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. 1985 Oct;121(1):112–122.

Comparison of antigenic targets involved in antibody-mediated membranous glomerulonephritis in the mouse and rat.

K J Assmann, P Ronco, M M Tangelder, W P Lange, P Verroust, R A Koene
PMCID: PMC1888022  PMID: 2413764

Abstract

Membranous glomerulonephritis in the mouse can be induced by a single injection of an antiserum against homologous, pronase-digested, renal tubular antigens (TAPron). In indirect immunofluorescence studies on normal mouse and rat kidneys it has now been found that the antiserum reacts strongly with the visceral epithelia of the mouse in a homogeneous pattern, while a faint granular staining is seen in the rat glomerulus against a homogeneous background. After injection in rats, a classic passive Heymann nephritis could be induced. By immunoprecipitation of radiolabeled rat renal brush borders (BB) it could be shown that anti-TAPron antisera contain antibodies to 330-kd and 90-kd BB proteins expressed by rat glomeruli. With the use of two monoclonal antibodies specific for the 330- and 90-kd proteins the homogeneous binding observed in rat and mouse glomeruli could be related to the 90-kd antigen, whereas the coarse irregular staining observed in rat glomeruli was only related to the 330-kd antigen. Immunoglobulins eluted from glomeruli of rats bound to rat glomeruli and reacted only with the 330-kd protein. They did not bind to mouse glomeruli. Discrete localization in coated pits, multivesicular bodies, and endoplasmic reticulum of the visceral epithelia was seen in immunoelectron-microscopy. The results presented thus demonstrate that immune deposits induced in the rat by anti-TAPron antibodies are related to antibodies specific for the 330-kd antigen, ie, the classic Heymann antigen. By contrast, immune deposits observed in the mouse are related to antibodies specific for a 90-kd protein.

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