期刊
JOURNAL OF DENTAL RESEARCH
卷 84, 期 10, 页码 897-901出版社
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/154405910508401005
关键词
IgG; N-glycans; periodontal disease; galactose deficiency
资金
- NIDCR NIH HHS [DE 13694] Funding Source: Medline
Periodontal disease is a chronic inflammatory disease of bacterial etiology. In many other chronic inflammatory diseases, IgG glycans are galactose- deficient and thus capable of complement activation through the lectin pathway. In this study, we examined whether IgG in serum and gingival crevicular fluid, and IgG locally produced by plasma cells in gingiva of periodontal disease patients, display altered glycosylation. We developed a lectin-ELISA to measure levels of galactose- deficient IgG in the fluids and immunofluorescence staining to detect galactose-deficient IgG-producing cells in gingiva. Our results indicated higher levels of galactose-deficient IgG in sera and gingival crevicular fluid from periodontal disease patients, compared with levels in healthy controls. Furthermore, gingivae from periodontal disease patients exhibited infiltration of IgG-producing plasma cells; many of them contained galactose- deficient IgG in the cytoplasm. Analysis of our data suggests that IgG secreted by B-cells was aberrantly glycosylated, which resulted in the production of proinflammatory galactose- deficient IgG.
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