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The Journal of Immunology, Vol 148, Issue 11 3405-3411, Copyright © 1992 by American Association of Immunologists

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Characterization and sequencing of a 40-amino-acid peptide from human thyroglobulin inducing experimental autoimmune thyroiditis

B Texier, C Bedin, H Tang, L Camoin, C Laurent-Winter and J Charreire
INSERM U. 283, Hopital Cochin, Paris, France.

We previously demonstrated that: a) a cytotoxic T cell hybridoma (HTC2) was able to induce lysis of syngeneic macrophages pulsed with either porcine thyroglobulin (pTg) or the tryptic fragments (TF) from pTg less than 10 kDa (M(r)) and that b) these low M(r) pTg TF included pathogenic epitopes because their injection into CBA/J mice induces thyroid lymphocytic infiltration typical of experimental autoimmune thyroiditis. Therefore the biochemical analysis of the TF preparation from pTg less than 10 kDa M(r) was undertaken and the characterized peptides were tested for their ability to be recognized or not by HTC2 cells. The sequencing of the selected peptides showed a 70% sequence homology with a portion of human thyroglobulin (hTg). The lack of a published sequence of pTg led us to synthesize a 40-amino acid peptide (F40D) similar to that portion of hTg. This F40D peptide was able to generate lymphocytic infiltrations in CBA/J mice thyroid glands, as was the native pTg molecule. Although the lymphocytic infiltrations were similar in the pTg or F40D-immunized mice, auto-antibodies to pTg or to hTg were only detectable in mice immunized with pTg. In contrast, autoantibodies levels to F40D peptide were significantly increased in serum from mice in which EAT had been induced by the F40D peptide. This highly hydrophobic peptide shows a M(r) of 4,492 kDa; it is located at the end of the second-third of the thyroglobulin molecule and up to now represents a unique sequence from the hTg molecule inducing experimental autoimmune thyroiditis.


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