PUBLICATION
Zebrafish to humans: evolution of the alpha3-chain of type IV collagen and emergence of the autoimmune epitopes associated with Goodpasture syndrome
- Authors
- Macdonald, B.A., Sund, M., Grant, M.A., Pfaff, K.L., Holthaus, K., Zon, L.I., Kalluri, R.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-051031-5
- Date
- 2006
- Source
- Blood 107(5): 1908-1915 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Pfaff, Kathleen, Zon, Leonard I.
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
-
- Animals
- Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease/genetics
- Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease/immunology*
- Antibody Specificity/immunology
- Autoantibodies/immunology*
- Autoantigens/genetics
- Autoantigens/immunology*
- Collagen Type IV/genetics
- Collagen Type IV/immunology*
- Epitope Mapping/methods
- Epitopes/genetics
- Epitopes/immunology*
- Evolution, Molecular*
- Humans
- Mice
- Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
- Species Specificity
- Structural Homology, Protein
- Zebrafish/genetics
- Zebrafish/immunology
- PubMed
- 16254142 Full text @ Blood
Citation
Macdonald, B.A., Sund, M., Grant, M.A., Pfaff, K.L., Holthaus, K., Zon, L.I., Kalluri, R. (2006) Zebrafish to humans: evolution of the alpha3-chain of type IV collagen and emergence of the autoimmune epitopes associated with Goodpasture syndrome. Blood. 107(5):1908-1915.
Abstract
Goodpasture's syndrome is an autoimmune vascular disease associated with kidney and lung failure, with pathogenic circulating autoantibodies targeted to a set of discontinuous epitope sequences within the non-collagenous domain-1 (NC1) of the alpha3 chain of type IV collagen [alpha3(IV)NC1], the Goodpasture's autoantigen. We demonstrate that basement membrane extracted NC1 domain preparations from C. elegans, Drosophila melanogaster and Danio rerio do not bind Goodpasture's autoantibodies, while Xenopus laevis, chicken, mouse and human alpha3(IV)NC1 domains bind autoantibodies. The alpha3(IV)-chain is not present in C. elegans and Drosophila melanogaster, but is first detected in the Danio rerio. Interestingly, native Danio rerio alpha3(IV)NC1 does not bind Goodpasture's autoantibodies. Next, we cloned, sequenced and generated recombinant Danio rerio alpha3(IV)NC1 domain. In contrast to recombinant human alpha3(IV)NC1 domain, there was complete absence of autoantibody binding to recombinant Danio rerio alpha3(IV)NC1. 3D molecular modeling from existing x-ray co-ordinates of human NC1 domain suggest that evolutionary alteration of electrostatic charge and polarity due to the emergence of critical serine, aspartic acid and lysine residues, accompanied by the loss of asparagine and glutamine contributes to the emergence of the two major Goodpasture's epitopes on the human alpha3(IV)NC1 domain, as it evolved from the Danio rerio over 450 million years.
Genes / Markers
Expression
Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping