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Marchbank KJ, Watson CC, Ritsema DF, Holers VM. Expression of human complement receptor 2 (CR2, CD21) in Cr2-/- mice restores humoral immune function. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2000; 165:2354-61. [PMID: 10946257 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.5.2354] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Complement receptor type 2 (CR2, CD21) is expressed by both human and murine B cells and has been demonstrated to play a pivotal role in the humoral immune response. We have reconstituted Cr2-/- mice with an 80-kb human genomic fragment (designated P1-5) containing the full-length human CR2 (hCR2) gene. Transfection of P1-5 into the mouse A20 B cell line confirmed that it would direct expression of the hCR2 protein in mouse B cells. Immunoprecipitation analysis in these cells revealed that hCR2 coassociates with mouse CD19. After creation of transgenic mice using P1-5, we found significant expression of hCR2 on peripheral blood and splenic B cells by flow cytometric analysis. RT-PCR analysis of tissues and purified cell populations from transgene-positive mice revealed that hCR2 expression was restricted to B cells and the spleen in a pattern that matches mouse CR2. To rigorously assess the functional capabilities of hCR2, the transgene was bred onto Cr2-/- mice, which have a notable defect in response to SRBC Ag. We found that Cr2-/- mice expressing hCR2 had a substantial restoration of the humoral immune response to SRBC as compared with nontransgenic Cr2-/- littermate controls. Overall, this study suggests that hCR2 is able to substitute for mouse CR2 in the murine immune system. Therefore, hCR2-transgenic mice offer a valuable model system to further examine immunologic roles as well as structure-function relationships important for hCR2 function in primary cells in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Heterophile/biosynthesis
- Antibody Formation/genetics
- Antigens, CD19/metabolism
- Antigens, Heterophile/administration & dosage
- Antigens, Heterophile/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/metabolism
- Cell Line
- Clone Cells
- Crosses, Genetic
- Erythrocytes/immunology
- Gene Expression Regulation/immunology
- Genetic Engineering
- Humans
- Immunization
- Mice
- Mice, Transgenic
- Receptors, Complement 3d/biosynthesis
- Receptors, Complement 3d/deficiency
- Receptors, Complement 3d/genetics
- Receptors, Complement 3d/metabolism
- Sheep
- Transfection/immunology
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- K J Marchbank
- Division of Rheumatology, Departments of Medicine and Immunology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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The inhibition of covalent binding of the nascent complement component C4b to its target. RUSSIAN JOURNAL OF BIOORGANIC CHEMISTRY 2000. [DOI: 10.1007/bf02759626] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Tolnay M, Tsokos GC. Serum regulates the expression of complement receptor 2 on human B cell lines. Immunopharmacol Immunotoxicol 2000; 22:205-19. [PMID: 10952027 DOI: 10.3109/08923970009016416] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Complement receptor 2 (CR2) participates in the regulation of B cell responses to antigen. In this study we report that treatment of IM-9 B lymphoblastoid cells or Raji Burkitt's lymphoma cells with 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum for 24 hr increased both the CR2 mRNA level and CR2 surface protein expression more than two-fold. No change in the CR2 expression level was observed if cells were cultured in serum-free medium. The CD19 mRNA level decreased after 24 hr independently of the presence of serum. The serum-stimulated increase in CR2 expression was not due to changes in the proliferative capacity of the cells and could not be mimicked by various cytokines. However, IFN-gamma as well as OKB7, a CR2-specific monoclonal antibody, blocked the serum-induced increase in CR2 expression at the mRNA level. Our data show for the first time that factors in serum induce the expression of the CR2 gene and that signals initiated by IFN-gamma and OKB7 interfere with the serum-induced changes. Because stimuli that alter CR2 expression can influence the extent of the B cell response to antigen-C3d complexes, serum factors may play a role in regulating the responsiveness of B cells.
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- M Tolnay
- Department of Cellular Injury, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC 20307-5100, USA.
