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Development of an ELISA for esRAGE and its application to type 1 diabetic patients
Shigeru Sakurai1, Yasuhiko Yamamoto, Hironori Tamei
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Vascular Biology, Kanazawa University Graduate School of Medical Science, Kanazawa 920-8640, Japan.
Abstract:
We recently identified a naturally occurring soluble form of RAGE (the receptor for advanced glycation endproducts, receptor for AGE) in cultured human vascular cells, and named it endogenous secretory RAGE (esRAGE). esRAGE is generated by alternative RNA splicing and is able to capture AGE, and exerts protection against AGE-induced endothelial cell injury. In the present study, the presence of esRAGE in human circulation was demonstrated for the first time, and a highly sensitive and specific sandwich ELISA system for esRAGE was developed to see whether esRAGE could be related to an individual resistance to the development of diabetic vascular complications. Sera from 47 type 1 diabetic subjects without clinical nephropathy (urinary albumin excretion <300mg/g creatinine) and 55 healthy controls were analyzed by the ELISA. Circulating esRAGE concentrations in diabetic patients with simple and proliferative retinopathy (0.09+/-0.02ng/mL, n=16 and 0.08+/-0.02ng/mL, n=8, respectively) were significantly lower than in those without retinopathy (0.13+/-0.06ng/mL, n=23). The results indicate that esRAGE can be a useful biomarker to indicate individual variations in susceptibility to diabetic retinopathy.
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