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Salama AD, Chaudhry AN, Ryan JJ, Eren E, Levy JB, Pusey CD, Lightstone L, Lechler RI. In Goodpasture's disease, CD4(+) T cells escape thymic deletion and are reactive with the autoantigen alpha3(IV)NC1. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001; 12:1908-1915. [PMID: 11518784 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v1291908] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022] Open
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Goodpasture's disease is characterized by rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage, in association with circulating and deposited anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies that recognize the alpha3 chain of type IV collagen [alpha3(IV)NC1] (known as the Goodpasture antigen). Unlike many other autoimmune diseases, recurrences are rare. In experimental models and human studies, both humoral and cellular mechanisms have been demonstrated to be involved in disease pathogenesis. However, there are few data on the characteristics of the autoreactive T cells or the mechanisms of tolerance to the autoantigen in human patients. It was demonstrated, using immunohistochemical analyses and reverse transcription-PCR, that the Goodpasture antigen is expressed in normal human thymus. Using limiting dilution analyses, the frequencies of circulating autoreactive T cells in patients and control subjects were assessed. During acute disease, there were increased frequencies of CD4(+) T cells reactive with alpha3(IV)NC1 (ranging from 1:6300 to 1:65,000), which decreased with time. There was a significant difference between patients during their acute disease phase and control subjects with respect to the frequency index for alpha3(IV)NC1-specific CD4(+) T cells (P < 0.05, Mann Whitney U test). The decrease in autoreactive CD4(+) T-cell numbers during recovery may be the reason why recurrences are infrequent and may explain the loss of pathogenic autoantibodies with time, because of a lack of T-cell help.
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- Alan D Salama
- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Immunology, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Immunology, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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Wu J, Hicks J, Ou C, Singleton D, Borillo J, Lou YH. Glomerulonephritis induced by recombinant collagen IV alpha 3 chain noncollagen domain 1 is not associated with glomerular basement membrane antibody: a potential T cell-mediated mechanism. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 167:2388-95. [PMID: 11490029 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.4.2388] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Glomerulonephritis is believed to result commonly from Ab-mediated glomerular injury. However, Ab-associated mechanisms alone cannot explain many cases of human glomerulonephritis. We developed a rat model of human anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) disease to investigate T cell and Ab response, and their associations with the disease. A single immunization of highly denatured recombinant mouse collagen IV alpha3 chain noncollagen domain 1 (rCol4alpha3NC1) induced severe glomerulonephritis in 100% of Wistar Kyoto rats, 33% of which died of this disease around day 35 postimmunization. The renal pathology demonstrated widespread glomerular damage and a mononuclear cell infiltration within the interstitial tissue. T cells from immunized rats responded not only to rCol4alpha3NC1, but also to isolated rat GBM. Sera Abs to rCol4alpha3NC1 were detectable in 100% of the rats, but only 20% of the rats had low levels of Ab to isolated rat GBM by Western blot, and none by immunofluorescence. Furthermore, IgG/M binding to or C3 deposition on endogenous GBM in immunized rats were not detected in most of the experimental rats, and showed no statistical correlation with disease severity. Additionally, no electronic dense deposition in the glomeruli was detected in all rats. Those data revealed a disassociation between the disease and anti-GBM Ab. T cell-mediated mechanisms, which are currently under our investigation, may be responsible for the glomerular disease.
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- J Wu
- Department of Basic Sciences, Dental Branch, University of Texas Houston Health Science Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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Timoshanko JR, Kitching AR, Holdsworth SR, Tipping PG. Interleukin-12 from intrinsic cells is an effector of renal injury in crescentic glomerulonephritis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001; 12:464-471. [PMID: 11181794 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v123464] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Interleukin-12 (IL-12) directs the cognate nephritogenic T helper type 1 responses that initiate renal injury in murine crescentic glomerulonephritis (GN). The recent demonstration of IL-12 production by intrinsic renal cells, including mesangial and proximal tubular cells, raises the possibility that IL-12 from nonimmune cells may contribute to inflammatory renal injury. To address this possibility, the development of sheep anti-mouse glomerular basement membrane globulin-induced crescentic GN was studied in C57BL/6 wild-type (WT), IL-12-deficient (IL-12 -/-), and IL-12 "chimeric" mice. IL-12 chimeric mice were produced by transplantation of WT bone marrow into IL-12 -/- mice to restore IL-12 production by immune cells, while leaving them deficient in renal IL-12 production. WT and "sham" chimeric mice (normal bone marrow transplanted into WT mice) developed crescentic GN with glomerular T-cell and macrophage recruitment and impaired renal function (elevated proteinuria and serum creatinine) 10 d after initiation of GN. IL-12 -/- mice showed significant protection from GN. Chimeric IL-12 mice showed significant attenuation of crescent formation, glomerular T-cell and macrophage accumulation, and renal impairment, compared with WT and sham chimeric mice, but were not protected to the same extent as IL-12 -/- mice. IL-12 chimeric mice showed no attenuation of their systemic cognate immune response to the nephritogenic antigen (sheep globulin), indicated by antigen-specific circulating antibody and cutaneous delayed-type hypersensitivity. These studies indicate that IL-12 produced by non-bone marrow derived intrinsic renal cells contributes to immune renal injury. They provide the first in vivo demonstration of a proinflammatory role for an intrinsic renal cell-derived cytokine in renal inflammation.
