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- Title
Autoantibody production from a thymoma and a follicular dendritic cell sarcoma associated with paraneoplastic pemphigus.
- Authors
Wang, J.; Bu, D. F.; Li, T.; Zheng, R.; Zhang, B. X.; Chen, X. X.; Zhu, X. J.
- Abstract
Paraneoplastic pemphigus (PNP) is an autoimmune mucocutaneous disease. We previously reported that B cells in a Castleman tumour associated with PNP produced autoantibodies. However, it is uncertain whether the production of autoantibodies from the associated tumour is a common mechanism in PNP. To investigate autoantibody production in a thymoma and a follicular dendritic cell sarcoma that were excised from two patients with PNP. Tumour cells were cultured, and their surface markers were identified. Indirect immunofluorescence, immunoblotting and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using culture media from the tumours were used to detect PNP autoantibodies. B cells with markers (CD22+, surface membrane IgG+ and surface membrane IgM+) of mature B lymphocytes constituted a proportion of cultured tumour cells in both tumours. Western blot showed that the medium from both the thymoma and the follicular dendritic cell sarcoma cells recognized 190-kDa periplakin and 210-kDa envoplakin bands of human epithelial proteins as well as recombinant linker regions of periplakin, envoplakin, desmoplakin and bullous pemphigoid antigen 1. ELISA was positive for antidesmoglein 3 antibody. The presence and localization in tumours of B-lymphocyte clones against proteins of the plakin family and desmoglein 3 in skin may not be confined to PNP with Castleman disease, but is possibly a common mechanism in PNP associated with various tumours.
- Subjects
PEMPHIGUS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; TUMORS; ANTIGENS; DENDRITIC cells; AUTOANTIBODIES; ENZYME-linked immunosorbent assay; LEUCOCYTES
- Publication
British Journal of Dermatology, 2005, Vol 153, Issue 3, p558
- ISSN
0007-0963
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2133.2005.06599.x