Publication: Presence of immunoglobulins, C3 and cytolytic C5b-9 complement components on the surface of erythrocytes from patients with β-thalassaemia/HbE disease
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1997-03-04
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00071048
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Mahidol University
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British Journal of Haematology. Vol.96, No.3 (1997), 507-513
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Prida Malasit, Weerawuth Mahasorn, Juthathip Mongkolsapaya, Benjawan Singhathong, Suthat Fucharoen, Prawase Wasi, Sucharit Bhakdi Presence of immunoglobulins, C3 and cytolytic C5b-9 complement components on the surface of erythrocytes from patients with β-thalassaemia/HbE disease. British Journal of Haematology. Vol.96, No.3 (1997), 507-513. doi:10.1046/j.1365-2141.1997.d01-2070.x Retrieved from: https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/18149
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Presence of immunoglobulins, C3 and cytolytic C5b-9 complement components on the surface of erythrocytes from patients with β-thalassaemia/HbE disease
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The occurrence of IgG, IgM, IgA, C3 and C5b-9 complement complexes on erythrocytes from 43 patients with β-thalassaemia HbE disease was investigated. Indirect immunoradiometric assays using radioiodinated protein A were employed to quantify the individual components. We confirmed that circulating erythrocytes from thalassaemic patients contained elevated amounts of IgG, and small but significant amounts of C3. In addition, small but significant amounts of C5b-9 were detected. Levels of cell-bound IgG, C3 and C5b-9 were higher in splenectomized versus non-splenectomized patients. The presence of C5b-9 on circulating cells from five splenectomized patients was confirmed by an ELISA employing a monoclonal antibody specific for a C5b-9 neoantigen. When C5b-9 positive cells from two patients were solubilized with detergent and subjected to sucrose density gradient centrifugation, the terminal complexes sedimented as 25-40S macromolecules, thus behaving as membrane C5b-9 complexes. The presence of C8 and C9 in these high molecular weight fractions was directly demonstrated by Western blotting. These results constitute the first demonstration that circulating diseased erythrocytes may carry low numbers of potentially cytolytic C5b-9 complement complexes which may be partly responsible for the known ionic disturbances found in thalassaemic cells. Both bound C3 and C5b-9 could promote removal of diseased cells in the reticuloendothelial system.