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Bennet W, Groth CG, Larsson R, Nilsson B, Korsgren O. Isolated human islets trigger an instant blood mediated inflammatory reaction: implications for intraportal islet transplantation as a treatment for patients with type 1 diabetes. Ups J Med Sci 2000; 105:125-33. [PMID: 11095109 DOI: 10.1517/03009734000000059] [Citation(s) in RCA: 261] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Islet transplantation offers a logical means to treat insulin-dependent diabetes. However, for reasons poorly understood, the clinical results with islet transplantation have been vastly inferior to those obtained with whole organ pancreas transplantation. The conventional technique for transplanting isolated islets is by intraportal injection, with the islets being trapped in the liver. Human islets exposed to human blood trigged an "instant blood mediated inflammatory reaction", IBMIR, characterised by platelet consumption, and activation of the coagulation and complement systems. The islets became surrounded by clots and infiltrated with leukocytes, and there was evidence of islet damage as reflected in insulin dumping. When heparin and a complement inhibitor (SCRI), was added to the system, IBMIR was suppressed and islet damage reduced. After intraportal pig-to-pig islet intraportal allotransplantation similar morphological changes was found, corroborating the in vitro findings. Thus, IBMIR inflicts a significant damage to human islets exposed to human blood and IBMIR will also, most likely, enhance the subsequent specific, cell mediated, rejection. Platelet and complement activation seem to be the most important factors in the pathogenesis of IBMIR. The results presented strongly suggest that IBMIR observed both in vitro and in vivo when isolated islets come in contact with blood could provide an explanation for the unsatisfactory results seen in clinical islet allotransplantation.
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- W Bennet
- Department of Transplantation Surgery, Karolinska Institute, Huddinge Hospital, Sweden
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Noorchashm H, Moore DJ, Lieu YK, Noorchashm N, Schlachterman A, Song HK, Barker CF, Naji A. Contribution of the innate immune system to autoimmune diabetes: a role for the CR1/CR2 complement receptors. Cell Immunol 1999; 195:75-9. [PMID: 10433799 DOI: 10.1006/cimm.1999.1522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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B lymphocytes are required for diabetogenesis in nonobese diabetic (NOD) mice. The complement component of the innate immune system regulates B cell activation and tolerance through complement receptors CR1/CR2. Thus, it is important to assess the contribution of complement receptors to autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. Examination of the lymphoid compartments of NOD mice revealed striking expansion of a splenic B cell subset with high cell surface expression of CR1/CR2. This subset of B cells exhibited an enhanced C3 binding ability. Importantly, long-term in vivo blockade of C3 binding to CR1/CR2 prevented the emergence of the CR1/CR2(hi) B cells and afforded resistance to autoimmune diabetes in NOD mice. These findings implicate complement as an important regulatory element in controlling the T cell-mediated attack on islet beta cells of NOD mice.
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- H Noorchashm
- Department of Surgery, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
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Ottonello L, Corcione A, Tortolina G, Airoldi I, Albesiano E, Favre A, D’Agostino R, Malavasi F, Pistoia V, Dallegri F. rC5a Directs the In Vitro Migration of Human Memory and Naive Tonsillar B Lymphocytes: Implications for B Cell Trafficking in Secondary Lymphoid Tissues. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1999. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.162.11.6510] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Human C5a is a potent chemoattractant for granulocytes, monocytes, and dendritic cells. In mice C5a has been shown to be chemotactic for germinal center (GC) B cells. To date, no information is available on the effects of C5a on human B cell locomotion. Here we demonstrate that rC5a increases polarization and migration of human tonsillar B cells. The locomotory response was due to both chemokinetic and chemotactic activities of rC5a. Moreover, memory and, at a lesser extent, naive B cell fractions from purified tonsillar populations displayed rC5a-enhanced migratory properties, whereas GC cells did not. Flow cytometry revealed C5aR (CD88) on approximately 40% memory and 10% naive cells, respectively, whereas GC cells were negative. Immunohistochemistry showed that a few CD88+ cells were of the B cell lineage and localized in tonsillar subepithelial areas, where the majority of memory B cells settle. Pretreatment of memory B cells with the CD88 mAb abolished their migratory responsiveness to rC5a. Finally, the C5 gene was found to be expressed in naive, GC, and memory B lymphocytes at both the mRNA and the protein level. This study delineates a novel role for C5a as a regulator of the trafficking of human memory and naive B lymphocytes and supports the hypothesis that the B cells themselves may serve as source of C5 in secondary lymphoid tissues.
