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Immunoglobulin-kappa light chain variable region gene-complex organization and immunoglobulin genes encoding anti-DNA autoantibodies in lupus mice

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authors

  • Kofler, R.
  • Strohal, R.
  • Balderas, R. S.
  • Johnson, M. E.
  • Noonan, D. J.
  • Duchosal, M. A.
  • Dixon, F. J.
  • Theofilopoulos, Argyrios

publication date

  • September 1988

journal

  • Journal of Clinical Investigation  Journal

abstract

  • We have investigated the genetic origin of autoantibody production in several strains of mice that spontaneously develop a systemic lupus erythematosus-like disease. Restriction fragment length polymorphism analyses of gene loci encoding kappa light chain variable regions (Igk-V) demonstrated, as shown previously for the Ig heavy chain locus, that autoantibody production and disease occur in different Igk-V haplotypes. Moreover, autoimmune mice with known genetic derivation inherited their Igk-V loci essentially unaltered from their nonautoimmune ancestors. New Zealand black lupus mice, with unknown genetic derivation, had a possibly recombinant Igk-V haplotype, composed of V kappa loci that were primarily indistinguishable from those of nonautoimmune strains from either of the two potential donor haplotypes. The heavy and light chain gene segments (variable, diversity, joining) encoding anti-DNA antibodies were diverse and often closely related, or even identical, to those found in antibodies to foreign antigens in normal mice. Only 1 of 11 sequenced variable region genes could not be assigned to existing variable region gene families; however, corresponding germline genes were present in the genome of normal mice as well. These data argue against abnormalities in the genes and mechanisms generating antibody diversity in lupus mice and suggest a remarkable genetic and structural diversity in the generation of anti-DNA binding sites.

subject areas

  • Amino Acid Sequence
  • Animals
  • Antibodies, Antinuclear
  • Base Sequence
  • DNA
  • Female
  • Genes
  • Genes, Immunoglobulin
  • Immunoglobulin Heavy Chains
  • Immunoglobulin Variable Region
  • Immunoglobulin kappa-Chains
  • Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic
  • Mice
  • Mice, Inbred AKR
  • Mice, Inbred C3H
  • Mice, Inbred C57BL
  • Mice, Inbred NZB
  • Molecular Sequence Data
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Identity

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

  • 0021-9738

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1172/jci113689

PubMed ID

  • 3138286
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Additional Document Info

start page

  • 852

end page

  • 860

volume

  • 82

issue

  • 3

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