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Volume 272, Number 30,
Issue of July 25, 1997
pp. 18959-18965
©1997 by The American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Inc.
Engineering the Human Thyrotropin Receptor Ectodomain from a
Non-secreted Form to a Secreted, Highly Immunoreactive Glycoprotein
That Neutralizes Autoantibodies in Graves' Patients' Sera
(Received for publication, April 4, 1997, and in revised form, April 25 1997)
Gregorio D.
Chazenbalk
,
Juan Carlos
Jaume
,
Sandra M.
McLachlan
and
Basil
Rapoport
From the Thyroid Molecular Biology Unit, Veterans Administration
Medical Center and the University of California,
San Francisco, California 94121
Previous attempts to generate
autoantibody-reactive, secreted thyrotropin receptor (TSHR)
ectodomain in mammalian cells have failed because of retention within
the cell of material with immature carbohydrate. We have overcome this
difficulty by performing progressive carboxyl-terminal truncations of
the human TSHR ectodomain (418 amino acid residues including signal
peptide). Three ectodomain variants (TSHR-261, TSHR-289, and TSHR-309)
were truncated at residues 261, 289, and 309, respectively. Unlike the
full ectodomain, ectodomain variants were secreted with an efficiency
inversely proportional to their size. Secreted ectodomain variants
contained ~20 kDa of complex carbohydrate. TSHR-261 was chosen for
further study because it was secreted very efficiently and neutralized autoantibodies in Graves' patients' sera. This ectodomain variant was
partially purified using sequential lectin and nickel-chelate chromatography, permitting the first direct visualization and quantitation of the mammalian TSHR. Most important, very small (nanogram) quantities of this material neutralized 70-100% of TSHR
autoantibody activity in all 18 Graves' sera studied.
In summary, carboxyl-terminal truncation of the human TSHR ectodomain
generates a secreted protein with complex carbohydrate that neutralizes
autoantibodies in Graves' patients' sera. Antigenically active
TSHR will be valuable for future studies on the diagnosis, pathogenesis, and immunotherapy of Graves' disease.

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