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Montano-Loza AJ, Shums Z, Norman GL, Czaja AJ. Prognostic implications of antibodies to Ro/SSA and soluble liver antigen in type 1 autoimmune hepatitis. Liver Int 2012; 32:85-92. [PMID: 21745277 DOI: 10.1111/j.1478-3231.2011.02502.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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BACKGROUND Antibodies to soluble liver antigen are frequently co-expressed with antibodies to ribonucleoprotein/Sjögren's syndrome A (Ro/SSA) in autoimmune hepatitis. AIMS Our goals were to evaluate the prognostic implications of antibodies to Ro/SSA in type 1 autoimmune hepatitis and to determine their independence from antibodies to soluble liver antigen. METHODS Three hundred and seventy-six serum samples from 170 patients were tested by enzyme immunoassays. RESULTS Sixty-five patients (38%) had antibodies to Ro52; 11 patients (6%) had antibodies to Ro60; and 27 patients had antibodies to soluble liver antigen (16%). Twenty-six patients with antibodies to Ro52 had antibodies to soluble liver antigen (40%), and 26 patients with antibodies to soluble liver antigen had antibodies to Ro52 (96%). Patients with antibodies to Ro52 and antibodies to soluble liver antigen had a higher frequency of human leucocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1(*) 03 (78 vs 50%, P=0.05) and lower occurrence of HLA DRB1(*) 04 (22 vs 57%, P=0.01) than patients with antibodies to Ro52 alone. Antibodies to Ro52 alone [hazard ratio (HR), 2.90; 95% confidence interval (CI), 1.18-7.14, P=0.02] and antibodies to Ro52 in conjunction with antibodies to soluble liver antigen (HR, 2.98; 95% CI, 1.07-8.43, P=0.04) were independently associated with the development of cirrhosis and hepatic death or liver transplantation. CONCLUSIONS Antibodies to Ro52 alone and antibodies to Ro52 in conjunction with antibodies to soluble liver antigen are independently associated with a poor prognosis in type 1 autoimmune hepatitis. The prognostic implications ascribed to antibodies to soluble liver antigen may reflect their almost invariable concurrence with antibodies to Ro52.
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- Aldo J Montano-Loza
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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Lamey PJ, Lundy FT, Al-Hashimi I. Sjögren’s syndrome: a condition with features of chronic graft-versus-host disease: does duct cell adhesion or permeability play a role in pathogenesis? Med Hypotheses 2004; 62:825-9. [PMID: 15082115 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2003.12.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2003] [Accepted: 12/04/2003] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Primary and Secondary Sjögren's syndrome are disease complexes characterized by periductal inflammatory cell infiltration of the salivary and lacrimal glands and manifest as dry mouth and dry eyes. Secondary Sjögren's syndrome may be associated with a connective tissue disorder. Additional extraglandular features in Sjögren's syndrome include a generalized inflammatory exocrinopathy that might be associated with abnormalities of both humoral and cellular mediated immunity. Similar inflammatory changes and extraglandular features, including an altered immune response, have been reported in patients developing graft-versus-host disease after bone-marrow transplantation and in patients with primary biliary cirrhosis. The periductal nature of the inflammatory response involving minor salivary and other glands raises the possibility of altered duct cell adhesion or permeability in playing a role in the aetiopathogenesis of Sjögren's syndrome. The paper pulls together evidence that could be interpreted in this light. Evidence for bacterial or viral factor(s) altering the antigenicity of the histocompartibility (HC) complex on ductal cells in Sjögren's syndrome patients is also described. A hypothesis is proposed for Sjögren's syndrome in which the principal feature is an alteration in salivary gland duct cell adhesion or permeability. A re-evaluation of current knowledge of these two conditions from a clinical and experimental context are interpreted in this light.
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- P-J Lamey
- Oral Science Research Centre, School of Dentistry, Queen's University Belfast, Grosvenor Road, Northern Ireland, Belfast BT12 6BP, UK.
