Anti-Phospholipid Antibodies in COVID-19 Are Different From Those Detectable in the Anti-Phospholipid Syndrome

Copyright © 2020 Borghi, Beltagy, Garrafa, Curreli, Cecchini, Bodio, Grossi, Blengino, Tincani, Franceschini, Andreoli, Lazzaroni, Piantoni, Masneri, Crisafulli, Brugnoni, Muiesan, Salvetti, Parati, Torresani, Mahler, Heilbron, Pregnolato, Pengo, Tedesco, Pozzi and Meroni..

Background: Critically ill patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) have a profound hypercoagulable state and often develop coagulopathy which leads to organ failure and death. Because of a prolonged activated partial-thromboplastin time (aPTT), a relationship with anti-phospholipid antibodies (aPLs) has been proposed, but results are controversial. Functional assays for aPL (i.e., lupus anticoagulant) can be influenced by concomitant anticoagulation and/or high levels of C reactive protein. The presence of anti-cardiolipin (aCL), anti-beta2-glycoprotein I (anti-β2GPI), and anti-phosphatidylserine/prothrombin (aPS/PT) antibodies was not investigated systematically. Epitope specificity of anti-β2GPI antibodies was not reported.

Objective: To evaluate the prevalence and the clinical association of aPL in a large cohort of COVID-19 patients, and to characterize the epitope specificity of anti-β2GPI antibodies.

Methods: ELISA and chemiluminescence assays were used to test 122 sera of patients suffering from severe COVID-19. Of them, 16 displayed major thrombotic events.

Results: Anti-β2GPI IgG/IgA/IgM was the most frequent in 15.6/6.6/9.0% of patients, while aCL IgG/IgM was detected in 5.7/6.6% by ELISA. Comparable values were found by chemiluminescence. aPS/PT IgG/IgM were detectable in 2.5 and 9.8% by ELISA. No association between thrombosis and aPL was found. Reactivity against domain 1 and 4-5 of β2GPI was limited to 3/58 (5.2%) tested sera for each domain and did not correlate with aCL/anti-β2GPI nor with thrombosis.

Conclusions: aPL show a low prevalence in COVID-19 patients and are not associated with major thrombotic events. aPL in COVID-19 patients are mainly directed against β2GPI but display an epitope specificity different from antibodies in antiphospholipid syndrome.

Errataetall:

UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2020 Jul 16;:. - PMID 32588001

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 11(2020) vom: 27., Seite 584241

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Borghi, Maria Orietta [VerfasserIn]
Beltagy, Asmaa [VerfasserIn]
Garrafa, Emirena [VerfasserIn]
Curreli, Daniele [VerfasserIn]
Cecchini, Germana [VerfasserIn]
Bodio, Caterina [VerfasserIn]
Grossi, Claudia [VerfasserIn]
Blengino, Simonetta [VerfasserIn]
Tincani, Angela [VerfasserIn]
Franceschini, Franco [VerfasserIn]
Andreoli, Laura [VerfasserIn]
Lazzaroni, Maria Grazia [VerfasserIn]
Piantoni, Silvia [VerfasserIn]
Masneri, Stefania [VerfasserIn]
Crisafulli, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Brugnoni, Duilio [VerfasserIn]
Muiesan, Maria Lorenza [VerfasserIn]
Salvetti, Massimo [VerfasserIn]
Parati, Gianfranco [VerfasserIn]
Torresani, Erminio [VerfasserIn]
Mahler, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Heilbron, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Pregnolato, Francesca [VerfasserIn]
Pengo, Martino [VerfasserIn]
Tedesco, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Pozzi, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Meroni, Pier Luigi [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

β2-glycoprotein I
9001-26-7
Anti-phospholipid antibodies
Antibodies, Anticardiolipin
Autoimmunity
Beta 2-Glycoprotein I
COVID-19
Epitopes
Immunoglobulin A
Immunoglobulin G
Immunoglobulin M
Journal Article
Phosphatidylserines
Prothrombin
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Thrombosis

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Date Completed 07.12.2020

Date Revised 12.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

UpdateOf: medRxiv. 2020 Jul 16;:. - PMID 32588001

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2020.584241

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM317457926