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- Jennifer R Timoshanko
- From the Center for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Center, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- From the Center for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Center, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- From the Center for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Center, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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- From the Center for Inflammatory Diseases, Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Center, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
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Kanamaru Y, Nakao A, Mamura M, Suzuki Y, Shirato I, Okumura K, Tomino Y, Ra C. Blockade of TGF-beta signaling in T cells prevents the development of experimental glomerulonephritis. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2001; 166:2818-23. [PMID: 11160349 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.166.4.2818] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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Anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) Ab-induced glomerulonephritis (GN) at late stage is thought to be mediated by T cells. However, signaling pathways of T cells that are involved in the development of anti-GBM Ab-induced GN are unclear. We have recently established transgenic mice expressing Smad7, an inhibitor of TGF-beta signaling, in mature T cells, where signaling by TGF-beta was blocked specifically in T cells. In this study, we showed that anti-GBM Ab-induced GN was suppressed in several measures in the transgenic mice including the severity of glomerular changes, proteinuria, renal function, and CD4 T cell infiltration into the glomeruli without down-regulation of CD62 ligand (CD62L) (L-selectin) expression on CD4 T cells. Furthermore, treatment with the soluble fusion protein of CD62L and IgG enhanced anti-GBM Ab-induced GN. These findings indicated that blockade of TGF-beta signaling in T cells prevented the development of anti-GBM Ab-induced GN. Because CD62L on T cells appears to be inhibitory for the development of anti-GBM Ab-induced GN, persistent expression of CD62L on CD4 T cells may explain, at least in part, the suppression of anti-GBM Ab-induced GN in the transgenic mice. Our findings suggest that the development of anti-GBM Ab-induced GN requires TGF-beta/Smad signaling in T cells.
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- Y Kanamaru
- Allergy Research Center, Division of Nephrology Juntendo University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Reynolds J, Pusey CD. Oral administration of glomerular basement membrane prevents the development of experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis in the WKY rat. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001; 12:61-70. [PMID: 11134251 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v12161] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis (EAG), an animal model of Goodpasture's disease, can be induced in Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats by a single injection of collagenase-solubilized rat glomerular basement membrane (GBM) in adjuvant. EAG is characterized by circulating and deposited anti-GBM antibodies, accompanied by focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis with crescent formation. The inhibitory effect of orally administered antigens has been reported in various animal models of autoimmunity but not in EAG in the rat. The effects of feeding rat GBM by gavage, at total doses of 0.5, 2.5, or 5 mg, before immunization were examined. A dose-dependent effect was observed on the development of EAG. A dose of 0.5 mg of GBM had no effect on disease, 2.5 mg resulted in a moderate reduction in the severity of nephritis but no change in anti-GBM antibody production, and 5 mg resulted in a marked reduction in circulating and deposited anti-GBM antibodies, albuminuria, deposits of fibrin in the glomeruli, severity of glomerular abnormalities, and numbers of infiltrating T cells and macrophages. Animals that were fed 5 mg of GBM showed a significant reduction in IgG2a but not IgG1, anti-GBM antibody levels, suggesting downregulation of Th1 responses. There was also a dose-dependent reduction in the proliferative responses of splenic T cells from treated animals to GBM antigen in vitro. These results clearly demonstrate that mucosal tolerance can be induced by oral administration of GBM antigen and that this approach is effective in preventing EAG.
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- John Reynolds
- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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- Renal Section, Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, United Kingdom
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The production of pathogenic autoantibodies in organ-specific autoimmune diseases is largely T cell dependent. For many of these diseases, the precise specificities and cytokine profiles of the T cells that respond to the corresponding autoantigens have now been identified. This knowledge has been exploited to treat some models of antibody-mediated autoimmunity using peptides corresponding to the dominant helper epitopes, giving impetus to the development of a similar approach in the equivalent human diseases.
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- C J Elson
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, School of Medical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol BS8 1TD, UK.
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Rosenkranz AR, Knight S, Sethi S, Alexander SI, Cotran RS, Mayadas TN. Regulatory interactions of alphabeta and gammadelta T cells in glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int 2000; 58:1055-66. [PMID: 10972670 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00263.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Several lines of evidence suggest that cellular immune mechanisms contribute to glomerulonephritis. METHODS The roles of alphabeta and gammadelta T cells in the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis were investigated in a model of nephrotoxic nephritis in mice deficient in either T-cell population [T-cell receptor (TCR)beta and TCRdelta knockout mice]. The model, induced by the injection of rabbit anti-mouse glomerular basement membrane antibody, is characterized by the development of proteinuria and glomerular damage over a 21-day observation period in wild-type mice. RESULTS Mice deficient in either alphabeta or gammadelta T cells developed minimal proteinuria and glomerular lesions and had a significant reduction in macrophage accumulation compared with wild-type mice. In gammadelta T-cell-deficient mice, circulating levels and glomerular deposition of autologous IgG were comparable to wild-type levels, while alphabeta T-cell-deficient mice had no autologous IgG production. Autologous antibody production was not required for the development of glomerulonephritis since mice that lack IgG and B cells (micro-chain-/-) developed similar proteinuria to that observed in wild-type mice. CONCLUSIONS These studies suggest a proinflammatory role for both alphabeta and gammadelta T cells in glomerular injury, independent of the humoral response. This is the first demonstration, to our knowledge, that both T-cell subsets contribute to the progression of a disease, and it suggests that complex regulatory interactions between alphabeta and gammadelta T cells play a role in glomerular injury.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Basement Membrane/immunology
- CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Complement System Proteins/analysis