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The ANA test is an excellent screening test for patients with SLE and a few other connective tissue diseases. The LE cell preparation is an assay that is subjective and costly. Because of the presence of a superior screening test (the ANA) and superior specific auto-antibody tests, the author recommends that the use of LE cell preparations be discontinued. ANA screening tests may be performed either by indirect microscopic serology (usually IFA) or EIA. The latter technique is readily automated and many new products for this screening test have appeared in the past decade. The products differ, however, and laboratories are cautioned to test each in the context of the clinical needs of their clinicians. Proper use of the ANA test requires each laboratory to determine the cutoff used under their conditions of assay. Although either ANA screening test has a high negative predictive value in numerous studies, proper selection of patients to be tested is key to improving the predictive value of a positive result. The American College of Rheumatism criteria are reviewed and recommended as part of the patient selection process for this testing.
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- David F Keren
- Warde Medical Laboratory, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA.
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Wenzel J, Gerdsen R, Uerlich M, Bauer R, Bieber T, Boehm I. Antibodies targeting extractable nuclear antigens: historical development and current knowledge. Br J Dermatol 2001; 145:859-67. [PMID: 11899137 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2001.04577.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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- J Wenzel
- Department of Dermatology, University of Bonn, Germany.
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The presentation of lupus erythematosus (LE) ranges from a skin rash unaccompanied by extracutaneous stigmata to a rapidly progressive lethal multiorgan disease. The diagnosis and subclassification is traditionally based on the correlation of serological and clinical findings. The latter include a photoinduced skin rash, arthralgia, arthritis, fever, Raynaud's phenomenon, anemia, leukopenia, serositis, nephritis and central nervous sysdtem disease. The conventional classification scheme includes systemic, subacute cutaneous and discoid LE. Recent advances in our understanding of the cutaneous histopathology which correlates with the traditional forms of LE, along with certain novel LE subtypes, are the focus of this review. In addition to the main subtypes of LE, we will discuss associated vasculopathic lesions and the contribution of immunofluorescence microscopy to the diagnosis of LE and related connective tissue disease syndromes. Consideration will be given to unusual variants of LE such as anti-Ro/SSA-positive systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), bullous SLE, lymphomatoid LE, lupus erythematosus profundus, drug induced LE, linear cutaneous LE, chiblains LE and parvovirus B19-associated LE.
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- A N Crowson
- Central Medical Laboratories, Winnipeg, MB, Canada.
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Magro CM, Crowson AN. The cutaneous pathology associated with seropositivity for antibodies to SSA (Ro): a clinicopathologic study of 23 adult patients without subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus. Am J Dermatopathol 1999; 21:129-37. [PMID: 10218672 DOI: 10.1097/00000372-199904000-00004] [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: 11/25/2022]
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Antibodies to Ro/SSA are found in patients with subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE), complement deficiency lupus erythematosus, systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), neonatal lupus erythematosus, and Sjögren syndrome (SS). Most studies describing the cutaneous pathology associated with anti-Ro antibodies have been of patients with SCLE. Over a 42-month period, we encountered skin biopsy specimens from 23 anti-Ro-positive patients who did not have SCLE: 15 had SLE variably manifesting as SCLE-like rashes; malar erythema; a dermatomyositis-like rash; vascular disease involving cutaneous, cardiac, peripheral, and central nervous systems; restrictive pulmonary disease; periorbital edema; and myositis. Two patients had primary Sjögren syndrome, one had primary antiphospholipid antibody syndrome, and two had rheumatoid arthritis; all five had clinical evidence of cutaneous vasculopathy encompassing livedo, perniosis, and palpable purpura. Three additional patients presented with folliculocentric purpura without other stigmata to permit classification as a specific connective tissue disease. In the SLE patients, biopsy specimens of photodistributed eruptions showed an interface dermatitis accompanied by superficial vascular plexus density reduction. Vasculopathic reactions in patients with and without SLE comprised neutrophilic, lymphocytic, or pauciinflammatory thrombogenic subtypes. Although at times a marker of SCLE, the identification of anti-Ro antibodies may isolate a subset of patients at higher risk of multiorgan vasculopathy, myositis, and progressive pulmonary disease. We postulate that many of the features seen in these patients reflect the sequelae of antibody mediated endothelial cell injury.
