The Journal of Immunology, Vol 139, Issue 9 2942-2946, Copyright © 1987 by American Association of Immunologists

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Epitopes on proliferating cell nuclear antigen recognized by human lupus autoantibody and murine monoclonal antibody

K Ogata, Y Ogata, Y Takasaki and EM Tan
W.M. Keck Autoimmune Disease Center, Department of Basic & Clinical Research, Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation, La Jolla, CA 92037.

The immune epitopes of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA), also called cyclin, were analyzed by determining the reactivity between PCNA peptide fragments and anti-PCNA antibodies from lupus patients, murine monoclonal antibody (19A2), and rabbit anti-NH2-terminal peptide antibody. Limited digestion of PCNA/cyclin with Staphylococcus aureus V8 protease resulted in several peptide fragments. Five fragments of 30, 20, 15, 14, and 13 kDa were reactive with rabbit anti-NH2-terminal peptide antibody denoting that they contained the NH2-terminal peptide. The 30- and 20-kDa fragments reacted with 19A2 but the others did not. Lupus sera reacted with 17- and 15-kDa peptide fragments allowing their classification into three groups. Two of eight sera (type A) reacted only with the 17-kDa fragment. Two others (type B) reacted with both the 17- and 15-kDa fragments and the remaining four sera (type C) reacted only with the 15-kDa fragment. The sera reacting with the 15- kDa fragment also reacted with the 20-kDa fragment, but the sera reactive only with the 17-kDa fragment did not, indicating that the 17- kDa fragment was not a degradation product of 20-kDa fragments. The 19A2 epitope resided in the region between 15 and 20 kDa from the NH2 terminus, whereas there was at least one distinct epitope on each 15- and 17-kDa peptide, which were recognized by lupus autoantibodies.

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