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Vella, A.T. et al.

The presence of an anti-erythrocyte autoantibody in C3HeB/FeJ mice after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection.

Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis (LCM) virus, substrain Docile, causes a chronic infection in adult C3HeB/FeJ mice. The virus also induces a severe anemia which, unlike the viremia, eventually resolves. Initially, there is frank bone marrow deficit, but the anemia persists well beyond a strong erythroid compensatory response. An immune-mediated basis for the hemolytic anemia was suggested by its abrogation in cyclophosphamide-treated mice, as well as an abnormal number of spherocytes in the circulation. We now show by ELISA assay, using either anti-mouse Ig or RBC membrane ghosts as catching antigen, that unusually high quantities of antibodies can be eluted from the RBCs of virus-infected mice. Furthermore, the high transient antibody concentration correlates with the severity of the anemia. With no evidence for complement playing a role in the anemia, these data indicate that erythrophagocytosis (via macrophage FcRs) may be the mechanism for RBC elimination. The possibility of molecular mimicry (antibody cross-reactivity between LCM and RBC membrane epitopes) was considered but appeared unlikely since the RBC antibody eluates gave no signal in an LCM-specific ELISA (which showed an ever increasing serum titer of virus-specific antibody). Isotype determination of the RBC eluates revealed the following: IgG2a much greater than IgG1 greater than IgG2b greater than IgG3 greater than IgM. The precise role, if any, of LCM-virus induced polyclonal activation (most strikingly in the IgG2a subclass) has yet to be determined.[1]

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The presence of an anti-erythrocyte autoantibody in C3HeB/FeJ mice after lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus infection. Vella, A.T., Pfau, C.J. Autoimmunity (1991) [Pubmed]

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