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Suppressive effect of glutamic acid decarboxylase 65-specific autoimmune B lymphocytes on processing of T cell determinants located within the antibody epitope.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  12097368     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
Type 1 diabetes is a T cell-mediated disease in which B cells serve critical Ag-presenting functions. In >95% of type 1 diabetic patients the B cell response to the glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 (GAD65) autoantigen is exclusively directed at conformational epitopes residing on the surface of the native molecule. We have examined how the epitope specificity of Ag-presenting autoimmune B cell lines, derived from a type 1 diabetic patient, affects the repertoire of peptides presented to DRB1*0401-restricted T cell hybridomas. The general effect of GAD65-specific B cells was to enhance Ag capture and therefore Ag presentation. The enhancing effect was, however, restricted to T cell determinants located outside the B cell epitope region, because processing/presentation of T cell epitopes located within the autoimmune B cell epitope were suppressed in a dominant fashion. A similar effect was observed when soluble Abs formed immune complexes with GAD65 before uptake and processing by splenocytes. Thus, GAD65-specific B cells and the Abs they secrete appear to modulate the autoimmune T cell repertoire by down-regulating T cell epitopes in an immunodominant area while boosting epitopes in distant or cryptic regions.
Authors:
Juan Carlos Jaume; Sarah Louise Parry; Anne-Marie Madec; Grete Sønderstrup; Steinunn Baekkeskov
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Journal Article; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.    
Journal Detail:
Title:  Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)     Volume:  169     ISSN:  0022-1767     ISO Abbreviation:  J. Immunol.     Publication Date:  2002 Jul 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2002-07-04     Completed Date:  2002-08-28     Revised Date:  2007-10-24    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  2985117R     Medline TA:  J Immunol     Country:  United States    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  665-72     Citation Subset:  AIM; IM    
Affiliation:
Diabetes Center, Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center and University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA.
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Antigen Presentation / immunology*
Antigen-Antibody Complex / immunology,  metabolism
Autoantibodies / chemistry,  metabolism*,  pharmacology
Autoantigens / immunology*,  metabolism,  pharmacology
B-Lymphocyte Subsets / enzymology,  immunology*,  metabolism
Binding Sites, Antibody / immunology
Cell Line, Transformed
Dendritic Cells / immunology,  metabolism
Down-Regulation / immunology*
Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte / immunology*,  metabolism,  pharmacology
Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte / immunology,  metabolism*
Glutamate Decarboxylase / immunology*,  metabolism,  pharmacology
Humans
Immunosuppressive Agents / chemistry,  metabolism,  pharmacology
Isoenzymes / immunology*,  metabolism,  pharmacology
Macrophages / immunology,  metabolism
Mice
Mice, Transgenic
Molecular Sequence Data
Protein Binding / immunology
Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell / metabolism
T-Lymphocyte Subsets / immunology,  metabolism
Chemical
Reg. No./Substance:
0/Antigen-Antibody Complex; 0/Autoantibodies; 0/Autoantigens; 0/Binding Sites, Antibody; 0/Epitopes, B-Lymphocyte; 0/Epitopes, T-Lymphocyte; 0/Immunosuppressive Agents; 0/Isoenzymes; 0/Receptors, Antigen, B-Cell; EC 4.1.1.15/Glutamate Decarboxylase; EC 4.1.1.15/glutamate decarboxylase 2

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