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Vimentin is a dominant target of in situ humoral immunity in human lupus tubulointerstitial nephritis.

ABSTRACT: In lupus nephritis (LN), severe tubulointerstitial inflammation (TII) predicts progression to renal failure. Severe TII is associated with tertiary lymphoid neogenesis and in situ antigen-driven clonal B cell selection. The autoantigen(s) driving in situ B cell selection in TII are not known. This study was undertaken to identify the dominant driving autoantigen(s).Single CD38+ or Ki-67+ B cells were laser captured from 7 biopsy specimens that were diagnostic for LN. Eighteen clonally expanded immunoglobulin heavy- and light-chain variable region pairs were cloned and expressed as monoclonal antibodies. Seven more antibodies were cloned from flow-sorted CD38+ cells from an eighth biopsy specimen. Antigen characterization was performed using a combination of confocal microscopy, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, screening protoarrays, immunoprecipitation, and mass spectrometry. Serum IgG titers to the dominant antigen in 48 LN and 35 non-nephritic lupus samples were determined using purified antigen-coated arrays. Autoantigen expression on normal and LN kidney was localized by immunohistochemistry and immunofluorescence.Eleven of 25 antibodies reacted with cytoplasmic structures, 4 reacted with nuclei, and none reacted with double-stranded DNA. Vimentin was the only autoantigen identified by both mass spectrometry and protoarray. Ten of the 11 anticytoplasmic TII antibodies directly bound vimentin. Vimentin was highly expressed by tubulointerstitial inflammatory cells, and the TII antibodies tested preferentially bound inflamed tubulointerstitium. Finally, high titers of serum antivimentin antibodies were associated with severe TII (P = 0.0001).Vimentin, an antigenic feature of inflammation, is a dominant autoantigen targeted in situ in LN TII. This adaptive autoimmune response likely feeds forward to worsen TII and renal damage.

SUBMITTER: Kinloch AJ

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4264660 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Vimentin is a dominant target of in situ humoral immunity in human lupus tubulointerstitial nephritis.

Kinloch Andrew J AJ Chang Anthony A Ko Kichul K Henry Dunand Carole J CJ Henderson Scott S Maienschein-Cline Mark M Kaverina Natalya N Rovin Brad H BH Salgado Ferrer Marlene M Wolfgeher Don D Liarski Vladimir V Haddon D James DJ Utz Paul J PJ Wilson Patrick C PC Clark Marcus R MR

Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, N.J.) 20141201 12

<h4>Objective</h4>In lupus nephritis (LN), severe tubulointerstitial inflammation (TII) predicts progression to renal failure. Severe TII is associated with tertiary lymphoid neogenesis and in situ antigen-driven clonal B cell selection. The autoantigen(s) driving in situ B cell selection in TII are not known. This study was undertaken to identify the dominant driving autoantigen(s).<h4>Methods</h4>Single CD38+ or Ki-67+ B cells were laser captured from 7 biopsy specimens that were diagnostic fo ...[more]

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Project description:Vimentin has been implicated in pulmonary sarcoidosis as a T-cell autoantigen, particularly in the context of HLA-DRB1*03, the V?2.3/V?22 T-cell receptor (TCR), and Löfgren's syndrome. As vimentin is a known antigenic target in B-cell-mediated autoimmunity, we investigated in situ humoral anti-vimentin responses in pulmonary sarcoidosis and their relationship with HLA-DRB1*03. Sarcoid and healthy control (HC) lung biopsies were analyzed by multi-color confocal microscopy for B-cells, T-cells, proliferation, and vimentin, and compared to tonsillectomy tissue. Bronchoalveolar lavage fluid (BALF) and serum from 48 sarcoidosis patients and 15 healthy volunteers were typed for HLA-DRB1*03 and titrated for antibodies to full-length vimentin, vimentin truncations, and total IgG and IgA by ELISA. Presence of extracellular vimentin in BALF was determined by mass spectrometry and T-cell populations measured by flow cytometry. Sarcoid lung samples, especially from HLA-DRB1*03+ patients, contained vimentin-rich tertiary lymphoid structures and corresponding BALF was highly enriched for both IgG and IgA anti-vimentin antibody (AVA) titers. Furthermore, sarcoidosis patient BALF AVA concentrations (expressed as arbitrary units per milligram of total immunoglobulin isotype) correlated with the percentage of CD4+ T-cells expressing the V?2.3/V?22 TCR. BALF antibody reactivity to the vimentin N-terminus was most prominent in HCs, whereas reactivity to the C-terminus (VimC-term) was enriched in the sarcoid lung. Specifically, HLA-DRB1*03+ patient BALF contained higher concentrations of anti-VimC-term antibodies than BALF from both HCs and HLA-DRB1*03- patients. Consistent with the lung as a site of AVA production, the concentration of AVAs in BALF was dramatically higher than in matched serum samples. Overall, there was a poor correlation between BALF and serum AVA concentrations. Together, these studies reveal the presence of linked in situ recognition of vimentin by both T- and B-cells in HLA-DRB1*03+ sarcoidosis patients, associated with a selective humoral immune response to the vimentin C-terminus.

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Vimentin is a dominant target of in situ humoral immunity in human lupus tubulointerstitial nephritis.

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Vimentin is a dominant target of in situ humoral immunity in human lupus tubulointerstitial nephritis.

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