The Journal of Immunology, Vol 151, Issue 1 397-404, Copyright © 1993 by American Association of Immunologists

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Release of vesicles enriched in complement receptor 1 from human erythrocytes

M Pascual, HU Lutz, G Steiger, P Stammler and JA Schifferli
Laboratory of Immunonephrology, Centre Medical Universitaire, Geneva, Switzerland.

Vesicles released from human E by Ca(2+)-loading, ATP-depletion, or storage are enriched in several glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins such as acetylcholinesterase (AchE) and decay-accelerating factor (DAF). As a result of this, the remaining E are depleted of these proteins. We analyzed whether vesiculation induced by ATP- depletion in vitro was also responsible for a loss of C receptor 1 (CR1), which is a transmembrane protein arranged predominantly in small clusters. ATP-depleted E had lost 15.4% to 33.9% of their CR1. This loss was similar to that of AchE and DAF. The released vesicles contained CR1. The number of CR1 per band 3 protein was 1.7 to 2.7 that in the original E, indicating an enrichment of CR1 in vesicles. This enrichment was similar to that observed for AchE and DAF (1.83- and 2.6- fold, respectively). The capacity of the vesicles and the ATP-depleted E to bind C3b-coated immune complexes correlated with the CR1 number, suggesting that there was no preferential loss of CR1 clusters. Vesicles released from human E during C attack also contained CR1. In conclusion, in vitro aging induced by ATP-depletion is responsible not only for a loss of glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins, but also of CR1. Whether vesiculation explains the loss of CR1 from aging E in vivo and from E of patients with SLE or AIDS remains to be studied.

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