Antinuclear antibodies detected by indirect immunofluorescence on HEp2 cells and by immunoblotting in patients with systemic sclerosis
Abstract
The HEp2 cell cultures appeared highly sensitive in detecting the antinuclear antibodies (ANAb) in systemic sclerosis, principally anticentromere antibodies of the CREST syndrome. The immunoblotting used with either complex cellular extracts from HeLa and rabbit thymus or purified nuclear components (high mobility group (HMG) proteins and histones) is able to identify precisely the ANAb targets and to contribute to diagnosis. With nuclear extracts of HeLa cells, the sera from 75.8% of CREST syndrome subjects stained 18 and 22 kD proteins. Corresponding antibodies were also detected in 72.7% of these patients, on HEp2 centromers by indirect immunofluorescence. With the same extracts, 33.3% of sera from diffuse sclerosis/acrosclerosis patients contain antibodies staining 86, 73, 32 and 30kD. These sera also stain 77, 66 and 63kD from thymus extracts. Corresponding antibodies will be the anti-SCL-70 antibodies defined by double immunodiffusion. The anti-HMG antibodies were infrequent in systemic sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and consequently without interest for diagnosis. The anti-whole histones antibodies which are less frequent in diffuse sclerosis/acrosclerosis (35.7%) than in SLE ...Continue Reading
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