Heart tissue destruction in chronic Chagas' disease cardiomyopathy (CCC) may be caused by autoimmune recognition of heart tissue by a mononuclear cell infiltrate decades after Trypanosoma cruzi infection. Indirect evidence suggests there is molecular mimicry between T. cruzi and heart tissue. In murine models of CCC, antibodies and CD4+ T cells recognize myosin, the major heart protein. We recently identified a heart-specific epitope of cardiac myosin heavy chain (residues 1442-1447, AAALDK) that is crossreactive with a homologous sequence (AAAGDK) of the immunodominant T. cruzi antigen B13. Furthermore, cardiac myosin-B13 crossreactive antibodies are present in 100% CCC patients vs 14% asymptomatic T. cruzi-seropositive individuals (P = 2.3 x 10(-6)), suggesting a role for molecular mimicry between cardiac myosin and B13 in CCC pathogenesis. In this paper, we obtained heart-infiltrating T cell clones from CCC patients to assess whether molecular mimicry between cardiac myosin and B13 is directly involved in the genesis of heart lesions. We identified T cell clones derived from CCC heart lesions simultaneously responsive to cardiac myosin heavy chain (but not skeletal myosin heavy chain) and B13 T. cruzi protein, but could not find T cell clones primarily reactive to any T. cruzi antigen. Together with the association of myosin-B13 crossreactive antibodies with CCC, the present data strongly suggest the relevance of molecular mimicry between cardiac myosin and the T. cruzi protein B13 in the pathogenesis of heart lesions in chronic Chagas' disease cardiomyopathy.
E Cunha-Neto, V Coelho, L Guilherme, A Fiorelli, N Stolf, J Kalil
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American Trypanosomiasis | 2003 |
Myosin Autoimmunity Is Not Essential for Cardiac Inflammation in Acute Chagas’ Disease
JS Leon, K Wang, DM Engman |
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) | 2003 |
Experimental Chronic Chagas' Disease Myocarditis is an Autoimmune Disease Preventable by Induction of Immunological Tolerance to Myocardial Antigens
L Pontes-De-Carvalho, CC Santana, MB Soares, GG Oliveira, E Cunha-Neto, R Ribeiro-Dos-Santos |
Journal of Autoimmunity | 2002 |
Pathogenesis of Chagas heart disease: role of autoimmunity
DM Engman, JS Leon |
Acta Tropica | 2002 |
Effect of Trypanosoma cruzi released antigens binding to non-infected cells on anti-parasite antibody recognition and expression of extracellular matrix components
RT Pinho, MA Vannier-Santos, CR Alves, AP Marino, LR Branco, J Lannes-Vieira |
Acta Tropica | 2002 |
Antigenicity of Leishmania braziliensis Histone H1 during Cutaneous Leishmaniasis: Localization of Antigenic Determinants
E Carmelo, E Martínez, AC González, JE Piñero, ME Patarroyo, A del Castillo, B Valladares |
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI | 2002 |
Differential ability to produce IFN-gamma upon Trypanosoma cruzi infection may influence progression to chronic Chagas’ disease cardiomyopathy
Lúcia C.J. Abel, Luiz Vicente Rizzo, Bárbara Ianni, Fabiana Albuquerque, Fernando Bacal, Dirceu Carrara, Edimar A. Bocchi, Henrique C. Teixeira, Charles Mady, Jorge Kalil, Edecio Cunha-Neto |
Journal of Autoimmunity | 2001 |
Cardiac myosin autoimmunity in acute Chagas' heart disease
JS Leon, LM Godsel, K Wang, DM Engman |
Infection and immunity | 2001 |
Anti-galectin-1 autoantibodies in human Trypanosoma cruzi infection: differential expression of this beta-galactoside-binding protein in cardiac Chagas' disease
