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Immunization of experimental animals with dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase, as a purified recombinant polypeptide, generates mitochondrial antibodies but not primary biliary cirrhosis.

Abstract
The availability of recombinant mitochondrial autoantigens may permit the experimental study of the pathophysiology of primary biliary cirrhosis. Previously, we demonstrated that high-titer antibodies to the 74 kD mitochondrial autoantigen dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase could be generated when BALB/c mice were immunized with purified recombinant protein. Based on these data, we attempted an 8-month study to induce antibodies and liver dysfunction by immunizing AKR/J, C3H/J and CBA/HeJ mice as well as rats, guinea pigs, rabbits and rhesus monkeys with purified recombinant human dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase. Antibodies to dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase were readily induced and detected in all species of experimental animals with species and strain differences in the titer of the responses. Of particular interest, rabbits and guinea pigs produced antibodies which were specifically reactive with the functional site of dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase, whereas the other strains and species produced antibodies to other epitopes on the molecule. Finally, similar to data on humans with primary biliary cirrhosis, the pyruvate dehydrogenase enzyme pathway was inhibited in the presence of immunized animal sera. These data imply that features other than simply an antibody response to mitochondrial enzymes are required for the development of primary biliary cirrhosis. Further studies will be necessary to determine the mechanisms by which mitochondrial proteins elicit an immune response.
AuthorsS M Krams, C D Surh, R L Coppel, A Ansari, B Ruebner, M E Gershwin
JournalHepatology (Baltimore, Md.) (Hepatology) Vol. 9 Issue 3 Pg. 411-6 (Mar 1989) ISSN: 0270-9139 [Print] United States
PMID2920998 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Antibodies
  • Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex
  • Recombinant Proteins
  • Acetyltransferases
  • Dihydrolipoyllysine-Residue Acetyltransferase
Topics
  • Acetyltransferases (immunology)
  • Animals
  • Antibodies (immunology)
  • Blood Physiological Phenomena
  • Dihydrolipoyllysine-Residue Acetyltransferase
  • Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay
  • Female
  • Guinea Pigs
  • Immunization
  • Liver (physiology)
  • Liver Cirrhosis, Biliary (immunology)
  • Liver Function Tests
  • Macaca mulatta
  • Mitochondria, Liver (immunology)
  • Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex (antagonists & inhibitors)
  • Rabbits
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred F344
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Recombinant Proteins

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