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Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, Vol 81, 1758-1767, Copyright © 1996 by Endocrine Society
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WB Kim, BY Cho, HY Park, HK Lee, LD Kohn, K Tahara and CS Koh
Department of Internal Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Korea.
To evaluate the extent and clinical relevance of epitope heterogeneity for stimulating TSH receptor antibodies (TSHRAbs), we measured the activity of IgG preparations from 66 untreated patients with Graves' disease using Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells transfected with wild- type human TSHR and two TSHR chimeras with residues 9-165 (Mc1 + 2) or 90-165 (Mc2) substituted by equivalent residues of the LH/CG receptor. IgG from 68% of patients lose all of the stimulating TSHRAb activity with the chimeras; IgG from 27% lose most of the activity. Thus, we show that 95% of patients have stimulating TSHRAbs that require epitopes on the N-terminal portion of the extracellular domain of the TSHR and demonstrate the importance of epitopes within residues 90-165 for the first time. Heterogeneous epitope distribution, residual activity with one or both chimeras, i.e. with epitopes other than on the N-terminus of the TSHR, occurred in 21 patients (group A). Forty- five patients with homogeneous epitope distribution (group B) had stimulating TSHRAbs that depended only on epitopes on the N-terminus of the TSHR. Patients in group A were more likely to become euthyroid during antithyroid drug therapy and to do so more quickly than group B patients. The CHO-human TSHR cell system described herein appears to be as effective as the FRTL-5 rat thyroid system in stimulating TSHRAb detection; however, the two systems appear to measure different antibody populations in about 30% of cases. Further, stimulating TSHRAb activities measured in the FRTL-5 system tend to correlate better with goiter size and 99mTc pertechnetate uptake, whereas stimulating activities measured in the CHO-human TSHR/chimera system correlate better with free T4 and T3 levels.
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