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(Circulation Research. 2001;88:430.)
© 2001 American Heart Association, Inc.

Molecular Medicine

Antigraft Antibody-Mediated Expression of Metalloproteinases on Endothelial Cells

Differential Expression of TIMP-1 and ADAM-10 Depends on Antibody Specificity and Isotype

Gwénola Boulday, Stéphanie Coupel, Flora Coulon, Jean-Paul Soulillou, Béatrice Charreau

From INSERM U437 "Immunointervention en allo et xénotransplantation " and Institut de Transplantation et de Recherche en Transplantation, C.H.U., Nantes cedex, France.

Correspondence to Pr. Jean-Paul Soulillou, MD, PhD, INSERM U437, 30 bd J. Monnet, 44093 Nantes cedex 01, France. E-mail jps{at}nantes.inserm.fr

Abstract—Endothelial cell (EC) interaction with antigraft antibodies (Abs) mediates EC injury and activation involved in vascular graft rejection. The aim of this study was to identify EC genes regulated in response to antigraft Ab binding that contribute to the endothelium alterations implicated in graft rejection or survival. By means of RNA differential display, 13 cDNA fragments corresponding to genes differentially expressed in ECs incubated with antigraft Abs were identified. Among these cDNAs were found the tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase-1 (TIMP-1) and a desintegrin and metalloproteinase (ADAM-10). We demonstrated that TIMP-1 and ADAM-10 mRNA and protein expression was rapidly upregulated in ECs in response to antigraft Ab binding. Our data showed that TIMP-1 was upregulated in response to human IgG but not IgM and anti-galactosyl (Gal) 1-3Gal human xenogeneic Abs. In contrast, upregulation of ADAM-10 in ECs was shown to be mostly mediated by anti–Gal1-3Gal IgM Abs. Specific effects of human IgG and IgM xenogeneic Abs on endothelial transcripts indicate that different isotypes and specificities of Abs may mediate different EC changes. Our results suggest that interaction of ECs with antigraft Abs, according to their specificity, selectively induces synthesis and release of metalloproteinases and inhibitors, controlling proteolytic processes and immunological events that respectively contribute to graft rejection or survival.

Key Words: gene expression • endothelial cells • metalloproteinases • mRNA • transplantation

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