Abstract
Epithelial cells of the glomerular capillary are the site of C5b-9 mediated injury in rat membranous nephropathy. We investigated the regulation of C activation by cultured glomerular epithelial cells (GEC). Rat and human GEC were more resistant to C injury by homologous C than heterologous C. In human GEC homologous C cytotoxicity was enhanced by antiserum to decay accelerating factor (DAF) indicating that homologous C activation was, at least in part, restricted by membrane DAF. Anti-DAF immunoprecipitated a 67-kDa protein from human glomeruli. In rat GEC, pronase and phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C (which are known to inactivate human DAF) enhanced cytotoxicity by homologous C. Thus, DAF is present on human GEC in culture and in human kidney glomeruli, and a DAF-like protein is present on cultured rat GEC. These proteins regulate C activation in vitro and may play a role in controlling C activation on GEC in vivo.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 877-882 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Journal of Immunology |
| Volume | 142 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| State | Published - 1989 |
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