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. 1986 Apr;77(4):1299–1304. doi: 10.1172/JCI112434

Human complement protein D catabolism by the rat kidney.

P W Sanders, J E Volanakis, S G Rostand, J H Galla
PMCID: PMC424481  PMID: 3633925

Abstract

Factor D (D) is an essential component of the alternative complement pathway. To determine whether D is catabolized by the kidney and, if so, at what site, we studied the renal handling of human D by in vivo nephron microperfusion and in vitro perfusion of rat kidneys. Human D was purified and labeled with 125I. Individual nephrons were perfused in vivo at varying rates with perfusate that contained 125I-D and [14C]inulin. When nephrons were perfused from proximal sites with perfusate 125I-D in a concentration of 3.0 micrograms/ml, urinary recovery of 125I-D increased (P less than 0.05) from 57.7 +/- 5.0 to 74.4 +/- 2.5% as tubule fluid flow rate was increased from 10 to 40 nl/min; recovery of 125I-D was less than (P less than 0.001) [14C]inulin recovery at all perfusion rates. At 20 nl/min, an increase in perfusate 125I-D concentration from 1.5 to 3.0 micrograms/ml was associated with an increase (P less than 0.001) in urinary 125I-D recovery (42.1 +/- 4.0 vs. 65.8 +/- 2.6%). Similarly, the addition of unlabeled D, 30 micrograms/ml, to 125I-D, 3.0 micrograms/ml, increased urinary 125I-D recovery (95.3 +/- 2.1%) at 20 nl/min. When nephrons were perfused from early distal segments at 10 nl/min, 125I-D recovery (91.2 +/- 4.3%) did not differ from [14C]inulin recovery (95.8 +/- 1.3%). In the isolated perfused filtering kidney, the concentration of intact 125I-D in the perfusate declined 60.3 +/- 14.6% over 1 h. 83.4 +/- 6.3% of the decrement in 125I-D was catabolized by the kidney; the remainder was excreted in the urine as intact D. When glomerular filtration was prevented by increasing perfusate albumin concentration to 16 g/dl, perfusate intact (125I-D) remained unchanged over 1 h. These data show that human D is catabolized by the kidney via glomerular filtration and reabsorption by the proximal nephron. Reabsorption of D appears to be a saturable process.

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