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Rheumatology, Allergy, and Clinical Immunology and
Hematology/Oncology and
Department of Chemistry, University of California School of Medicine, Davis, CA 95616;
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA 94550;
¶ Department of Microbiology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia;
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Department of Pathology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322
In primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), the major autoepitope recognized by both T and B cells is the inner lipoyl domain of the E2 component of pyruvate dehydrogenase. To address the hypothesis that PBC is induced by xenobiotic exposure, we took advantage of ab initio quantum chemistry and synthesized the inner lipoyl domain of E2 component of pyruvate dehydrogenase, replacing the lipoic acid moiety with synthetic structures designed to mimic a xenobiotically modified lipoyl hapten, and we quantitated the reactivity of these structures with sera from PBC patients. Interestingly, antimitochondrial Abs from all seropositive patients with PBC, but no controls, reacted against 3 of the 18 organic modified autoepitopes significantly better than to the native domain. By structural analysis, the features that correlated with autoantibody binding included synthetic domain peptides with a halide or methyl halide in the meta or para position containing no strong hydrogen bond accepting groups on the phenyl ring of the lysine substituents, and synthetic domain peptides with a relatively low rotation barrier about the linkage bond. Many chemicals including pharmaceuticals and household detergents have the potential to form such halogenated derivatives as metabolites. These data reflect the first time that an organic compound has been shown to serve as a mimeotope for an autoantigen and further provide evidence for a potential mechanism by which environmental organic compounds may cause PBC.
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