- Gene Expression/immunology
- Glomerulonephritis/immunology
- Glomerulonephritis/metabolism
- Glomerulonephritis/pathology
- Immunity, Cellular/immunology
- Immunoglobulin G/immunology
- Immunoglobulin G/metabolism
- Kidney Glomerulus/immunology
- Kidney Glomerulus/pathology
- Macrophages/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Transgenic
- Proteinuria/immunology
- Proteinuria/metabolism
- Proteinuria/pathology
- RNA, Messenger/analysis
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-beta/metabolism
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/genetics
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta/metabolism
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- A R Rosenkranz
- Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
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Rutgers A, Meyers KE, Canziani G, Kalluri R, Lin J, Madaio MP. High affinity of anti-GBM antibodies from Goodpasture and transplanted Alport patients to alpha3(IV)NC1 collagen. Kidney Int 2000; 58:115-22. [PMID: 10886555 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00146.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibody-mediated diseases are characterized by rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis (RPGN) that often results in irreversible loss of renal function and renal failure. Although many factors contribute to the fulminant nature and treatment resistance of this disease, we questioned whether high affinity autoantibody-alpha3(IV) collagen interactions lead to persistent antibody deposition, thereby perpetuating inflammation. To address this hypothesis, the binding kinetics of human anti-GBM antibodies (Ab) to alpha3(IV)NC1 were evaluated using an optical biosensor interaction analysis. METHODS Polyclonal anti-GBM Abs were purified by alpha3(IV)NC1 affinity chromatography from the sera of patients with anti-GBM AB-mediated diseases, including individuals with Goodpasture syndrome (GS), idiopathic RPGN (N = 7), and Alport syndrome (AL) following kidney transplantation (N = 4). The affinity-binding characteristics of the autoantibodies were determined using a biosensor analysis system, with immobilized bovine alpha3(IV)NC1 dimers. RESULTS All of the autoantibody preparations bound to alpha3(IV)NC1, whereas none bound to alpha1(IV)NC1 (control). Purified, normal serum IgG did not bind to either antigen. Estimated dissociation constants (Kd) for the purified autoantibodies were 1.39E-04 +/- 7.30E-05 s-l (GS) and 8. 90E-05 +/- 2.80E-05 s-l (AL). Their estimated association constants (Ka) were 2.67E+04 +/- 1.8E+04 (M-ls-l) and 2.76E+04 +/- 1. 70E+04(M-ls-l) for GS and AL patients, respectively. By comparison with other Ab interactions, these Abs demonstrated high affinity, with relatively high on (binding) rates and slow off (dissociation) rates. CONCLUSIONS The results suggest that anti-GBM Abs bind rapidly and remain tightly bound to the GBM in vivo. This property likely contributes to both the fulminant nature of this disease and its resistance to therapy, because persistent glomerular Ab deposition has the potential to produce continuous inflammation, despite removal of circulating Abs and adequate immunosuppression.
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- A Rutgers
- The Penn Center for Molecular Studies of Kidney Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia 19104, USA
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Kalluri R, Cantley LG, Kerjaschki D, Neilson EG. Reactive oxygen species expose cryptic epitopes associated with autoimmune goodpasture syndrome. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:20027-32. [PMID: 10748075 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m904549199] [Citation(s) in RCA: 66] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Goodpasture syndrome is an autoimmune disease of the kidneys and lungs mediated by antibodies and T-cells directed to cryptic epitopes hidden within basement membrane hexamers rich in alpha3 non-collagenous globular (NC1) domains of type IV collagen. These epitopes are normally invisible to the immune system, but this privilege can be obviated by chemical modification. Endogenous drivers of immune activation consequent to the loss of privilege have long been suspected. We have examined the ability of reactive oxygen species (ROS) to expose Goodpasture epitopes buried within NC1 hexamers obtained from renal glomeruli abundant in alpha3(IV) NC1 domains. For some hexameric epitopes, like the Goodpasture epitopes, exposure to ROS specifically enhanced recognition by Goodpasture antibodies in a sequential and time-dependent fashion; control binding of epitopes to alpha3(IV) alloantibodies from renal transplant recipients with Alport syndrome was decreased, whereas epitope binding to heterologous antibodies recognizing all alpha3 NC1 epitopes remained the same. Inhibitors of hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radical scavengers were capable of attenuating the effects of ROS in cells and kidney by 30-50%, respectively, thereby keeping the Goodpasture epitopes largely concealed when compared with a 70% maximum inhibition by iron chelators. Hydrogen peroxide administration to rodents was sufficient to expose Goodpasture epitope in vivo and initiate autoantibody production. Our findings collectively suggest that ROS can alter the hexameric structure of type IV collagen to expose or destroy selectively immunologic epitopes embedded in basement membrane. The reasons for autoimmunity in Goodpasture syndrome may lie in an age-dependent deterioration in inhibitor function modulating oxidative damage to structural molecules. ROS therefore may play an important role in shaping post-translational epitope diversity or neoantigen formation in organ tissues.
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- R Kalluri
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
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Kalluri R, Cosgrove D. Assembly of type IV collagen. Insights from alpha3(IV) collagen-deficient mice. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:12719-24. [PMID: 10777566 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.17.12719] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Type IV collagen includes six genetically distinct polypeptides named alpha1(IV) through alpha6(IV). These isoforms are speculated to organize themselves into unique networks providing mammalian basement membranes specificity and inequality. Recent studies using bovine and human glomerular and testis basement membranes have shown that unique networks of collagen comprising either alpha1 and alpha2 chains or alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5 chains can be identified. These studies have suggested that assembly of alpha5 chain into type IV collagen network is dependent on alpha3 expression where both chains are normally present in the tissue. In the present study, we show that in the lens and inner ear of normal mice, expression of alpha1, alpha2, alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5 chains of type IV collagen can be detected using alpha chain-specific antibodies. In the alpha3(IV) collagen-deficient mice, only the expression of alpha1, alpha2, and alpha5 chains of type IV collagen was detectable. The non-collagenous 1 domain of alpha5 chain was associated with alpha1 in the non-collagenous 1 domain hexamer structure, suggesting that network incorporation of alpha5 is possible in the absence of the alpha3 chain in these tissues. The present study proves that expression of alpha5 is not dependent on the expression of alpha3 chain in these tissues and that alpha5 chain can assemble into basement membranes in the absence of alpha3 chain. These findings support the notion that type IV collagen assembly may be regulated by tissue-specific factors.
