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Harsini S, Rezaei N. Autoimmune diseases. Clin Immunol 2023. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-818006-8.00001-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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Antibodies to DNA repair proteins in headache with neurological deficits and cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (HaNDL) patients. Acta Neurol Belg 2015; 115:137-40. [PMID: 25070837 DOI: 10.1007/s13760-014-0334-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2014] [Accepted: 07/13/2014] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Autoimmune mechanisms have been implicated in the pathogenesis of headache and neurological deficits with cerebrospinal fluid lymphocytosis (HaNDL). Pooled sera of five HaNDL patients and 30 controls (10 multiple sclerosis patients, 10 migraine patients, 10 healthy controls) were screened by protein macroarray. All sera were also individually subjected to immunoprecipitation with neuroblastoma cells and the bound antigens were identified by mass spectrometry. Antibodies to three DNA repair proteins (mitogen-activated protein kinase-4, DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit, DNA excision repair protein ERCC-6) were identified by both macroarray and immunoprecipitation methods in 3/5 HaNDL sera, but in none of the controls. The presence of DNA repair protein antibodies indicates DNA damage and provides further support for the inflammatory etiology of HaNDL.
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Jahantigh D, Salimi S, Mousavi M, Moossavi M, Mohammadoo-Khorasani M, Narooei-nejad M, Sandoughi M. Association Between Functional Polymorphisms of DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Repair Genes XRCC5, XRCC6 and XRCC7 with the Risk of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in South East Iran. DNA Cell Biol 2015; 34:360-6. [DOI: 10.1089/dna.2014.2465] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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- Danial Jahantigh
- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
- Department of Biology, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Biology, Sistan and Baluchestan University, Zahedan, Iran
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- Cellular and Molecular Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
- Department of Clinical Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Genetics, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
- Genetic of Non-Communicable Disease Research Center, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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- Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, Zahedan, Iran
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Abstract Evidence of the involvement of systemic autoimmunity has been observed in polymyositis/dermatomyositis (PM/DM). Autoantibodies directed against various cellular constituents have been detected in most patients with PM/DM, and about one-third of patients have autoantibodies (myositis-specific antibodies: MSAs) that are found specifically in myositis patients. These autoantibodies are closely associated with a characteristic clinical subgroup, and therefore help in establishing the correct diagnosis, classifying the myositis patients in a homogeneous subset, and facilitating the clinical and treatment follow-up. Autoantibodies to six of the aminoacyl tRNA synthetases are each associated with a similar syndrome marked by myositis, interstitial lung disease, arthritis, and other features constituting an "antisynthetase syndrome." Antibodies to other cytoplasmic antigens that are involved in protein synthesis or translation factors are seen in a small proportion of patients. Antisignal recognition particles are associated with severe, refractory myositis that differs significantly from antisynthetase syndrome. Antibodies to the nuclear antigen are specifically seen in patietnts with DM. Several autoantibodies, including anti-U1 RNP, anti-U2 RNP, anti-Ku, and anti-PM-Scl, have been associated with scleroderma-PM overlap. In recent years, these MSAs and their antigens have been characterized using molecular biology approaches. It is not known if the MSAs are involved in tissue injury or the pathogenesis of PM/DM. However, an understanding of the production mechanisms of these autoantibodies can provide insight into the etiology of this disorder.
