Role of C-reactive protein in complement-mediated hemolysis in Malaria
IR@IICB: CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Biology, Kolkata
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Role of C-reactive protein in complement-mediated hemolysis
in Malaria
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Ansar, Waliza
Mukhopadhyay, Sumi Chowdhury, Suchandra Habib, SK. Hasan Mandal, Chitra |
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Infectious Diseases and Immunology
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HumanC-reactive protein (CRP) is a clinically important
classical acute phase protein. Although CRP has been
reported to bind with many nucleated cells, the direct binding of CRP to erythrocytes in diseases remains largely unexplored. The main focus of the present studywas to investigate the binding of disease-specific CRP to erythrocytes of same patients. Distinct molecular variant of disease-specific CRP was affinity purified from sera of malaria patients (CRPMal). This CRP showed strong binding with malaria erythrocytes (RBCMal) as confirmed by flow cytometric analysis (FACS), enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (ELISA), and radio binding assays. Calcium and phosphoryl choline (PC) were found to be essential for this interaction.A2.3-fold increased binding of induced CRP to RBCMal as compared to normal erythrocytes (RBCN) confirmed disease-specificity. Preincubation of RBCMal with unconjugated CRP showed 3–5 fold inhibition. The association constant of CRP and RBCMal was 4.7 × 106 cpm/μg with the corresponding number of receptors/ cell being 4.3 × 105. The effector function of CRPMal has been demonstrated by its potency to activate the complement
pathway. An optimal dose of 10 μg/ml of CRP induced
three-fold higher hemolysis of patient erythrocytes as compared to RBCN. These studies provide direct evidence for
an important phagocytic functional interaction of this acutephase protein by triggering the CRP-complement pathway
after the binding of CRPMal with RBCMal. Hemolysis as triggered by this pathway may be one of the causative factors of anemia, a common clinical manifestation of this disease
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2006
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Article
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application/pdf
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http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/457/1/GLYCOCONJUGATE_JOURNAL_%2C__23_(_3%2D4)%2C__233%2D240_[89].pdf
Ansar, Waliza and Mukhopadhyay, Sumi and Chowdhury, Suchandra and Habib, SK. Hasan and Mandal, Chitra (2006) Role of C-reactive protein in complement-mediated hemolysis in Malaria. Glycoconj J, 23 (3-4). pp. 233-240. |
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htpp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10719-006-7928-0
http://www.eprints.iicb.res.in/457/ |
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