.6, and 55.6% for patients with anti-GBM antibodies alone. The levels of the antibodies to r alpha 3, tNC1, and the alpha 3/alpha 1 ratio were lower in the double-positive group than that in patients with anti-GBM antibody alone (P &lt; 0.05). Most of the sera could recognize the epitope regions E-A,E-B, and S2, but the absorbance values to EA, EB, and S2 were lower in double-positive group (P &lt; 0.05). Double-positive patients had a broader spectrum of anti-GBM antibodies and lower levels of antibodies against alpha 3(IV)NC1 compared with that of patients with anti-GBM antibodies alone.}},
  author       = {{Yang, Rui and Hellmark, Thomas and Zhao, Juan and Cui, Zhao and Segelmark, Mårten and Zhao, Ming-hui and Wang, Hai-yan}},
  issn         = {{1046-6673}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  number       = {{4}},
  pages        = {{1338--1343}},
  publisher    = {{American Society of Nephrology}},
  series       = {{Journal of the American Society of Nephrology}},
  title        = {{Antigen and epitope specificity of anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies in patients with Goodpasture disease with or without anti-neutrophil cytoplasmic antibodies}},
  url          = {{http://dx.doi.org/10.1681/ASN.2006111210}},
  doi          = {{10.1681/ASN.2006111210}},
  volume       = {{18}},
  year         = {{2007}},
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