Serum Antibody Responses to Helicobacter pylori and the cagA Marker in Patients with Mucosa-Associated Lymphoid Tissue Lymphoma
AUTOR(ES)
Taupin, Anne
FONTE
American Society for Microbiology
RESUMO
The lymphoma of the mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue (MALT) of the stomach has been linked to Helicobacter pylori infection, but the mechanisms involved in B-cell proliferation remain elusive. In a search for putative H. pylori-specific monoclonal immunoglobulin production, an H. pylori strain was isolated from 10 patients with MALT lymphoma and used to detect the specific serum antibody response to the homologous strain by immunoblotting. Moreover, the antigenicity of the different strains was compared by using each of the 10 sera. We found that the different strains induced highly variable patterns of systemic immunoglobulin G antibody response, although several bacterial antigens, such as the 60-kDa urease B, were often recognized by the different sera. The cagA marker was detected in the strains by PCR with specific primers and by dot blot analysis, and the CagA protein was found in the sera of 4 of the 10 patients by immunoblotting. In conclusion, MALT lymphoma patients, like other patients with H. pylori gastritis, exhibit a polymorphic systemic antibody response, despite an apparently similar antigenic profile. The CagA marker of pathogenicity is not associated with this disease.
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