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- R Kalluri
- Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
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Nakamura A, Yuasa T, Ujike A, Ono M, Nukiwa T, Ravetch JV, Takai T. Fcgamma receptor IIB-deficient mice develop Goodpasture's syndrome upon immunization with type IV collagen: a novel murine model for autoimmune glomerular basement membrane disease. J Exp Med 2000; 191:899-906. [PMID: 10704470 PMCID: PMC2195851 DOI: 10.1084/jem.191.5.899] [Citation(s) in RCA: 171] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The combination of hemorrhagic pneumonitis and rapidly progressive glomerulonephritis is a characteristic feature of Goodpasture's syndrome (GPS), an autoimmune disease resulting from the interaction of pathogenic anti-collagen type IV (C-IV) antibodies with alveolar and glomerular basement membranes. Lack of a suitable animal model for this fatal disease has hampered both a basic understanding of its etiology and the development of therapeutic strategies. We now report a novel model for GPS using mice deficient in a central regulatory receptor for immunoglobulin (Ig)G antibody expression and function, the type IIB Fc receptor for IgG (FcgammaRIIB). Mutant mice immunized with bovine C-IV reproducibly develop massive pulmonary hemorrhage with neutrophil and macrophage infiltration and crescentic glomerulonephritis. The distinctive linear, ribbon-like deposition of IgG immune complex seen in GPS was observed along the glomerular and tubulointerstitial membranes of diseased animals. These results highlight the role of FcgammaRIIB in maintaining tolerance and suggest that it may play a role in the pathogenesis of human GPS.
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- Akira Nakamura
- Department of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
- Department of Respiratory Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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- Department of Respiratory Oncology and Molecular Medicine, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
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- Laboratory of Molecular Genetics and Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, New York 10021
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- Department of Experimental Immunology, Institute of Development, Aging and Cancer, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8575, Japan
- Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (CREST), Japan Science and Technology Corporation (JST), Tokyo 101-0062, Japan
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Okada H, Moriwaki K, Kalluri R, Imai H, Ban S, Takahama M, Suzuki H. Inhibition of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 expression in tubular epithelium attenuates tubulointerstitial alteration in rat Goodpasture syndrome. Kidney Int 2000; 57:927-36. [PMID: 10720946 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00909.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND To examine the role of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) expressed by tubular epithelium in tubulointerstitial alterations in situ, the level of MCP-1 mRNA in tubular epithelium was lowered selectively in the rat model of Goodpasture syndrome (GPS). METHODS Intravenously administered antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) is taken up by renal tubular epithelium and has been found to block expression of target genes in rats. MCP-1 antisense ODN was injected into GPS rats every second day from days 27 to 35 after immunization (this represents the time when renal MCP-1 mRNA level was increased and interstitial mononuclear cell infiltration was aggravated). RESULTS In addition to a reduction in the level of tubular MCP-1 mRNA, antisense ODN treatment attenuated monocyte infiltration significantly and preserved renal function in GPS rats. However, ODN injection did not affect glomerular MCP-1 expression and glomerular histopathology, and there were no significant changes in the urinary protein excretion rate. CONCLUSION Our findings provide direct evidence that MCP-1, expressed by tubular epithelium, plays a pivotal role in mediating secondary tubulointerstitial alterations in the GPS model.
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- H Okada
- Department of Nephrology, Saitama Medical College, Japan
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Reynolds J, Tam FW, Chandraker A, Smith J, Karkar AM, Cross J, Peach R, Sayegh MH, Pusey CD. CD28-B7 blockade prevents the development of experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis. J Clin Invest 2000; 105:643-51. [PMID: 10712436 PMCID: PMC289170 DOI: 10.1172/jci6710] [Citation(s) in RCA: 145] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/04/1999] [Accepted: 01/25/2000] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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Experimental autoimmune glomerulonephritis (EAG), an animal model of Goodpasture's disease, can be induced in Wistar Kyoto (WKY) rats by a single injection of rat glomerular basement membrane (GBM) in adjuvant. EAG is characterized by circulating and deposited anti-GBM antibodies, accompanied by focal necrotizing glomerulonephritis with crescent formation. The role of T cells in the pathogenesis of EAG remains unclear. T-cell costimulation is provided by ligation of CD28 with either B7.1 (CD80) or B7.2 (CD86) on antigen-presenting cells, and can be inhibited by a soluble form of CTLA4 (CTLA4-Ig) that binds to both B7.1 and B7.2. We examined the effect of CD28-B7 blockade on the development of EAG using native CTLA4-Ig or mutant CTLA4-Ig (Y100F-Ig), which selectively blocks B7.1. Native CTLA4-Ig treatment ameliorated EAG by several measures, including the levels of circulating anti-GBM antibodies, albuminuria, the deposition of IgG and fibrin in the glomeruli, the severity of glomerular abnormalities, and the numbers of infiltrating T cells and macrophages. Y100F-Ig resulted in a similar reduction in the severity of nephritis, but produced no overall reduction in circulating anti-GBM antibodies, although there was a reduction in IgG2a antibodies. We concluded that CD28-B7 blockade reduced autoantibody production and cellular infiltration of glomeruli, and prevented target organ injury. Our results suggest a key role for B7. 1 in costimulation of Th1-like autoimmune responses in the rat, and show that glomerular injury in EAG is largely dependent on cell-mediated mechanisms.
