Xu, Jingwu and Ahmad, Ali and D’Addario, Mario and Knafo, Laurent and Jones, James F. and Prasad, Umapati and Dolcetti, R. and Vaccher, E. and Menezes, José (2000) Analysis and Significance of Anti-Latent Membrane Protein-1 Antibodies in the Sera of Patients with EBV-Associated Diseases. The Journal of Immunology, 164 (5). pp. 2815-2822. ISSN 0022-1767, DOI https://doi.org/10.4049/jimmunol.164.5.2815.
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Anti-latent membrane protein-1 (LMP-1) is an EBV-encoded type III integral membrane protein with oncogenic potential that is expressed most consistently in various EBV-associated malignancies. Unlike many other EBV proteins, LMP-1 Abs have rarely been demonstrated in EBV-associated disease conditions. We established a high level LMP-1-expressing cell clone and used it for the detection, quantitation, and characterization of these Abs in various human sera in immunoblots and ELISA. Our results demonstrate that, in contrast to the commonly held notion, LMP-1 induces significant humoral immune responses in EBV-associated malignant conditions especially in nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients in whom >70% sera are positive for these Abs, and their titers correlate with the clinical condition of the tumors. Interestingly, anti-LMP-1 Abs of IgA isotype were found only in NPC patients. These Abs were absent from the sera of infectious mononucleosis and chronic EBV infection patients, whereas a small fraction (~5%) of the healthy, EBV-seropositive individuals were positive for them; however, their OD values were much lower than those of NPC patients. These studies demonstrate, for the first time, the potential significance of LMP-1-specific Abs for the diagnosis and prognosis of EBV-associated malignancies, especially of NPC.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Funders: | UNSPECIFIED |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Human Herpesvirus 4; Nasopharynx Carcinoma; Membrane Proteins |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Medicine |
| Depositing User: | Ms. Juhaida Abd Rahim |
| Date Deposited: | 12 Apr 2021 01:56 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Apr 2021 01:56 |
| URI: | http://eprints.um.edu.my/id/eprint/25855 |
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