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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2011-3-11
pubmed:databankReference
pubmed:abstractText
Insulin autoantibodies (IAA) can appear in children within months of introducing solid foods to the diet and before clinical type 1 diabetes. The aim of this study was to determine whether infant dietary antigens could be immunizing agents of IAA. To this end, IAA binding to [(125) I]insulin was competed with food preparations and extracts of foods encountered in the infant diet (milk formulas, bovine milk, wheat flour, fowl meal). Bovine milk powder extracts inhibited IAA-positive samples from six of 53 children (age 0·3-14·0 years) participating in German prospective cohorts. Inhibition in these sera ranged from 23 to 100%. Competition was abolished when hydrolyzed milk powder was used. Competition with protein components of bovine milk found that two of the six milk-reactive sera were inhibited strongly by alpha- and beta-casein; none were inhibited by the milk proteins bovine serum albumin or lactoglobulins. The two casein-reactive sera had high affinity to alpha-casein (1·7×10(9) ; 3·1×10(9) ?l/mol), and lesser affinity to beta-casein (4·0×10(8) ; 7·0×10(7) ?l/mol) and insulin (2·6×10(8) ; 1·6×10(8) ?l/mol). No children with milk-reactive IAA developed autoantibodies to other islet autoantigens or diabetes (median follow-up 9·8 years). These results suggest that autoimmunity to insulin can occur infrequently via cross-reactivity to food proteins, but this form of IAA immunization does not appear to be associated with progression to diabetes.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
1365-2249
pubmed:author
pubmed:copyrightInfo
© 2011 The Authors. Clinical and Experimental Immunology © 2011 British Society for Immunology.
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
164
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
42-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2011-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Adolescent, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Autoantibodies, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Binding, Competitive, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-CD4-Positive T-Lymphocytes, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Caseins, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Cattle, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Cell Proliferation, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Child, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Child, Preschool, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Flow Cytometry, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Infant, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Infant Food, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Insulin, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Insulin Antibodies, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Iodine Radioisotopes, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Milk Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Protein Binding, pubmed-meshheading:21361910-Serum Albumin, Bovine
pubmed:year
2011
pubmed:articleTitle
Insulin autoantibodies with high affinity to the bovine milk protein alpha casein.
pubmed:affiliation
Diabetes Research Institute, Forschergruppe Diabetes e.V., Munich Center for Regenerative Therapies - Dresden, Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural