PMID: 8440074Jan 1, 1993Paper

Subclasses of immunoglobulins and autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases

Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology
I OutschoornI R Mackay

Abstract

The differing capacity of subclasses of IgG to bind to protein A and protein G was used in a sequential affinity purification procedure to examine immunoglobulin isotypes and subclasses in autoimmune disease. The utility of the procedure is that affinity-purified fractions containing particular isotypes and subclasses of immunoglobulin can be analyzed for their content of autoantibodies using standard techniques. For each of four autoimmune diseases studied, chronic active hepatitis, Sjogren's syndrome, primary biliary cirrhosis, and rheumatoid arthritis, there were characteristic protein elution profiles and the various disease-specific autoantibodies showed preferential distributions among the isotypes and subclasses. Moreover there was not an absolute correlation between an increased level of a particular subclass and the occurrence of antibodies of that subclass. The occurrence of highly disease-specific immunoglobulin subclass profiles suggests that the hypergammaglobulinemia associated with autoimmunity cannot be attributed entirely to polyclonal B-cell activation. Rather, there are disease-specific alterations in isotype subclass switching which may reflect different cytokine-dependent influences on autoimmune B cells an...Continue Reading

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