Sekigawa I, Yanagida M, Iwabuchi K, Kaneda K, Kaneko H, Takasaki Y, Jung G, Sone S, Tanaka Y, Ogawa H, Takamori K
Department of Internal Medicine, Juntendo University Urayasu Hospital, Chiba, Japan.
Clin Exp Rheumatol. 2008 Mar-Apr;26(2):261-7.
To investigate the mechanism of action of anti-tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) antibody in patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA), we analyzed serum or plasma proteins by mass spectrometry system.
Ten RA patients who received treatment with anti-TNF-alpha antibody were studied. Samples obtained before and after therapy were analyzed by a two-dimensional liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (2D LC-MS/MS) system after pretreatment by a recently developed method to remove high molecular weight proteins.
Using this system, certain proteins were identified after treatment with anti-TNF-alpha antibody, including proteins related to the TNF-alpha-mediated pathway for nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) activation and/or to the metabolism (including regeneration) of articular cartilage.
Our mass spectrometry system appears to be useful for proteomic analysis. The efficacy of anti-TNF-alpha antibody therapy for RA may be related to various consequence of the inhibition of TNF-alpha activity.
为了研究抗肿瘤坏死因子-α(TNF-α)抗体在类风湿关节炎(RA)患者中的作用机制,我们通过质谱系统分析了血清或血浆蛋白。
对10例接受抗TNF-α抗体治疗的RA患者进行研究。在采用最近开发的去除高分子量蛋白的方法进行预处理后,通过二维液相色谱串联质谱(2D LC-MS/MS)系统对治疗前后获得的样本进行分析。
使用该系统,在用抗TNF-α抗体治疗后鉴定出了某些蛋白,包括与TNF-α介导的核因子κB(NF-κB)激活途径和/或关节软骨代谢(包括再生)相关的蛋白。
我们的质谱系统似乎可用于蛋白质组学分析。抗TNF-α抗体治疗RA的疗效可能与TNF-α活性抑制的各种结果有关。