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- Luciano Ottonello
- *Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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- §Institute of Biology and Genetics, University of Ancona, Ancona, Italy
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- *Department of Internal Medicine, University of Genova, Genova, Italy
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Frémeaux-Bacchi V, Kolb JP, Rakotobé S, Kazatchkine MD, Fischer EM. Functional properties of soluble CD21. IMMUNOPHARMACOLOGY 1999; 42:31-7. [PMID: 10408363 DOI: 10.1016/s0162-3109(99)00026-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Soluble receptors may display immunoregulatory properties by blocking interactions between ligands and their membrane receptors or by triggering specific biologic responses through interaction with counter part membrane receptors. A natural soluble form of CD21 that is cleaved from lymphocyte membrane CD21 circulates in normal human serum. Soluble CD21 retains the capacity to bind iC3b and CD23, the known ligands of membrane CD21. In a similar fashion to IgE complexes, another ligand of CD23, the soluble CD21 was shown to efficiently trigger CD23-signalling pathways in human monocytes. By inducing release of proinflammatory cytokines and upregulating expression of molecules involved in antigen presentation, soluble CD21 modulates critical monocyte functions that may be relevant to allergic and inflammatory disorders.
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- V Frémeaux-Bacchi
- INSERM U430 and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Hopital Broussais, Paris, France
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Huber SA, Gauntt CJ, Sakkinen P. Enteroviruses and myocarditis: viral pathogenesis through replication, cytokine induction, and immunopathogenicity. Adv Virus Res 1999; 51:35-80. [PMID: 9891585 DOI: 10.1016/s0065-3527(08)60783-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- S A Huber
- Department of Pathology, University of Vermont College of Medicine, Colchester 05446, USA
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Tolnay M, Tsokos GC. Complement receptor 2 in the regulation of the immune response. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1998; 88:123-32. [PMID: 9714689 DOI: 10.1006/clin.1998.4552] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Antigens coated with split products of C3, the result of complement activation, are capable of crosslinking the complement receptor 2 (CR2, CD21) and the antigen receptor on the surface of B cells simultaneously. This dual recognition leads to increased cell proliferation and differentiation and enhanced antibody production. CR2 is also considered to be a regulator of the B cell response to antigen. In this review we summarize the biology of the CR2 and focus on its essential role in generating an effective B cell response to antigenic stimuli. The involvement of CR2 in the pathophysiology of infectious and autoimmune diseases is also discussed.
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- M Tolnay
- Department of Clinical Physiology, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, DC, 20307, USA
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Lymphocytes are more likely to make an immune response if costimulatory and antigen receptors coincidently signal; the way the signals are integrated illustrates how a lymphocyte learns to distinguish self from foreign antigens, and provides a model for coincident signaling through more than one receptor.
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- B C Weintraub
- Medical Genome Centre The John Curtin School of Medical Research Australian National University Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
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Recent results obtained in mice deficient in either FcRs or complement have revealed distinct functions for these two classes of molecules. While each is capable of interacting with antibodies or immune complexes, the two systems mediate distinct biological effector responses. Complement-deficient mice are unable to mediate innate immune responses to several bacterial pathogens and bacterial toxins, yet respond normally to the presence of cytotoxic antibodies and pathogenic immune complexes. In contrast, FcR-deficient mice display no defects in innate immunity or susceptibility to a variety of pathogens, yet they are unable to mediate inflammatory responses to cytotoxic IgG antibodies or IgG immune complexes, despite the presence of a normal complement system. These results lead to the surprising conclusion that these two systems have evolved distinct functions in host immunity, with complement and its receptors mediating the interaction of natural antibodies (IgM) with pathogens to effect protection, while FcRs couple the interaction of IgG antibodies to effector cells to trigger inflammatory sequelae. These results necessitate a fundamental revision of the role of these antibody-binding systems in the immune response.
