Nature Communications (Mar 2022)

Autoantibodies targeting GPCRs and RAS-related molecules associate with COVID-19 severity

  • Otavio Cabral-Marques,
  • Gilad Halpert,
  • Lena F. Schimke,
  • Yuri Ostrinski,
  • Aristo Vojdani,
  • Gabriela Crispim Baiocchi,
  • Paula Paccielli Freire,
  • Igor Salerno Filgueiras,
  • Israel Zyskind,
  • Miriam T. Lattin,
  • Florian Tran,
  • Stefan Schreiber,
  • Alexandre H. C. Marques,
  • Desirée Rodrigues Plaça,
  • Dennyson Leandro M. Fonseca,
  • Jens Y. Humrich,
  • Antje Müller,
  • Lasse M. Giil,
  • Hanna Graßhoff,
  • Anja Schumann,
  • Alexander Hackel,
  • Juliane Junker,
  • Carlotta Meyer,
  • Hans D. Ochs,
  • Yael Bublil Lavi,
  • Carmen Scheibenbogen,
  • Ralf Dechend,
  • Igor Jurisica,
  • Kai Schulze-Forster,
  • Jonathan I. Silverberg,
  • Howard Amital,
  • Jason Zimmerman,
  • Harry Heidecke,
  • Avi Z. Rosenberg,
  • Gabriela Riemekasten,
  • Yehuda Shoenfeld

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28905-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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COVID-19, similarly to systemic autoimmune diseases, is characterised by the presence of autoantibodies. Authors show here that the abundance and network signature of autoantibodies targeting G protein-coupled receptors and RAS-related proteins are altered in COVID-19 patients, and the level of disruption marks clinical severity.