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- J Reynolds
- Division of Medicine, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London W12 ONN, United Kingdom.
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Kalluri R, Torre A, Shield CF, Zamborsky ED, Werner MC, Suchin E, Wolf G, Helmchen UM, van den Heuvel LP, Grossman R, Aradhye S, Neilson EG. Identification of alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5 chains of type IV collagen as alloantigens for Alport posttransplant anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies. Transplantation 2000; 69:679-83. [PMID: 10708133 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200002270-00038] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Alport syndrome is a hereditary disorder of basement membranes especially affecting the kidneys, ears, and eyes. Some patients who undergo renal transplantation lose their kidneys as a result of posttransplant anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) disease. METHODS In the present study, we analyzed serum from 21 unselected Alport patients who underwent renal transplantation. Eleven samples were from patients without posttransplant anti-GBM nephritis, and 10 were from patients with this disease. RESULTS Thirteen serum samples [10 alport posttransplant nephritis serum (APTN) and three Alport posttransplant serum (APT)] revealed linear binding to the GBM by indirect immunofluorescence. By using direct ELISA and immunoblotting with GBM constituents and type IV collagen NC1 domains from bovine, human, and recombinant sources, we detected anti-GBM antibodies in all Alport patients in varying titers. Five samples showed specific reactivity to the alpha3 chain, four to the alpha5 chain, six to both alpha3 and alpha5 chains, one to the alpha3 and alpha4 chains, and two to the alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5 chains of type IV collagen. The varied spectrum of reactivities was present equally in nephritic and non-nephritic sera. Ten control samples from non-Alport transplant patients did not exhibit specific binding to the GBM. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the absence of alpha3, alpha4, and alpha5 chains of type IV collagen in the Alport kidney leads to alloantibodies in all Alport patients who receive transplants, irrespective of whether they develop nephritis or not. Although all Alport transplant patients develop this humoral response, only a select few develop anti-GBM disease. We suggest that this difference could be attributable to a genotypic effect on the ability of some individuals to launch a cell-mediated immune response.
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- R Kalluri
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.
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Okada H, Moriwaki K, Kalluri R, Takenaka T, Imai H, Ban S, Takahama M, Suzuki H. Osteopontin expressed by renal tubular epithelium mediates interstitial monocyte infiltration in rats. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2000; 278:F110-21. [PMID: 10644662 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.278.1.f110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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In this study, we have shown that intravenously administered antisense oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) was demonstrated to be taken up by tubular epithelium, after which it blocked mRNA expression of target genes in normal and nephritic rats. Therefore, we injected osteopontin (OPN) antisense ODN to Goodpasture syndrome (GPS) rats every second day between days 27 and 35, the time when renal OPN expression increased and interstitial monocyte infiltration was aggravated. In parallel to blockade of tubular OPN expression, this treatment significantly attenuated monocyte infiltration and preserved renal plasma flow in GPS rats at day 37, compared with sense ODN-treated and untreated GPS rats. No significant changes were observed in OPN mRNA level by RT-PCR and histopathology of the glomeruli after ODN treatment, which was compatible with an absence of differences in the urinary protein excretion rate. In conclusion, OPN expressed by tubular epithelium played a pivotal role in mediating peritubular monocyte infiltration consequent to glomerular disease.
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- H Okada
- Department of Nephrology, Saitama Medical College, Saitama 350-04, Japan
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Wolf G, Kalluri R, Ziyadeh FN, Neilson EG, Stahl RA. Angiotensin II induces alpha3(IV) collagen expression in cultured murine proximal tubular cells. PROCEEDINGS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PHYSICIANS 1999; 111:357-64. [PMID: 10417744 DOI: 10.1046/j.1525-1381.1999.99117.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Angiotensin II (ANG II) induces cellular hypertrophy of cultured proximal tubular cells from various species. This hypertrophic response is associated with an increase in synthesis of basement membrane-associated collagen type IV. Previous investigations by our group have shown that ANG II stimulates mRNA and protein expression of the "classic" alpha1 and alpha2(IV) chains in cultured murine proximal tubular cells (murine cortical tubules [MCT cells]). Since it is clearer today that kidney basement membranes also contain heterotrimers of novel type IV collagens, the aim of the present study was to evaluate whether ANG II may influence the expression of alpha3 and alpha5(IV) collagen chains in MCT cells. A single dose of 10-8-10-6 M ANG II stimulated mRNA expression of alpha3(IV), but not of alpha5(IV), in MCT cells cultured in serum-free media. This response was mediated through AT1-receptors because losartan, but not an AT2-receptor antagonist, abolished the ANG II-induced expression of alpha3(IV) transcripts. Transient transfection of MCT cells with transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) antisense phosphorothioate-modified oligonucleotides partly abolished the ANG II-induced alpha3(IV) mRNA expression. Furthermore, Western blots of cellular lysates incubated with polyclonal antibodies generated against the recombinant collagen chains revealed that ANG II stimulated alpha3(IV) but not alpha5(IV) protein expression. This stimulation was partly prevented by co-incubation with a neutralizing anti-TGF-beta1-3 antibody. In summary, our data indicate that ANG II stimulates expression of the alpha3(IV) collagen chain in cultured MCT cells, due in part to TGF-beta1 activation.
