"Human Skeletal Myoblasts Spontaneously Activate Allogeneic Complement But Are Resistant to Killing."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Immunology, "The complement (C) system has previously been implicated in several diseases of muscle. We here report that human myoblasts or rhabdomyosarcoma cell lines spontaneously activate C through the classical pathway, causing release of anaphylatoxins and coating of myoblasts with opsonic C fragments but without causing cell killing. Survival of myoblasts is a consequence of the abundant expression of the membrane C regulatory molecules MCP and CD59, and neutralization of CD59 renders cells susceptible to C killing. The decay-accelerating factor was expressed at a very low level. Myoblasts and...

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