DEFICIENCY OF AN ERYTHROCYTE-MEMBRANE PROTEIN WITH COMPLEMENT REGULATORY ACTIVITY IN PAROXYSMAL-NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA
DEFICIENCY OF AN ERYTHROCYTE-MEMBRANE PROTEIN WITH COMPLEMENT REGULATORY ACTIVITY IN PAROXYSMAL-NOCTURNAL HEMOGLOBINURIA
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.80.17.5430
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1983-01-01
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MULLEREBERHARD, HJ
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PANGBURN, MK;SCHREIBER, RD;MULLEREBERHARD, HJ
Paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) is an acquired hemolytic anemia in which the erythrocytes are abnormally sensitive to lysis by complement. A functional deficiency of membrane-associated complement regulators has been demonstrated on PNH erythrocytes. The 2 factor H-like proteins, the C3b receptor (CR1) and the decay-accelerating factor (DAF), were isolated from normal human erythrocytes, and specific antisera were prepared. Selective inhibition of the 2 proteins on normal erythrocytes by the antisera demonstrated that the factor responsible for accelerated decay of erythrocyte-bound C3 convertase is DAF and that the cofactor required for inactivation of erythrocyte-bound C3b by factor I is CR1. PNH erythrocytes wree deficient in both of these activities. Erythrocytes deficient in CR1, which were obtained from an apparently healthy individual, exhibited normal DAF activity but no factor I cofactor activity. These cells were not susceptible to complement-mediated lysis in acidified human serum, whereas PNH erythrocytes and pronase-treated human erythrocytes (which lack DAF and CR1 activities) were lysed by this treatment. Evidently, the protein primarily responsible for preventing complement activation on normal human erythrocytes is DAF. A MW 73,000 protein isolated from the normal erythrocyte membranes of 1 PNH patient by using anti-DAF IgG was largely absent from the abnormal erythrocytes of this individual, suggesting that PNH cells lack the DAF protein. CR1 antigen, however, was present on the abnormal PNH erythrocytes. Evidently, the primary molecular defect underlying the clinical manifestations of PNH may be the lack of the membrane-associated DAF protein and that the abnormal cells may also exhibit impaired CR1 function.