Figure 3.
Anti-FH.07 restores complement regulation in aHUS patient serum on ES. (A) Schematic representation of the 20 CCP domains of FH with the location of the heterozygous mutations of each of the aHUS patients (numbered 1 to 11), as well as the domain targeted with anti-FH.07. (B) Incubation of ES with serum from an aHUS patient carrying a heterozygous mutation in CFH (n = 2) or a serum pool from healthy individuals (NHS pool, n = 3). Hemolysis was measured at 412 nm and corrected for background at 690 nm. The hemolysis observed by incubation of ES with 0.6% (wt/vol) saponin was set to 100%. (C) Addition of anti-FH.07 or an isotype control to 10% (vol/vol) serum of aHUS #1 or a NHS pool (n = 4). (D) Hemolysis observed in 11 aHUS sera (10%, vol/vol) with different CFH mutations before and after addition of anti-FH.07 or an isotype control; numbers correspond to the aHUS patient number in panel A. Addition of EDTA serves as the negative control of ES lysis. Each point represents the mean of duplicates of a single experiment, and red lines indicate overall mean with standard deviation. (E) Comparison of the effect intact IgG and Fab′ fragments from a control IgG mAb and anti-FH.07 in the ES hemolytic assay performed with 10% (vol/vol) aHUS#1 serum. Data in panels C-E are presented as mean with standard deviation. *P < .05, ****P < .0001, 2-way ANOVA.