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Prothrombotic autoantibodies in serum from patients hospitalized with COVID-19

Overview of attention for article published in Science Translational Medicine, November 2020
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Title
Prothrombotic autoantibodies in serum from patients hospitalized with COVID-19
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Science Translational Medicine, November 2020
DOI 10.1126/scitranslmed.abd3876
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Yu Zuo, Shanea K Estes, Ramadan A Ali, Alex A Gandhi, Srilakshmi Yalavarthi, Hui Shi, Gautam Sule, Kelsey Gockman, Jacqueline A Madison, Melanie Zuo, Vinita Yadav, Jintao Wang, Wrenn Woodard, Sean P Lezak, Njira L Lugogo, Stephanie A Smith, James H Morrissey, Yogendra Kanthi, Jason S Knight

Abstract

Patients with COVID-19 are at high risk for thrombotic arterial and venous occlusions. Lung histopathology often reveals fibrin-based occlusions in the small blood vessels of patients who succumb to the disease. Antiphospholipid syndrome is an acquired and potentially life-threatening thrombophilia in which patients develop pathogenic autoantibodies targeting phospholipids and phospholipid-binding proteins (aPL antibodies). Case series have recently detected aPL antibodies in patients with COVID-19. Here, we measured eight types of aPL antibodies in serum samples from 172 patients hospitalized with COVID-19. These aPL antibodies included anticardiolipin IgG, IgM and IgA; anti-β2 glycoprotein I IgG, IgM, and IgA; and anti-phosphatidylserine/ prothrombin (aPS/PT) IgG and IgM. We detected aPS/PT IgG in 24% of serum samples, anticardiolipin IgM in 23% of samples, and aPS/PT IgM in 18% of samples. Antiphospholipid autoantibodies were present in 52% of serum samples using the manufacturer's threshold and in 30% using a more stringent cutoff (≥40 ELISA-specific units). Higher titers of aPL antibodies were associated with neutrophil hyperactivity including the release of neutrophil extracellular traps (NETs), higher platelet counts, more severe respiratory disease, and lower clinical estimated glomerular filtration rate. Similar to IgG from patients with antiphospholipid syndrome, IgG fractions isolated from COVID-19 patients promoted NET release from neutrophils isolated from healthy individuals. Furthermore, injection of IgG purified from COVID-19 patient serum into mice accelerated venous thrombosis in two mouse models. These findings suggest that half of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 become at least transiently positive for aPL antibodies and that these autoantibodies are potentially pathogenic.

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Unknown 429 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 75 17%
Student > Bachelor 46 11%
Other 39 9%
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 8%
Student > Master 23 5%
Other 72 17%
Unknown 140 33%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 98 23%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 37 9%
Immunology and Microbiology 35 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 21 5%
Nursing and Health Professions 11 3%
Other 61 14%
Unknown 166 39%
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