Interaction of nucleophilic compounds with complement component C4 |
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Authors: | E. Sim M. Wood K. E. Parker A. Jones |
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Affiliation: | Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QT, England |
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Abstract: | Drugs which induce systemic lupus erythematosus as a toxic side effect have been shown to inhibit the covalent binding of C4, which is an important event in immune complex clearance in normal individuals. Human C4 is encoded at two polymorphic loci, C4A and C4B within the Major Histocompatibility Complex and patients with idiopathic SLE are more likely to have a non-functional (null) C4A gene. The C4A and C4B gene products differ in reactivity with C4A being more reactive with nitrogen nucleophiles, including hydralazine and isoniazid (drugs which induce SLE), than with oxygen nucleophiles. We have established an assay system which allows the effect of nucleophiles on C4 in animal sera to be investigated. It has been found that in comparing reactivity of guinea-pig C4 with human C4A and human C4B that guinea-pig C4 is like human C4A and shows greater reactivity towards nitrogen nucleophiles than towards oxygen nucleophiles. This suggests that the guinea-pig should be a good animal model for drug-induced SLE. |
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Keywords: | Complement component C4 drugs systemic lupus erythematosus nucleophilesAuthor Keywords: Complement C4 médicaments lupus erythemateux disseminé nucléophiles |
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