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Aarli JA. Localization and properties of an acid-soluble muscle antigen reacting with antibodies in myasthenia gravis sera. Acta Pathol Microbiol Scand B Microbiol Immunol 2009; 80:453-9. [PMID: 4114938 DOI: 10.1111/j.1699-0463.1972.tb00060.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Baba A, Yoshikawa T, Iwata M, Anzai T, Nakamura I, Wainai Y, Ogawa S, Fu M. Antigen-specific effects of autoantibodies against sarcolemmal Na–K-ATPase pump in immunized cardiomyopathic rabbits. Int J Cardiol 2006; 112:15-20. [PMID: 16863664 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijcard.2006.05.026] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/14/2006] [Accepted: 05/10/2006] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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OBJECTIVES We examine antigen-specific actions of autoantibodies directed against sarcolemmal Na-K-ATPase. BACKGROUND Autoantibodies against some receptors or pumps were detected in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy. Although immunoglobulin adsorption therapy improved cardiac function in such patients, direct pathogenic effects of autoantibodies remain to be proven. METHODS Japanese white rabbits were immunized once a month with purified Na-K-ATPase (NKA rabbits, n=10) or a synthetic peptide corresponding to the second extracellular loop of beta1-adrenergic receptors (beta rabbits, n=10), respectively. Control rabbits (n=10) received vehicle in the same manner. RESULTS At 6 months, cardiac hypertrophy along with increased left ventricular end-diastolic pressure was observed in both NKA and beta rabbits, and inhibitory G protein level increased in both NKA and beta rabbits. Histological findings showed similar myocyte hypertrophy and interstitial fibrosis in both rabbits. Enzymatic activities of Na-K-ATPase were lower in NKA rabbits than in other groups. Immunoblotting showed that alpha3-isoform of Na-K-ATPase was selectively reduced in myocardium from NKA rabbits. CONCLUSIONS Our present findings suggested that isoform-specific alterations of myocardial Na-K-ATPase activity were induced by immunizing rabbits. This was not secondary change due to cardiac hypertrophy. Thus, autoantibodies against sarcolemmal Na-K-ATPase have antigen-specific effect on the heart in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Analysis of Variance
- Animals
- Autoantibodies/immunology
- Autoantigens/immunology
- Autoimmunity
- Cardiac Output/drug effects
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/immunology
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/metabolism
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/pathology
- Cardiomyopathy, Dilated/physiopathology
- Cardiomyopathy, Hypertrophic/immunology
- Disease Models, Animal
- Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
- GTP-Binding Protein alpha Subunits, Gi-Go/immunology
- Heart Ventricles/diagnostic imaging
- Heart Ventricles/pathology
- Heart Ventricles/physiopathology
- Hypertrophy, Left Ventricular/immunology
- Immunization
- Immunoblotting
- Immunoglobulin G/administration & dosage
- Immunologic Factors/administration & dosage
- Male
- Myocardium/enzymology
- Myocardium/immunology
- Myocardium/pathology
- Rabbits
- Receptors, Adrenergic, beta-1/immunology
- Sarcolemma/enzymology
- Sarcolemma/immunology
- Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/drug effects
- Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/immunology
- Sodium-Potassium-Exchanging ATPase/metabolism
- Ultrasonography
- Ventricular Pressure/drug effects
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- Akiyasu Baba
- Department of Medicine, Kitasato Institute Hospital, 5-9-1 Shirokane Minato-ku, Tokyo 108 8642, Japan.
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Hankel S, Shelton GD, Engvall E. Sarcolemma-specific autoantibodies in canine inflammatory myopathy. Vet Immunol Immunopathol 2006; 113:1-10. [PMID: 16824619 DOI: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2006.03.025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/14/2006] [Revised: 03/01/2006] [Accepted: 03/02/2006] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Inflammatory myopathies (IM) are relatively common in dogs with an increased incidence in the Boxer and Newfoundland breeds. Here, we show that a high proportion of affected Boxers and Newfoundlands have circulating autoantibodies against unknown sarcolemma antigens, that are muscle-specific but not species specific. We further show that the autoantigen can be extracted from muscle membranes with non-ionic detergent, and that such detergent extracts can be used in a sensitive ELISA for detection and quantitation of antibodies. The relatively high incidence of IM with autoantibodies in selected breeds of dogs indicates a genetic predisposition for a particular form of IM. In these breeds, this form of IM could be diagnosed and monitored with a simple serum assay.
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- Sabine Hankel
- The Burnham Institute, 10901 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
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Phospholipase C (PLC) activity is known to influence cardiac function. This study was undertaken to examine the status of PLC beta3 in the cardiac cell plasma membrane (sarcolemma, SL) in an experimental model of chronic diabetes. SL membrane was isolated from diabetic rat hearts at 8 weeks after a single i.v. injection of streptozotocin (65 mg/kg body weight). The total SL PLC was decreased in diabetes and was associated with a decrease in SL PLC beta3 activity, which immunofluorescence in frozen diabetic left ventricular tissue sections revealed to be due to a decrease in PLC beta3 protein abundance. In contrast, the SL abundance of Gqalpha was significantly increased during diabetes. These changes were associated with a loss of contractile function (+/- dP/dt). A 2-week insulin treatment of 6-week diabetic animals partially normalized all of these parameters. These findings suggest a defect in PLC beta3-mediated signaling processes may contribute to the cardiac dysfunction seen during diabetes.
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- Paramjit S Tappia
- Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences, St. Boniface Hospital Research Centre, Manitoba, Canada.
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Schulte-Mattler WJ, Kley RA, Rothenfusser-Korber E, Böhm S, Brüning T, Hackemann J, Steinbrecher A, Düring MV, Voss B, Vorgerd M. Immune-mediated rippling muscle disease. Neurology 2005; 64:364-7. [PMID: 15668444 DOI: 10.1212/01.wnl.0000149532.52938.5b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The authors report a 44-year-old man with rippling muscle disease (RMD) who does not have a mutation in the caveolin-3 gene. Immunohistochemistry of the muscle biopsy revealed a marked reduction of caveolin-3 and a mosaic pattern of dysferlin immunostaining. Ultrastructural studies showed a loss of caveolae and alterations of the triad. Autoantibodies were directed against the sarcolemma, triad, and several unknown muscle proteins.
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Ho M, Post CM, Donahue LR, Lidov HGW, Bronson RT, Goolsby H, Watkins SC, Cox GA, Brown RH. Disruption of muscle membrane and phenotype divergence in two novel mouse models of dysferlin deficiency. Hum Mol Genet 2004; 13:1999-2010. [PMID: 15254015 DOI: 10.1093/hmg/ddh212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 154] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Limb girdle muscular dystrophy type 2B and Miyoshi myopathy are clinically distinct forms of muscular dystrophy that arise from defects in the dysferlin gene. Here, we report two novel lines of dysferlin-deficient mice obtained by (a) gene targeting and (b) identification of an inbred strain, A/J, bearing a retrotransposon insertion in the dysferlin gene. The mutations in these mice were located at the 3' and 5' ends of the dysferlin gene. Both lines of mice lacked dysferlin and developed a progressive muscular dystrophy with histopathological and ultrastructural features that closely resemble the human disease. Vital staining with Evans blue dye revealed loss of sarcolemmal integrity in both lines of mice, similar to that seen in mdx and caveolin-3 deficient mice. However, in contrast to the latter group of animals, the dysferlin-deficient mice have an intact dystrophin glycoprotein complex and normal levels of caveolin-3. Our findings indicate that muscle membrane disruption and myofiber degeneration in dysferlinopathy were directly mediated by the loss of dysferlin via a new pathogenic mechanism in muscular dystrophies. We also show that the mutation in the A/J mice arose between the late 1970s and the early 1980s, and had become fixed in the production breeding stocks. Therefore, all studies involving the A/J mice or mice derived from A/J, including recombinant inbred, recombinant congenic and chromosome substitution strains, should take into account the dysferlin defect in these strains. These new dysferlin-deficient mice should be useful for elucidating the pathogenic pathway in dysferlinopathy and for developing therapeutic strategies.
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- Mengfatt Ho
- Day Laboratory for Neuromuscular Research, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA.
