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- Title
Induction in vitro of 72-kD heat shock protein in a continuous culture of rat thyroid cells, FRTL5.
- Authors
Misaki, T.; Takeuchi, R.; Miyamoto, S.; Hirano, A.; Kasagi, K.; Konishi, J.
- Abstract
In Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis, the presence of 72-kD heat shock protein (hsp-72) on thyrocytes has been reported. To clarify the significance of this phenomenon, we induced the antigen in thyroid cell culture in vitro. In the FRTL5 rat cell line, which had been healed al 42.5°C or treated with sodium arsenite, expression of hsp-72 was examined with immunoperoxidase staining and immunoprecipitation of the metabolically labelled protein using a specific MoAb. In the cells cultured either with or without thyrotropin (TSH), heat and chemical stresses reproducibly and dose-dependently induced hsp-72 antigen, whereas unstimulated controls had no significant immunoreactivity. Unlike in Graves" retroocular fibroblasts, hydrogen peroxide was not an effective stress in FRTL5, and the induction was not suppressed by methylmercaptoimmidazole and propylthiouracil, nor enhanced by interferon-gamma (IFN-γ) and tumour necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α). These data could not support the hypotheses that suppression of thyroid autoimmunity by thionamides is due to their modulatory action on hsp-72 expression, or that presence of that antigen in the thyroid tissues affected by autoimmunity is secondary to cytokine secretion from infiltrating immunocytes. On the other hand, co-culture experiments of stressed FRTL5 cells and syngeneic Fisher rat splenocytes suggest that aberrantly expressed hsp may activate part of the thyroid-infiltrating lymphocytes and thereby aggravate autoimmune processes. The induction and detection systems of hsp-72 using F-RTL5 cells would facilitale future studies, possibly utilizing human materials as well, to explore possible relations between stress proteins and thyroid autoimmunity.
- Subjects
HEAT shock proteins; CELL culture; IMMUNITY; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNITY; GLYCOPROTEINS
- Publication
Clinical & Experimental Immunology, 1994, Vol 98, Issue 2, p234
- ISSN
0009-9104
- Publication type
Article