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Shinsaku Togo1, Toshibumi Shimokawa, Yoshinosuke Fukuchi
1Allergy Research Center, Juntendo University School of Medicine, 2-1-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8421, Japan.
Abstract:
More than 10 splice variants of the Fc receptor for IgA (Fc alpha R, CD89) have been identified in human myeloid cells. In this study, we quantified Fc alpha R splice transcripts Delta EC2 and Delta 66 EC2, which lack the entire and a part of the homologous immunoglobulin-like extracellular domain 2 (EC2), respectively. Tumor necrosis factor-alpha was found to specifically increase the ratio of Delta EC2 to the wild type CD89 in neutrophils and conversely decrease the Delta EC2 ratio in monocytes. We also observed a significant decrease in the neutrophil Delta EC2/CD89 ratio in pneumonia patients. These results suggest that Delta EC2 is differentially regulated and could be involved in immunoregulation of IgA-mediated host defense.
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