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- J V Ravetch
- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA.
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Covalent attachment of activated complement C3 (C3d) to antigen links innate and adaptive immunity by targeting antigen to follicular dendritic cells (FDC) and B cells via specific receptors CD21 and CD35. Recent characterization of knockout mice deficient in complement components C3, C4, or the receptors CD21 and CD35 as well as biochemical studies of the CD21/CD19/Tapa-1 coreceptor on B cells have helped to elucidate the mechanism of complement regulation of both B-1 and B-2 lymphocytes. Interestingly, natural antibody of the adaptive immune system provides a major recognition role in activation of the complement system, which in turn enhances activation of antigen-specific B cells. Enhancement of the primary and secondary immune response to T-dependent antigens is mediated by coligation of the coreceptor and the B cell antigen receptor, which dramatically increases follicular retention and B cell survival within the germinal center. Most recent evidence suggests that complement also regulates elimination of self-reactive B cells, as breeding of mice that are deficient in C4 or CD21/CD35 with the lupus-prone strain of lpr mice demonstrates an exacerbation of disease due to an increase in autoantibodies.
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- M C Carroll
- Department of Pathology, Harvard University Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
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Boes M, Esau C, Fischer MB, Schmidt T, Carroll M, Chen J. Enhanced B-1 Cell Development, But Impaired IgG Antibody Responses in Mice Deficient in Secreted IgM. THE JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY 1998. [DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.160.10.4776] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The role of endogenous natural IgM in promoting the adaptive Ab response was investigated in newly constructed mutant mice in which B cells do not secrete IgM but still express surface IgM and IgD and undergo class switching to express other Ig isotypes. While the mutant mice had relatively normal numbers of conventional B (B-2) cells in all tissues examined, unexpectedly, B-1 cells in the peritoneum and spleen were approximately threefold more abundant. The elevated levels of B-1 cells were already detectable at 4 wk of age and were stably maintained throughout life. The levels of serum IgG2a, IgG3, and IgA were also elevated in the mutant mice at an early age. IgG2a response to a T cell-independent Ag was augmented, whereas IgG Ab responses to suboptimal doses of a T cell-dependent Ag were impaired. The latter defect was associated with fewer splenic germinal centers, impaired Ab affinity maturation, and less Ag trapping on follicular dendritic cells. Together, these findings demonstrate a physiologic role of natural IgM in the feedback regulation of B-1 cell development, the regulation of IgG2a production, and the promotion of efficient B-2 cell Ab responses.
