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ArticleRheumatology international2020

A study of antigen-specific anti-cytomegalovirus antibody reactivity in patients with systemic sclerosis and concomitant anti-Ro52 antibodies.

Athanasios Gkoutzourelas, Christos Liaskos, Theodora Simopoulou, Christina Katsiari, George Efthymiou, Thomas Scheper, Wolfgang Meyer, Alexandra Tsirogianni, Christina Tsigalou, Efthymios Dardiotis and 3 more

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13 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Athanasios GkoutzourelasDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4775-0410
Christos LiaskosDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8343-3810
Theodora SimopoulouDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2604-5090
Christina KatsiariDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4174-6576
George EfthymiouDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8706-1193
Thomas ScheperInstitute of Immunology, Euroimmun, 23560, Lübeck, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2344-3854
Wolfgang MeyerInstitute of Immunology, Euroimmun, 23560, Lübeck, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8973-4550
Alexandra TsirogianniDepartment of Immunology-Histocompatibility, Evangelismos General Hospital, Athens, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2531-4113
Christina TsigalouLaboratory of Microbiology, Democritus University of Thrace, Alexandroupolis, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7869-6824
Efthymios DardiotisDepartment of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2957-641X
Dimitrios DaoussisDivision of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Patras University Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, University of Patras, 26504, Patras, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8027-3655
Lazaros I SakkasDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7670-3314
Dimitrios P BogdanosDepartment of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Βiopolis, 40500, Larissa, Thessaly, Greece. bogdanos@med.uth.gr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9697-7902
University of Thessaly · GREuroimmun Medizinische Labordiagnostika (Germany) · DEDemocritus University of Thrace · GREvangelismos Hospital · GRUniversity of Patras · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anti-Ro52 autoantibody (autoAb), highly prevalent in Sjogren's syndrome (SjS) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), is also frequent in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Viral agents, such as human cytomegalovirus (HCMV), have been considered as a trigger for SSc and SSc-associated autoAbs. To seek for antigen-specific anti-HCMV associations with anti-Ro52, we assessed the dominant anti-HCMV ab responses in anti-Ro52 antibody (ab)-positive and -negative patients with SSc and compared them with those in SLE and SjS. 116 Anti-HCMV ab(+) sera were analyzed, including 70 from anti-Ro52(+) patients (29 SSc, 23 SLE and 18 SjS) and 46 from anti-Ro52(-) patients (29 with SSc, 9 with SLE and 8 with SjS) as negative controls. Abs against specific HCMV pp130/UL57, pp65/UL83, pp55/UL55, pp52/UL44, p38 and pp28/UL99 antigens were tested by immunoblotting. Anti-Ro52(+) SSc patients reacted more frequently against pp52/UL44 and p38 compared to anti-Ro52(-) [(13/29, 44.8%; 95% CI 26.7-62.9% vs. 1/29, 3.4%; 95% CI 0-10%, p < 0.001, and 9/29, 31.0%; 95% CI 14.2-47.8% vs. 2/29, 6.9%; 95% CI 0-16.1%, p = 0.041, respectively]. No such differences were noted between anti-Ro52(+) and anti-Ro52(-) SLE or SjS patients. Also, antibody titres against HCMV pp65/UL83, pp52/UL44 and p38 antigens were higher in anti-Ro52(+) than anti-Ro52(-) SSc patients (p < 0.01). Ab responses against specific HCMV antigens differ among anti-Ro52 ab-positive and -negative patients with SSc (as well as between SSc and SLE or SjS), but whether these differences are epiphenomenal remains to be seen.

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AutoantibodiesBiomarkersCase-Control StudiesFemaleHumansLupus Erythematosus, SystemicMaleRibonucleoproteinsScleroderma, SystemicSjogren's SyndromeAutoantibodiesBiomarkersRibonucleoproteinsAutoantibodiesBiomarkersImmunologyRheumatic diseasesScleroderma/systemic sclerosis

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