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Article Dans Une Revue Kidney International Année : 1995

Protease resistance and binding of Ig light chains in myeloma-associated tubulopathies

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Kidney tubule dysfunction and lesions are frequent complications of myeloma, related to unknown properties of the monoclonal light chain. We have analyzed protease sensitivity and binding properties of urinary light chains from four patients with Fanconi's syndrome, 12 with cast nephropathy, and four control patients without myeloma-associated tubulopathy. All light chains were normal-sized, monomeric and/or dimeric, and none was N-glycosylated. Kinetic studies of light chain digestion by pepsin and the lysosomal enzyme cathepsin B showed the generation of a protease-resistant 12 kDa fragment, corresponding to the V domain of the kappa chain in the four Fanconi's syndrome patients; in two out of four the V domain was also completely resistant to trypsin. Western and dot blots revealed similar patterns of reactivity of light chains from patients with the Fanconi's syndrome towards other light chains. Properties of cast-nephropathy light chains were more heterogeneous but clearly differed from those of Fanconi's syndrome: (i) 9 out of 12 were of the lambda-type; (ii) only four yielded a transient 12 kDa fragment after cathepsin B digestion, but all showed some resistance to proteolysis of the entire molecule or a fragment thereof to at least one protease, at variance with control light chains; (iii) they displayed various patterns of reactivity with other light chains; (iv) 7 out of 12 reacted specifically with Tamm-Horsfall protein (THP) by ELISA, in contrast with those of Fanconi's syndrome. In one patient who presented with cast nephropathy and the Fanconi's syndrome, the light chain exhibited both partial resistance of the V kappa domain to cathepsin B and the highest reactivity with THP.
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inserm-01876779 , version 1 (18-09-2018)

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Marianne Leboulleux, Brigitte Lelongt, Béatrice Mougenot, Guy Touchard, Raifah Makdassi, et al.. Protease resistance and binding of Ig light chains in myeloma-associated tubulopathies. Kidney International, 1995, 48, pp.72 - 79. ⟨10.1038/ki.1995.269⟩. ⟨inserm-01876779⟩
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