title: [Autoantibodies against cardiac myosin in patients with myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy].
abstract: Evidence accumulated in recent years indicates that autoimmunologic mechanisms may play an important role in the pathogenesis of myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy. In animal studies with Coxsackie B3-virus-induced murine myocarditis circulating autoantibodies against cardiac myosin have been detected. The present study investigates whether in patients with myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy antimyosin-autoantibodies can be detected. Patients with other cardiac diseases and healthy blood donors were used as controls. In 30 of 62 (48.4%) patients with myocarditis antimyosin-antibodies could be detected, whereas in patients with dilated cardiomyopathy only 10 of 41 (24.4%) sera contained antimyosin-antibodies (p < 0.05). In patients with other cardiac diseases, 9 of 43 (21%) sera showed antimyosin-autoantibodies (p < 0.05 vs myocarditis, not significant vs DCM). In healthy blood donors, antimyosin-autoantibodies could only be detected in 1 of 39 (2.5%) sera. In Western-blot tests, the antimyosin-antibodies in patients with myocarditis bound to the myosin heavy chain. Protein A-Sepharose chromatography showed that the antimyosin-autoantibodies are of the IgG-type. No organ-specificity of the antibodies for cardiac myosin could be detected, and the antimyosin-autoantibodies bind equally to myosin prepared from either cardiac or skeletal muscle, respectively.
authors.affiliation: Medizinische Klinik B, Abteilung für Kardiologie, Pneumologie und Angiologie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Lauer
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Padberg
authors.forename: H P
authors.initials: HP
authors.lastname: Schultheiss
authors.forename: B E
authors.initials: BE
authors.lastname: Strauer
mesh_terms: D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000032:analysis*; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D015153:Blotting, Western; D002311:Cardiomyopathy, Dilated / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis; D009205:Myocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000276:immunology* / Q000473:pathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000276:immunology / Q000473:pathology; D009218:Myosins / Q000276:immunology*; D012016:Reference Values
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D009218:Myosins
vernacular_title: Autoantikörper gegen kardiales Myosin bei Patienten mit Myokarditis und dilatativer Kardiomyopathie.