International Immunology, Vol. 11, No. 2, 249-257,
February 1999
© 1999 Japanese Society for Immunology
MHC class II gene associations with autoantibodies to U1A and SmD1 proteins
Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, CNRS UPR 9021, Strasbourg, France
1 Service de Rhumatologie and
2 Laboratoire d'Immunologie, CHU Rangueil, Toulouse, France
Correspondence to: S. Muller, UPR 9021 CNRS, Institut de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire, 15, rue Descartes, 67084 Strasbourg, France
Autoantibodies against U small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNP) are frequently present in the serum of patients with systemic rheumatic diseases, and have been reported to be associated with HLA-DR and -DQ genes. To better define the role of HLA genes in the production of such antibodies, we studied immunogenetic associations with autoantibodies reacting with U1 RNP, U1A and SmD1 proteins, and synthetic peptides containing immunodominant linear epitopes of these proteins. Only two out of the 15 overlapping peptides of U1A (i.e. peptides 35–58 and 257–282) and three of 11 peptides of SmD1 (i.e. peptides 1–20, 44–67 and 97–119) were significantly recognized by patients' sera selected on the basis of their antibody positivity with RNP in immunodiffusion. The distribution of DRB1, DQB1 and DPB1 alleles among the anti-RNP antibody-positive patients (n = 28) and healthy control subjects was similar. Antibodies against U1A (tested in Western immunoblotting with HeLa cell extracts) were positively associated to DRB1*06 allele; antibodies reacting with SmD1 peptide 44–67 were negatively associated to DRB1*02 and DQB1*0602 alleles. No association was found between DPB1 alleles and antibodies reacting with U1A and SmD1 antigens. This first study reporting an association between autoantibodies reacting with U1A and SmD1 proteins (and peptides of these proteins), and immunogenetic markers suggest that the production of antibody subsets directed against different components (or regions of these proteins) bound to the same snRNP particle is associated with distinct MHC class II alleles.
Keywords: autoantibody, MHC class II, ribonucleoprotein, SmD1, U1A
Transmitting editor: J.-F. Bach
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