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  • Title: Autoantibodies to protein tyrosine phosphatase-like proteins in type I diabetes. Overlapping specificities to phogrin and ICA512/IA-2.
    Author: Kawasaki E, Eisenbarth GS, Wasmeier C, Hutton JC.
    Journal: Diabetes; 1996 Oct; 45(10):1344-9. PubMed ID: 8826969.
    Abstract:
    An insulin granule membrane protein, phogrin (phosphatase homologue of granules from rat insulinoma), with homology to islet cell antigen (ICA) 512/IA-2 has recently been cloned from an insulinoma cDNA expression library with antigranule membrane sera. We have developed a radioimmunoassay for detecting antiphogrin autoantibodies using in vitro transcribed and translated phogrin and have established the sensitivity and specificity of this assay. Thirty-two of 57 (56%) new-onset patients with type I diabetes and 26 of 44 (59%) first-degree relatives followed to diabetes had anti-phogrin antibody levels exceeding the 99th percentile of 108 normal control subjects. Levels of antiphogrin autoantibodies correlated with ICA512/IA-2 autoantibodies (r = 0.82, P < 0.0001), but minimally with insulin autoantibodies (r = 0.20, P = 0.05) and not with GAD65 autoantibodies (r = 0.16, P = 0.12). Ninety-eight percent (57 of 58) of patients positive for anti-phogrin autoantibodies were also positive for autoantibodies against ICA512/IA-2. Nine percent (9 of 101) of new-onset patients and relatives followed to diabetes were ICA512/IA-2 autoantibody-positive but anti-phogrin autoantibody-negative. Preincubation of sera with recombinant ICA512/IA-2 protein completely for the majority and partially for a minority inhibited binding to in vitro translated phogrin. In three relatives in which ICA512/IA-2 autoantibodies converted to positivity with sequential follow-up, anti-phogrin autoantibodies developed at the same time. These results suggest that anti-phogrin and ICA512/IA-2 autoantibodies are related subsets of anti-islet autoantibodies.
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