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Saito A, Higuchi I, Nakagawa M, Saito M, Hirata K, Suehara M, Yoshida Y, Takahashi T, Aoki M, Osame M. Miyoshi myopathy patients with novel 5' splicing donor site mutations showed different dysferlin immunostaining at the sarcolemma. Acta Neuropathol 2002; 104:615-20. [PMID: 12410383 DOI: 10.1007/s00401-002-0593-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/20/2002] [Revised: 06/10/2002] [Accepted: 06/10/2002] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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We analyzed five clinically defined cases of Miyoshi myopathy both genetically and immunologically. Western blot of muscle specimens confirmed that all of these patients had dysferlin deficiency. Immunohistochemistry revealed that two of the five patients showed positive dysferlin immunostaining. Subsequent mutation analysis of the dysferlin gene in these two patients revealed that both had novel 5' splicing donor site mutations. One patient with a homozygous G to C substitution at nucleotide 1036+1 exon 6 splicing donor site showed patchy sarcolemmal dysferlin immunostaining. The second patient with both a heterozygous G to A substitution at nucleotide 1310+1 exon 10 splicing donor site and a heterozygous C to G substitution at nucleotide 1939 (which induces Tyr 522 Stop of exon 18) showed both patchy sarcolemmal and diffuse cytoplasmic dysferlin immunostaining. In contrast to Becker muscular dystrophy, the clinical course and severity of dysferlin staining positive patients was not clearly different from negative patients. These results suggest that a splicing mutation of the dysferlin gene may have the potential to cause decreased dysferlin expression but may not be related to the milder clinical phenotype.
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- Akiko Saito
- Third Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima University, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima 890-8520, Japan.
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Jankowski RJ, Deasy BM, Cao B, Gates C, Huard J. The role of CD34 expression and cellular fusion in the regeneration capacity of myogenic progenitor cells. J Cell Sci 2002; 115:4361-74. [PMID: 12376567 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.00110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Characterization of myogenic subpopulations has traditionally been performed independently of their functional performance following transplantation. Using the preplate technique, which separates cells based on their variable adhesion characteristics, we investigated the use of cell surface proteins to potentially identify progenitors with enhanced regeneration capabilities. Based on previous studies, we used cell sorting to investigate stem cell antigen-1 (Sca-1) and CD34 expression on myogenic populations with late adhesion characteristics. We compared the regeneration efficiency of these sorted progenitors, as well as those displaying early adhesion characteristics, by quantifying their ability to regenerate skeletal muscle and restore dystrophin following transplantation into allogenic dystrophic host muscle. Identification and utilization of late adhering populations based on CD34 expression led to differential regeneration, with CD34-positive populations exhibiting significant improvements in dystrophin restoration compared with both their CD34-negative counterparts and early adhering cell populations. Regenerative capacity was found to correspond to the level of myogenic commitment, defined by myogenic regulatory factor expression, and the rate and degree of induced cell differentiation and fusion. These results demonstrate the ability to separate definable subpopulations of myogenic progenitors based on CD34 expression and reveal the potential implications of defining myogenic cell behavioral and phenotypic characteristics in relation to their regenerative capacity in vivo.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Antigens, CD34/immunology
- Antigens, CD34/metabolism
- Antigens, Ly/immunology
- Antigens, Ly/metabolism
- Antigens, Surface/immunology
- Antigens, Surface/metabolism
- Cell Adhesion/immunology
- Cell Cycle/physiology
- Cell Differentiation/physiology
- Cell Lineage/physiology
- Cell Separation/methods
- Cells, Cultured
- Dystrophin/biosynthesis
- Dystrophin/deficiency
- Male
- Membrane Fusion/physiology
- Membrane Proteins/immunology
- Membrane Proteins/metabolism
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Muscle, Skeletal/cytology
- Muscle, Skeletal/growth & development
- Muscle, Skeletal/metabolism
- Muscular Dystrophies/therapy
- Myoblasts/cytology
- Myoblasts/metabolism
- Myoblasts/transplantation
- Myogenic Regulatory Factors/metabolism
- Phenotype
- Regeneration/physiology
- Sarcolemma/immunology
- Sarcolemma/metabolism
- Tissue Transplantation/methods
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- Ron J Jankowski
- Growth and Development Laboratory, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, 4151 Rangos Research Center, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA
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Kyriakides T, Marquez B, Panousopoulos A, Kyriacou E, Kyriacou K. Amyloid myopathy: evidence for mechanical injury to the sarcolemma. Clin Neuropathol 2002; 21:145-8. [PMID: 12143925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/25/2023] Open
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Myopathy is a rare clinical manifestation in primary systemic amyloidosis. The clinical phenotype and muscle histology are well described but the pathophysiological mechanisms remain poorly understood. We report a 40-year-old man who presented with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a limb girdle syndrome associated with deposition of amyloid and free lambda light chains in skeletal muscle. Electron microscopy showed amyloid fibrils, physically disrupting the plasma membrane and basal lamina, while laminin immunocytochemistry revealed a reduction of laminin beta1 and upregulation of laminin alpha1. We believe that one of the possible pathophysiological mechanisms in amyloid myopathy is mechanical disruption of the sarcolemma by the abutting amyloid fibrils.
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- T Kyriakides
- The Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, Nicosia.
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Saetersdal T, Larsen TH, Dalen H. The beta1 integrin subunit is not a specific component of the costamere domain in human myocardial cells. Histochem J 2002; 34:323-9. [PMID: 12769264 DOI: 10.1023/a:1023346114107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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Studies on altered integrin receptor expression during cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure requires accurate knowledge of the distributional pattern of integrins in myocardial cells. At present the general consensus is that in cardiac muscle the beta1 integrin receptor is mainly localized to the same sarcolemmal domain as vinculin at Z-band levels ('costamere'). Since most previous studies have been focusing on myocardial integrin distribution in lower mammals, the myocardial localization of the beta1 integrin subunit was investigated in biopsies collected from the auricle of patients undergoing a coronary bypass operation. Non-invasive serial optical sectioning was carried out by immuno-laser scanning confocal microscopy. Double-labelling for vinculin/alpha-actinin, and the cytoplasmic domain for the beta1 integrin subunit, showed that beta1 integrin is deposited throughout both the vinculin/alpha-actinin domains and the non-vinculin/alpha-actinin domains. These results were supported by a semi-quantitative analysis in extended focus images of the latter preparations. Higher magnification views at the electron microscopical levels of the large, extracellular domain of the beta1 integrin subunit disclosed a pronounced labelling in the form of a dense, irregular punctuate pattern that was distributed at Z-disc domains as well as along the entire sarcolemmal area between Z-discs. Our findings show that in human, myocardial cells, the beta1 integrin receptor does not only localize to the surface membrane at the Z-disc level ('costamere' in cardiac muscle), but has a widespread distribution along the sarcolemma.
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- Thorvald Saetersdal
- Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology, Experimental Cardiology Unit, University of Bergen, 5021 Bergen, Norway
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Aiello VD, Reis MM, Benvenuti LA, Higuchi MDL, Ramires JAF, Halperin JA. A possible role for complement in the pathogenesis of chronic chagasic cardiomyopathy. J Pathol 2002; 197:224-9. [PMID: 12015747 DOI: 10.1002/path.1095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The membrane attack complex (MAC) of complement participates in several inflammatory and proliferative processes by releasing pro-inflammatory cytokines and growth factors from target cells. Chronic Chagasic cardiomyopathy (CCH) is a parasitic dilated cardiopathy, characterized by severe fibrosis and inflammation, which differs from idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Trypanosoma cruzi, the pathogenic organism of CCH, is a strong complement activator and can also induce alternative pathway activation by mammalian cells. This study explored whether the myocardium in CCH patients has increased MAC deposition, an expression of complement activation, compared to DCM patients. MAC was semi-quantified in endomyocardial human samples (29 CCH subjects, 18 DCM subjects, and four controls) by immunohistochemistry. MAC was present in the sarcolemma of 38% of CCH, 5.5% of DCM (p<0.02), and 0% of controls, and in interstitial inflammatory cells of CCH. No difference was observed in the expression of the complement regulatory protein CD59, indicating that increased MAC deposition is likely to be the result of complement activation rather than decreased protection. It is proposed that the increased MAC deposition found in CCH, but not in DCM or controls, may help to explain the diffuse myocardial fibrosis and inflammation characteristic of the disease.