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- Marianne Boes
- *Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; and
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- *Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; and
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- *Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; and
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- †Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02135
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- *Center for Cancer Research and Department of Biology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; and
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Inappropriate or excessive activation of the complement system can lead to harmful, potentially life-threatening consequences due to severe inflammatory tissue destruction. These consequences are clinically manifested in various disorders, including septic shock, multiple organ failure and hyperacute graft rejection. Genetic complement deficiencies or complement depletion have been proven to be beneficial in reducing tissue injury in a number of animal models of severe complement-dependent inflammation. It is therefore believed that therapeutic inhibition of complement is likely to arrest the process of certain diseases. Attempts to efficiently inhibit complement include the application of endogenous soluble complement inhibitors (C1-inhibitor, recombinant soluble complement receptor 1- rsCR1), the administration of antibodies, either blocking key proteins of the cascade reaction (e.g. C3, C5), neutralizing the action of the complement-derived anaphylatoxin C5a, or interfering with complement receptor 3 (CR3, CD18/11b)-mediated adhesion of inflammatory cells to the vascular endothelium. In addition, incorporation of membrane-bound complement regulators (DAF-CD55, MCP-CD46, CD59) has become possible by transfection of the correspondent cDNA into xenogeneic cells. Thereby, protection against complement-mediated inflammatory tissue damage could be achieved in various animal models of sepsis, myocardial as well as intestinal ischemia/reperfusion injury, adult respiratory distress syndrome, nephritis and graft rejection. Supported by results from first clinical trials, complement inhibition appears to be a suitable therapeutic approach to control inflammation. Current strategies to specifically inhibit complement in inflammation have been discussed at a recent meeting on the 'Immune Consequences of Trauma, Shock and Sepsis', held from March 4-8, 1997, in Munich, Germany. The Congress (chairman: E. Faist, Munich, Germany), which was held in close cooperation with various national and international shock and trauma societies, was attended by about 2000 delegates from 40 countries. The major objective of the meeting was to provide an overview on the most state-of-the-art methods to prevent multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS)/multiple organ failure (MOF) following the systemic inflammatory response (SIRS) to severe trauma. One of the largest symposia held within the Congress was devoted to current aspects of controlling complement in inflammation (for abstracts see: Shock 1997, 7 Suppl., 71-75). After providing the audience with information on the scientific background by addressing the clinical relevance of complement activation (G.O. Till, Ann Arbor, MI, USA) and discussing recent developments in modern complement diagnosis (J. Köhl, Hannover, Germany), B.P. Morgan (Cardiff, UK) introduced the symposium's special issue by giving an overview on complement regulatory molecules. Selected topics included overviews on the application of C1 inhibitor (C.E. Hack, Amsterdam, NL), sCR1 (U.S. Ryan, Needham, MA, USA), antibodies to C5 (Y. Wang, New Haven CT, USA) and to the anaphylatoxin C5a (M. Oppermann, Göttingen, Germany), and a report on complement inhibition in cardiopulmonary bypass (T.E. Mollnes, Bodø, Norway). The growing interest of clinicians in complement-directed anti-inflammatory therapy, and the fact that only some of the various aspects of therapeutic complement inhibition could be addressed on the meeting, has motivated the author to expand a Congress report into a short comprehensive review on recent strategies to control complement in inflammation.
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- M Kirschfink
- Institute of Immunology, University of Heidelberg, Germany.
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In summary, recent advances in molecular cloning of anaphylatoxins and the anaphylatoxin receptors add new dimensions to our investigations and understanding of the molecular mechanisms involved in anaphylatoxin action. Combining knowledge accumulated from peptide modeling of the ligands with mutagenesis studies of these ligands and their receptors makes it possible to more accurately model interactive sites and understand the sequence of molecular interactions required for cellular activation. In addition, these new developments provide valuable tools for investigating, yet unknown, activities and cellular targets of the anaphylatoxin molecules.
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- J A Ember
- Department of Immunology, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Tsitsikov EN, Gutierrez-Ramos JC, Geha RS. Impaired CD19 expression and signaling, enhanced antibody response to type II T independent antigen and reduction of B-1 cells in CD81-deficient mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1997; 94:10844-9. [PMID: 9380722 PMCID: PMC23503 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.94.20.10844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 141] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/1997] [Accepted: 07/24/1997] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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The tetraspanin CD81 is ubiquitously expressed and associated with CD19 on B lymphocytes and with CD4 and CD8 on T lymphocytes. Analysis of mice with disrupted CD81 gene reveals normal T cells but a distinct abnormality in B cells consisting of decreased expression of CD19 and severe reduction in peritoneal B-1 cells. CD81-deficient B cells responded normally to surface IgM crosslinking, but had severely impaired calcium influx following CD19 engagement. CD81-deficient mice had increased serum IgM and IgA and an exaggerated antibody response to the type II T independent antigen TNP-Ficoll. These results suggest that CD81 is important for CD19 signaling and B cell function.
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- E N Tsitsikov
- Children's Hospital and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
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