Diabetes, Vol 43, Issue 3 418-425, Copyright © 1994 by American Diabetes Association

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Potential autoantigens in IDDM. Expression of carboxypeptidase-H and insulin but not glutamate decarboxylase on the beta-cell surface

M Aguilar-Diosdado, D Parkinson, JA Corbett, G Kwon, CA Marshall, RL Gingerich, JV Santiago and ML McDaniel
Department of Pediatrics, Washington University School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri 63110.

Insulin, carboxypeptidase-H (CP-H), and glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) have been identified as potential autoantigens in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM). Previous studies have described immunoreactive insulin as a surface molecule on the plasma membrane of rat islet cells and suggested that cell-surface insulin was derived during exocytosis by the fusion of insulin secretory granules with the beta-cell plasma membrane. These findings predict that insulin and other secretory granule-derived proteins such as the putative autoantigen CP-H may be colocalized with insulin at specific sites of exocytosis on the beta-cell surface. In studies to test this hypothesis, cell-surface staining of dispersed rat islet cells occurred in a granule-like pattern with antibodies for CP-H and insulin. The specificity of the CP-H antiserum was confirmed by immunoblotting and indicated that the antiserum was essentially monospecific for CP-H. Confocal laser microscopy confirmed that immunoreactive staining for CP-H and insulin was confined to the beta-cell surface. Colocalization of CP-H and insulin on the cell surface of beta-cells was demonstrated by double staining with antibodies to CP-H and insulin, and the percentage of beta-cells positive for both of these autoantigens increased twofold with increases in insulin secretion. In contrast, islet cells failed to reveal cell-surface staining for GAD65, another putative autoantigen in IDDM, under either basal or insulin stimulatory conditions or following exposure of islet cells to the cytokines interleukin-1 beta, tumor necrosis factor-alpha, and recombinant human interferon-gamma.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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