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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1991-6-28
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pubmed:abstractText
We report the first molecular characterization of V kappa regions of the main human autoantibodies occurring during rheumatoid arthritis, the polyclonal rheumatoid factors. Using two sets of polymerase chain reactions in order to amplify the cDNA derived from both peripheral blood and synovial fluid rheumatoid factor-secreting cells, nucleotide analysis of the V kappa III family usage shows the following: (a) at least three different V kappa III genes are used to encode polyclonal rheumatoid factors in a single patient, (b) each one of these genes seems more or less somatically mutated (from 1 to 14 mutations), (c) the mutation process preferentially affects the complementarity determining regions suggesting a selective pressure of antigen and (d) there is no clear difference between the mutation rates affecting the synovial fluid and peripheral blood rheumatoid factor-secreting cells. These results are able to explain some of the known idiotypic differences between monoclonal and polyclonal rheumatoid factors in humans. They also provide evidence that polyclonal autoantibodies arising during an autoimmune disease can be the products of multiple somatically mutated genes and suggest that this process is antigen driven, whether this antigen is the Fc piece of IgG or another unknown antigen.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0014-2980
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
21
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1221-7
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1991
pubmed:articleTitle
Molecular analysis of V kappa III variable regions of polyclonal rheumatoid factors during rheumatoid arthritis.
pubmed:affiliation
Clinique Médicale A, Hôpital Central-CHU, Strasbourg, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't