FAMILY STUDIES OF ERYTHROCYTE COMPLEMENT RECEPTOR TYPE-1 LEVELS - REDUCED LEVELS IN PATIENTS WITH SLE ARE ACQUIRED, NOT INHERITED
- 1 January 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Vol. 59 (3), 547-554
Abstract
It has been claimed that patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have an inherited deficiency of erythrocyte complement receptor type 1 (CR1, with ligand binding specificity for C3b, iC3b and C4b). CR1 functions as the only cofactor for factor I-mediated cleavage of iC3b to C3c and C3dg. The activity of this receptor on red cells may be an important mechanism for handling immune complexes which have bound C3b or iC3b. Radioligand binding studies were performed using a monoclonal antibody to CR1, E11, to enumerate these receptors accurately. The results confirmed that patients with SLE have a reduced number of CR1 molecules per red cell, but showed no reduction in CR1 levels among their consanguineous relatives. Study of 13 normal families suggested the presence of heritable factors controlling the numbers of erythrocyte CR1 molecules; in particular there was a correlation between mean parental CR1 numbers and CR1 numbers in their children. However, among 17 families of 19 patients with SLE, 4 families were identified in which genotypically ''high CR1'' SLE patients had persistently low phenotypes. This is not compatible with the hypothesis that the reduction in erythrocyte CR1 numbers in these patients is inherited.This publication has 17 references indexed in Scilit:
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