Response of CD4+ T cells from myasthenic patients and healthy subjects of biosynthetic and synthetic sequences of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor

Journal of Autoimmunity
B Diethelm-OkitaB M Conti-Fine

Abstract

We investigated the suitability of pools of overlapping synthetic peptides spanning the complete alpha 1 subunit sequence of the human muscle acetylcholine receptor (AChR) (alpha 1 pool) or the extracellular domain (residues 1-218, alpha 11-218 pool), and of biosynthetic alpha 1 constructs from E. coli, as stimulants of human CD4+ cells from myasthenia gravis (MG) patients and healthy subjects. A construct corresponding to residues alpha 11-209 was obtained as solubilized inclusion bodies (ib alpha 11-209), or purified by SDS gel electrophoresis (pur alpha 11-209). A second construct included the extracellular, cytoplasmic and carboxylterminal domains plus histidine residues, and was obtained as inclusion bodies (ib alpha 1NoTrans) or purified by gel permeation and histidine tag affinity chromatography (pur alpha 1NoTrans). A biosynthetic extracellular domain of the neuronal AChR alpha 7 subunit (ib alpha 71-206) isolated from E. coli as inclusion bodies served as control for bacterial contaminants. We used ib alpha 11-209, pur alpha 11-209 and peptide pools to propagate CD4+ lines from two MG patients. The lines obtained using pur alpha 11-209 and the peptide pools recognized the peptide pools and alpha 1 constructs tested wel...Continue Reading

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