Affiliation:
1. Laboratory of Immunology, Institut de Synergie des Sciences et de la Santé, Brest University Medical School, Brest, France
Abstract
SUMMARY
While it has been claimed that some anti-endothelial cell antibodies (AECA) activate EC, there is also evidence that others trigger apoptosis. To address the issue of whether activation is a prerequisite for AECA-mediated apoptosis of EC, 23 AECA-positive sera were evaluated for their ability to induce activation and/or apoptosis. Activation was defined as an over-expression of E-selectin and intercellular adhesion molecule 1. Optical microscopy, annexin V binding, hypoploid cell enumeration, and determination of poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase cleavage-related products were used to assess apoptosis. Four functional profiles were defined: 10 sera promoted activation and apoptosis (act+/apo+), one was act+/apo-, six act-/apo+, and the remaining six act-/apo-. The reduced membrane expression of thrombomodulin was associated with apoptosis, rather than activation. Caspase-3 was implicated in the two models of apoptosis, the ratios of several survival proteins to Bax decreased, regardless of the ability of apo+ AECA to activate the cells, while radical oxygen species did not appear to be involved. Furthermore, it occurred that macrophages engulfed EC treated with apoptosis-promoting AECA, but not those incubated with AECA that did not induce apoptosis. Hence, AECA represent an extremely heterogeneous family of autoantibodies, not only because of the variety of their target antigens, but also the subsequent diversity of their effects.
Publisher
Oxford University Press (OUP)
Subject
Immunology,Immunology and Allergy
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