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Journal Article
Lupus nephritis is linked to disease-activity associated expansions and immunity to a gut commensal
2019
Overview
Background/PurposeTo search for a transmissible agent involved in lupus pathogenesis, we investigated the faecal microbiota of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) for candidate pathobiont(s) and evaluated them for special relationships with host immunity.MethodsIn a cross-sectional discovery cohort, matched blood and faecal samples from 61 female patients with SLE were obtained. Faecal 16 S rRNA analyses were performed, and sera profiled for antibacterial and autoantibody responses, with findings validated in two independent lupus cohorts.ResultsCompared with controls, the microbiome in patients with SLE showed decreased species richness diversity, with reductions in taxonomic complexity most pronounced in those with high SLE disease activity index (SLEDAI). Notably, patients with SLE had an overall 5-fold greater representation of Ruminococcus gnavus (RG) of the Lachnospiraceae family, and individual communities also displayed reciprocal contractions of a species with putative protective properties. Gut RG abundance correlated with serum antibodies to only 1/8 RG strains tested. Anti-RG antibodies correlated directly with SLEDAI score and antinative DNA levels, but inversely with C3 and C4. These antibodies were primarily against antigen(s) in an RG strain-restricted pool of cell wall lipoglycans. Novel structural features of these purified lipoglycans were characterised by mass spectrometry and NMR. Highest levels of serum anti-RG strain-restricted antibodies were detected in those with active nephritis (including Class III and IV) in the discovery cohort, with findings validated in two independent cohorts.ConclusionThese findings suggest a novel paradigm in which specific strains of a gut commensal may contribute to the immune pathogenesis of lupus nephritis.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and European League Against Rheumatism,Elsevier Limited,BMJ Publishing Group
Subject
/ Antibodies, Bacterial - blood
/ Antibodies, Bacterial - immunology
/ Antigens
/ Bacteria
/ Clostridiales - isolation & purification
/ DNA
/ Female
/ Humans
/ Immunity
/ Lupus
/ Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - blood
/ Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - immunology
/ Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic - microbiology
/ Lupus Nephritis - immunology
/ Lupus Nephritis - microbiology
/ Multiculturalism & pluralism
/ NMR
/ RNA, Ribosomal, 16S - analysis
/ rRNA
/ Studies
