α2-Macroglobulin does not function as a C3 homologue in the plasma hemolytic system of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus

溶血 巨球蛋白 甲胺 马蹄蟹 补体系统 生物化学 生物 化学 微生物学 免疫学 抗体 古生物学
作者
Peter B. Armstrong,Ralph Melchior,Snehasikta Swarnakar,James P. Quigley
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期刊:Molecular Immunology [Elsevier BV]
卷期号:35 (1): 47-53 被引量:26
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DOI:10.1016/s0161-5890(98)80016-3
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A major problem of comparative immunology is the characterization of the internal defense systems that lyse foreign cells, such as bacteria and other microbial pathogens that have gained entry into the body. The plasma cytolytic system of the American horseshoe crab, Limulus polyphemus, is sensitive to treatment with methylamine, which inactivates the abundant plasma defense protein α2-macroglobulin. This has been interpreted to mean that α2-macroglobulin plays an important role in hemolysis, analogous to the role of complement component C3 of the mammalian complement system (Enghild et al., 1990). Sensitivity to methylamine has been suggested to reflect an evolutionary homology with the plasma cytolytic system of mammals, in which the complement system is inactivated by the reaction of methylamine with complement components C3 and C4, C3, C4 and α2-macroglobulin contain an internal thiol ester bond linking cysteinyl and glutamic acid residues and methylamine inactivates all three proteins by reaction with the thiol-esterified glutamic acid. However, we have recently shown that the principal effector of hemolysis in Limulus is the plasma lectin, limulin (Armstrong et al., 1996). In this article we show that native, unreacted α2-macroglobulin is not involved directly in hemolysis but instead that methylamine-reacted α2-macroglobulin inhibits the hemolytic activity of limulin. Thus the thiol ester proteins α2-macroglobulin and C3 operate very differently in the hemolytic systems of Limulus and mammals and are not functionally homologous. Limulus α2-macroglobulin functions indirectly in hemolysis: its inactivation yields an inhibitory molecule for limulin-mediated hemolysis.
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