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- Vera Demarchi Aiello
- Heart Institute (InCor), University of São Paulo Medical School, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Kocazeybek B, Erentürk S, Calýk MK, Babacan F. An immunological approach to postpericardiotomy syndrome occurrence and its relation with autoimmunity. Acta Chir Belg 1998; 98:203-6. [PMID: 9830545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/09/2023]
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OBJECTIVE An autoimmunological approach to the pathogenesis of post-pericardiotomy syndrome. METHODS In 100 consecutive patients, after open heart surgery, postpericardiotomy syndrome (PPS) was diagnosed in 15 patients according to clinical and laboratory criteria. These patients were prospectively followed up. Levels of serum autoantibodies against cardiac muscle antigen were studied on the 14th, 21st and 33rd day postoperatively. In order to evaluate the cardiac muscle antibody (CMA), antigenic tissue sections from primate heart tissue in solid phase with intermyofibrillar and sarcolemmal-subsarcolemmal fluorescent staining, were taken as substrate. PPS occurrence was determined according to strongly positive antibody titers on the 14th and 21st day postoperatively. RESULTS CMA were positive in 18 patients, and 14 of them showed clinical signs of PPS. In one case PPS was apparent clinically although CMA were not detected. There was a significant difference between CMA positive and CMA negative patients on the occurrence of PPS. With the use of monoclonal antihuman IgG in the conjugate of indirect fluorescent antibody test the specificity was enhanced. Also, in our experience, the length of cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) time was an important factor affecting the development of PPS. CONCLUSION In this study, we found a positive correlation between the presence of CMA and PPS, which is a practical, secure and cheap criterion for the diagnosis.
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- B Kocazeybek
- Institute of Cardiology, University of Istanbul, Turkey
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Ianchiĭ RI. [The activating effect of antisarcolemmal antibodies on the contractile reactions of the papillary muscles of the rat heart]. Fiziol Zh (1994) 1998; 43:11-6. [PMID: 9463000] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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In experiments on the hyperpermeable papillary muscles (PM), we studied the antimembranous antibodies effects on their contractile responses. It has been found that antibodies enhance the amplitude of isometric contraction. Specific antibodies were suggested to induce the release of Ca2+ from the sarcoplasmatic reticulum in the PM of rats.
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Hiruma S, Ohtsuka K, Satou T, Furuta T, Kimura M, Hashimoto S. [The immunoreactivity studies of the idiopathic inflammatory myopathy over the past three years in our laboratory]. Rinsho Byori 1998; 46:168-75. [PMID: 9528342] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Biopsied skeletal muscles from patients with inflammatory myopathy (6 cases of polymyositis (PM), 2 cases of dermatomyositis (DM), 5 cases of collagen disease with polymyositis and a case of allergic granulomatous angitis) were examined by comparing immunostained infiltrated cells at perivascular, perimysial and the endomysial sites as well as examining the histochemical findings on serial frozen sections from cases examined by our laboratory over the past three years. CD68 was used for macrophage, L26 for B lymphocytes, CD4 and CD8 for T lymphocytes. Expression of HLA-ABC was examined for Class I antigen and HLA-DR for Class II antigen on the muscle fibers. Many macrophages and CD8-positive T lymphocytes had infiltrated the endomysium in PM. Many CD4-positive T lymphocytes and L26-positive B lymphocytes had infiltrated perivascular sites in DM. These results were almost the same as those in many other reports. HLA-ABC was positive on the muscle sarcolemma in all cases. However, the expression of HLA-DR was not identical in all cases. It is useful to determine the diagnosis and consider a pathogenesis of inflammatory muscle diseases to analyze the infiltrated cells and the site of infiltration even in case showing few of infiltrating cells and necrotic fibers.
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- S Hiruma
- Department of Second Pathology, Kinki University School of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama
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Antibody-dependent complement-mediated muscle fiber injury is a hypothetical immune effector response in inflammatory muscle diseases. Moreover, a sarcolemmal alteration in muscular dystrophies might trigger antibody-independent activation of the alternative complement pathway. We therefore searched for C5b9 complement membrane attack complex (MAC), immunoglobulin (Ig)G, and IgM deposits on nonnecrotic muscle fibers in muscle specimens from 81 patients with inflammatory myopathies, 45 patients with muscular dystrophies, and 19 patients with necrotizing myopathies. Sarcolemmal MAC deposits were present on nonnecrotic fibers (C+ fibers) in only two unusual types of inflammatory myopathy. By contrast, seven of 17 facioscapulohumeral dystrophy, four of nine limb-girdle dystrophy, and three of six merosin (laminin-alpha-2)-positive congenital muscular dystrophy but none of the Becker or Duchenne dystrophy specimens harbored C+ fibers. None of the C+ fibers immunostained for IgG or IgM, and none failed to immunostain for CD59 or CD46-inhibitors of the complement cascade. Our findings do not support a role for antibody-dependent complement-mediated muscle fiber injury in the major inflammatory muscle diseases. The cause and pathogenetic significance of the C+ fibers in the different types of muscular dystrophies remains to be elucidated.
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MESH Headings
- Adolescent
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Antibodies, Monoclonal
- Antigens, CD/analysis
- Antigens, CD/immunology
- CD3 Complex/analysis
- CD3 Complex/immunology
- CD59 Antigens/analysis
- CD59 Antigens/immunology
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Complement C3/analysis
- Complement Inactivator Proteins/analysis
- Complement Inactivator Proteins/immunology
- Complement Membrane Attack Complex/analysis
- Complement Membrane Attack Complex/immunology
- Female
- Humans
- Immunoglobulin G/analysis
- Immunoglobulin M/analysis
- Infant
- Male
- Membrane Cofactor Protein
- Membrane Glycoproteins/analysis
- Membrane Glycoproteins/immunology
- Middle Aged
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/chemistry
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/immunology
- Muscle Fibers, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscle, Skeletal/chemistry
- Muscle, Skeletal/immunology
- Muscle, Skeletal/pathology
- Muscular Dystrophies/immunology
- Muscular Dystrophies/pathology
- Necrosis
- Polymyositis/immunology
- Polymyositis/pathology
- Sarcolemma/immunology
- Sarcolemma/pathology
- T-Lymphocytes/chemistry
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- S Spuler
- Department of Neurology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55905, USA
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In polymyositis (PM), T-cell mediated myocytotoxicity is directed against strongly human leukocyte antigen class I positive (HLA-I+) muscle fibers. Fiber regeneration probably is partly responsible for this HLA-I up-regulation. We have evaluated regeneration, denervation/impulse blockade, and focal leukocyte infiltrates as possible HLA-I inducing factors in PM. Distinctive patterns of HLA-I, nerve cell adhesion molecule (NCAM), and vimentin expression accompany denervation and regeneration. Regenerating fibers also have centralized nuclei. Using semiquantitative methods, we examined strongly HLA-I+ fibers in PM muscle biopsies for these markers. Sarcoplasmic HLA-I levels were related to the presence of leukocyte infiltrates and invasion of fibers. Strongly HLA-I+ fibers were frequently invaded, and regeneration-associated changes were usually observed at sites of fiber damage. Sarcoplasmic HLA-I levels were stable along intact fibers, also adjacent to leukocyte infiltrates. A majority of the strongly HLA-I+ fibers were nonregenerating (NCAM+ only). Though other mechanisms cannot be excluded, this suggests that impulse blockade or denervation may contribute to extra HLA-I up-regulation in these fibers.
