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PATHOGENS AND DISEASE
卷 79, 期 6, 页码 -出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/femspd/ftab033
关键词
group A Streptococcus; rheumatic fever; collagen; autoantibodies; collagen-like proteins
资金
- Maurice Wilkins Centre for Molecular Biodiscovery
- National Heart Foundation
- Heath Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership (Ministry of Health)
- Heath Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership (Te Puni Kokiri)
- Heath Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership (Cure Kids)
- Heath Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership (Heart Foundation)
- National Institutes of Health [AI50666, AI083683]
- Heath Research Council of New Zealand (HRC) Rheumatic Fever Research Partnership (HRC)
The study found that ARF patients had significantly elevated antibody reactions to GAS Scl proteins and human collagen, but there was no correlation between the two, indicating that anti-collagen antibodies generated in ARF are unrelated to GAS collagen-like proteins.
Acute rheumatic fever (ARF) is a serious post-infectious immune sequelae of Group A streptococcus (GAS). Pathogenesis remains poorly understood, including the events associated with collagen autoantibody generation. GAS express streptococcal collagen-like proteins (Scl) that contain a collagenous domain resembling human collagen. Here, the relationship between antibody reactivity to GAS Scl proteins and human collagen in ARF was investigated. Serum IgG specific for a representative Scl protein (Scl1.1) together with collagen-I and collagen-IV mimetic peptides were quantified in ARF patients (n = 36) and healthy matched controls (n = 36). Reactivity to Scl1.1 was significantly elevated in ARF compared to controls (P < 0.0001) and this was mapped to the collagen-like region of the protein, rather than the N-terminal non-collagenous region. Reactivity to collagen-1 and collagen-IV peptides was also significantly elevated in ARF cases (P < 0.001). However, there was no correlation between Scl1.1 and collagen peptide antibody binding, and hierarchical clustering of ARF cases by IgG reactivity showed two distinct clusters, with Scl1.1 antigens in one and collagen peptides in the other, demonstrating that collagen autoantibodies are not immunologically related to those targeting Scl1.1. Thus, anti-collagen antibodies in ARF appear to be generated as part of the autoreactivity process, independent of any mimicry with GAS collagen-like proteins.
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