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- M Hirakata
- Section of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine , 35 Shinanomachi, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 160-8582 , Japan
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Belizna C, Henrion D, Beucher A, Lavigne C, Ghaali A, Lévesque H. Anti-Ku antibodies: Clinical, genetic and diagnostic insights. Autoimmun Rev 2010; 9:691-4. [DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2010.05.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2010] [Accepted: 05/26/2010] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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Fritzler MJ. Advances in understanding newer autoantibodies and their role as biomarkers in systemic lupus erythematosus. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 1:393-408. [DOI: 10.1517/17530059.1.3.393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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HIRAKATA M. Autoantibodies and their clinical significance in idiopathic inflammatory myopathies; polymyositis/dermatomyositis and related conditions. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2007; 30:444-54. [DOI: 10.2177/jsci.30.444] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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- Michito HIRAKATA
- Department of Internal Medicine, Keio University School of Medicine
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Neeli I, Richardson MM, Khan SN, Nicolo D, Monestier M, Radic MZ. Divergent members of a single autoreactive B cell clone retain specificity for apoptotic blebs. Mol Immunol 2006; 44:1914-21. [PMID: 17084454 PMCID: PMC1812796 DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.09.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/31/2006] [Accepted: 09/29/2006] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Specificity for double-stranded DNA can arise due to somatic mutations within one of the branches of an autoreactive B cell clone. However, it is not known whether a different autospecificity predates anti-dsDNA and whether separate offshoots of an expanding B cell clone retain or evolve alternative specificities. We compared 3H9, an anti-dsDNA IgG, to 4H8 and 1A11, antibodies produced by hybridomas representing an alternative branch of the 3H9 B cell clone. All three IgG bound chromatin in ELISA and apoptotic cells in confocal microscopy, yet only 3H9 bound dsDNA, as measured by plasmon resonance. Moreover, we demonstrate that despite the unique specificity of 3H9 for dsDNA, all three clone members exhibited indistinguishable binding to chromatin. The binding to chromatin and apoptotic cells was unaffected by N-linked glycosylation in L chain CDR1, a modification that results from a replacement of serine 26 with asparagine in 4H8 and 1A11. These data provide the first evidence that specificity for nucleosome epitopes on apoptotic cells provides the initial positive stimulus for somatic variants that comprise a B cell clone, including those that subsequently acquire specificity for dsDNA. Conversely, selection of autoreactive B cells for binding to apoptotic cells leads to clonal expansion, antibody diversification, and the development of linked sets of anti-nuclear autoantibodies.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antibodies, Antinuclear/chemistry
- Antibodies, Antinuclear/genetics
- Antibodies, Antinuclear/immunology
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/chemistry
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/genetics
- Antibodies, Monoclonal/immunology
- Antibody Specificity/genetics
- Antibody Specificity/immunology
- Apoptosis/immunology
- B-Lymphocytes/chemistry
- B-Lymphocytes/immunology
- Binding Sites, Antibody/genetics
- Binding Sites, Antibody/immunology
- Clone Cells/chemistry
- Clone Cells/immunology
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte/genetics
- Gene Rearrangement, B-Lymphocyte/immunology
- Hybridomas/chemistry
- Hybridomas/immunology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred MRL lpr
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- Indira Neeli
- Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University, 3400 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
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- Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Temple University, 3400 North Broad Street, Philadelphia, PA 19140, USA
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- Department of Molecular Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, 858 Madison Avenue, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
- * Corresponding author. Tel: 1 901 448-8219; fax: 1 901 4488462; E-mail address:
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Bredberg A, Henriksson G, Larsson A, Manthorpe R, Sallmyr A. Sjogren's syndrome and the danger model. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2005; 44:965-70. [PMID: 15840601 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keh647] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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- A Bredberg
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University Hospital, S-20502 Malmo, Sweden.
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Casciola-Rosen L, Nagaraju K, Plotz P, Wang K, Levine S, Gabrielson E, Corse A, Rosen A. Enhanced autoantigen expression in regenerating muscle cells in idiopathic inflammatory myopathy. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 201:591-601. [PMID: 15728237 PMCID: PMC2213068 DOI: 10.1084/jem.20041367] [Citation(s) in RCA: 267] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/04/2022]
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Unique autoantibody specificities are strongly associated with distinct clinical phenotypes, making autoantibodies useful for diagnosis and prognosis. To investigate the mechanisms underlying this striking association, we examined autoantigen expression in normal muscle and in muscle from patients with autoimmune myositis. Although myositis autoantigens are expressed at very low levels in control muscle, they are found at high levels in myositis muscle. Furthermore, increased autoantigen expression correlates with differentiation state, such that myositis autoantigen expression is increased in cells that have features of regenerating muscle cells. Consistent with this, we found that cultured myoblasts express high levels of autoantigens, which are strikingly down-regulated as cells differentiate into myotubes in vitro. These data strongly implicate regenerating muscle cells rather than mature myotubes as the source of ongoing antigen supply in autoimmune myositis. Myositis autoantigen expression is also markedly increased in several cancers known to be associated with autoimmune myositis, but not in their related normal tissues, demonstrating that tumor cells and undifferentiated myoblasts are antigenically similar. We propose that in cancer-associated myositis, an autoimmune response directed against cancer cross-reacts with regenerating muscle cells, enabling a feed-forward loop of tissue damage and antigen selection. Regulating pathways of antigen expression may provide unrecognized therapeutic opportunities in autoimmune diseases.
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- Livia Casciola-Rosen
- Department of Medicine, Division of Rheumatology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA.
