Journal
JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 255, Issue 2, Pages 107-119Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/path.5746
Keywords
MPO; ANCA; vasculitis; monocytes; glomerulonephritis; experimental vasculitis
Funding
- Imperial College Wellcome Trust ISSF Fellowship
- NIHR
- Medical Research Council Clinical Research Training Fellowship [MR/M003159/1]
- Ken and Mary Minton Chair of Renal Medicine
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Experimental autoimmune vasculitis (EAV) induced by myeloperoxidase (MPO) immunization in susceptible rat strains can be augmented by sub-nephritogenic dose of nephrotoxic serum (NTS) containing heterologous antibodies, leading to increased severity of glomerulonephritis with important features of human disease. The pauci-immune glomerulonephritis is strictly dependent on autoimmunity to MPO, showcasing potential for studying glomerular leukocyte behavior and novel therapeutics in antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV).
Experimental autoimmune vasculitis (EAV) is a model of antineutrophil cytoplasm antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV) induced by immunisation of susceptible rat strains with myeloperoxidase (MPO). Animals develop circulating MPO-ANCA, pulmonary haemorrhage, and glomerulonephritis, although renal injury is mild and recovers spontaneously without treatment. In this study we aimed to augment the severity of glomerulonephritis. Following induction of EAV on day 0, a sub-nephritogenic dose of nephrotoxic serum (NTS) containing heterologous antibodies to glomerular basement membrane was administered on day 14. This resulted in a significant increase in disease severity at day 28 compared to MPO immunisation alone - with more urinary abnormalities, infiltrating glomerular leucocytes, and crescent formation that progressed to glomerular and tubulointerstitial scarring by day 56, recapitulating important features of human disease. Importantly, the glomerulonephritis remained pauci-immune, and was strictly dependent on the presence of autoimmunity to MPO, as there was no evidence of renal disease following administration of sub-nephritogenic NTS alone or after immunisation with a control protein in place of MPO. Detailed phenotyping of glomerular leucocytes identified an early infiltrate of non-classical monocytes following NTS administration that, in the presence of autoimmunity to MPO, may initiate the subsequent influx of classical monocytes which augment glomerular injury. We also showed that this model can be used to test novel therapeutics by using a small molecule kinase inhibitor (fostamatinib) that rapidly attenuated both glomerular and pulmonary injury over a 4-day treatment period. We believe that this enhanced model of MPO-AAV will prove useful for the study of glomerular leucocyte behaviour and novel therapeutics in AAV in the future. (c) 2021 The Authors. The Journal of Pathology published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. on behalf of The Pathological Society of Great Britain and Ireland.
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