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- T Fladby
- Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Tromsø, Norway
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Previous work from this laboratory has demonstrated the occurrence of heart reactive antibodies (HRA) in the sera of acute rheumatic fever (ARF) patients which bound primarily to the sarcolemmal sheath of cardiac myofibres. While many investigators have reported the presence of antibodies to myosin in the sera of ARF patients, the question of whether these sera also contain antibodies to other cytoskeletal proteins has not been addressed. In this study, crude human sarcolemmal sheaths were extracted with 3 M KCl and partially purified using a DEAE cellulose column and a step gradient of NaCl. Maximum reactivity with ARF sera was seen with a protein fraction eluted with 0.3 M NaCl. Using FPLC, a single polypeptide of 38 kDa reacted in ELISA preferentially with ARF sera when compared to sera from patients with uncomplicated streptococcal infections and acute post-streptococcal glomerulonephritis (APSGN). A comparison of the N-terminal sequence of the purified protein and competitive inhibition assays indicated that the reactive sarcolemmal antigen was human cardiac tropomyosin.
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- A K Khanna
- Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Bidzilia IP, Ianchiĭ RI, Ianchiĭ OR. [The membrane mechanism of the development of tonic stress in the heart muscle of rats under the action of antimembrane antibodies]. Fiziol Zh (1994) 1995; 41:67-75. [PMID: 8777758] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Action of antibodies specific to the myocardial sarcolemma of rat on contraction of the isolated cardiac muscle was investigated. It is found that initially antibodies cause stimulation of the cell function (an increase in force or frequency of contractions). Then a slow and progressive inhibition of phasic contractions and development of tonic tension and contracture are observed. Those different effects indicate that antibodies induce an increase in intracellular Ca2+ concentration. The direct measurements have shown that the Na(+)-K(+)-pump activity is depressed by the action of antibodies. Possibly one of the mechanisms of inhibition is lipid peroxidation of the membrane under the influence of antibodies.
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Endothelin-1, an endothelial cell-derived vasoconstrictor peptide, also exerts a potent positive inotropic effect on cardiac tissue. Characterization of specific binding of endothelin-1 to bovine cardiac sarcolemmal vesicles is reported. In the presence of 1 mM CaCl2, the observed binding for 125I-endothelin-1 had a Kd of 6.2 nM with an observed Bmax of 14 pmol/mg sarcolemmal protein. In the presence of 1 mM EDTA (and no added Ca2+) Bmax was reduced to 9 pmol/mg sarcolemmal protein while the Kd remained unchanged. Binding affinity for sarafotoxin S6b was at least one order of magnitude less than for endothelin-1. 125I-Endothelin-1 covalently cross-linked to a sarcolemmal protein with an apparent molecular weight of 65 kDa. Site-directed polyclonal antibodies to a sequence located on the third extramembranal segment of a previously cloned endothelin ETA receptor from bovine lung were produced. Using Western blot analysis, the site-directed polyclonal antibody recognized a sarcolemmal protein at 65 kDa. We conclude that sarcolemmal membranes from bovine ventricular myocardium contain an endothelin binding site and that it is a protein with an apparent molecular weight of 65 kDa.
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- T R Shannon
- Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, University of Missouri, Columbia 65211
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Verbavatz JM, Van Hoek AN, Ma T, Sabolic I, Valenti G, Ellisman MH, Ausiello DA, Verkman AS, Brown D. A 28 kDa sarcolemmal antigen in kidney principal cell basolateral membranes: relationship to orthogonal arrays and MIP26. J Cell Sci 1994; 107 ( Pt 4):1083-94. [PMID: 7520041 DOI: 10.1242/jcs.107.4.1083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Two recently cloned water channels, CHIP28 and WCH-CD, are homologous to MIP26, an integral membrane channel-forming protein found in lens fiber plasma membranes. CHIP28 is found in basolateral and apical plasma membranes of kidney proximal tubules and thin descending limbs of Henle, whereas WCH-CD is apically located in collecting duct principal cells. So far, the putative water channel that may be responsible for the high constitutive permeability of principal cell basolateral membranes has not been identified. Interestingly, freeze-fracture electron microscopy has shown that characteristic orthogonal arrays of intramembrane particles (OAPs) are found on the basolateral plasma membranes of collecting duct principal cells, and that morphologically identical OAPs present in lens fiber cell plasma membranes contain the protein MIP26. Similar OAPs have also been detected on plasma membranes of other cell types including gastric parietal cells, astroglial cells and skeletal muscle fibers. By indirect immunofluorescence, western blotting and northern blotting, MIP26 was found only in lens fibers. In addition, functional studies on reconstituted and oocyte-expressed MIP26 excluded the possibility that MIP26 might be a basolateral water channel in the kidney. However, a polyclonal antibody raised against skeletal muscle sarcolemmal vesicles, which are enriched in OAPs, produced an intense staining of principal cell basolateral plasma membranes in kidney collecting duct and immunoprecipitated a 28 kDa protein from kidney papilla. The immunoprecipitated protein from papilla was not recognized by anti-CHIP28 or anti-MIP26 antibodies, indicating that principal cell basolateral membranes contain a novel member of the CHIP/MIP family. Because this antibody also stained brain astrocyte end feet, which are enriched in OAPs, it is possible that the 28 kDa protein is related to these structures. We conclude that OAPs probably contain related but distinct proteins that may have different membrane channel functions in different cell types.
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- J M Verbavatz
- Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown 02129
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The production of autoimmune antibodies during infection with the hemoflagellate parasite Trypanosoma cruzi has been previously reported by this and other laboratories. The present investigation indicates a potential target in normal heart tissue that may be the binding site for the autoimmune antibodies. Using Western blot analysis, sera obtained from chronically infected C57 B1/6 mice was examined for its ability to recognize normal tissue antigens from uninfected syngeneic animals. Antibodies from chronic sera recognized an antigen in normal mouse heart and skeletal muscle tissue at a molecular weight between 43 and 45 kilodaltons (kDa). This proposed target antigen was found in cytoplasmic extracts from normal heart antigen preparations. The autoantibody recognition of the normal tissue in Western blots was inhibited by periodate oxidation of the antigen sample. This suggests that the binding of the autoantibodies may be dependent upon a glycosylation present on the antigen targets. Isotype analysis indicated that the autoreactive antibodies are of the IgM and IgG2b isotypes. These results suggest that a target for autoantibodies in Chagas' disease may be a 43- to 45-kDa glycoprotein found in normal heart and skeletal muscle tissue. Exposure of the immune system to this antigen may follow the damaging effects of the parasite itself, or of the immune response toward the parasite. In either scenario the identification of a target in the ongoing autoimmunity may help to define the autoimmune process in American Trypanosomiasis.
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- T S McCormick
- Ohio University, Department of Biological Sciences, Athens 45701
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Mizuno Y, Nonaka I, Hirai S, Ozawa E. Reciprocal expression of dystrophin and utrophin in muscles of Duchenne muscular dystrophy patients, female DMD-carriers and control subjects. J Neurol Sci 1993; 119:43-52. [PMID: 8246010 DOI: 10.1016/0022-510x(93)90190-a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We examined muscle biopsies from patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD: 39 patients) and Becker muscular dystrophy (BMD: 11 patients), female DMD-carriers (4 patients), and control subjects (26 persons) for the expression of dystrophin and utrophin. Control subjects showed all fibers to be dystrophin-positive, while utrophin staining was negative or weak. On the other hand, muscles from DMD patients showed the inverse staining patterns: dystrophin was negative and utrophin staining strong. Thus, there was a reciprocal pattern of expression between dystrophin and utrophin. This reciprocal relationship was confirmed to some extent at the single-fiber level in female carriers of DMD showing a mosaic immunostaining of dystrophin. We consider that utrophin may have a function similar to that of dystrophin, and compensate to some extent for dystrophin deficiency in DMD.
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- Y Mizuno
- National Institute of Neuroscience, National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan
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Lane JR, Neumann DA, Lafond-Walker A, Herskowitz A, Rose NR. Role of IL-1 and tumor necrosis factor in coxsackie virus-induced autoimmune myocarditis. J Immunol 1993; 151:1682-90. [PMID: 8335952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/30/2023]
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We have previously reported that B10.A (H-2a) mice, which are resistant to the induction of postcoxsackievirus autoimmune myocarditis, become susceptible upon treatment with LPS, IL-1, or TNF. In this study, we show that the development of autoimmune myocarditis is associated with infiltration of the heart by inflammatory cells that secrete the cytokines IL-1 and TNF. Local secretion of these cytokines contributes to increased levels of IL-1 and TNF in the serum. Thus, local production of cytokines promotes the induction of this postinfectious autoimmune disease.