L Giordanengo, S Gea, G Barbieri, GA Rabinovich |
Clinical & Experimental Immunology | 2001 |
Modulation of chagasic cardiomyopathy by interleukin-4: dissociation between inflammation and tissue parasitism
MB Soares, KN Silva-Mota, RS Lima, MC Bellintani, L Pontes-de-Carvalho, R Ribeiro-dos-Santos |
The American Journal of Pathology | 2001 |
Molecular mimicry and autoimmune liver disease: virtuous intentions, malign consequences
DP Bogdanos, K Choudhuri, D Vergani |
Liver International | 2001 |
Autoimmunity in Chagas heart disease
JS Leon, DM Engman |
International Journal for Parasitology | 2001 |
A heart-specific CD4+ T-cell line obtained from a chronic chagasic mouse induces carditis in heart-immunized mice and rejection of normal heart transplants in the absence of Trypanosoma cruzi
R Ribeiro-Dos-Santos, JO Mengel, E Postol, RA Soares, E Ferreira-Fernandez, MB Soares, LC Pontes-De-Carvalho |
Parasite Immunology | 2001 |
Retro-inverso peptide analogues of Trypanosoma cruzi B13 protein epitopes fail to be recognized by human sera and peripheral blood mononuclear cells
LK Iwai, MA Duranti, LC Abel, MA Juliano, J Kalil, L Juliano, E Cunha-Neto |
Peptides | 2001 |
Heart-infiltrating and Peripheral T Cells in the Pathogenesis of Human Chagas' Disease Cardiomyopathy
E Cunha-Neto, J Kalilf |
Autoimmunity | 2001 |
Renal transplant patients show variations in their self-reactive repertoires: a serial study
K Portugal, I Dozmorov, I Sidorov, I Marrero, JA Fonseca, M Spadafora-Ferreira, J Kalil, V Coelho |
International Immunology | 2001 |
Parasite persistence in treated chagasic patients revealed by xenodiagnosis and polymerase chain reaction
C Britto, C Silveira, MA Cardoso, P Marques, A Luquetti, V Macêdo, O Fernandes |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 2001 |
The pathogenesis of Chagas' disease: when autoimmune and parasite-specific immune responses meet
MB Soares, L Pontes-De-Carvalho, R Ribeiro-Dos-Santos |
Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências | 2001 |
Upregulation of Adhesion Molecules and Class I HLA in the Myocardium of Chronic Chagasic Cardiomyopathy and Heart Allograft Rejection, But Not in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
L Benvenuti |
Cardiovascular Pathology | 2000 |
HLA and β-myosin heavy chain do not influence susceptibility to Chagas' disease cardiomyopathy
KC Faé, SA Drigo, E Cunha-Neto, B Ianni, C Mady, J Kalil, AC Goldberg |
Microbes and Infection | 2000 |
Cruzipain induces autoimmune response against skeletal muscle and tissue damage in mice
L Giordanengo, R Fretes, H D�az, R Cano, A Bacile, E Vottero-Cima, S Gea |
Muscle & Nerve | 2000 |
Induction of antibodies reactive to cardiac myosin and development of heart alterations in cruzipain-immunized mice and their offspring
L Giordanengo, C Maldonado, HW Rivarola, D Iosa, N Girones, M Fresno, S Gea |
European Journal of Immunology | 2000 |
Molecular Mimicry, Microbes, and Autoimmunity
MW Cunningham, RS Fujinami |
2000 | |
Pathogenesis of autoimmune hepatitis
I Mcfarlane |
Biomedecine & Pharmacotherapy | 1999 |
Depletion of immune effector cells induces myocardial damage in the acute experimental Trypanosoma cruzi infection: ultrastructural study in rats
RC Melo |
Tissue and Cell | 1999 |
Molecular mimicry of phage displayed peptides mimicking GD3 ganglioside
J Willers, A Lucchese, D Kanduc, S Ferrone |
Peptides | 1999 |
Chagas Disease Etiology: Autoimmunity or Parasite Persistence?
