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Igm in a Human Neuropathy Related to Paraproteinemia Binds to A Proc. Nati. Acad. Sci. USA Vol. 81, pp. 1225-1229, February 1984 Medical Sciences IgM in a human neuropathy related to paraproteinemia binds to a carbohydrate determinant in the myelin-associated glycoprotein and to a ganglioside (monoclonal antibody/myelin proteins/plasma cell dyscrasia/demyelination) AMJAD A. ILYAS, RICHARD H. QUARLES*, TRACY D. MACINTOSH, MICHAEL J. DOBERSEN, BRUCE D. TRAPP, MARINOS C. DALAKAS, AND ROSCOE 0. BRADY National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20205 Contributed by Roscoe 0. Brady, October 20, 1983 ABSTRACT The IgM in three patients with paraprotein- Preparative and Analytical Procedures with MAG. Human emia and peripheral neuropathy was shown to bind to human and rat MAG were selectively extracted from the purified myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) that had been purified myelin by the lithium diiodosalicylate/phenol procedure (17) to homogeneity by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B. The and further purified by gel filtration on Sepharose CL-6B as antigenic determinant reacting with the IgM from all three pa- described (15). Deglycosylation of partially purified MAG tients was in the carbohydrate part of the MAG molecule. In obtained by the lithium diiodosalicylate/phenol procedure addition, the IgM from the same three patients bound to a was carried out with trifluoromethanesulfonic acid (18). The single ganglioside of human sciatic nerve. The results indicate polyclonal rabbit antisera to MAG were prepared and char- that the IgM paraproteins in these patients react with a carbo- acterized as described (19). The IgG monoclonal antibody hydrate determinant that is shared between MAG and a pe- (7E10) was prepared from mice immunized with rat MAG ripheral nerve ganglioside. (20), and the mouse IgM monoclonal antibody to human MAG was prepared by a similar procedure. Electrophoresis Some patients producing large amounts of monoclonal IgM was on NaDodSO4 10% (wt/vol) polyacrylamide gels (21) due to plasma cell dyscrasia have a demyelinating peripheral that were stained for protein with Coomassie blue or for car- neuropathy (1). There is evidence to suggest that the neurop- bohydrate with periodic acid/Schiff reagents (22). For im- athies are caused by binding of the IgM paraproteins to pe- munostaining, proteins were transferred to nitrocellulose ripheral nerve antigens (2-9), although this has not been es- sheets essentially by the procedure of Towbin et al. (23). tablished. Experiments in several laboratories have provided Immune staining was with appropriate peroxidase-labeled evidence that the monoclonal IgM in some of these patients second antibodies and 3,3'-diaminobenzidine as substrate. binds to the myelin-associated glycoprotein (MAG) (10-14). Immune staining with the patients' sera was achieved with In this paper, it is demonstrated that the monoclonal IgM peroxidase-labeled goat anti-human IgM, ,A-chain specific, antibodies in three neuropathy patients of this type bind to obtained from Cappel Laboratories (Cochcranville, PA). human MAG purified to homogeneity by the procedure rou- Concanavalip A binding to MAG that had been transferred tinely used in our laboratory for chemical studies on this gly- to nitrocellulose strips was demonstrated with horseradish coprotein (15). It is further shown that the antibodies are di- peroxidase according to the principle utilized by Wood and rected against determinants in the carbohydrate part of the McLaughlin (24) with blocking and washing procedures simi- MAG molecule. Experiments are also described, however, lar to those of Glass et al. (25). Column-purified MAG was which indicate that the IgM antibodies produced by the same radioiodinated with Bolton-Hunter reagent and immune pre- patients bind to a ganglioside of human sciatic nerve. The cipitated with rabbit anti-MAG antiserum followed by goat results indicate that there are at least two molecules in pe- anti-rabbit IgG as described (26). Double-antibody precipita- ripheral nerve containing the carbohydrate antigen that re- tion of 1251-labeled MAG with the sera from human patients acts with the paraproteins produced by these patients. If the or controls was done by an exactly analogous procedure, ex- monoclonal IgM causes the neuropathy in these patients, cept that the incubation included 25 ,tg of human IgM (Cap- both MAG and the ganglioside are candidates to be involved pel) as carrier and the second antibody was rabbit anti-hu- in the dysimmune phenomena. Some of the results reported man IgM (,u-chain specific) made by Dako and obtained from here have been described in abstract form (13, 16). Accurate Chemicals (Westbury, NY). Preparative and Analytical Procedures with Gangliosides. