Absence of Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Antibodies in 200 Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus With or Without Lupus Nephritis: Results of the GOODLUPUS Study

Autor: Bernard Bonnotte, P. Orquevaux, Bach Nga Pham, Zahir Amoura, S. Revuz, Delphine Giusti, Laurent Arnaud, Moustapha Dramé, Gilles Blaison, Marcelle Tonye Libyh, Thierry Martin, Hanns-Martin Lorenz, Nadine Magy-Bertrand, Grace Stockton-Bliard, Reinhard E. Voll, Amélie Servettaz, Grégory Gatouillat, Jan Chrusciel, Nellie Bourse Chalvon, Jean-Loup Pennaforte, Andreas Schwarting, Thierry Tabary, Oliver Hinschberger
Přispěvatelé: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Reims (CHU Reims), Immuno-Régulation dans les Maladies Auto-Immunes Inflammatoires et le Cancer - EA 7509 (IRMAIC), Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne (URCA)
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2020
Předmět:
Male
Anti-Glomerular Basement Membrane Disease
[SDV]Life Sciences [q-bio]
Lupus nephritis
Aucun
urologic and male genital diseases
Severity of Illness Index
Gastroenterology
anti-glomerular basement membrane antibodies
0302 clinical medicine
systemic lupus erythematosus
Lupus Erythematosus
Systemic

Immunology and Allergy
030212 general & internal medicine
Original Research
medicine.diagnostic_test
biology
anti-GBM glomerulonephritis
Glomerular basement membrane
IIf
Middle Aged
3. Good health
Titer
medicine.anatomical_structure
[SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology
Female
Antibody
Vasculitis
Adult
lcsh:Immunologic diseases. Allergy
medicine.medical_specialty
Immunology
03 medical and health sciences
Antigen
Internal medicine
anti-GBM antibodies
medicine
Humans
Autoantibodies
Retrospective Studies
030203 arthritis & rheumatology
lupus nephritis
business.industry
Goodpasture disease
medicine.disease
Case-Control Studies
Immunoassay
biology.protein
business
lcsh:RC581-607
Biomarkers
Zdroj: Frontiers in Immunology, Vol 11 (2020)
Frontiers in Immunology
Frontiers in Immunology, Frontiers, 2020, 11, ⟨10.3389/fimmu.2020.597863⟩
ISSN: 1664-3224
Popis: IntroductionAnti-glomerular basement membrane (GBM) antibodies are pathogenic antibodies first detected in renal-limited anti-GBM disease and in Goodpasture disease, the latter characterized by rapidly progressive crescentic glomerulonephritis combined with intra-alveolar hemorrhage. Studies have suggested that anti-GBM antibody positivity may be of interest in lupus nephritis (LN). Moreover, severe anti-GBM vasculitis cases in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) have been described in the literature, but few studies have assessed the incidence of anti-GBM antibodies in SLE patients.ObjectiveThe main study objective was to determine if positive anti-GBM antibodies were present in the serum of SLE patients with or withoutproliferativerenal damage and compared to a healthy control group.MethodologyThis retrospective study was performed on SLE patients’ sera from a Franco-German European biobank, developed between 2011 and 2014, from 17 hospital centers in the Haut-Rhin region. Patients were selected according to their renal involvement, and matched by age and gender. The serum from healthy voluntary blood donors was also tested. Anti-GBM were screened by fluorescence enzyme immunoassay (FEIA), and then by indirect immunofluorescence (IIF) in case of low reactivity detection (titer >6 U/ml).ResultsThe cohort was composed of 100 SLE patients withproliferativeLN (27% with class III, 67% with class IV, and 6% with class V), compared to 100 SLE patients without LN and 100 controls. Patients were mostly Caucasian and met the ACR 1997 criteria and/or the SLICC 2012 criteria. Among the 300 tested sera, no significant levels of anti-GBM antibodies were detected (>10 U/ml) by the automated technique, three sera were found “ambivalent” (>7 U/ml): one in the SLE with LN group and two in the SLE without LN group. Subsequent IIF assays did not detect anti-GBM antibodies.ConclusionAnti-GBM antibodies were not detected in the serum of Caucasian patients with SLE, even in case of renal involvement, a situation favoring the antigenic exposure of glomerular basement membranes. Our results reaffirm the central role of anti-GBM antibodies as a specific diagnostic biomarker for Goodpasture vasculitis and therefore confirm that anti-GBM antibody must not be carried out in patients with SLE (with or without LN) in the absence of disease-suggestive symptoms.
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