Puccetti A, Koizumi T, Migliorini P, André-Schwartz J, Barrett K J, Schwartz R S
Department of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111.
J Exp Med. 1990 Jun 1;171(6):1919-30. doi: 10.1084/jem.171.6.1919.
Autoantibodies against the 70-kD U1 RNP nucleoprotein autoantigen and DNA were elicited in normal BALB/c mice with a purified Ig light chain. This light chain, derived from a lupus-prone MRL-lpr/lpr mouse, has two distinctive properties: it contains an idiotypic marker recognized by a monoclonal MRL-lpr/lpr anti-snRNP autoantibody, and the amino acid sequence of its third hypervariable region (CDR3) is homologous to a sequence in an antigenic region of the 70-kD U1 RNP polypeptide. The results demonstrate that an Ig idiotype that mimics an autoantigen can induce autoimmunization.
用纯化的Ig轻链在正常BALB/c小鼠中诱发了针对70-kD U1 RNP核蛋白自身抗原和DNA的自身抗体。这种轻链源自易患狼疮的MRL-lpr/lpr小鼠,具有两个独特的特性:它含有一个由单克隆MRL-lpr/lpr抗snRNP自身抗体识别的独特型标记,并且其第三个高变区(CDR3)的氨基酸序列与70-kD U1 RNP多肽抗原区域中的一个序列同源。结果表明,模拟自身抗原的Ig独特型可诱导自身免疫。