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Mapping IgG Epitopes Bound by Rheumatoid Factors from Immunized Controls Identifies Disease-Specific Rheumatoid Factors Produced by Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis¹

Vincent R. Bonagura^2,*,, Nick Agostino^*, Marie Børretzen, Keith M. Thompson, Jacob B. Natvig and Sherie L. Morrison^§

^* Division of Allergy/Immunology, Department of Pediatrics, Schneider Children’s Hospital, Long Island Jewish Medical Center; and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New Hyde Park, NY 11040; Institute of Immunology and Rheumatology, The National Hospital, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway; and ^§ Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90024

We have mapped the specificity of 28 monoclonal IgM rheumatoid factors (RFs) produced by heterohybridomas derived from five healthy blood donors immunized with mismatched human red blood cells (HID). The HID-RFs did not differ in their binding specificity for IgG epitopes from RFs that we previously analyzed from patients with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia. However, IgM RFs produced by HID differed in their specificity for IgG compared with RFs expressed by patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA-RFs). Only 1 of 28 HID-RFs bound all IgG subclasses (pan binding pattern) compared with 7 of 19 RA-RFs (p = 0.006). Three HID-RFs bound IgG3 compared with 9 RA-RFs (p = 0.007). Fine specificity differences were also identified between HID- and RA-RFs. Therefore, some RA-RFs show novel specificities for IgG not found among RFs from HID or individuals with Waldenström’s macroglobulinemia who do not have joint disease. These Abs with unique specificities may represent disease-specific autoantibodies in patients with RA. Nine of the HID-RFs from the same individual were clonally related, and several contained somatic mutations. Even when the clonally related HID-RFs were considered as one RF for comparison, the reactivity of the HID-RFs differed significantly from RA-RFs in their inability to recognize all IgG subclasses (p = 0.044) and recognize IgG3 (p = 0.041). Interestingly, among the clonally related RFs, considerable differences in the specificity for IgG were also observed, with the RF containing the most somatic mutations in V_H and V_L showing the most distinctive specificity changes. Therefore, these studies also demonstrate a correlation between somatic mutation and binding specificity.

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