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- J R Lane
- Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, MD 21205
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Felix JC, von Kreuter BF, Santos-Buch CA. Mimicry of heart cell surface epitopes in primary anti-Trypanosoma cruzi Lyt 2+ T lymphocytes. Clin Immunol Immunopathol 1993; 68:141-6. [PMID: 7689427 DOI: 10.1006/clin.1993.1110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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- J C Felix
- Department of Pathology, Cornell University Medical College, New York, New York 10021
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Maisch B, Bauer E, Cirsi M, Kochsiek K. Cytolytic cross-reactive antibodies directed against the cardiac membrane and viral proteins in coxsackievirus B3 and B4 myocarditis. Characterization and pathogenetic relevance. Circulation 1993; 87:IV49-65. [PMID: 8485834] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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BACKGROUND Coxsackievirus B3 and B4 (CVB) myocarditis was assessed by a more than twofold change in titer of the microneutralization tests against enteroviruses within 3 weeks in all patients, by an endomyocardial biopsy indicative of active myocarditis in eight cases, and by pericardial effusion and acute cardiomegaly in two patients. In all endomyocardial biopsies, immunoglobulin binding to the sarcolemma and to the interstitial tissue was demonstrated irrespective of an infiltrate being at the same focus or not. IgG binding was found in nine, IgM and IgA in seven, C3 in C1q in three, and C5b9 in three of 10 patients. In addition, circulating antimyolemmal antibodies (AMLAs) were demonstrated regularly. METHODS AND RESULTS In this study, for the first time adult human myocytes isolated from atrial appendages during open-heart surgery were used as antigen in the indirect immunofluorescence test: nine of 10 sera of patients with CVB myocarditis demonstrated AMLAs of the homologous type in titers of 1:40-1:320, whereas eight of 10 reacted with rat myocytes (heterologous type) only. Circulating AMLAs fixed complement component C4 in the majority of cases. During the in vitro assay of antibody-mediated cytolysis with vital heart cells, fixation of components C3, C4 to the myolemma in all, of C1q in seven, and of the C3b9 complex in eight of 10 sera was demonstrated after addition of a fresh complement source, indicating the potential of a complement-mediated cytolysis being operative. In vitro cardiocytolysis of isolated adult rat heart cells is present in the untreated sera of patients with enteroviral myocarditis and is abolished after adsorption of sera with CVB and with isolated rat heart cells. This indicates functional cross-reactivity of the antimembrane antibodies. To analyze further the cross-reactive epitopes, sodium dodecyl sulfate gel electrophoresis of human and rat sarcolemma and consecutive immunoblots were performed. Cross-reactivity between viral (CVB) and sarcolemmal epitopes could be demonstrated to bands of 220 kd in 10%, 110 kd in 50%, 48 kd in 40%, 35 kd in 40%, and 31 and 28 kd in 30% each. Cardiospecific non-cross-reactive epitopes for antisarcolemmal antibodies or AMLAs were membrane proteins of 90 kd and 78 kd in 50%, 72 kd in 90%, 67 kd in 40%, and 45 kd in 50%. Virus-specific antibody binding sites for sera included proteins of 33 and 34 kd. CONCLUSIONS Western blot analysis of sera incubated with cardiac membranes or enteroviral proteins demonstrated that the antibodies are directed to defined epitopes of the sarcolemma. Some antibodies were cross-reactive to enteroviral proteins, indicating that enteroviral infection may be the etiological trigger of an autoreactive myocarditis. The cytolytic property of the patients' sera in vitro suggests in addition that humoral autoreactivity and antigenic mimicry are major pathogenetic principles operative in human enteroviral myocarditis and its sequelae.
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- B Maisch
- Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Philipps-Universität, Marburg, Germany
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The prevalence of lytic activity of circulating antimyolemmal antibodies in dilated cardiomyopathy of recent onset is unclear. To obtain preliminary data we studied 7 consecutive patients with dilated cardiomyopathy (age 44 +/- 14 years) and symptoms for fewer than 6 months. The presence of antimyolemmal antibodies was determined in vitro using intact rat and human cardiocytes and indirect immunofluorescence. Serum cytolytic index for antimyolemmal antibodies was measured by microcytotoxicity assay and the data were compared with that from 70 controls (normal range 0.92 +/- 0.07, effective cytolysis < 0.75). Autoantibody screening was uniformly negative and only 1 patient had positive viral serology. Light microscopy of cardiac biopsies revealed non-specific histology in 2, focal myocarditis in 1 and healing or healed myocarditis in 4. Significant binding of IgG, IgM or polyvalent antibodies to antimyolemmal antibodies bound to rat or human cardiocytes was present in every patient and 5 of them were positive with all 3 markers. Cytolytic index for the group ranged from 0.47 to 0.60 indicating effective lysis in all patients (P < 0.01 versus controls). Cardiocytolytic antimyolemmal antibodies are commonly present in dilated cardiomyopathy following presentation. Their detection might reflect ongoing disease activity and help identify patients likely to benefit from immunomodulative therapy.
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- T H Taha
- Department of Medicine (Clinical Cardiology), Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK
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Russell MW, Wu HY, White PL, Kilian M, Henrichsen J. Serum antibody responses to Streptococcus mutans antigens in humans systemically infected with oral streptococci. Oral Microbiol Immunol 1992; 7:321-5. [PMID: 1299798 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-302x.1992.tb00630.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Sera from patients with subacute bacterial endocarditis (SBE) due to Streptococcus mutans or other oral streptococci and from normal subjects were assayed by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for antibodies to defined S. mutans antigens. Antibodies of IgG and IgA isotypes to Ag I/II and Ag III were greatly elevated in S. mutans-SBE sera, and the IgA antibodies in 3 sera included both polymeric and monomeric forms. Elevated IgM and IgG anti-lipoteichoic acid and IgG and IgA anti-serotype c polysaccharide antibodies were also found. The sera of 4 of 6 patients infected with other oral streptococci also displayed antibodies to S. mutans Ag I/II. Sera of 3 patients infected with Streptococcus mitis or Streptococcus oralis, but none of the S. mutans-infected cases, showed elevated antibodies to human heart sarcolemma, and all SBE sera had elevated rheumatoid factor. These results suggest that the known surface protein antigens of S. mutans are immunodominant in humans, and are not likely to be heart cross-reactive.
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- M W Russell
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Cardiac-specific autoantibodies to sarcolemmal and cardiac myosin antigens observed during the chronic phase of Coxsackievirus B3-induced myocarditis appear to be under autosomal recessive control. This observation is based on examination of F1 hybrids bred from A/J mice which develop chronic myocarditis and C57BL/6J mice which resolve the virus-induced lesions. Previous mouse studies demonstrated that the prevalence of heart-specific autoantibodies varied with the H-2 complex. However, in 25 H-2 congenic mouse strains the strain background was the predominant determinant of autoantibody presence. Recently, we extended our genetic evaluation of the chromosomal locations governing autoantibody responses by examining 25 AXB and BXA recombinant inbred strains. Two populations of heart-specific autoantibodies were demonstrated against sarcolemmal and cardiac myosin antigens. Analyses of the AXB/BXA strain distribution patterns for these two traits revealed that the anti-sarcolemmal response was controlled by a gene(s) linked to Np-2 and Ter alpha loci on chromosome 14. Linkage could not be assigned for the anti-cardiac myosin response.
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- M D Traystman
- Department of Pathology and Microbiology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha 68198-6495
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Majeed HA, Yousof AM, Pokorny J, Bicova R, Bahr G, Behbahani K, Rotta J. Human heart sarcolemmal sheath antibodies in children with non-suppurative sequelae of group A streptococcal infections: a follow up study. Ann Rheum Dis 1991; 50:752-4. [PMID: 1772288 PMCID: PMC1004550 DOI: 10.1136/ard.50.11.752] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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The kinetics of the human heart sarcolemmal sheath antibody were studied in children with acute rheumatic fever who had no carditis, children with acute rheumatic fever who had carditis and developed rheumatic heart disease, and in children with acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. The children with rheumatic fever and those who developed valvular heart disease were given continuous secondary antistreptococcal prophylaxis. The titre of antibody at onset was significantly higher than that of the controls in children with acute rheumatic fever and carditis and in children with acute poststreptococcal nephritis. The difference in the antibody titre between children with rheumatic fever who had no carditis and controls was not statistically significant. After a mean follow up of three years, however, a high titre was only maintained in children with rheumatic fever who developed valvular heart disease.
