The Journal of Immunology, Vol 157, Issue 2 927-935, Copyright © 1996 by American Association of Immunologists

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Cloning and analysis of IgG kappa and IgG lambda anti-thyroglobulin autoantibodies from a patient with Hashimoto's thyroiditis: evidence for in vivo antigen-driven repertoire selection

RS McIntosh, MS Asghar, PF Watson, EH Kemp and AP Weetman
Department of Medicine, University of Sheffield Clinical Sciences Center, Northern General Hospital, United Kingdom.

Antibodies to thyroglobulin (Tg) are commonly found in patients with the autoimmune thyroid diseases Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis as well as in individuals with apparently normal thyroid function. Although it is not clear how Tg Abs are involved in the pathology of the diseases, the study and analysis of these Abs may nevertheless be instructive in allowing the development of an Ab response to an autoimmune disease-associated self Ag to be followed. We have prepared IgG kappa and lambda phage display combinatorial libraries from the cervical lymph node of a single Hashimoto's thyroiditis patient with a high anti-Tg titer. These were selected with purified human Tg, and 10 IgG kappa and 9 IgG lambda clones were analyzed further. Sequence analysis of the clones showed a very highly restricted heavy chain usage and a less restricted light chain usage. There was a variable degree of divergence from germ-line sequence in the light chain sequences, with a clear relationship between relatively higher affinity of the Fab for human Tg and an increased degree of somatic hypermutation. The Tg-selected Fab did not bind to Tg from other species, to reduced denatured Tg, or to thyroid peroxidase. The Fab inhibited patient serum binding to human Tg by between 39 and 79%. In summary, we have isolated 19 high affinity, human Tg-specific Fab and shown that the relative affinity of the Fab is directly related to the pattern of somatic hypermutation.

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