The Carboxyl-Terminal Domain of Type VII Collagen is Present at the Basement Membrane in Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa
| Autor: | Robert A. Briggaman, Jo-David Fine, Kirt W. Rusenko, W. Ray Gammon |
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| Rok vydání: | 1989 |
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Immunoelectron microscopy
Fluorescent Antibody Technique Genes Recessive Dermatology Junctional epidermolysis bullosa (medicine) Biochemistry Basement Membrane law.invention Epidermolysis bullosa simplex law Anchoring fibrils medicine Humans Molecular Biology Basement membrane Chemistry Antibodies Monoclonal Cell Biology medicine.disease Molecular biology Microscopy Electron Collagen type I alpha 1 medicine.anatomical_structure Immunology Lamina densa Collagen Electron microscope Epidermolysis Bullosa |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Investigative Dermatology. 92(4):623-627 |
| ISSN: | 0022-202X |
| DOI: | 10.1111/1523-1747.ep12712167 |
| Popis: | Recent studies showing that type VII collagen is a component of anchoring fibrils suggests that the absence of anchoring fibrils in recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa may be due to a defect in the synthesis, secretion, and deposition of type VII collagen. That hypothesis is further supported by recent studies suggesting that monoclonal antibodies to type VII collagen do not react with the basement membrane in most patients. To investigate further, we examined skin from 12 patients by electron microscopy and by immunohistology and immunoelectron microscopy using a concentrated and purified monoclonal antibody to the carboxy-terminal domain of Type VII collagen. Although anchoring fibrils were not detected by electron microscopy, the results of immunohistology showed definite, but reduced, binding of the monoclonal antibody to type VII collagen at the basement membrane in a linear pattern in 11 of 12 patients. By immunoelectron microscopy, reduced deposition of anti-type VII collagen antibody was detected beneath the lamina densa. The results of this study show that the carboxyl-terminal domain of type VII collagen is synthesized, secreted, and deposited at the basement membrane zone in 11 of 12 patients with recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa and suggest that the absence of anchoring fibrils may be due either to deposition of abnormal type VII collagen, reduced levels of normal type VII collagen, defective assembly of type VII collagen into anchoring fibrils, or destruction of the collagenous domain of type VII collagen. |
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