Autoantibodies to the constitutive 73-kD member of the hsp70 family of heat shock proteins in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Autoantibodies to the constitutive 73-kD member of the hsp70 family of heat shock proteins in systemic lupus erythematosus.
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系统性红斑狼疮热休克蛋白 hsp70 家族 73-kD 组成型成员的自身抗体。
DOI:
10.1084/jem.168.4.1475
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发表时间:
1988
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Winfield,JB
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作者:
Minota,S;Cameron,B;Welch,WJ;Winfield,JB
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by the development and persistence of multiple autoantibodies to self-constituents. Detection of the presence of certain autoantibodies in patient serum is of considerable diagnostic utility, eg, anti-dsDNA and antibody to the Smith antigen, Sm (1). Autoantibodies in SLE also have been useful as probes to define the function of their target antigens in normal biological processes. For example, the observation that autoantibodies to Ul ribonucleoprotein inhibit mRNA splicing in vitro (2) provided some of the earliest evidence that Ul ribonucleoprotein is essential for splicing of mRNA precursors. The hsp70 family (3, 4) consists offive distinct, but structurally and immunologically related, proteins:(a) a constitutive 73-kD/pI 5.5 protein;(b) a stress-inducible 72-kD/pI 5.6 protein;(c) a stress-inducible 73-kD/pI 6.3 protein;(d) a constitutive 74-78-kD protein present in the endoplasmic reticulum (glucose-regulated protein); and (e) a 75-kD member present in the mitochondria. Although the biologic function of proteins in the hsp70 family is incompletely understood, the 73-kD/pI 5.5 protein has been shown to uncoat the clathrin lattice from endocytotic vesicles in an ATP-dependent manner during intracellular protein transport (5). Because certain immunodominant proteins of infecting microorganisms are homologues ofheat shock proteins in eukaryotes (6, 7), the present evidence for the existence in SLE of a previously undescribed autoantibody to the 73-kD/pI 5. 5 constitutively expressed member of the hsp70 family is consistent with the concept of molecular mimicry (8) as a mechanism for autoantibody induction in this disorder.