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Provedor de dados: | 56
País: | Brazil
Título: | Reactivity of anti-thyroid antibodies to thyroglobulin tryptic fragments: comparison of autoimmune and non-autoimmune thyroid diseases
Autores: | Boechat,L.H.B.; Zollner,R.L.
Data: | 1999-04-01
Ano: | 1999
Palavras-chave: | Autoantibodies; Autoimmunity; Thyroglobulin; Trypsin; Thyroiditis; Proteases.
Resumo: | Studies concerning the antigenicity of thyroglobulin fragments allow the characterization of the epitopes but do not consider the role of heavier antigenic fragments that could result in vivo from the action of endoproteases. Here we assess the relative importance of the fragments obtained from thyroglobulin by limited proteolysis with trypsin and compare by immunoblotting their reactivity to serum from patients with autoimmune (Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis) and non-autoimmune (subacute thyroiditis) disease. The results showed no difference in frequency of recognition of any peptide by sera from patients with autoimmune thyroiditis. In contrast, sera from patients with subacute thyroiditis reacted more frequently with a peptide of 80 kDa. These results suggest the presence of antibody subpopulations directed at fragments produced in vivo by enzymatic cleavage of thyroglobulin. This fragment and antibodies to it may represent markers for subacute thyroiditis.
Tipo: | Info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Idioma: | Inglês
Identificador: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1999000400012
Editor: | Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
Relação: | 10.1590/S0100-879X1999000400012
Formato: | text/html
Fonte: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research  v.32 n.4 1999
Fonte: | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess