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J. Biol. Chem., Vol. 269, Issue 42, 26017-26024, Oct, 1994

The inhibitory effect of factor J on the alternative complement pathway

C Gonzalez-Rubio, MA Jimenez-Clavero, G Fontan and M Lopez-Trascasa
Unidad de Inmunologia, Hospital la Paz, Madrid, Spain.

Factor J (FJ) is a cationic glycoprotein with inhibitory activity in C1, the first component of the classical complement pathway. This study demonstrates that FJ is able to regulate the activity of the alternative complement pathway. FJ inhibits the generation of fluid- phase and cell-bound alternative pathway C3 convertase, C3b,Bb (C3- cleaving enzyme). Thus, FJ interferes with the generation of alternative pathway C3 convertase when sheep erythrocytes bearing antibody and activated C3 and C4 (EAC4b,3b) are incubated with the individual complement components, factors B, D, and P. FJ accelerates the decay of C3 convertase with a time course similar to that of factor H, and when both regulators are present together, the decay of enzyme activity is faster than when they are added separately. Furthermore, FJ is able to inhibit the cleavage of C3 by factor B in a fluid-phase assay. FJ prevents the initiation of alternative pathway activation in "more stabilized systems" with well known activators of alternative pathway C3 convertase such as C3 nephritic factor (an autoantibody against alternative pathway C3 convertase), cobra venom factor, and rabbit erythrocytes. In these systems, FJ has no effect on C3 convertase stabilized by rabbit erythrocytes or cobra venom factor. In contrast, FJ promotes the dissociation of C3 convertase stabilized by C3 nephritic factor, but with much lower efficiency than in preventing initiation. Direct interaction of FJ with individual components of C3 convertase was shown by a solid-phase binding assay using plates coated with C3, C3b, B, Bb, or FJ. FJ inhibitory activity in the alternative pathway can be modulated by polyanions like heparin. FJ-mediated inhibition in the alternative complement pathway can be modified by surface interactions, as occurs during alternative pathway C3 convertase activation. Thus, when FJ is adsorbed by and eluted from hydroxylapatite and reverse-phase columns, its inhibitory effect on more stabilized systems is lost. This loss of inhibitory activity is fully reversed when FJ is rechromatographed on heparin-Sepharose or Sepharose columns. Taking into account these data, FJ may be included in the group of highly charged molecules that inhibit the activation of classical and alternative complement pathways (i.e. eosinophil major basic protein, protamine, and heparin).
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