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- C M Magro
- Department of Pathology, Anatomy, and Cell Biology, Thomas Jefferson Medical College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-6799, USA
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After 6 months to 5 years of calcium channel blocker (CCB) therapy for arterial hypertension, nine patients developed photoinduced annular or papulosquamous eruptions consonant clinically with subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (SCLE). Four patients were receiving diltiazem, four received verapamil, and one was taking nifedipine. Serology showed antinuclear antibodies (ANA) in seven of nine patients, anti-Ro antibodies in five, and anti-La antibodies in five, with three patients having only anti-La antibodies. Skin biopsy specimens in all nine patients were held to be characteristic of SCLE based on light microscopy, direct, and indirect immunofluorescence. The CCB was discontinued in all; in 8 patients in whom the CCB was stopped, the eruption resolved. A proposed mechanism by which the CCBs may have precipitated the eruptions is offered.
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- A N Crowson
- Department of Laboratories, Misericordia General Hospital, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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Niimi Y, Ioannides D, Buyon J, Bystryn JC. Heterogeneity in the expression of Ro and La antigens in human skin. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1995; 38:1271-6. [PMID: 7575722 DOI: 10.1002/art.1780380915] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To determine whether there are variations in the expression of Ro and La antigens in human skin. METHODS Levels of expression of Ro and/or La antigens in 26 specimens of normal human skin (11 sun-exposed, 15 sun-protected) were measured by indirect immunofluorescence with monospecific antisera. RESULTS Levels of expression of both antigens varied by more than 2,000-fold in the skin of different individuals. There usually was a correlation between the levels of expression of Ro and La antigens in the same skin specimen. There was no correlation found between the levels of Ro or La antigen expression and sun exposure, nor was there a correlation found between levels of antigen expression and location of the skin on the body. CONCLUSION There is a marked heterogeneity in the expression of both Ro and La antigens in the skin of different individuals. The present study findings suggest that the levels of expression of these antigens may play a role in the propensity of some individuals to develop anti-Ro or anti-La antibodies and/or skin lesions associated with the presence of these antibodies.
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- Y Niimi
- Nippon Medical School, Tokyo, Japan
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Silverman ED, Buyon J, Laxer RM, Hamilton R, Bini P, Chu JL, Elkon KB. Autoantibody response to the Ro/La particle may predict outcome in neonatal lupus erythematosus. Clin Exp Immunol 1995; 100:499-505. [PMID: 7774062 PMCID: PMC1534456 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1995.tb03729.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023] Open
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This study was undertaken to determine the role of antibodies against both recombinant Ro (r-Ro) and La (r-La) proteins and polypeptides derived from the recombinant La protein in predicting fetal and neonatal outcome in children at risk to develop neonatal lupus erythematosus (NLE). All sera were obtained in the perinatal period and quantitative ELISA assays were used. We collected 41 maternal sera within 2 months of delivery of a child with NLE (21 with congenital heart disease block (CHB) and 20 with dermatologic NLE) and 19 sera from anti-Ro and/or anti-La antibody-positive mothers with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) who delivered a child without NLE. All sera were tested for anti-r-La and anti-r-Ro antibodies by ELISA, and most sera were tested for antibodies directed against La polypeptides by immunoblot. We found significantly higher anti-r-La antibody levels in the sera from mothers of children with NLE compared with sera from mothers of unaffected children (0.67 +/- 0.43 versus 0.14 +/- 0.30; P < 0.0001). There was a statistically significant difference in the mean anti-r-La levels between the sera of mothers of children with CHB compared with dermatologic NLE (0.51 +/- 0.45 versus 0.83 +/- 0.37 respectively; P = 0.0091). When we examined antibodies directed against the recombinant 52-kD Ro protein, there was a statistically significant elevation of titres in the sera of mothers of NLE children (0.77 +/- 0.35) compared with non-NLE mothers (0.29 +/- 0.39; P < 0.0001). There was no difference in the r-Ro levels between mothers of children with dermatologic NLE compared with CHB (0.82 +/- 0.37 versus 0.71 +/- 0.74; P = 0.32). When we examined polypeptides derived from the recombinant La protein, the mean number of polypeptides recognized by sera from mothers of children with NLE was significantly higher than the mean number of polypeptides recognized by sera from mothers of unaffected children (5.1 +/- 0.54 versus 2.3 +/- 0.54 respectively; P < 0.001). More importantly, when we examined the individual polypeptides, we found that only sera from mothers of children with NLE and not from mothers of unaffected children recognized a polypeptide designated DD (30% versus 0%, respectively). These studies indicate that the autoantibody response to the Ro/La particle can differentiate sera from mothers of children with NLE and sera from mothers of unaffected children. Furthermore, there was a difference in the anti-La autoantibody response between mothers of children with CHB and dermatologic NLE.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 400 WORDS)