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Autoantibodies targeting nucleolar autoantigens (ANoA) are most frequently found in sera from patients with systemic sclerosis (SSc, also designated scleroderma) or with SSc overlap syndromes. During the last decade an extensive number of nucleolar components have been identified and this allowed a more detailed analysis of the identity of nucleolar autoantigens. This review intends to give an overview of the molecular composition of the major (families of) autoantigenic nucleolar complexes, to provide some insight into their functions and to summarise the data concerning their autoantigenicity.
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- Tim J M Welting
- Department of Biochemistry 161, Nijmegen Centre for Molecular Life Sciences, University of Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, NL-6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Lee KJ, Dong X, Wang J, Takeda Y, Dynan WS. Identification of human autoantibodies to the DNA ligase IV/XRCC4 complex and mapping of an autoimmune epitope to a potential regulatory region. JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY (BALTIMORE, MD. : 1950) 2002; 169:3413-21. [PMID: 12218164 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.169.6.3413] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The nonhomologous end-joining pathway is the principal mechanism for repair of ionizing radiation-induced, double-strand breaks in mammalian cells. Three polypeptides in this pathway, including the two subunits of Ku protein and the catalytic subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase, are known targets of autoantibodies in systemic rheumatic diseases. Here we show that two additional polypeptides in the pathway, DNA ligase IV and XRCC4, are also targets of autoantibodies. These Abs were present in 20% of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus and overlap syndrome. Previous work has shown that XRCC4 is subject to radiation-induced post-translational modification, including phosphorylation by DNA-dependent protein kinase and cleavage by caspase 3. We mapped a major autoimmune epitope in XRCC4 and found that it encompassed a DNA-dependent protein kinase phosphorylation site, which is located at serine 260; that it was adjacent to a site for caspase 3, which cleaves after residue 265; and that it also spanned a site for the inflammatory protease, granzyme B, which cleaves after residue 254. The finding that five different polypeptides in the nonhomologous end-joining pathway are potential targets of autoantibodies together with the observation that one of the autoimmune epitopes in XRCC4 coincides with a sequence that is a nexus for radiation-induced regulatory events suggest that exposure to agents that introduce DNA double-strand breaks may be one of the factors that influences the development of an autoimmune response in susceptible individuals.
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- Kyung-Jong Lee
- Program in Gene Regulation, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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Henriksson G, Brant M, Sallmyr A, Fukushima S, Manthorpe R, Bredberg A. Enhanced DNA damage-induced p53 peptide phosphorylation and cell-cycle arrest in Sjögren's syndrome cells. Eur J Clin Invest 2002; 32:458-65. [PMID: 12059992 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2362.2002.00997.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cells from primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) patients have been reported to show alterations in DNA repair and p53 expression. The DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) autoantigen may be involved in both of these alterations in relation to cellular DNA damage responses. We conducted this study of cell-cycle kinetics and p53 to find additional evidence for an abnormal stress response role in the pathogenesis of SS. DESIGN DNA-dependent protein kinase activity, p53 peptide phosphorylation and p53 protein levels were determined in gamma-irradiated long-term T lymphocyte cultures. Cell-cycle progression of peripheral blood mononuclear cells was analysed with flow cytometry. RESULTS No significant differences in the DNA-PK activities or p53 protein levels appeared between the SS patients and the healthy individuals. However, patients with the SS hallmark Ro/SS-A and La/SS-B autoantibodies showed enhancement of both p53 peptide phosphorylation (P = 0.036) and G1 cell-cycle arrest (P = 0.015) in response to gamma radiation. CONCLUSIONS Sjögren's syndrome cells express an enhanced G1 checkpoint function which may be mediated partly by p53 phosphorylation, suggesting that an abnormal stress response in SS is of relevance for the development of this autoimmune disease.
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- G Henriksson
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Malmö University Hospital, Malmö, Sweden.