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- H A Majeed
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait
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Rosemblatt MS, Pérez G, Jaimovich E. Modulation of the activity of the transverse tubule Mg(2+)-ATPase from frog skeletal muscle by a monoclonal antibody in vitro. Mol Cell Biochem 1991; 106:99-107. [PMID: 1833628 DOI: 10.1007/bf00230175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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We have established several hybridoma lines that produce monoclonal antibodies against transverse tubule (t-tubule) proteins from frog skeletal muscle. The specificity of these antibodies was characterized by ELISA and Western immunoblotting with purified t-tubule, sarcoplasmic reticulum and partially purified sarcolemmal membranes. One of the monoclonal antibodies (2/34.4) recognizes a band of 109,000 Da in immunoblots. When purified frog t-tubule vesicles were preincubated with this antibody we observed an increase in the rate of the Mg(2+)-ATPase enzyme (up to six fold) which was dependent on antibody concentration. Immunocytological experiments done on cryostat sections of frog muscle indicate that the antigen recognized by this antibody is localized mainly at the level of the t-tubules (I band) and to a lesser extent at the sarcolemma. These results indicate that monoclonal antibody 2/34.4 recognizes the t-tubule Mg(2+)-ATPase and modulates its activity. This antibody should be useful as a probe on studies designed to study the physiological function of the enzyme.
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- M S Rosemblatt
- Laboratorio de Inmunología Celular, INTA Universidad de Chile, Santiago
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Maisch B, Outzen H, Roth D, Hiby A, Herzum M, Hengstenberg C, Hufnagel G, Schönian U, Kochsiek K. Prognostic determinants in conventionally treated myocarditis and perimyocarditis--focus on antimyolemmal antibodies. Eur Heart J 1991; 12 Suppl D:81-7. [PMID: 1915461 DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/12.suppl_d.81] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
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In this study from two specialized centres 85 patients with histologically proven myocarditis (n = 10) and clinically ascertained perimyocarditis (pericardial effusion and cardiomegaly or segmental wall motion abnormality; n = 75) were followed up for 4.5 + 1.9 years. Immunosuppressive treatment was not applied. After a mean follow-up period of 4.5 + 1.9 years 55% of patients had improved clinically and 35% of patients were completely free of symptoms. Relapses had occurred up to three times. Chronic forms were found in 20% of patients, mostly in those with pericarditis and effusions. Eighteen percent of the patients deteriorated gradually. In 20% of the chronic or deteriorating patients congestive heart failure developed (postmyocarditic heart muscle disease). Fifteen percent of the patients died, mainly from bacterial perimyocarditis and to a lesser extent from inflammatory heart disease from enteroviruses. Patients who succumbed after more than 6 months died either suddenly or from progressive heart failure. A favourable outcome was often accompanied by a decrease in titre, but this decrease was less impressive in those who had antimyolemmal and antisarcolemmal antibodies. The persistence of these antibodies in high titres predominated in patients with poor prognosis and postmyocarditic dilated heart muscle disease, as did cytolytic serum activity.
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- B Maisch
- Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Marburg, Germany
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Sera positive for antimyolemmal antibodies (AMLAs) from patients with acute biopsy-proven myocarditis exerted a cytotoxic effect on cardiocytes stimulated in vitro. Using an edge-detecting system, contraction amplitude and contraction velocity were altered after the addition of AMLA-positive sera when compared to sera from healthy controls. Antibodies alone did not change the functional parameters. Only the presence of complement and heart-reactive antibodies mediated the detrimental effects. This suggests that a complement-mediated antibody-dependent immune mechanism is operative in human myocarditis.
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- L Drude
- Philipps University, Department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology, Marburg, Germany
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Tuana BS, Sunahara RK, Murphy BJ, Pierce GN. Two major antigens of heart sarcolemma are Ca2(+)-binding glycoproteins that copurify with the dihydropyridine receptor. Biochim Biophys Acta 1991; 1091:236-41. [PMID: 1847306 DOI: 10.1016/0167-4889(91)90067-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/29/2022]
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Ca2+ binding has been studied in isolated heart sarcolemmal membranes using the 45Ca overlay technique. 45Ca bound to two sarcolemmal polypeptides of 125 kDa and 97 kDa in preparations from dog, rabbit, cow and pig. During fractionation on DEAE ion-exchange and wheat-germ lectin affinity columns, the two Ca2(+)-binding polypeptides copurified with the dihydropyridine receptor associated with the voltage gated Ca2+ channel. These polypeptides were the major proteins in the isolated fraction as judged by silver staining in SDS-PAGE. Antisera raised against purified dog heart, sarcolemma indicated that the 125 and 97 kDa polypeptides were highly antigenic components of this membrane. The antisera cross-reacted with similar polypeptides in cardiac sarcolemmal preparations from rabbit, cow and pig, but not sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes. Purified antibodies against the 125 kDa polypeptide did not cross-react with the 97 kDa polypeptide, while antibodies against the 97 kDa polypeptide did not cross-react with the 125 kDa polypeptide. Both the 125 kDa and 97 kDa polypeptides bound wheat-germ lectin, suggesting both were glycoproteins. It is unlikely that these Ca2+ binding glycoproteins represent subunits of the dihydropyridine receptor-Ca2+ channel in this membrane.
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- B S Tuana
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Ottawa, Canada
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Maisch B, Drude L, Hengstenberg C, Herzum M, Hufnagel G, Kochsiek K, Schmaltz A, Schönian U, Schwab MD. Are antisarcolemmal (ASAs) and antimyolemmal antibodies (AMLAs) "natural" antibodies? Basic Res Cardiol 1991; 86 Suppl 3:101-14. [PMID: 1664204 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-30769-4_10] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Antisarcolemmal (ASAs) and in particular antimyolemmal antibodies (AMLAs) are a serologic hallmark of inflammatory heart muscle disease and its sequelae. Since they may also occur to a much lesser incidence with increasing age, it was examined whether they also possess properties of "natural antibodies". As natural antibodies, AMLAs and ASAs have specificity for conserved structures on the membrane. They possess cross-reactivity and increase with age. In contrast to natural antibodies, however, they occur most frequently after viral stimulation, and are more often of the IgG- and IgA- than of the IgM-isotype and fix complement in the acute stage of the disease. They also exhibit cytolytic and cytotoxic properties when incubated in vitro with isolated heart muscle cells. In addition, antigenic mimicry has been demonstrated to be operative, since they are cross-reactive to viral proteins.
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- B Maisch
- Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Philipps-University Marburg, FRG
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Hyperimmunization of rabbits with Streptococcus mutans or other related cariogenic streptococci sometimes induces serum antibodies that react with human heart muscle. To determine whether antigen I/II (AgI/II), a major surface protein antigen present in most human isolates of these organisms, was responsible for inducing cross-reactive antibodies, we tested it for antigenic similarity to heart components, exploiting the ability of immune systems to mount anamnestic responses to antigens previously encountered. Mice immunized with a strain of Streptococcus pyogenes type M6, known to be heart cross-reactive, or with intact S. mutans cells developed antibodies that could be detected on a human heart sarcolemmal preparation. However, mice immunized with AgI/II and boosted with sarcolemma were unable to develop significant antisarcolemmal antibodies attributable to prior sensitization by AgI/II. Similarly, AgI/II was unable to recall antisarcolemmal responses in mice previously immunized with sarcolemma. Nevertheless, strong immunoglobulin G antibody responses to AgI/II were detected at the single-cell level in spleens and as circulating antibodies in all mice immunized with AgI/II or AgI/II-bearing S. mutans. We conclude that the ability of S. mutans to induce heart-reactive antibodies is not due to antigenic similarity between AgI/II and components of human heart but may be caused by other cross-reactive antigens in the bacterial cells or by nonspecific stimulation of the immune system.
