Toggle Main Menu Toggle Search

Open Access padlockePrints

Modeling how CD46 deficiency predisposes to atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Tim Goodship

Downloads

Full text for this publication is not currently held within this repository. Alternative links are provided below where available.


Abstract

Mutations in complement regulatory proteins predispose to the development of aHUS. Approximately 50% of patients bear a mutation in one of three complement control proteins, factor H, factor I, or membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46). Another membrane regulator that is closely related to MCP, decay accelerating factor (DAF; CD55) thus far has shown no association with aHUS and continues to be investigated. The goal of this study was to compare the regulatory profile of MCP and DAF and to assess how alterations in MCP predispose to complement dysregulation. We employed a model system of complement activation on Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cell transfectants. The four regularly expressed isoforms of MCP and DAF inhibited C3b deposition by the alternative pathway. DAF, but not MCP, inhibited the classical pathway. Most patients with MCP-aHUS are heterozygous and express only 25-50% of the wild-type protein. We, therefore, analyzed the effect of reduced levels of wild-type MCP and found that cells with lowered expression levels were less efficient in inhibiting alternative pathway activation. Further, a dysfunctional MCP mutant, expressed at normal levels and identified in five patients with aHUS (S206P), failed to protect against C3b amplification on CHO cells, even if expression levels were increased 10-fold. Our results add new information relative to the necessity for appropriate expression levels of MCP and further implicate the alternative pathway in disease processes such as aHUS.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Liszewski MK, Leung MK, Schraml B, Goodship THJ, Atkinson JP

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Molecular Immunology

Year: 2007

Volume: 44

Issue: 7

Pages: 1570-1579

Print publication date: 01/03/2007

ISSN (print): 0161-5890

ISSN (electronic): 1872-9142

Publisher: Pergamon

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.molimm.2006.08.024

DOI: 10.1016/j.molimm.2006.08.024


Altmetrics

Altmetrics provided by Altmetric


Funding

Funder referenceFunder name
R01 AI37618NIAID NIH HHS
R01 AI037618NIAID NIH HHS

Share