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Du L, Fukushima S, Sallmyr A, Manthorpe R, Bredberg A. Exposure of HEp-2 cells to stress conditions influences antinuclear antibody reactivity. CLINICAL AND DIAGNOSTIC LABORATORY IMMUNOLOGY 2002; 9:287-94. [PMID: 11874865 PMCID: PMC119933 DOI: 10.1128/cdli.9.2.287-294.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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This study of stress-related antinuclear antibody (ANA) reactivity was undertaken with the objective of improving clinical ANA testing. ANA was determined by parallel enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays of crude nuclear protein antigen extracted from HEp-2 cells either grown under optimal conditions (providing nonstress ANA antigen) or exposed to stress (providing stress ANA antigen). The stress stimuli used were gamma radiation (causing DNA damage) and a hypertonic environment (causing apoptosis). Signs of stress-related ANA reactivity were seen among connective tissue disease (CTD) patients (including patients with systemic lupus erythematosus; mixed CTD; calcinosis, Reynaud's phenomenon, esophageal motility disorders, sclerodactyly, and telangiectasia; scleroderma; and Sjögren's syndrome): 11% showed stress-positive ANA (i.e., a significantly stronger ANA reactivity with the extract from stressed cells), whereas 21% showed a markedly weaker reaction with the stress antigen. In contrast, among ANA screening patient sera, with no diagnosis of CTD, the fraction showing stress-positive ANA was higher (7 to 8%, depending on the type of stress) than among those showing a lower reactivity with stress antigen (1.5 to 2.5%). Only one serum among 89 (1%) tested sera from healthy individuals showed a stress-related ANA reaction. This demonstration of stress-related ANA suggests a means to improve the performance of clinical ANA testing.
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- Liping Du
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Lund University, Malmo University Hospital, S-205 02 Malmo, Sweden
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Henriksson G, Manthorpe R, Sallmyr A, Bredberg A. Ku protein and DNA strand breaks in lip glands of normal and primary Sjögren's syndrome subjects: lack of correlation with apoptosis. Scand J Immunol 2001; 54:328-34. [PMID: 11555398 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3083.2001.00978.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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UNLABELLED The aim was to examine tissue expression of Ku protein in lower lip salivary gland (LSG) biopsies from cases of primary Sjögren's syndrome (SS) and from normal subjects. METHODS immunohistochemistry was used with antibodies to Ku70/86 and also Ki67, PCNA and p53. In addition, the Klenow method was applied in order to detect evidence of apoptosis. Sections of hyperplastic tonsil served as additional controls. RESULTS in normal controls, LSG acinar cells stained negatively whereas LSG excretory duct cell nuclei stained positively with Ku and Klenow and occasionally with PCNA but negatively with Ki67 and p53. In LSG focal sialadenitis of SS cases, some lymphocytic cells showed staining with Ku, Ki67, PCNA, Klenow and p53. In addition to duct cell Ku and Klenow as well as PCNA staining which was not much different from normals, a few ductal epithelial and also mononuclear cells stained with p53. In focal sialadenitis, some acinar cells showed staining with PCNA as well as with Klenow. CONCLUSIONS our findings in LSG biopsies of SS cases added little to an increased understanding about the pathogenetic mechanisms in the development of focal sialadenitis in SS. However, in normal LSG, ductal epithelial but not acinar cells seem to express a constitutively specific Ku protein and Klenow profile, suggestive of DNA strand breaks but not clearly associated with ongoing apoptotic events. It may reflect an enhanced stress response, which may be pathogenetically important in the early events of focal sialadenitis development in primary Sjögren's syndrome.
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Jafri F, Hardin JA, Dynan WS. A method to detect particle-specific antibodies against Ku and the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit in autoimmune sera. J Immunol Methods 2001; 251:53-61. [PMID: 11292481 DOI: 10.1016/s0022-1759(01)00294-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Sera from patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, polymyositis, scleroderma, and mixed connective tissue disease are frequently characterized by the presence of high levels of autoantibodies directed against linked sets of nuclear proteins. One of these autoantigen systems is made up of Ku and the DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit (DNA-PKcs), proteins that are essential for double-strand DNA break repair and for the related process of V(D)J recombination. Ku and DNA-PKcs bind avidly to DNA ends in vivo and in vitro and form an active protein kinase complex. One hypothesis is that this assembled nucleoprotein particle, rather than its component proteins, is a primary trigger for the autoimmune response and thus a major target for the resulting autoantibodies. To screen for particle-specific antibodies, we developed an assay in which the fully native nucleoprotein particle is reconstituted in vitro and is tethered to the surface of an ELISA plate via a streptavidin-biotin linkage. These particles are recognized efficiently by monoclonal antibodies and by autoantibodies present in patient sera. The assay may detect a broader spectrum of epitopes than a conventional ELISA in which Ku and DNA-PKcs are adsorbed directly to a plastic surface. The method will be advantageous for high-throughput screening for antibodies and other ligands that bind the assembled DNA-dependent protein kinase complex.