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MESH Headings
- Angiotensin II/pharmacology
- Angiotensin Receptor Antagonists
- Animals
- Basement Membrane/drug effects
- Basement Membrane/metabolism
- Blotting, Northern
- Blotting, Western
- Collagen/biosynthesis
- Collagen/chemistry
- Collagen/genetics
- Culture Media, Serum-Free/pharmacology
- Fibrosis
- Fluorescent Antibody Technique, Indirect
- Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects
- Kidney Tubules, Proximal/drug effects
- Kidney Tubules, Proximal/metabolism
- Losartan/pharmacology
- Mice
- Oligonucleotides, Antisense/pharmacology
- Protein Conformation
- Protein Isoforms/biosynthesis
- Protein Isoforms/chemistry
- Protein Isoforms/genetics
- Protein Multimerization
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 1
- Receptor, Angiotensin, Type 2
- Receptors, Angiotensin/physiology
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/biosynthesis
- Transforming Growth Factor beta/genetics
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- G Wolf
- Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology and Osteology, University of Hamburg, Germany
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A standard view of B cells in systemic autoimmunity is that they promote lupus by producing autoantibodies (autoAb). However, this view is incomplete because recent studies have revealed that autoimmune disease can be dissociated from autoAb deposition. Furthermore, the spontaneous T-cell activation and organ infiltration in systemic lupus erythematosus patients and animal models are difficult to explain entirely via a direct autoAb-mediated mechanism. In this review, we describe work addressing the B-cell functions of autoantigen presentation and autoAb production in lupus pathogenesis. In the JHD-MRL-Faslpr strain (JHD/lpr), a B-cell-deficient version of the lupus-prone MRL-Faslpr (MRL/lpr) mouse, spontaneous nephritis and dermatitis is abrogated, demonstrating that B cells have a primary role in disease. B cells play a similar role in Fas-intact, lupus-prone MRL mice. To address the role of autoantigen presentation, we analyzed transgenic mice which have B cells that cannot secrete immunoglobulin (mIgM transgenic mice). The restoration of B cells without antibody caused substantial interstitial nephritis and vasculitis although less marked than the intact MRL/lpr controls. To address the role of autoAb, we infused serum from aged MRL/lpr mice into JHD/lpr mice. At most, mild to no nephritis was observed in the infused mice. These results indicate that B cells are promoting autoimmunity in mechanisms other than autoAb secretion, and we describe a model depicting these B-cell roles in the context of other inflammatory events in lupus.
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- O T Chan
- Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven 06510, USA
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Tipping PG, Kitching AR, Cunningham MA, Holdsworth SR. Immunopathogenesis of crescentic glomerulonephritis. Curr Opin Nephrol Hypertens 1999; 8:281-6. [PMID: 10456257 DOI: 10.1097/00041552-199905000-00002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Crescentic glomerulonephritis provides an important therapeutic challenge because of its rapidly progressive course and poor outcome. Studies in animal models have elucidated some of the pivotal pathogenetic mechanisms, and human studies increasingly support the clinical relevance of these animal data. Accumulating evidence suggests that crescentic glomerulonephritis results from a complex cell-mediated nephritogenic immune response. Interruption of a number of immune and inflammatory mediators can improve the outcome of this disease.
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- P G Tipping
- Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
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Kitching AR, Holdsworth SR, Tipping PG. IFN-gamma mediates crescent formation and cell-mediated immune injury in murine glomerulonephritis. J Am Soc Nephrol 1999; 10:752-9. [PMID: 10203359 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v104752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Features of crescentic glomerulonephritis suggest that it results from a T helper 1 (Th1) nephritogenic immune response. Interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), produced by Th1 cells, is involved in T cell-directed macrophage activation in effector Th1 responses. The hypothesis that endogenous IFN-gamma contributes to the development of crescentic glomerulonephritis was tested by comparing the development of glomerulonephritis (induced by a planted antigen) and immune responses in normal C57BL/6 mice (IFN-gamma +/+) and in mice genetically deficient in IFN-gamma (IFN-gamma -/-). Ten days after the initiation of glomerulonephritis, IFN-gamma -/- mice developed fewer glomerular crescents (5+/-1% versus 26+/-3%, P<0.005), less severe glomerular injury, and less renal impairment. Effectors of delayed-type hypersensitivity (CD4+ T cells, macrophages, and fibrin) in glomeruli were reduced in IFN-gamma -/- mice. Skin delayed-type hypersensitivity to sheep globulin was reduced. Total antigen-specific Ig and splenocyte interleukin-2 production were unchanged, but antigen-specific serum IgG2a was reduced. Markers of an antigen-specific Th2 response (serum IgG1, splenocyte interleukin-4) were unchanged. Studies 22 d after the initiation of glomerulonephritis showed that IFN-gamma -/- mice still had fewer crescents (11+/-2% versus 22+/-3%, P = 0.02) and glomerular CD4+ T cells and macrophages than IFN-gamma +/+ mice. These studies demonstrate that endogenous IFN-gamma mediates crescentic glomerulonephritis by promoting cell-mediated immune injury. They support the hypothesis that crescentic glomerulonephritis is a manifestation of a Th1 nephritogenic immune response.
