Autor: |
August F. Jernbom, Lovisa Skoglund, Elisa Pin, Ronald Sjöberg, Hanna Tegel, Sophia Hober, Elham Rostami, Annica Rasmusson, Janet L. Cunningham, Sebastian Havervall, Charlotte Thålin, Anna Månberg, Peter Nilsson |
Jazyk: |
angličtina |
Rok vydání: |
2024 |
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Zdroj: |
Nature Communications, Vol 15, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2024) |
Druh dokumentu: |
article |
ISSN: |
2041-1723 |
DOI: |
10.1038/s41467-024-53356-5 |
Popis: |
Abstract Autoantibodies have been shown to be implied in COVID-19 but the emerging autoantibody repertoire remains largely unexplored. We investigated the new-onset autoantibody repertoire in 525 healthcare workers and hospitalized COVID-19 patients at five time points over a 16-month period in 2020 and 2021 using proteome-wide and targeted protein and peptide arrays. Our results show that prevalent new-onset autoantibodies against a wide range of antigens emerged following SARS-CoV-2 infection in relation to pre-infectious baseline samples and remained elevated for at least 12 months. We found an increased prevalence of new-onset autoantibodies after severe COVID-19 and demonstrated associations between distinct new-onset autoantibodies and neuropsychiatric symptoms post-COVID-19. Using epitope mapping, we determined the main epitopes of selected new-onset autoantibodies, validated them in independent cohorts of neuro-COVID and pre-pandemic healthy controls, and identified sequence similarities suggestive of molecular mimicry between main epitopes and the conserved fusion peptide of the SARS-CoV-2 Spike glycoprotein. Our work describes the complexity and dynamics of the autoantibody repertoire emerging with COVID-19 and supports the need for continued analysis of the new-onset autoantibody repertoire to elucidate the mechanisms of the post-COVID-19 condition. |
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