Induction d’anticorps anti-idiotypiques contre les protéoglycanes de la matrice extracellulaire dans la réduction des lésions athérosclérotiques
Atherosclerosis is characterized by the accumulation of low density lipoprotein (LDL) associated with the proteoglycans of the arterial wall. Chimeric (ch) antibodies that react against glycosaminoglycans (GAG) were generated. We tested the hypothesis that vaccination with chP3R99, a mutant chimeric antibody of the P3 hybridoma, could interfere with the retention of LDL by inducing a cascade of anti-idiotypic antibodies directed against the GAG.Male mice deficient in apolipoprotein E fed with a hypercholesterolemic diet were given five subcutaneous injections of 50 μg of chP3R99 or chP3S98 (a mutant with low reactivity) vaccine. The injections were performed every week or every two weeks. After sacrifice, the aorta was perfused with PBS, excised and analyzed after staining with Oil Red-O. The results were expressed as a percentage of lesions areas on the total area of the aorta. The reactivity of the sera obtained was tested against the chP3R99, chP3S98, heparin, dermatan and chondroïtin sulfate from obtained immunized mice by ELISA. The anti-idiotypic response was measured by blocking the anti-isotypic reactivity by a nonspecific IgG, hR3. In addition, the antibody chP3R99 binding to GAG in the atherosclerotic lesion was shown by an in vivo molecular imaging device. Our results show that the immunogenicity of the antibodies chP3R99 is higher than chP3S98 and that sera from mice immunized with chP3R99 present anti-idiotypic antibodies directed against the GAG. This effect is associated with a 42 % reduction (p <0.01) of atherosclerotic lesions in vaccinated mice. The use of active immunization with antibodies chP3R99 may constitute a new therapeutic approach for the treatment of atherosclerosis.
Vaccine antibody chP3R99 atherosclerosis anti-idiotypic cascade glycosaminoglycan apolipoprotein E knockout mouse cascade anti-idiotypique Vaccin