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Restricted VH3 gene usage in phage-displayed Fab that are selected by intravenous immunoglobulin. Export

Arthritis and rheumatism, Vol. 43, No. 12. (December 2000), pp. 2722-2732.

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OBJECTIVE: To perform a comparative analysis of 1) intravenous Ig (IVIG)-bound Fab fragments from a patient with autoimmune thrombocytopenia that had progressed to systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) and 2) IVIG-selected Fabs from an SLE patient without thrombocytopenia. METHODS: IVIG preparations have been successfully used to treat certain cases of autoimmune thrombocytopenia and SLE. Specific interactions of IVIG with the components of the immune system are not well characterized. To investigate these, we had previously cloned a large number of phage-displayed IgG Fab fragments, derived from 3 patients with autoimmune thrombocytopenia, that were specifically bound by IVIG molecules during panning. Many of these Fabs reacted with platelets. Sequencing revealed that the most frequently used VH germline gene segments of all IVIG-bound Fabs were 3-23 and 3-30/3-30.5. One patient's autoimmune thrombocytopenia had progressed to SLE. Using the same cloning and panning procedures, we performed a comparative analysis of this patient's IVIG-bound Fab fragments and the IVIG-selected Fabs from an SLE patient without thrombocytopenia. RESULTS: We observed an exclusive selection of antibodies derived from 3-23 and 3-30/3-30.5 germline segments. In contrast to the Fab fragments from the autoimmune thrombocytopenia patient who developed SLE, none of the IVIG-selected Fabs from the SLE patient without thrombocytopenia bound to thrombocytes. CONCLUSION: Our results suggest a preferential interaction of a subfraction of IVIG-representative of normal Ig repertoires-with antibodies and B cell receptors derived from these 2 gene segments. Importantly, these are the most frequently rearranged VH germline genes among human B cells. This kind of interaction is characteristic of a B cell superantigen, since light chains, antigen specificity, and the high variation in the third complementarity-determining region 3 showed little influence on the selection of 3-23- or 3-30/3-30.5-derived Fabs by IVIG. However, at least some of the contact residues on Fabs for IVIG appear to be different from those for staphylococcal protein A and human immunodeficiency virus gp 120. The IVIG-selected Fabs may now be used to clone antibodies representative of this IVIG subfraction to study their possible regulatory influence on the B cell repertoire during normal development and disease.


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