Anti-histone and anti-nucleosome rather than anti-dsDNA antibodies associate with IFN-induced biomarkers in Sudanese and Swedish Systemic Lupus Erythematosus patients

© The Author(s) 2024. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the British Society for Rheumatology..

OBJECTIVES: In SLE, anti-dsDNA can co-occur with autoantibodies against other chromatin components, like histones and nucleosomes. These antibodies induce type-1 interferon production, a hallmark of SLE. We measured antinuclear antibody (ANA) sub-specificities and investigated their associations to inflammatory biomarkers including interferon-regulated chemokines.

METHODS: We included 93 Sudanese and 480 Swedish SLE patients and matched controls (N = 104 + 192). Autoantibodies targeting ANA-subspecificites: dsDNA, Sm, Sm/U1RNPcomplex, U1RNP, SSA/Ro52, SSA/Ro60, SSB/La, ribosomal P, PCNA and histones were quantified in all subjects, anti-nucleosome only in the Swedish patients, with a bead-based multiplex immunoassay. Levels of 72 plasma biomarkers were determined with Proximity Extension Assay technique or ELISA.

RESULTS: Among Sudanese patients, the investigated antibodies significantly associated with 9/72 biomarkers. Anti-histone antibodies showed the strongest positive correlations with MCP-3 and S100A12 as well as with interferon I-inducible factors MCP-1 and CXCL10. Anti-dsDNA antibodies associated with CXCL10 and S100A12, but in multivariate analyses, unlike anti-histone, associations lost significance.Among Swedish patients, MCP-1, CXCL10, SA100A12 also demonstrated stronger associations to anti-histone and anti-nucleosome antibodies, compared with anti-dsDNA and other ANA sub-specificities. In multiple regression models, anti-histone/nucleosome retained the strongest associations. When excluding anti-histone or anti-nucleosome positive patients, the associations between MCP-1/CXCL10 and anti-dsDNA were lost. In contrast, when excluding anti-dsDNA positive patients, associations with anti-histone and anti-nucleosome remained significant.

CONCLUSION: In two cohorts of different ethnical origin, autoantibodies targeting chromatin correlate stronger with IFN-induced inflammatory biomarkers than anti-dsDNA or other ANA sub-specificities. Our results suggest that anti-histone/nucleosome autoantibodies may be main drivers of type-1 interferon activity in SLE.

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Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

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2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2024

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Rheumatology (Oxford, England) - (2024) vom: 09. März

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Elbagir, Sahwa [VerfasserIn]
Mohammed, NasrEldeen A [VerfasserIn]
Oke, Vilija [VerfasserIn]
Larsson, Anders [VerfasserIn]
Nilsson, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Elshafie, Amir [VerfasserIn]
Elagib, Elnour M [VerfasserIn]
Nur, Musa A M [VerfasserIn]
Gunnarsson, Iva [VerfasserIn]
Svenungsson, Elisabet [VerfasserIn]
Rönnelid, Johan [VerfasserIn]

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Africa
Anti-chromatin antibodies
Anti-dsDNA
Interferon
Journal Article
Proteome analysis
SLE

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Date Revised 09.03.2024

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10.1093/rheumatology/keae134

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