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- F Jafri
- Program in Gene Regulation, Institute of Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, GA 30912, USA
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Casciola-Rosen LA, Pluta AF, Plotz PH, Cox AE, Morris S, Wigley FM, Petri M, Gelber AC, Rosen A. The DNA mismatch repair enzyme PMS1 is a myositis-specific autoantigen. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 2001; 44:389-96. [PMID: 11229471 DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(200102)44:2<389::aid-anr58>3.0.co;2-r] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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OBJECTIVE The specificity of the autoantibody response in different autoimmune diseases makes autoantibodies useful for diagnostic purposes. It also focuses attention on tissue- and event-specific circumstances that may select unique molecules for an autoimmune response in specific diseases. Defining additional phenotype-specific autoantibodies may identify such circumstances. This study was undertaken to investigate the disease specificity of PMS1, an autoantigen previously identified in some sera from patients with myositis. METHODS We used immunoprecipitation analysis to determine the frequency of autoantibodies to PMS1 in sera from patients with myositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, or scleroderma and from healthy controls. Additional antigens recognized by PMS1-positive sera were further characterized in terms of their susceptibility to cleavage by apoptotic proteases. RESULTS PMS1, a DNA mismatch repair enzyme, was identified as a myositis-specific autoantigen. Autoantibodies to PMS1 were found in 4 of 53 patients with autoimmune myositis (7.5%), but in no sera from 94 patients with other systemic autoimmune diseases (P = 0.016). Additional mismatch repair enzymes (PMS2, MLH1) were targeted, apparently independently. Sera recognizing PMS1 also recognized several other proteins involved in DNA repair and remodeling, including poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase, DNA-dependent protein kinase, and Mi-2. All of these autoantigens were efficiently cleaved by granzyme B, generating unique fragments not observed during other forms of cell death. CONCLUSION PMS1 autoantibodies are myositis specific. The striking correlation between an immune response to a group of granzyme B substrates (functioning in DNA repair and remodeling) and the myositis phenotype strongly implies that tissue- and event-specific biochemical events play a role in selecting these molecules for an autoimmune response. Understanding the role of granzyme B cleavage in this response is an important priority.
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- L A Casciola-Rosen
- Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205, USA
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- School of Pharmacy, Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia, Perth.
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Lavasani S, Henriksson G, Brant M, Henriksson A, Radulic M, Manthorpe R, Bredberg A. Abnormal DNA damage-inducible protein in cells from Sjögren's syndrome patients. J Autoimmun 1998; 11:363-9. [PMID: 9776714 DOI: 10.1006/jaut.1998.0211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Antinuclear antibodies are commonly found in patients with Sjögren's syndrome. It has been suggested that the development of antinuclear antibodies depends on the activation of the spliceosome and other transcription-related subcellular particles, some of which have recently been shown also to function in DNA-modifying processes, such as DNA repair and V(D)J recombination. These observations add weight to a previously proposed model for the aetiology of Sjögren's syndrome. This includes the abnormal processing of the T-cell receptor and immunoglobulin genes. To test this hypothesis further, the present study on DNA-modifying proteins in Sjögren's syndrome was initiated. Gel-shift experiments using protein extracted from UV-treated Sjögren cells provided evidence of high molecular weight DNA-binding protein in six out of 12 Sjögren patients studied (but not among seven healthy controls). Some Sjögren sera displayed antibodies to protein extracts from cells treated with psoralen plus UVA radiation. These results indicate an abnormal DNA damage-inducible response in Sjögren's syndrome. It may therefore be concluded that alterations in nuclear protein may play a role in the aetiology of Sjögren's syndrome.