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ganglioside fractions were isolated from human sciatic Patients. After informed consent was obtained, four pa- nerve and brain by DEAE-Sephadex chromatography, alkali tients with IgM paraproteinemia and peripheral neuropathy treatment, and Unisil chromatography as described by Le- were studied at the National Institute of Neurological and deen et al. (27). GM1 and GDia standards were purchased Communicative Disorders and Stroke. The patients were from Supelco (Bellefonte, PA). The amount of ganglioside- studied clinically, electromyographically, and by examina- sialic acid was measured by the thiobarbituric acid proce- tion of sural nerve biopsies as described (6). Fractionation dure (28). and identification of serum monoclonal proteins was per- Binding of human IgM to the ganglioside fraction was de- formed by high-resolution agarose gel electrophoresis com- termined by an ELISA procedure in the following manner. bined with immunofixation using specific antisera against Gangliosides in 20 ,ul of methanol were added to wells in human immunoglobulin heavy chains and K and X light Linbro enzyme immunoassay microtitration plates (Flow chains. Laboratories) and the solution was dried by evaporation. The wells were then filled with phosphate-buffered saline at The publication costs of this article were defrayed in part by page charge payment. This article must therefore be hereby marked "advertisement" Abbreviation: MAG, myelin-associated glycoprotein. in accordance with 18 U.S.C. §1734 solely to indicate this fact. *To whom reprint requests should be addressed. 1225 Downloaded by guest on September 25, 2021 1226 Medical Sciences: Ilyas et al. Proc. Natl. Acad Sci. USA 81 (1984) pH 7.2 (Pi/NaCI) containing 1% bovine serum albumin. Af- ter 2 hr, the wells were emptied and 100 p.l of the subject's serum diluted in Pi/NaCl containing 1% bovine serum albu- min was added. After 5 hr, the wells were washed with P1/NaCl, and 100 p.l of peroxidase-conjugated goat anti-hu- man IgM (Cappel) diluted 1:500 in Pi/NaCI containing 1% bovine serum albumin was added. After an overnight incuba- tion and washing, 200 tL1 of substrate solution containing 0.1% o-phenylenediamine in 0.1 M citrate buffer (pH 4.5) and 0.012% H202 was added to each well. After 30 min in the dark, the absorbance at 492 nm of each well was read on an MR 580 MicroELISA Auto Reader (Dynatech, Alexandria, VA). TLC of gangliosides was on aluminum-backed TLC plates (Silica gel 60; Merck, Darmstadt, FRG) obtained from Brink- mann. The plates were developed in chloroform/meth- anol/0.2% KCI, 50:40:10 (vol/vol), and the gangliosides 1 2 1 2 1 2 were detected by resorcinol spray (29). Demonstration of A B C antibody binding to individual gangliosides was done by autoradiography after overlaying the TLC plate with the pa- FIG. 1. Immunoblots showing binding of IgM to purified human MAG. Electroblots of with rat MAG serum diluted 1:500 followed radioiodinated (A-C) NaDodSO4 gels purified tient's by goat in lane 1 and purified human MAG in lane 2. (A) Ten micrograms of was of anti-human IgM. The procedure essentially that Mag- purified MAG in each lane; stained for protein with amido black. (B) nani et al. (30), except that the solvent system indicated Five-hundred nanograms of purified MAG in each lane; immune above was used and goat anti-human IgM obtained from stained with a 1:50 dilution of serum from patient A followed by Cappel was radioiodinated with Bolton-Hunter reagent in- peroxidase-labeled goat anti-human IgM. (C) Loaded the same as B stead of using radioiodinated F(ab')2 of rabbit anti-mouse but stained with the mouse IgM monoclonal antibody produced to IgG. human MAG followed by peroxidase-labeled goat anti-mouse IgG and IgM. RESULTS Patients with IgM Paraproteinemia and Peripheral Neurop- IgM cannot be a minor component contaminating the puri- fied MAG. athy. The sera from four patients with polyneuropathy, des- To determine if the site ignated A, B, C, and D, were used in these studies, and an Effect of Deglycosylation. antigenic in MAG was in the or of the IgM K monoclonal protein was identified in each. No patient polypeptide carbohydrate part isolated MAG was treated with trifluoromethane- had malignancy, multiple myeloma, amyloid, or other asso- molecule, This has been demonstrated to re- ciated medical illnesses. Electrophysiological studies on the sulfonic acid. procedure from four patients revealed predominantly demyelinating neurop- move all of the carbohydrate serum-type glycoproteins for the internal residues athies, and sural nerve biopsies showed demyelination with except N-acetylglucosamine by which the are attached to the some axonal damage. Three of the patients, A (a 52-year-old oligosaccharides polypeptide male), B (a 56-year-old female), and C (a 58-year-old fe- chains (18). The results of various chemical and immune male), had mixed motor-sensory polyneuropathies of 6-8 staining procedures on electroblots of intact and deglycosy- human MAG are shown in 2. of years' duration. Patient D (a 59-year-old male) had a severe lated Fig. Deglycosylation its Mr from large-fiber sensory polyneuropathy of 22 years' duration MAG decreased apparent approximately 100,000 to about as was without clinically evident motor weakness.
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