Identification of autoantibody clusters that best predict lupus disease activity using glomerular proteome arrays.
Nephrophilic autoantibodies dominate the seroprofile in lupus, but their fine specificities remain ill defined. We constructed a multiplexed proteome microarray bearing about 30 antigens known to be expressed in the glomerular milieu and used it to study serum autoantibodies in lupus. Compared with normal serum, serum from B6.Sle1.lpr lupus mice (C57BL/6 mice homozygous for the NZM2410/NZW allele of Sle1 as well as the FAS defect) exhibited high levels of IgG and IgM antiglomerular as well as anti-double-stranded DNA/chromatin Abs and variable levels of Abs to alpha-actinin, aggrecan, collagen, entactin, fibrinogen, hemocyanin, heparan sulphate, laminin, myosin, proteoglycans, and histones. The use of these glomerular proteome arrays also revealed 5 distinct clusters of IgG autoreactivity in the sera of lupus patients. Whereas 2 of these IgG reactivity clusters (DNA/chromatin/glomeruli and laminin/myosin/Matrigel/vimentin/heparan sulphate) showed association with disease activity, the other 3 reactivity clusters (histones, vitronectin/collagen/chondroitin sulphate, and entactin/fibrinogen/hyaluronic acid) did not. Human lupus sera also displayed 2 distinct IgM autoantibody clusters, one reactive to DNA and the other apparently polyreactive. Interestingly, the presence of IgM polyreactivity in patient sera was associated with reduced disease severity. Hence, the glomerular proteome array promises to be a powerful analytical tool for uncovering novel autoantibody disease associations and for distinguishing patients at high risk for end-organ disease.
Li
Quan-Zhen
QZ
Department of Internal Medicine-Rheumatology, Center for Immunology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas 75390-8884, USA.
Zhen
Quan Li
QL
Xie
Chun
C
Wu
Tianfu
T
Mackay
Meggan
M
Aranow
Cynthia
C
Putterman
Chaim
C
Mohan
Chandra
C
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D000941:Antigens; D001323:Autoantibodies; D001798:Blood Proteins; D002843:Chromatin; D004338:Drug Combinations; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D007075:Immunoglobulin M; D007797:Laminin; D011509:Proteoglycans; D020543:Proteome; C059485:matrigel; D003094:Collagen; D004247:DNA