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- A R Kitching
- Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
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Holdsworth SR, Kitching AR, Tipping PG. Th1 and Th2 T helper cell subsets affect patterns of injury and outcomes in glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int 1999; 55:1198-216. [PMID: 10200982 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.00369.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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The recognition that human immune responses can be directed by two different subsets of T helper cells (Th1 and Th2) has been an important development in modern immunology. Immune responses polarized by either the Th1 or Th2 subset predominance result in different inflammatory effector pathways and disease outcomes. Many autoimmune diseases are associated with either Th1- or Th2- polarized immune responses. Although these different immune response patterns are relevant to glomerulonephritis (GN), little attention has been paid to the consequences of Th1 or Th2 predominance of nephritogenic immune responses for the pattern and outcome of GN. Unlike other autoimmune conditions, GN results from a variety of different immune responses and has a range of histologic features and immune effectors in glomeruli. This review assesses the data available from studies of experimental and human GN that address the Th1 or Th2 predominance of nephritogenic immune responses and their relevance to the different histopathological patterns and outcomes of GN. In particular, the evidence that Th1-predominant nephritogenic immune responses are associated with severe proliferative and crescentic GN is presented.
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- S R Holdsworth
- Monash University Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Center, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
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Leinonen A, Netzer KO, Boutaud A, Gunwar S, Hudson BG. Goodpasture antigen: expression of the full-length alpha3(IV) chain of collagen IV and localization of epitopes exclusively to the noncollagenous domain. Kidney Int 1999; 55:926-35. [PMID: 10027929 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1999.055003926.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tissue injury in Goodpasture (GP) syndrome (rapidly progressive glomerular nephritis and pulmonary hemorrhage) is mediated by antibasement membrane antibodies that are targeted to the alpha3(IV) chain of type IV collagen, one of five alpha(IV) chains that occur in the glomerular basement membrane. GP antibodies are known to bind epitopes within the carboxyl terminal noncollagenous domain (NC1) of the alpha3(IV) chain, termed the GP autoantigen. Whether epitopes also exist in the 1400-residue collagenous domain is unknown because studies to date have focused solely on the NC1 domain. A knowledge of GP epitopes is important for the understanding of the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease and for the development of therapeutic strategies. METHODS A cDNA construct was prepared for the full-length human alpha3(IV) chain. The construct was stably transfected into human embryonic kidney 293 cells. The purified full-length r-alpha3(IV) chain was characterized by electrophoresis and electron microscopy. The capacity of this chain for binding of GP antibodies from five patients was compared with that of the human r-alpha3(IV)NC1 domain by competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. RESULTS The r-alpha3(IV) chain was secreted from 293 cells as a single polypeptide chain that did not spontaneously undergo assembly into a triple-helical molecule. An analysis of GP-antibody binding to the full-length r-alpha3(IV) chain showed binding exclusively to the globular NC1 domain. CONCLUSION The full-length human alpha3(IV) chain possesses the capacity to bind GP autoantibodies. The epitope(s) is found exclusively on the nontriple-helical NC1 domain of the alpha3(IV) chain, indicating the presence of specific immunogenic properties. The alpha3(IV) chain alone does not spontaneously undergo assembly into a triple-helical homotrimeric molecule, suggesting that coassembly with either the alpha4(IV) and/or the alpha5(IV) chain may be required for triple-helix formation.
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- A Leinonen
- University of Kansas Medical Center, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Kansas City 66160-7421, USA
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Bussolati B, Mariano F, Biancone L, Foà R, David S, Cambi V, Camussi G. Interleukin-12 is synthesized by mesangial cells and stimulates platelet-activating factor synthesis, cytoskeletal reorganization, and cell shape change. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 1999; 154:623-32. [PMID: 10027419 PMCID: PMC1849998 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)65307-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Preliminary studies indicate the involvement of interleukin (IL)-12 in experimental renal pathology. In the present study, we evaluated whether cultured glomerular mesangial cells are able to produce IL-12 and whether IL-12 may regulate some of their functions, including the cytoskeletal reorganization, the change in cell shape, and the production of platelet-activating factor (PAF). The results obtained indicate that pro-inflammatory stimuli, such as tumor necrosis factor-alpha and bacterial polysaccharides, induce the expression of IL-12 mRNA and the synthesis of the protein by cultured mesangial cells. Moreover, cultured mesangial cells were shown to bind IL-12 and to express the human low-affinity IL-12 beta1-chain receptor. When challenged with IL-12, mesangial cells produced PAF in a dose- and time-dependent manner and superoxide anions. No production of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and IL-8 was observed. Moreover, we demonstrate that IL-12 induced a delayed and sustained shape change of mesangial cells that reached its maximum between 90 and 120 minutes of incubation. The changes in cell shape occurred concomitantly with cytoskeletal rearrangements and may be consistent with cell contraction. As IL-12-dependent shape change of mesangial cells was concomitant with the synthesis of PAF, which is known to promote mesangial cell contraction, we investigated the role of PAF using two chemically different PAF receptor antagonists. Both antagonists inhibited almost completely the cell shape change induced by IL-12, whereas they were ineffective on angiotensin-II-induced cell shape change. In conclusion, our results suggest that mesangial cells can either produce IL-12 or be stimulated by this cytokine to synthesize PAF and to undergo shape changes compatible with cell contraction.
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- B Bussolati
- Dipartimento di Medicina Interna, Università di Torino, Cattedra di Nefrologia, Italy
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Kitching AR, Tipping PG, Holdsworth SR. IL-12 directs severe renal injury, crescent formation and Th1 responses in murine glomerulonephritis. Eur J Immunol 1999; 29:1-10. [PMID: 9933080 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1521-4141(199901)29:01<1::aid-immu1>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 67] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Glomerular crescent formation characterizes severe glomerulonephritis (GN). Evidence suggests that crescent formation results from a delayed-type hypersensitivity-like Th1 response. As IL-12 directs Th1 responses, we tested the hypothesis that IL-12 is important in crescentic GN. Neutralization of IL-12 attenuated crescent formation and cell-mediated injury in C57BL/6 mice sensitized to and challenged with sheep anti-mouse glomerular basement membrane (GBM) globulin. Recombinant IL-12 induced severe crescentic GN with enhanced Th1 responses in C57BL/6 mice in which non-crescentic GN was induced by injecting anti-GBM globulin into naive mice. BALB/c mice do not develop significant crescent formation in these models, due either to regulatory effects of IL-4, or to deficits in IL-12 production/responsiveness. Administering IL-12 to BALB/c mice with GN induced Th1 responses and crescent formation, whereas IL-4-deficient BALB/c mice did not develop cell-mediated crescentic injury when GN was induced in sensitized mice. These results establish a central role for IL-12 in severe crescentic GN.
