Antigen-specific Fab profiling achieves molecular resolution of human autoantibody repertoires in rheumatoid arthritis
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ABSTRACT: The presence of autoantibodies is a defining feature of many autoimmune diseases. The number of unique autoantibody clones is conceivably limited by immune tolerance mechanisms, but unknown due to limitations of the currently applied technologies. Here, we introduce an autoantigen-specific liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry-based IgG1 Fab profiling approach using the anti-citrullinated protein antibody (ACPA) repertoire in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) as an example. We show that each patient harbors a unique and diverse ACPA IgG1 repertoire dominated by only a few antibody clones. In contrast to the total plasma IgG1 antibody repertoire, the ACPA IgG1 sub-repertoire is characterized by an expansion of antibodies that harbor one, two or even more Fab glycans, and different glycovariants of the same clone can be detected. Together, our data indicate that the autoantibody response in a prominent human autoimmune disease is complex, unique to each patient and dominated by a relatively low number of clones.
INSTRUMENT(S): Orbitrap Fusion Lumos, Orbitrap Exploris 480
ORGANISM(S): Homo Sapiens (ncbitaxon:9606)
SUBMITTER: Albert J.R. Heck
PROVIDER: MSV000093196 | MassIVE | Thu Oct 26 06:13:00 BST 2023
REPOSITORIES: MassIVE
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