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Braz. j. med. biol. res ; 28(5): 585-9, May 1995. tab, graf
Article in English | LILACS | ID: lil-154880

ABSTRACT

Immunoglobulin Fc receptors (FcRs), present in Trypanosomatidae pathogenic for mammals, may be a mechanism by which these parasites escape the host immune response. We studied the possible role of these receptors in evasion by the alternative complement pathway. Promastigotes of Leishmania amazonensis and trypsinized trypomastigotes of Trypanossoma cruzi treated with heat-aggregated normal gamma globulin and then incubated with fresh normal guinea pig serum were shown to be more resistant to lysis. When compared to log phase Leishmania promastigotes, this resistance was at least 4.5-fold greater in parasites harvested in the stationary growth phase EDTA and egta PLUS MgCl2 inhibited the cytotoxic effect of serum, suggesting the participation of the alternative complement pathway. The distribution of FcRs among genera of Trypanosomatidae that arepathogenic, infective or noninfective for mammals and their affinity for mammalian and fowl immunoglobulin were also examined. These receptors ara presented only in species infective or pathogenic for mammals, a finding that suggests that this structure is essential for the establishment of infection but in not necessarily a virulence factor. Further more, the ligand specificity is limited to the immunoglobulin of mammalian but not of fowl origin


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Animals , Complement Pathway, Alternative/physiology , Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments/physiology , Trypanosomatina/immunology , Rosette Formation
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Medicina (B.Aires) ; 47(4): 383-8, 1987. ilus
Article in Spanish | LILACS | ID: lil-48539

ABSTRACT

La interacción de complejos inmunes (CI) con receptores para el fragmento Fc de IgG (RFcgama) expresados en leucocitos pone en marcha mecanismos efectores y regulatorios de suma relevancia en el curso de la respuesta inmune. En trabajos anteriores, empleando la citotoxicidad celular dependiente de anticuerpos (ADCC) como expresión funcional de los RFcy, hemos demostrado que las células monocucleares periféricas humanas (CMPH), previamente bloqueadas en CI, recuperan la capacidad de mediar la ADCC a través de la activación de la vía alternativa del complemento (VAC). El objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar los mecanismos de recuperación funcional de los RFcgama cuando éstos han sido bloqueados por CI no fijadores de complemento (C). A tal fin, la IgG usada para preparar los CI se trató con carbodiimida (CDI), procedimiento que modifica su capacidad para fijar C, sin alterar mayormente su sitio de combinación con el antígeno, ni su habilidad para unirse a los RFcgama. Los resultados obtenidos demostraron que el C sólo es eficiente para revertir el bloqueo de la ADCC por CI, cuando éstos son capaces de fijar C


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Humans , Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity/physiology , Antigen-Antibody Complex/physiology , Complement Activation , Complement System Proteins/physiology , Immunoglobulin Fc Fragments/physiology , CME-Carbodiimide/pharmacology , Complement Pathway, Alternative/drug effects
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