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- E D Silverman
- Department of Paediatrics and Immunology, University of Toronto Hospital for Sick Children, Ontario, Canada
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Neu E, von Mikecz AH, Hemmerich PH, Peter HH, Fricke M, Deicher H, Genth E, Krawinkel U. Autoantibodies against eukaryotic protein L7 in patients suffering from systemic lupus erythematosus and progressive systemic sclerosis: frequency and correlation with clinical, serological and genetic parameters. The SLE Study Group. Clin Exp Immunol 1995; 100:198-204. [PMID: 7743655 PMCID: PMC1534346 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1995.tb03653.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023] Open
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Recent studies have shown that sera of patients suffering from systemic autoimmune diseases contain autoantibodies directed against the eukaryotic ribosomal protein L7 [1]. In the present study we screened a large panel of sera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) for the presence of anti-L7 autoantibodies and their relationship to clinical, serological and genetic parameters of SLE. By means of an ELISA employing recombinant protein L7 as antigen we detected anti-L7 autoantobodies in 172 of 506 SLE sera (34%). Negative correlations were observed between the presence of anti-L7 autoantibodies, serum IgG levels and proteinuria; a potentially positive relationship existed with lung fibrosis. In order to analyse further this possibility we screened sera of 129 patients suffering from progressive systemic sclerosis (PSS) for anti-L7 reactivity; 45 of these patients had lung fibrosis. Of the PSS patients, 41% exhibited anti-L7 autoantibodies, but positive reactions were evenly distributed among patients with and without lung fibrosis. Protein L7 thus represents a major autoantigen of systemic autoimmune diseases, but does not so far define a distinct subpopulation of patients.
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- E Neu
- Lehrstuhl für Immunologie, Fakultät für Biologie, Universität Konstanz, Freiburg, Germany
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Moncé NM, Cappel VL, Saqueton CB. A comparison of two fixatives on IFA HEp-2 slides for the detection of antinuclear antibodies. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOASSAY 1994; 15:55-68. [PMID: 8150986 DOI: 10.1080/15321819408009571] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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A comparative evaluation of two fixatives on HEp-2 slides that detect antinuclear antibodies via indirect immunofluorescence was undertaken. The sensitivities of these two methods were compared to determine which of the two is more efficient in screening for anti-SS-A (Ro) antibodies. Fixing HEp-2 cells with a pure acetone solution resulted in a 97.5% sensitivity when anti-SS-A (Ro) positive samples were tested while only an 81.3% sensitivity was seen on HEp-2 cells fixed in an alcohol/acetone solution when detecting anti-SS-A (Ro) antibodies. In sera with only anti-SS-A (Ro) antibodies present, the fluorescence was more pronounced on the acetone fixed slides which made it easier to read than the alcohol/acetone fixed slides.
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- N M Moncé
- Helix Diagnostics, Inc., West Sacramento, CA 95691
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Moore PM, Lisak RP. Multiple sclerosis and Sjögren's syndrome: a problem in diagnosis or in definition of two disorders of unknown etiology? Ann Neurol 1990; 27:585-6. [PMID: 2136326 DOI: 10.1002/ana.410270523] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Mamula MJ, O'Brien CA, Harley JB, Hardin JA. The Ro ribonucleoprotein particle: induction of autoantibodies and the detection of Ro RNAs among species. CLINICAL IMMUNOLOGY AND IMMUNOPATHOLOGY 1989; 52:435-46. [PMID: 2503280 DOI: 10.1016/0090-1229(89)90158-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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High titers of autoantibody specific for the Ro(SSA) ribonucleoprotein are frequently found in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and Sjogren's syndrome. In this study we have analyzed the immune responses to the Ro particle when utilized as an immunogen in animal hosts. Anti-Ro autoantibodies which bound autologous Ro ribonucleoprotein particles were induced in rabbits. In immunodiffusion studies using crude rabbit tissue extracts, the rabbit antibody made a precipitin line of identity with a prototype human anti-Ro serum. In solid-phase assays, the human autoimmune serum and the antigen-induced rabbit serum competed for similar or overlapping epitopes on the Ro particle. The rabbit and human sera precipitated the four Ro RNAs from human cells as well as four previously uncharacterized Ro RNAs from a bovine cell line, three Ro RNAs from a rabbit cell line, and two Ro RNAs from duck cells. While total numbers of cellular Ro RNAs differ among species, all possess an RNA of common size which comigrated with the hY1 of human cells.
