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- Title
Discontinuous epitopes on the C2 domain of coagulation Factor VIII mapped by computer-designed synthetic peptides.
- Authors
Lebreton, Aurélien; Moreau, Violaine; Lapalud, Priscilla; Cayzac, Christopher; André, Sébastien; Nguyen, Christophe; Schved, Jean-François; Lavigne, Géraldine; Granier, Claude
- Abstract
Summary The occurrence of alloantibodies against Factor VIII (FVIII) is the main iatrogenic complication in haemophilia A (HA). Anti-FVIII autoantibodies may also spontaneously appear in non-HA patients, leading to acquired haemophilia A. In both contexts, the antibody response against FVIII is complex and difficult to analyse due to the lack of suitable tools. Our purpose was to comprehensively map, at the amino acid level, discontinuous epitopes of the C2 domain of FVIII targeted by patients' antibodies. We synthesized 33 synthetic peptides, which were predicted by the bioinformatic algorithm PEPOP to mimic C2 domain discontinuous epitopes. Using an inhibition assay based on the x-MAP technology, we evaluated their ability to block the binding to the C2 domain of anti-C2 domain antibodies from pooled plasma samples. Nine peptides were thus selected and tested again in individual plasma samples. Our results support the view that C2 domain epitopes are organized as an epitopic mosaic distributed around the molecule, showed that each patient displayed a specific anti-C2 epitopic profile, and confirmed the complexity and variability of the immune response against the C2 domain of FVIII. This ability to finely map epitopes could be further used to follow the antibody specificity modifications over time.
- Subjects
EPITOPES; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; HEMOPHILIA; BLOOD coagulation disorders; IMMUNE response; AUTOANTIBODIES
- Publication
British Journal of Haematology, 2011, Vol 155, Issue 4, p487
- ISSN
0007-1048
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1365-2141.2011.08878.x