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    Highly immunoreactive IgG antibodies directed against a set of twenty human proteins in the sera of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis identified by protein array
    (San Francisco, CA : Public Library of Science, 2014) May, Caroline; Nordhoff, Eckhard; Casjens, Swaantje; Turewicz, Michael; Eisenacher, Martin; Gold, Ralf; Brüning, Thomas; Pesch, Beate; Stephan, Christian; Woitalla, Dirk; Penke, Botond; Janáky, Tamás; Virók, Dezső; Siklós, László; Engelhardt, Jozsef I.; Meyer, Helmut E.
    Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), the most common adult-onset motor neuron disorder, is characterized by the progressive and selective loss of upper and lower motor neurons. Diagnosis of this disorder is based on clinical assessment, and the average survival time is less than 3 years. Injections of IgG from ALS patients into mice are known to specifically mark motor neurons. Moreover, IgG has been found in upper and lower motor neurons in ALS patients. These results led us to perform a case-control study using human protein microarrays to identify the antibody profiles of serum samples from 20 ALS patients and 20 healthy controls. We demonstrated high levels of 20 IgG antibodies that distinguished the patients from the controls. These findings suggest that a panel of antibodies may serve as a potential diagnostic biomarker for ALS.
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    Anti-Staphylococcal Humoral Immune Response in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis
    (Amsterdam : European Rhinologic Society, 2019) Thunberg, Ulrica; Hugosson, Svante; Fredlund, Hans; Cao, Yang; Ehricht, Ralf; Monecke, Stefan; Mueller, Elke; Engelmann, Susanne; Söderquist, Bo
    Background: Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) can behave both as a harmless commensal and as a pathogen. Its significance in the pathogenesis of chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is not yet fully understood. This study aimed to determine serum antibody responses to specific staphylococcal antigens in patients with CRS and healthy controls, and to investigate the correlation between specific antibody response and severity of symptoms. Methodology: Serum samples from 39 patients with CRS and 56 healthy controls were analysed using a protein microarray to investigate the antibody response to S. aureus specific antigens, with a focus on immunoglobulin G (IgG) directed toward staphylococcal components accessible to the immune system. Holm-Bonferroni corrections were applied in all analyses. Information about growth of S. aureus in nares and maxillary sinus was taken from a previous study based on the same individuals. Clinical symptoms were assessed using a scoring system. Results: IgG antibody levels toward staphylococcal TSST-1 and LukF-PV were significantly higher in the CRS patient group compared to healthy controls, and levels of anti-TSST-1 antibodies were significantly higher in the CRS patient group with S. aureus in maxillary sinus than in controls. There were no correlations between the severity of symptoms and levels of serum anti-staphylococcal IgG antibody levels for LukF-PV and TSST-1. Conclusions: TSST-1 and LukF-PV could be interesting markers for future studies of the pathogenesis of CRS.