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- S Lavasani
- Department of Medical Microbiology, Lund University, University Hospital, Malmö, S-205 02, Sweden
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Wang J, Dong X, Stojanov L, Kimpel D, Satoh M, Reeves WH. Human autoantibodies stabilize the quaternary structure of Ku antigen. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 1997; 40:1344-53. [PMID: 9214436 DOI: 10.1002/1529-0131(199707)40:7<1344::aid-art20>3.0.co;2-v] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To examine humoral immune responses to the native Ku antigen and to evaluate the role of autoantibodies in stabilizing intermolecular contacts between the p70 and p80 Ku subunits. METHODS Recombinant free human p70 and p80 Ku subunits and p70/p80 heterodimers were expressed in Sf9 (insect) cells using baculovirus vectors. Affinity-purified recombinant human p70, p80, and p70/p80 dimer were studied by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and immunoprecipitation to evaluate autoantibody specificities in sera from 58 patients with systemic autoimmune disease. RESULTS Anti-Ku antibodies were detected by ELISA or immunoprecipitation using K562 cell Ku antigen. All of the sera were reactive with the native recombinant p70, p80, or p70/p80 antigens: 47% were anti-p70+,anti-p80+ and 32% were anti-p70-,anti-p80+, but only 3% were anti-p70+,anti-p80-. Unexpectedly, 18% of the sera recognized the p70/p80 dimer but did not recognize native p70 or p80 alone. A subset of sera containing autoantibodies that prevent the dissociation of p70 from p80 by high salt and detergent treatment was identified; monoclonal antibody (MAb) 162, a murine anti-Ku MAb, displays the same property. Autoantibodies that stabilize the p70-p80 interaction were found most frequently in sera containing both anti-p70 and anti-p80 antibodies. CONCLUSION Autoantibodies to the native p80 subunit of Ku are more common than are anti-p70 antibodies. When anti-p70 antibodies were detected, they generally were found together with anti-p80. A novel type of autoantibody capable of stabilizing the p70/p80 heterodimer was identified in human sera for the first time. These "stabilizing" autoantibodies are found in sera containing both anti-p70 and anti-p80 antibodies, and also are produced by mice immunized with human Ku antigen. Autoimmunity to Ku may be initiated with an immune response to p80, followed by spreading to p70. We hypothesize that stabilizing antibodies could facilitate the spreading of autoimmunity from one subunit of Ku to another by altering the processing of p70 or p80 by antigen-presenting cells.
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- J Wang
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 27599-7280, USA
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All cells are constantly exposed to conflicting environment cues that signal cell survival or cell death. Survival signals are delivered by autocrine or paracrine factors that actively suppress a default death pathway. In addition to survival factor withdrawal, cell death can be triggered by environmental stresses such as heat, UV light, and hyperosmolarity or by dedicated death receptors (e.g., FAS/APO-1 and tumor necrosis factor [TNF] receptors) that are counterparts of growth factor or survival receptors at the cell surface. One of the ways that cells integrate conflicting exogenous stimuli is by phosphorylation (or dephosphorylation) of cellular constituents by interacting cascades of serine/threonine and tyrosine protein kinases (and phosphatases). Survival factors (e.g., growth factors and mitogens) activate receptor tyrosine kinases and selected mitogen-activated, cyclin-dependent, lipid-activated, nucleic acid-dependent, and cyclic AMP-dependent kinases to promote cell survival and proliferation, whereas environmental stress (or death factors such as FAS/APO-1 ligand and TNF-alpha) activates different members of these kinase families to inhibit cell growth and, under some circumstances, promote apoptotic cell death. Because individual kinase cascades can interact with one another, they are able to integrate conflicting exogenous stimuli and provide a link between cell surface receptors and the biochemical pathways leading to cell proliferation or cell death.
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- P Anderson
- Division of Tumor Immunology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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Teraoka H, Yumoto Y, Watanabe F, Tsukada K, Suwa A, Enari M, Nagata S. CPP32/Yama/apopain cleaves the catalytic component of DNA-dependent protein kinase in the holoenzyme. FEBS Lett 1996; 393:1-6. [PMID: 8804412 DOI: 10.1016/0014-5793(96)00842-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is composed of a 460-kDa catalytic component (p460) and a DNA-binding component Ku protein. Immunoblot analysis after treatment of Jurkat cells with anti-Fas antibody demonstrated the cleavage of p460 concomitantly with an increase in CPP32/Yama/apopain activity. Recombinant CPP32/Yama/apopain specifically cleaved p460 in the DNA-PK preparation that had been purified from Raji cells into 230- and 160-kDa polypeptides, the latter of which was detected in anti-Fas-treated Jurkat cells. The regulatory component Ku protein was not significantly affected by CPP32/Yama/apopain. DNA-PK activity was decreased with the disappearance of p460 in the incubation of DNA-PK with CPP32/Yama/apopain. These results suggest that the catalytic component of DNA-PK is one of the target proteins for CPP32/Yama/apopain in Fas-mediated apoptosis.
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- H Teraoka
- Department of Pathological Biochemistry, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Japan.
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The catalytic subunit of the DNA-dependent protein kinase (DNA-PK) is a member of the phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase family. Recent genetic and biochemical studies indicate the involvement of DNA-PK in immunoglobulin/T-cell-receptor gene recombination, double-strand DNA break repair, the stress response and autoimmunity. A role in the suppression of apoptosis could link some of the enzyme's diverse functions.
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- K McConnell
- Medical College of Georgia, Institute for Molecular medicine & Genetics, Augusta 30912-3175, USA.
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