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- M J Mamula
- Department of Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510
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Bonfa E, Golombek SJ, Kaufman LD, Skelly S, Weissbach H, Brot N, Elkon KB. Association between lupus psychosis and anti-ribosomal P protein antibodies. N Engl J Med 1987; 317:265-71. [PMID: 3496538 DOI: 10.1056/nejm198707303170503] [Citation(s) in RCA: 470] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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In 18 of 20 patients with psychosis secondary to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), autoantibodies to ribosomal P proteins were detected by immunoblotting and measured with a new radioimmunoassay using a synthetic peptide as antigen. The frequency of anti-P was not increased in patients with other central nervous system manifestations of SLE (3 of 20, by radioimmunoassay), in patients with transient behavioral abnormalities due to SLE (none of 8), in patients with psychosis who did not have SLE (none of 13), or in normal controls (none of 20). In four of five paired serum samples, anti-P-peptide antibody levels increased 5-fold to 30-fold during the active phase of lupus psychosis. Longitudinal studies of anti-P activity in two patients with psychosis revealed that anti-P levels increased before and during the active phases of psychosis but not during sepsis or other exacerbations of SLE, and that the elevations were selective for anti-P antibodies, as opposed to anti-DNA antibodies. Longitudinal studies of anti-P activity in two patients with anti-P but without psychosis showed less than threefold changes in anti-P levels despite exacerbations of disease. We conclude that anti-P is associated with lupus psychosis and that synthetic peptide antigens may be useful for the detection and measurement of autoantibodies to intracellular proteins.
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Mamula MJ, Fox OF, Yamagata H, Harley JB. The Ro/SSA autoantigen as an immunogen. Some anti-Ro/SSA antibody binds IgG. J Exp Med 1986; 164:1889-901. [PMID: 3097237 PMCID: PMC2188496 DOI: 10.1084/jem.164.6.1889] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023] Open
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The rheumatic disease autoantigen, Ro/SSA, was immunogenic to a rabbit host. The heteroimmune rabbit serum bound the Ro/SSA particle in immunoblots and in an ELISA. Both the rabbit anti-Ro/SSA and a human prototype anti-Ro/SSA serum also bound IgG; and moreover, IgG inhibited both rabbit and human anti-Ro/SSA activity. Anti-IgG activity of the rabbit and human anti-Ro/SSA sera bound Ro/SSA by Western blot and solid-phase assays. In addition, purified Ro/SSA inhibited the anti-IgG activity of the anti-Ro/SSA sera from rabbit and man. Affinity purification of the IgG- and Ro/SSA-binding fractions of the rabbit anti-Ro/SSA demonstrated that both the anti-Ro/SSA and anti-IgG activities were concentrated in these fractions. These data show that Ro/SSA and IgG share epitopes that are bound by anti-Ro/SSA antibody. Inhibition experiments suggest that this antibody is found in most human anti-Ro/SSA autoimmune sera and that the epitope(s) are found in the F(ab')2 fragment of IgG.
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The use of tissue culture substrates for immunofluorescence determinations of nuclear, cytoplasmic, and mitotic cell-related autoantibodies has resulted in the delineation of diverse new specificities, whose clinical correlates are now becoming apparent. This review details both major and minor autoantibody specificities, the status of knowledge regarding their target antigens, and the relation of these serologic systems to distinctive rheumatic disease syndromes.