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- A R Kitching
- Monash University, Department of Medicine, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
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Ball JA, Young KR. Pulmonary manifestations of Goodpasture's syndrome. Antiglomerular basement membrane disease and related disorders. Clin Chest Med 1998; 19:777-91, ix. [PMID: 9917968 DOI: 10.1016/s0272-5231(05)70116-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Goodpasture's syndrome, or antiglomerular basement membrane disease, is a disorder in which lungs and kidneys are affected by the binding of anti-GBM antibodies, leading to pulmonary hemorrhage and glomerulonephritis with rapidly progressive renal insufficiency. Recent advances in the understanding of disease pathogenesis and diagnosis and treatment have significantly improved our ability to recognize the syndrome, distinguish it from other similar disorders, and offer successful treatment. This article focuses on the pathogenetic features, clinical manifestations, diagnostic strategies, and therapeutic principles of anti-GBM disease.
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- J A Ball
- Division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA
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Abbate M, Kalluri R, Corna D, Yamaguchi N, McCluskey RT, Hudson BG, Andres G, Zoja C, Remuzzi G. Experimental Goodpasture's syndrome in Wistar-Kyoto rats immunized with alpha3 chain of type IV collagen. Kidney Int 1998; 54:1550-61. [PMID: 9844131 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.1998.00153.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Glomerulonephritis and lung hemorrhage of autoimmune Goodpasture syndrome develop due to immune reactions against epitope(s) of the non-collagenous (NC1) domain of alpha3-chain of type IV collagen [alpha3(IV) NC1]. Whether thymic mechanisms have a role in the loss of tolerance to the Goodpasture epitope has not been established. We studied the renal and pulmonary effects of immunization with different forms (monomer, dimer, or hexamer) of alpha3(IV) NC1 collagen in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats, and assessed whether the intrathymic inoculation of the antigen may protect against anti-GBM disease. METHODS WKY rats were immunized with bovine alpha3(IV) monomer, dimer, or hexamer, or with alpha3(IV) NC1 synthetic peptide. Renal function, kidney and lung immunohistology, and circulating and tissue bound antibodies to type IV collagen chains were analyzed. Effects of intrathymic inoculation of antigen on subsequent disease induction were analyzed in WKY rats given alpha3(IV) NC1 dimer or GBM preparation intrathymically 48 hours before immunization. RESULTS Proteinuria, linear IgG deposition in GBM, and crescentic glomerulonephritis developed in WKY rats immunized with alpha3(IV) NC1 dimer or hexamer. Lesions were dose-dependent upon injections of 10 to 100 microgram dimer. The alpha3(IV) NC1 monomer induced less severe proteinuria and no crescents. Pulmonary hemorrhage was detectable in 35% of rats immunized with 25 to 100 microgram alpha3(IV) NC1 dimer; alpha3(IV) synthetic peptide (36 carboxyl terminal) did not induce disease. Rats injected intrathymically with up to 100 microgram alpha3(IV) NC1 dimer or with GBM 48 hours before immunization were not protected against subsequent development of proteinuria and glomerulonephritis. CONCLUSIONS These findings document that glomerulonephritis and lung hemorrhage can be elicited in WKY rats by immunization with alpha3(IV) NC1. Failure of the intrathymic inoculation of antigen to prevent disease suggests that immunological tolerance cannot be achieved by this intervention, in contrast to other autoimmune conditions, and may imply independent roles for cellular and humoral nephritogenic pathways in anti-GBM nephritis.
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- M Abbate
- Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Bergamo, Italy; Renal-Electrolyte and Hypertension Division, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, USA.
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Park SY, Ueda S, Ohno H, Hamano Y, Tanaka M, Shiratori T, Yamazaki T, Arase H, Arase N, Karasawa A, Sato S, Ledermann B, Kondo Y, Okumura K, Ra C, Saito T. Resistance of Fc receptor- deficient mice to fatal glomerulonephritis. J Clin Invest 1998; 102:1229-38. [PMID: 9739057 PMCID: PMC509106 DOI: 10.1172/jci3256] [Citation(s) in RCA: 216] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Immune complex-mediated inflammation is a common mechanism of various autoimmune diseases. Glomerulonephritis (GN) is one of these diseases, and the main mechanism of the induction of GN has been unclear. We examined the contribution of Fc receptors in the induction of nephrotoxic GN by establishing and analyzing mice deficient in the Fc receptor gamma chain (FcRgamma). Whereas all wild-type mice died from severe glomerulonephritis with hypernitremia by administration of anti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies, all FcRgamma-deficient mice survived. Histologically, wild-type mice showed glomerular hypercellularity and thrombotic changes, whereas the renal tissue in FcRgamma-deficient mice was almost intact. Deposition of anti-GBM antibody as well as complement components in the GBM were equally observed in both wild-type and knockout mice. These results demonstrate that the triggering of this type of glomerulonephritis is completely dependent on FcR+ cells.
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- S Y Park
- Department of Molecular Genetics, Chiba University Graduate School of Medicine, Chiba 260-8670, Japan
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