Atherogenic autoantigen: oxidized LDL complexes with beta2-glycoprotein I |
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Authors: | Matsuura Eiji Kobayashia Kazuko Koikeb Takao Shoenfeld Yehuda Khamashta Munther A Hughes Graham R V |
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Institution: | Department of Cell Chemistry, Okayama University Graduate School of Medicine and Dentistry, Okayama, Japan. eijimatu@md.okayama-u.ac.jp |
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Abstract: | Beta2-Glycoprotein I (beta2-GPI) is a major antigen for antiphospholipid antibodies present in patients with antiphospholipid syndrome (APS). In 1997, we demonstrated that beta2-GPI specifically binds to Cu2+-oxidized low-density lipoprotein (oxLDL) and that the beta2-GPI-oxLDL complex is subsequently targeted by anti-beta2-GPI antibodies in vitro. Then ligands for beta2-GPI were purified from oxLDL and characterized as omega-carboxylated 7-ketocholesteryl esters, such as 7-ketocholesteryl-9-carboxynonanoate (oxLig-1) and 7-ketocholesteryl-12-carboxy (keto) dodecanoate (oxLig-2). These ligands mediate to form oxLDL-beta2-GPI complexes, and the complexes are taken up avidly by macrophages via anti-beta2-GPI autoantibody-mediated phagocytosis. We recently demonstrated that appearance of autoantibodies against a complex of beta2-GPI and oxLig-1 are highly associated with a history of arterial thrombosis. Serum oxLDL-beta2-GPI complex and their IgG immune complexes are also risk factors arterial thrombosis in APS patients. There is increasing circumstantial evidence of autoimmune mechanism involving beta2-GPI and oxLDL in the atherogenesis in APS. |
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