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Randolf J Kerschbaumer1, Manfred Rieger, Dirk Völkel, Didier Le Roy, Thierry Roger, Jurate Garbaraviciene, Wolf-Henning Boehncke, Jürgen Müllberg, Rene M Hoet, Clive R Wood, Gerhard Antoine, Michael Thiele, Helga Savidis-Dacho, Michael Dockal, Hartmut Ehrlich, Thierry Calandra, Friedrich Scheiflinger.
Abstract
The macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) is a proinflammatory cytokine that recently emerged as an attractive therapeutic target for a variety of diseases. A diverse panel of fully human anti-MIF antibodies was generated by selection from a phage display library and extensively analyzed in vitro. Epitope mapping studies identified antibodies specific for linear as well as structural epitopes. Experimental animal studies revealed that only those antibodies binding epitopes within amino acids 50-68 or 86-102 of the MIF molecule exerted protective effects in models of sepsis or contact hypersensitivity. Within the MIF protein, these two binding regions form a β-sheet structure that includes the MIF oxidoreductase motif. We therefore conclude that this β-sheet structure is a crucial region for MIF activity and a promising target for anti-MIF antibody therapy.Entities:
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Year: 2012 PMID: 22238348 PMCID: PMC3293543 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M111.329664
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Biol Chem ISSN: 0021-9258 Impact factor: 5.157