RGD Reference Report - Aquaporin-4 water channel expression by thymoma of patients with and without myasthenia gravis. - Rat Genome Database

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Aquaporin-4 water channel expression by thymoma of patients with and without myasthenia gravis.

Authors: Chan, KH  Kwan, JS  Ho, PW  Ho, SL  Chui, WH  Chu, AC  Ho, JW  Zhang, WY  Kung, MH 
Citation: Chan KH, etal., J Neuroimmunol. 2010 Oct 8;227(1-2):178-84. Epub 2010 Aug 21.
RGD ID: 5148025
Pubmed: PMID:20728226   (View Abstract at PubMed)
DOI: DOI:10.1016/j.jneuroim.2010.07.016   (Journal Full-text)

BACKGROUND: Neuromyelitis optica (NMO) is a serious idiopathic inflammatory demyelinating disorder characterized by acute transverse myelitis and optic neuritis. A significant proportion of NMO patients are seropositive for NMO-IgG, an autoantibody targeting aquaporin-4 (AQP4) water channel. Paraneoplastic NMO associated various tumors were recently reported. AIM: We studied the expression of AQP4 by thymoma from patients with and without myasthenia gravis (MG). METHODS: Thymoma obtained from thymomectomy in patients with and without MG were studied by immunohistochemistry and western blot. RESULTS: Ten thymoma patients (9 with MG) and two control patients without thymoma or MG were studied. Immunohistochemistry revealed AQP4 immunoreactivity in cell membrane of thymoma cells from all ten thymoma specimens whereas thymic tissues from patients without thymoma or MG were negative for AQP4 immunoreactivity. Western blot revealed that lysates of nine of the ten thymoma specimens reacted with anti-human AQP4 antibody with a band of ~30 kDa compatible with the molecular weight of AQP4. Interestingly, immunofluorescence revealed that IgG isolated from 2 NMO patients seropositive for NMO-IgG bound to cell membrane of thymoma cells from all ten thymoma specimens while IgG from healthy control subject did not. CONCLUSION: Thymoma cells of patients with and without MG express AQP4. AQP4 autoantibodies from serum of NMO patients bound to AQP4 expressed on thymoma cell membrane.

RGD Manual Disease Annotations    Click to see Annotation Detail View
TermQualifierEvidenceWithReferenceNotesSourceOriginal Reference(s)
thymoma  IEP 5148025associated with Myasthenia GravisRGD 
thymoma  ISOAQP4 (Homo sapiens)5148025; 5148025associated with Myasthenia GravisRGD 

Objects Annotated

Genes (Rattus norvegicus)
Aqp4  (aquaporin 4)

Genes (Mus musculus)
Aqp4  (aquaporin 4)

Genes (Homo sapiens)
AQP4  (aquaporin 4)


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