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MOLECULAR IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 44, Issue 8, Pages 1819-1826Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.10.003
Keywords
complement system; Cl-inhibitor
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- NIBIB NIH HHS [R01-EB-003968-01] Funding Source: Medline
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Cl-inhibitor is increasingly used experimentally and clinically in inflammatory conditions like septicemia and ischemia-reperfusion injury. Several mechanisms may account for the anti-inflammatory effects of C1-inhibitor, including inhibition of complement. The aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the supraphysiologic effect of C I-inhibitor on the three complement pathways. Novel assays for specific evaluation of the classical, lectin and alternative pathways were employed using normal human serum supplemented with increasing concentrations of C I-inhibitor. Solid-phase classical- and lectin pathway activation was dose-dependently and significantly reduced up to 85% in the range of 2-28 times physiologic C I-inhibitor concentration. The lectin pathway was more potently inhibited than the classical at low doses. A functional lectin pathway assay demonstrated a significant reduction of C4 deposition up to 86% even at low concentration of C I-inhibitor and documented the effect to be at the level of MBL/MASPs. In contrast, C I-inhibitor had no effect on solid-phase alternative pathway activation, but significantly reduced cobra venom factor-induced fluid-phase activation up to 88%. The negative controls albumin and IgG had no effect on complement activation. The positive inhibitory controls compstatin (C3 inhibition), EDTA- or MBL-deficient sera reduced complement activation by 82-100%. We conclude that C I-inhibitor in high physiologic doses differentially inhibits all three-complement pathways. The inhibition pattern was strikingly different in the classical and lectin pathway, compared to the alternative. Previous studies interpreting the effects of C I-inhibitor as only due to classical pathway inhibition needs reconsideration. The data has implications for the therapeutic use of C I-inhibitor. (c) 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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