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American Journal of Pathology, Vol 124, 82-87, Copyright © 1986 by American Society for Investigative Pathology

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Characterization of renal amyloid derived from the variable region of the lambda light chain subgroup II

MM Picken, G Gallo, J Buxbaum and B Frangione

Amyloid fibrils were extracted from the kidney of a patient (CHE) shown to have tetramers and dimers of a monoclonal lambda light chain in his serum, and whose bone marrow cells in short-term culture synthesized these forms and a smaller lambda fragment of approximately 10,000 to 12,000 daltons. Biochemical and serologic analysis of a fraction of a size (obtained from amyloid fibrils extracted from the kidney) similar to that synthesized by the bone marrow cells revealed a light chain fragment corresponding to the amino terminal end of the variable region of the lambda light chain subgroup II. The presence of similarly sized short fragments of lambda light chain in both the synthesized and deposited protein suggests that aberrant synthesis and/or proteolytic degradation may play a pathogenetic role in the process of amyloidogenesis.

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