The Journal of Immunology, Vol 157, Issue 10 4496-4502, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists

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An endogenous sialoprotein and a bacterial B cell superantigen compete in their VH family-specific binding interactions with human Igs

GJ Silverman, R Pires and JP Bouvet
The Sam and Rose Stein Institute for Research on Aging, University of California-San Diego, La Jolla 92093, USA.

Staphylococcal protein A (SpA), a bacterial membrane protein, and protein Fv (Fv binding protein (pFv)), a human sialoprotein involved in gut-associated immunity, have both recently been shown to have unconventional V(H) family-restricted binding interactions with Igs. To determine whether these Ig binding proteins interact with related structures, we performed a series of comparative binding studies. The results confirmed that both molecules are bound by most V(H)3 IgM, but pFv is also recognized by V(H)3 and V(H)6 Ig that do not interact with SpA. We discovered that pFv and SpA (or a single domain of SpA) can compete for binding to a V(H)3 Ab, which suggests that they can recognize the same (or adjacent) V(H) sites. For both SpA and pFv, binding is less frequent among IgG than IgM. However, V(H)3 IgG more commonly possess Fab-mediated binding activity for pFv than for SpA. Binding studies of denatured Ig suggested that both pFv and SpA interact with conformationally dependent V(H) sites, although in certain cases pFv binding is more permissive than SpA binding. Taken together, these results indicate that the superantigen properties of SpA, a microbial protein, and those of pFv, an endogenous sialoprotein, involve binding interactions with overlapping and at times functionally equivalent sites in the V(H) domain, indicating that self and foreign proteins can employ highly conserved strategies to create superantigens for the Ag receptors of B lymphocytes.

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