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Infection and Immunity, May 2005, p. 2951-2957, Vol. 73, No. 5
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.5.2951-2957.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.

Human Lyme Arthritis and the Immunoglobulin G Antibody Response to the 37-Kilodalton Arthritis-Related Protein of Borrelia burgdorferi

Carlos A. Salazar, Monika Rothemich, Elise E. Drouin, Lisa Glickstein, and Allen C. Steere*

Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immunology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Received 27 August 2004/ Returned for modification 15 December 2004/ Accepted 28 December 2004

In Borrelia burgdorferi-infected C3H-scid mice, antiserum to a differentially expressed, 37-kDa spirochetal outer-surface protein, termed arthritis-related protein (Arp), has been shown to prevent or reduce the severity of arthritis. In this study, we determined the immunoglobulin G (IgG) antibody responses to this spirochetal protein in single serum samples from 124 antibiotic-treated human patients with early or late manifestations of Lyme disease and in serial serum samples from 20 historic, untreated patients who were followed longitudinally from early infection through the period of arthritis. These 20 patients were representative of the spectrum of the severity and duration of Lyme arthritis. Among the 124 antibiotic-treated patients, 53% with culture-proven erythema migrans (EM) had IgG responses to recombinant glutathione S-transferase (GST)-Arp, as did 59% of the patients with facial palsy and 68% of those with Lyme arthritis. In addition, 75 to 80% of the 20 past, untreated patients had reactivity with this protein when EM was present, during initial episodes of joint pain, or during the maximal period of arthritis. There was no association at any of these three time points between GST-Arp antibody levels and the severity of the maximal attack of arthritis or the total duration of arthritis. Thus, after the first several weeks of infection, 60 to 80% of patients had IgG antibody responses to GST-Arp, but this response did not correlate with the severity or duration of Lyme arthritis.

* Corresponding author. Mailing address: Massachusetts General Hospital, 55 Fruit St., CNY 149/8301, Boston, MA 02114. Phone: (617) 726-1527. Fax: (617) 726-1544. E-mail: asteere{at}partners.org.

Editor: W. A. Petri, Jr.

Infection and Immunity, May 2005, p. 2951-2957, Vol. 73, No. 5
0019-9567/05/$08.00+0     doi:10.1128/IAI.73.5.2951-2957.2005
Copyright © 2005, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.



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