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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
20
pubmed:dateCreated
1995-10-27
pubmed:abstractText
Recoverin is a member of the EF-hand family of calcium-binding proteins involved in the transduction of light by vertebrate photoreceptors. Recoverin also was identified as an autoantigen in the degenerative disease of the retina known as cancer-associated retinopathy (CAR), a paraneoplastic syndrome whereby immunological events lead to the degeneration of photoreceptors in some individuals with cancer. In this study, we demonstrate that recoverin is expressed in the lung tumor of a CAR patient but not in similar tumors obtained from individuals without the associated retinopathy. Recoverin was identified intially by Western blot analysis of the CAR patient's biopsy tissue by using anti-recoverin antibodies generated against different regions of the recoverin molecule. In addition, cultured cells from the biopsy tissue expressed recoverin, as demonstrated by reverse transcription-PCR using RNA extracted from the cells. The immunodominant region of recoverin also was determined in this study by a solid-phase immunoassay employing overlapping heptapeptides encompassing the entire recoverin sequence. Two linear stretches of amino acids (residues 64-70, Lys-Ala-Tyr-Ala-Gln-His-Val; and 48-52, Gln-Phe-Gln-Ser-Ile) made up the major determinants. One of the same regions of the recoverin molecule (residues 64-70) also was uniquely immunopathogenic, causing photoreceptor degeneration upon immunization of Lewis rats with the corresponding peptide. These data demonstrate that the neural antigen recoverin more than likely is responsible for the immunological events associated with vision loss in some patients with cancer. These data also establish CAR as one of the few autoimmune-mediated diseases for which the specific self-antigen is known.
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pubmed:commentsCorrections
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
26
pubmed:volume
92
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
9176-80
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Retina, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Rats, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Lung Neoplasms, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Lipoproteins, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Female, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Microscopy, Fluorescence, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Male, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Retinal Diseases, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Middle Aged, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Base Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Epitopes, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Eye Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Nerve Tissue Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Fluorescent Antibody Technique, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Amino Acid Sequence, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Lymphocyte Activation, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Electrophoresis, Polyacrylamide Gel, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Molecular Sequence Data, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Carcinoma, Small Cell, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Paraneoplastic Syndromes, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Tumor Markers, Biological, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Rats, Inbred Lew, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Calcium-Binding Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Blotting, Western, pubmed-meshheading:7568096-Hippocalcin
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