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- H Y Wu
- Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama, Birmingham 35294
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Dystrophin is the protein whose deficiency results in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. The protein has homologies with a number of cytoskeletal proteins, is localized at the muscle sarcolemma and it may provide stability to the muscle plasma membrane. Using immunocytochemical techniques, we have studied dystrophin localization at the myotendinous junction, a region of membrane complexity that requires more stability because it is subjected to great mechanical stress during the transmission of contractile force to the tendon. The results showed subsarcolemmal deposits of dystrophin at the junctional folds of the myotendon as well as membrane-associated dystrophin at extrajunctional sarcolemma. The findings suggest that dystrophin may be one of the components linking terminal actin filaments to the subplasmalemmal surface of the junctional folds of the myotendon.
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- C E Samitt
- Department of Neurology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York 10032
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Sadigursky M, von Kreuter BF, Ling PY, Santos-Buch CA. Association of elevated anti-sarcolemma, anti-idiotype antibody levels with the clinical and pathologic expression of chronic Chagas myocarditis. Circulation 1989; 80:1269-76. [PMID: 2680159 DOI: 10.1161/01.cir.80.5.1269] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Antibody F(ab')2 fragments derived from the sera of four patients with histology-proven chronic Chagas myocarditis [cF(ab')2]-complexed antibody F(ab')2 fragments of children with acute Trypanosoma cruzi infection [aF(ab')2] in significantly higher molar ratios than those measured with F(ab')2 antibody fragments of normal subjects [nF(ab')2] from nonendemic areas (p less than 0.05). Anti-idiotype [cF(ab')2 X aF(ab')2] immune-complex formation was significantly blunted by preabsorption of cF(ab')2 with porcine heart atria sarcolemma (PAMs) immobilized on sepharose beads (inhibition, mean, 78.1 +/- 2.4%, n = 4). cF(ab')2 X nF(ab')2] immune-complex formation was also inhibited by pretreatment of cF(ab')2 with PAMs (inhibition, mean, 48.7 +/- 7.5%, n = 4). The sera of three groups of subjects from a geographic zone endemic for T. cruzi infection in the northeast of Brazil were assayed for free and immune-complexed IgG anti-acute T. cruzi infection F(ab')2. The indexed levels of free IgG anti-idiotype antibody activity and levels of IgG anti-idiotype immune complexes (IC') were markedly elevated in hospitalized patients with severe, decompensated chronic Chagas myocarditis (n = 23), and their IC' indexes were significantly higher than those measured in asymptomatic seropositive subjects from a nearby endemic village of the northeast of Brazil (Moniz Ferreira, n = 92, p less than 0.001) and in healthy seronegative villagers (n = 84, p less than 0.001). There exists a strong correlation between elevated IgG anti-sarcolemma, anti-idiotype activity levels and the clinical and pathologic expression of chronic Chagas myocarditis.
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In 16 of 19 patients with biopsy-proved Wegener's granulomatosis the early manifestations were limited to the ear and nose. The audiological data of 13 patients revealed middle ear involvement in 16 of 26 ears. Twenty-one of 26 ears presented with a low to moderate sensorineural hearing loss. One ear remained deaf after a sudden hearing loss in the early stage of the disease. Serologically, 4 of 6 tested patients with sensorineural hearing loss demonstrated antibodies against sarcolemma. One patient showed antinuclear antibodies. It is remarkable that these antibodies can often be detected in classic inner ear disorders. The course of inner ear function, serum findings and the success of immunosuppressive therapy in Wegener's granulomatosis are comparable with immunologically mediated vasculitis in the inner ear.
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- H G Kempf
- ENT-Clinic, University of Tübingen, FR Germany
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Rosemblatt MS, Scales DJ. Morphological, immunological and biochemical characterization of purified transverse tubule membranes isolated from rabbit skeletal muscle. Mol Cell Biochem 1989; 87:57-69. [PMID: 2528058 DOI: 10.1007/bf00421083] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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A microsomal fraction consisting of membranes of transverse tubule origin has been purified by a modification of the calcium-loading procedure initially described by Rosemblatt et al. (J Biol Chem 256:8140-8, 1981). Enzymatic analysis of this fraction shows an enrichment of the vesicles in the Mg++ ATPase (basal) activity characteristic of the T-tubules and an absent or very low Ca++-dependent-ATPase activity. Stereological analysis of freeze fracture replica of the membranes in the purified fraction indicates that they have a very low density of particles in their P faces and lack the structural manifestation of the caveolae typical of the sarcolemma. Immunological analysis performed with monoclonal antibodies prepared against purified T-tubule and sarcoplasmic reticulum membranes define some T-tubule specific antigens and confirm the morphological and biochemical data regarding the origin and purity of the T-tubule preparation.
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- M S Rosemblatt
- Laboratorio de Inmunología Celular, INTA, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
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- M Herzum
- Department of Internal Medicine-Cardiology, Philipps-University of Marburg Medical School, Federal Republic of Germany
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Schmaltz AA, Sieverding L, Apitz J, Maisch B, Hort W. [Differential diagnosis and prognosis of primary and post-myocarditis cardiomyopathy in childhood]. Wien Klin Wochenschr 1988; 100:811-3. [PMID: 3070966] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/04/2023]
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It is still difficult to differentiate between the various stages of myocarditis and primary dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). Hence, we analyzed the history, as well as the laboratory and virological data of 22 children with a dilated, poorly functioning left ventricle, aged 2 months to 16.7 years (m = 4.2 y), on whom we had performed endomyocardial biopsies about 4 months after the beginning of the illness. Specimens were investigated by light and electron microscopy and, in addition immunoserological (n = 15) and immunohistological investigations (n = 7) were performed. On the basis of cellular infiltration in the histological examination we diagnosed resolving/resolved myocarditis in 6 patients and DCM in 15 patients. Previous respiratory infection or sudden onset were found in 40-50% of patients in both groups. Antimyolemmal and antisarcolemmal antibodies showed no preference. Follow-up (3.1 +/- 2.8 years) of the patients showed equal mortality (33% vs. 38%) in the post-myocarditis and DCM group. Complete normalization of all findings in 3 patients of the DCM group makes the classification among the post-myocarditis group probable, which would, then give a lower mortality rate (22% vs. 46%) and a chance of restitution in 55% of cases. In any one specific case all the diagnostic methods do not allow undoubted distinction between both entities. The prognosis of myocarditis seems to be better than that of DCM in childhood.
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- A A Schmaltz
- Abteilung für pädiatrische Kardiologie, Universitäts-Kinderklinik Tübingen, Bundesrepublik Deutschland
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Wolf RE, King JW, Brown TA. Antimyosin antibodies and constrictive pericarditis in lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol 1988; 15:1284-7. [PMID: 3054097] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
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We report the first case of constrictive pericarditis in a woman with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Immunopathologic studies demonstrated IgG, IgA, IgM and C3 distributed throughout her pericardium including vessel walls. Cardiospecific antimyosin, antisarcolemmal and antipericardial antibodies were detected in serum obtained prior to surgery or steroid therapy. Antibodies disappeared and creatine phosphokinase decreased to normal concentrations during prednisone therapy. Antimyosin antibodies were not detected in 11 sera or in one pericardial fluid obtained from patients with lupus with active pericarditis unaccompanied by constriction. Evaluation of antimyosin antibodies in other patients with this rare manifestation of SLE is warranted to further assess their pathologic significance.
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- R E Wolf
- Department of Medicine, LSU Medical Center, Shreveport 71130
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Several rheumatogenic serotypes of streptococcal M protein have been shown to contain both protective and cardiac tissue crossreactive epitopes. By synthesizing peptides copying different regions of M protein polypeptides, we were able to localize the protective and heart crossreactive epitopes. Some epitopes are only opsonic, some are only crossreactive, whereas others are both opsonic and tissue crossreactive. Multivalency of vaccines can be obtained by synthesizing protective peptides of one M serotype in tandem with protective peptides of other M serotypes. Such hybrid peptides evoke protective immune responses against the related streptococci without evoking tissue crossreactive immunity.
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- E H Beachey
- Veterans Administration Medical Center, Memphis, TN
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Sargent SJ, Beachey EH, Corbett CE, Dale JB. Sequence of protective epitopes of streptococcal M proteins shared with cardiac sarcolemmal membranes. J Immunol 1987; 139:1285-90. [PMID: 2440952] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Synthetic peptide fragments spanning the entire amino acid sequence of pep M5 were used to detect epitopes cross-reactive with heart tissue components other than myosin. Heart-cross-reactive pep M5 antibodies were affinity purified by absorption to and elution from purified sarcolemmal membranes. Only one of the synthetic peptides, SM5(164-197)C, inhibited reactivity of the affinity-purified antibodies with pep M5 by ELISA. SM5(164-197)C linked to KLH evoked both opsonic and heart-cross-reactive antibodies in rabbits. In addition to type 5, the immune sera opsonized M types 6, 18, 19, and 49 streptococci. The antisera reacted strongly with isolated cardiac sarcolemmal membranes by immunofluorescence. In Western blots of cardiac tissue, the anti-SM5(164-197)C reacted with a 40 kDa protein but not with myosin. The reaction was inhibited by pep M5 and SM5(164-197)C but not by any of the other peptides spanning pep M5. The cross-reactive anti-SM5(164-197)C affinity purified on sarcolemmal membranes opsonized types 5, 6, and 19 but not type 24 streptococci. These results indicate that SM5(164-197)C contains heart-cross-reactive, opsonic epitopes that are shared among heterologous serotypes of group A streptococci.
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Popovich LF, Moĭbenko AA. [Ultrastructural changes in the sarcolemma in the early stages of immune damage to the heart]. Biull Eksp Biol Med 1987; 103:621-5. [PMID: 3593939] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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Early ultrastructural alterations were studied in cardiomyocyte sarcolemma on the model of acute local immune injury after the treatment of the dog's heart with anticardiac cytotoxic serum. It has been shown that immunotherapy results in the formation of numerous liposomal structures originating from the membrane material and located in subsarcolemmal space and near cardiomyocyte mitochondria. Depending on the method of fixation liposomes had the form of circular membrane vesicles or multilaminar structures. The structure and location of these liposomes near plasmalemma or mitochondrial membranes and sarcoplasmic reticulum have led to the assumption that they originate from unstable membrane phospholipids. The present data give evidence of the early and rapid phospholipid degradation in cardiomyocyte membranes during immune heart damage.
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Sera and lymphocytes from a 37-year-old male patient with acute perimyocarditis during a Q-fever endemic were analyzed for antibody and cell-mediated immune reactions and followed up 28 months later. Circulating autoantibodies against myocardial tissue were assessed by indirect immunofluorescence. Cytolysis of vital contracting rat cardiocytes, by antimyolemmal antibodies and complement, and lymphocytotoxicity, with and without the patient's serum, were evaluated and compared with the results obtained in ten patients suffering from Q-fever without perimyocardial involvement and with 40 healthy subjects. Antimyolemmal antibodies (AMLA), a muscle-specific subtype of antisarcolemmal antibodies, were demonstrated by immunofluorescence in the one patient with Q-fever perimyocarditis in titers of up to 1:320 but not in the controls. AMLA induced cytolysis of myocytes in the presence of complement. Both AMLA and cytolytic serum activity could be absorbed in all sera of this patient by using Coxiella burnetii. Only marginal lymphocytotoxicity against heterologous cardiocytes was detected in the early phase and again during the follow-up 2 years later in the Q-fever myocarditis patient but not in any of the noncarditic Q-fever cases nor in controls. It is postulated that cross-reacting, complement-fixing, cytolytic autoantibodies against the cardiac myolemma are operative either as a cause of cardiac damage or a consequence, pointing to a secondary immunopathogenesis of chronic Q-fever perimyocarditis.
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In acute perimyocarditis we found that OKIAI-positive cells were increased, and in dilated cardiomyopathy OKMI-positive cells were increased. No significant alteration in suppressor T cell activity was observed in our patients with either disease. The characteristic immunofluorescent pattern in carditis and postmyocarditic heart disease is the presence of antimyolemmal antibodies with intact rat and human cardiocytes in titers of 1:40-1:320 as antigens. The antimyolemmal fluorescence can be absorbed with the respective causative virus in Coxsackie B, influenza, mumps and EBV-myocarditis, indicating that the antibodies are a cross-reactive. AMLA-positive sera induce cytolysis of vital rat cardiocytes in vitro, suggesting that the antibodies are of pathogenetic relevance. Cytolytic serum activity could be absorbed out with the respective virus. Immunohistologic specimens obtained from patients with carditis demonstrate the fixation of IgG and IgM antibodies; IgG antibodies also occur in dilated cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease. In dilated postmyocarditic heart disease both antimyolemmal fluorescence and cytolytic activity are preserved at a lower level when compared to carditis. These antibodies can also fix complement. In the acute phase of carditis circulating immune complexes can be demonstrated. Cellular effector mechanisms against vital cardiocytes were maintained or even slightly enhanced in carditis, postmyocarditic and primary dilated cardiomyopathy. In vitro NK cell activity against K 562, however, was decreased. This is compatible with a sustained target-specific cytotoxicity whereas reduced NK cell activity may indicate impairment of this effector organ.
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Anti-virus-antibodies are elevated in a relatively high number of dilated cardiomyopathies, and in myocarditis increasing or decreasing titers can characteristically be observed. In myocarditis as well as in dilated cardiomyopathy the high incidence of antibodies in the serum of the patients against myocardial sarcolemmal and mitochondrial proteins coincides with a low T-cell-suppressor activity. T-lymphocyte-cell-suppressor activity modifies the immunoglobulin synthesis of B-lymphocytes. The T-cell-suppressor activity has been found to be low in myocarditis as well as in congestive cardiomyopathies. This coincidence looks like a pathogenetic link, since a low T-cell-suppressor activity is generally correlated to an increased antibody synthesis of B-lymphocytes. The finding of a low T-cell-suppressor activity in a small group of normal individuals supports the concept that this group has a predisposition to suffer from myocarditis and later on developing dilated cardiomyopathy. Thus there are several indicators of a probably genetically determined immunological defects which can play a pathogenetic role in the development from myocarditis to dilated cardiomyopathy.
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Poirier TP, Kehoe MA, Dale JB, Timmis KN, Beachey EH. Expression of protective and cardiac tissue cross-reactive epitopes of type 5 streptococcal M protein in Escherichia coli. Infect Immun 1985; 48:198-203. [PMID: 2579908 PMCID: PMC261935 DOI: 10.1128/iai.48.1.198-203.1985] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/01/2023] Open
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The immunochemical properties of type 5 M protein antigens that were expressed in Escherichia coli K-12 by recombinant lambda bacteriophages isolated from a gene bank of serotype 5 Streptococcus pyogenes have been analyzed in detail. M proteins from partially purified bacteriophage lysates displayed precipitin lines of identity with a purified peptic extract of type 5 M protein (pep M5) in immunodiffusion assays. Immunoblot analyses of the M protein-positive lysates demonstrated that the cloned M protein component resided in five polypeptides with relative molecular weights of 57,900 (57.9K), 55.4K, 52.9K, 40.0K, and 32.6K. The hybrid lambda phage (lambda M5)-produced M protein contained immunoprotective epitopes; lambda M5 protein inhibited opsonization of type 5 streptococci by pep M5 antibodies, and antiserum raised against lambda M5 lysates opsonized type 5 streptococci. Each of the five antigenic polypeptides of the recombinant phage M protein also shared epitopes with human heart tissue, as demonstrated by the reactivity of immunoblots of lambda M5 antigens separated on sodium dodecyl sulfate gels with anti-pep M5 antibodies absorbed to and eluted from human heart sarcolemmal membranes. Moreover, antiserum raised against the lambda M5 lysates reacted with sarcolemmal membrane proteins with relative molecular weights of 200K, 59K, 55K, 53K, and 27K as determined by immunoblot analyses. These results demonstrate that the structural gene coding for type 5 streptococcal M protein which was inserted into lambda DNA expresses immunoprotective epitopes, some of which are shared with human heart tissue.
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