RL Tarleton, L Zhang |
Parasitology Today | 1999 |
A role for extracellular amastigotes in the immunopathology of Chagas disease
J Scharfstein, A Morrot |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 1999 |
The role of tissue-infiltrating T cells in immunopathology of Chagas disease
GA DosReis |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 1999 |
Chagas disease, from discovery to control - and beyond: history, myths and lessons to take home
CM Morel |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 1999 |
Chagas disease: criteria of cure and prognosis
ED Gontijo, LM Galvão, S Eloi-Santos |
Memórias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz | 1999 |
Chronic Chagas' Heart Disease in a Japanease-Brazilian Traveler
M TAKENO, S SETO, F KAWAHARA, S YAMACHIKA, K YANO, N TSUDA, T YANAGI, H KANBARA |
Japanese Heart Journal | 1999 |
Chagas’ Disease and the Autoimmunity Hypothesis
F Kierszenbaum |
Clinical microbiology reviews | 1999 |
Detection of Live Trypanosoma cruzi in Tissues of Infected Mice by Using Histochemical Stain for β-Galactosidase
JM Mansfield, FS Buckner, AJ Wilson, WC Voorhis |
Infection and immunity | 1999 |
Gamma Interferon Modulates CD95 (Fas) and CD95 Ligand (Fas-L) Expression and Nitric Oxide-Induced Apoptosis during the Acute Phase of Trypanosoma cruzi Infection: a Possible Role in Immune Response Control
JM Mansfield, GA Martins, LQ Vieira, FQ Cunha, JS Silva |
Infection and immunity | 1999 |
Cellular and Cytokine Characterization of Vascular Inflammation in CBA/J Mice Chronically Infected with Trypanosoma cruzi
SUNNEMARK, FROSTEGARD, ORN, HARRIS |
Scandinavian Journal of Immunology | 1998 |
Enhanced prevalence of T cells expressing TCRBV8S2 and TCRBV8S3 in hearts of chronically Trypanosoma cruzi-infected mice
D Sunnemark, R Andersson, RA Harris, M Jeddi-Tehrani, A Örn |
Immunology Letters | 1998 |
Evidence for Cross-Reactivity between Antigen Derived fromTrypanosoma cruziand Myelin Basic Protein in Experimental Chagas Disease
A Al-Sabbagh, CA Garcia, BM Diaz-Bardales, C Zaccarias, JK Sakurada, LM Santos |
Experimental Parasitology | 1998 |
IL-12 in Autoimmunity
RR Caspi |
Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology | 1998 |
IFN-g in human Chagas' disease: protection or pathology?
LM Bahia-Oliveira, JA Gomes, MO Rocha, MC Moreira, EM Lemos, ZM Luz, ME Pereira, RL Coffman, JC Dias, JR Cançado, G Gazzinelli, R Corrêa-Oliveira |
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas / Sociedade Brasileira de Biofisica ... [et al.] | 1998 |
Cytokine production profile of heart-infiltrating T cells in Chagas' disease cardiomyopathy
E Cunha-Neto, LV Rizzo, F Albuquerque, L Abel, L Guilherme, E Bocchi, F Bacal, D Carrara, B Ianni, C Mady, J Kalil |
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas / Sociedade Brasileira de Biofisica ... [et al.] | 1998 |
Molecular mimicry and immune‐mediated diseases
MB Oldstone |
The FASEB Journal | 1998 |
Trypanosoma cruzi:Use of Herpes Simplex Virus–Thymidine Kinase as a Negative Selectable Marker
FS Buckner, AJ Wilson, WC van Voorhis |
Experimental Parasitology | 1997 |
More on Chagas disease cardiomyopathy
J Kalil, E Cunha-Neto |
Parasitology Today | 1997 |
Molecular mimicry between cardiac myosin and Trypanosoma cruzi antigen B13: identification of a B13-driven human T cell clone that recognizes cardiac myosin
LC Abel, J Kalil, E Cunha-Neto |
Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas / Sociedade Brasileira de Biofisica ... [et al.] | 1997 |
Autoimmunity in chagas disease cardiomyopathy: Fulfilling the criteria at last?
J Kalil, E Cunha-Neto |
Parasitology today (Personal ed.) | 1996 |