Characterization of autoantibodies against uridine-diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase in patients with inflammatory liver diseases

Hepatology : Official Journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases
T BachrichE Penner

Abstract

Uridine diphosphate glucuronosyltransferase (UGT) was identified as an antigenic target in a subgroup of liver-kidney microsomal autoantibodies and was termed LKM-3. To evaluate the nature of LKM-3 antibodies, we screened sera from 80 untreated patients with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) type 1 and 2, primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), AIH/PBC, hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection, and 12 healthy individuals (controls) against 7 recombinant human UGT isoenzymes (UGT1A1, UGT1A4, UGT1A6, UGT1A7, UGT1A9, UGT1A10, and UGT2B7). Autoantibodies reacting against various UGT isoenzymes were observed in sera from 3 of 18 AIH type 2 and 1 of 27 of the HCV patients. The anti-UGT-positive sera from AIH type 2 patients revealed the strongest immunoreactivity against UGT1A1, the main UGT-isoform involved in the bilirubin glucuronidation. Additionally, these sera were able to block UGT-mediated substrate glucuronidation in vitro. The prevalence for UGT1A1 was shown by 2 independent techniques: (1) UGT1A1 was identified as the main antigen by Western blotting. Preabsorption of sera with UGT1A1 prevented reaction against all tested UGT-isoforms. (2) In vitro immunoinhibition experiments showed that glucuronidation of the anticancer drug flavopiridol by ...Continue Reading

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