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Farmer SG, Kinyoun JL, Nelson JL, Wener MH. Retinal vasculitis associated with autoantibodies to Sjögren's syndrome A antigen. Am J Ophthalmol 1985; 100:814-21. [PMID: 4073179 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9394(14)73373-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Severe retinal vasculitis caused by a systemic lupus-like illness developed in two patients with distinctive clinical and immunologic characteristics. Both patients were young women with mild systemic disease and autoantibodies directed against a protein-ribonucleic acid complex termed the Sjögren's syndrome A antigen (SSA). One patient had no antibodies to nuclear antigens on conventional testing, and the other had a low-titer antinuclear antibody test. At the time of onset of retinal arteriolitis, neither patient had an exacerbation of multisystem disease or serologic activity. Despite oral and parenteral corticosteroids, cytotoxic agents, and panretinal photocoagulation, both patients suffered progressive irreversible retinal ischemia, optic disk and retinal neovascularization, vitreous hemorrhage traction retinal detachment, and anterior segment neovascularization.
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Lee LA, Harmon CE, Huff JC, Norris DA, Weston WL. The demonstration of SS-A/Ro antigen in human fetal tissues and in neonatal and adult skin. J Invest Dermatol 1985; 85:143-6. [PMID: 3926904 DOI: 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12276566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Anti-SS-A/Ro antibodies have been statistically associated with congenital heart block and cutaneous lupus in the neonatal lupus syndrome, and with photosensitive cutaneous lupus in subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus, but it had not been demonstrated that SS-A/Ro antigen is present in fetal tissues or at any age in human skin. We examined normal fetal tissues, normal neonatal and adult skin, and keratinocytes from purified serum-free cultures by immunofluorescence (IF) and by immunodiffusion or counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIE) to determine the presence of SS-A/Ro antigen. We found SS-A/Ro antigen to be present in fetal hearts and in other internal organs. SS-A/Ro antigen could be demonstrated in biopsies of neonatal and adult skin by IF and was confirmed to be in keratinocytes by CIE. SS-A/Ro antigen may be found on the surface of keratinocytes in culture and therefore may be present at a relevant site for antibody binding. We have shown that SS-A/Ro antigen is a normal component of tissues that may be affected in neonatal lupus (fetal myocardium, neonatal epidermis) and in subacute cutaneous lupus erythematosus (adult epidermis).
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LeFeber WP, Norris DA, Ryan SR, Huff JC, Lee LA, Kubo M, Boyce ST, Kotzin BL, Weston WL. Ultraviolet light induces binding of antibodies to selected nuclear antigens on cultured human keratinocytes. J Clin Invest 1984; 74:1545-51. [PMID: 6207206 PMCID: PMC425326 DOI: 10.1172/jci111569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Antibodies which bind to different nuclear antigens in tissue sections or in permeabilized cell cultures are useful markers of subsets of connective tissue disease, especially of lupus erythematosus (LE), but whether these antibodies are able to react with these intracellular sequestered antigens in vivo and cause immunologic tissue damage has been a matter of much debate. We report experiments which show that ultraviolet light-irradiated, cultured human keratinocytes bind IgG antibodies from the sera of LE patients with either monospecific anti-SSA/Ro, anti-RNP, or anti-Sm activity, which implies that these antigens have been made accessible on the cell surface by ultraviolet irradiation. Normal human sera or LE patient's sera with anti-double-stranded DNA, anti-single-stranded DNA, or antihistone activity do not bind to the surface of irradiated human keratinocytes. In control experiments, all antisera produced the expected patterns of nuclear and cytoplasmic staining of fixed permeabilized, unirradiated keratinocytes. Careful study of the viability and permeability of irradiated keratinocytes by several techniques showed that this apparent cell membrane expression of extractable nuclear antigens (SSA/Ro, RNP, and Sm) following irradiation was seen on injured keratinocytes whose cell membranes were intact, but not on dead cells. It is particularly significant that all six monospecific anti-SSA/Ro sera bound to irradiated keratinocytes, since this antibody antigen system is highly associated with photosensitive cutaneous LE.
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Summary and conclusions. Hum Pathol 1983. [DOI: 10.1016/s0046-8177(83)80291-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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