Oligoclonality of serum immunoglobulin G antibody responses to Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharide serotypes 6B, 14, and 23F.
AUTOR(ES)
Lucas, A H
RESUMO
Serum antibodies (Abs) specific for the capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae provide protection against invasive pneumococcal disease. Previous studies indicate that Abs to pneumococcal polysaccharide (PPS) serotypes 1 and 6B have limited clonal diversity. To determine if restricted diversity was a feature common to other PPS specificities, we examined the light (L)-chain expression and isoelectric heterogeneity of type 6B, 14, and 23F Abs elicited in 15 adults following PPS vaccination. At the population level, both PPS-6B and PPS-14 Abs expressed kappa and lambda chains, although 6B Abs more frequently expressed lambda chains lambda and 14 Abs more frequently expressed kappa chains. In individual sera, Abs were generally skewed towards either kappa or lambda expression. 23F-specific Abs had predominantly kappa chains. Isoelectric focusing analyses showed that sera contained one or at most a few immunoglobulin G Ab spectrotypes to all three respective capsular serotypes, a result indicative of oligoclonality. A sequence analysis of a purified PPS-14-specific Ab having a single spectrotype gave uniform amino-terminal sequences for both the heavy chain (V(H)III subgroup) and the L chain (kappaIII-A27 V region). From these results we conclude that within individual adults, serum Ab responses to PPS serotypes 6B, 14, and 23F derive from a small number of dominant B-cell clones, and consequently variable-region expression is probably individually limited as well. Oligoclonality appears to be a general characteristic of human PPS-specific Ab repertoires, and we suggest that this property could lead to individual differences in Ab fine specificity and/or functional activity against encapsulated pneumococci.
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