title: Heterologous humoral immune response in patients treated with human growth hormone from different sources.
abstract: The existence of homologous anti-human growth hormone (anti-hGH) and heterologous anti-bovine growth hormone (anti-bGH) humoral immune responses in hypopituitary patients under hGH therapy has been reported previously. In order to study the influence of the hormone source, both responses were compared by radiobinding assays performed with [125I]hGH or [125I]bGH as tracers. Fifty-seven hypopituitary patients treated with extractive hGH, recombinant methionyl hGH or authentic recombinant hGH were studied. A very low incidence of heterologous antibodies was found in patients under recombinant hGH therapy, contrary to the high incidence observed in patients treated with extractive hGH preparations. In addition, immunochemical studies performed with a synthetic peptide (hGH 44-128) indicated that this peptide exhibited, in the anti-bGH/[125]bGH radioimmunoassay system, higher reactivity than the native hGH, suggesting that such a fragment resembled an altered conformation of the hormone. The high heterologous response elicited only by the extractive hGH along with the behaviour of the hGH 44-128 fragment supports the fact that the extraction and purification procedures in extractive preparations may alter slightly the structure of the hGH molecule and trigger a heterologous immune response.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Estudios de la Inmunidad Humoral (CONICET-UBA), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: A I
authors.initials: AI
authors.lastname: Cardoso
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Llera
authors.forename: R F
authors.initials: RF
authors.lastname: Iacono
authors.forename: H M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Domené
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: J J
authors.initials: JJ
authors.lastname: Heinrich
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Peña
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Poskus
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000818:Animals; D000906:Antibodies / Q000032:analysis; D000917:Antibody Formation; D000918:Antibody Specificity; D002417:Cattle; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D013006:Growth Hormone / Q000031:analogs & derivatives / Q000276:immunology* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D006728:Hormones / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019382:Human Growth Hormone; D006801:Humans; D007018:Hypopituitarism / Q000188:drug therapy; D007120:Immunochemistry / Q000379:methods; D007223:Infant; D008875:Middle Aged; D011994:Recombinant Proteins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D000906:Antibodies; D006728:Hormones; D011994:Recombinant Proteins; D019382:Human Growth Hormone; D013006:Growth Hormone