Detection of circulating natural antibodies to inflammatory cytokines in type-2 diabetes and clinical significance

Journal of Inflammation

Cailing Qiu¹  Xiangyun Chen¹  Jun Wei²  Qingyong Meng³  Weiyi Cai³  Xuan Zhang⁴  Hongyu Zhang⁴ 

[1] Dalang Hospital of Dongguan;Division of Health Research, University of the Highlands & Islands, Centre for Health Science;Laboratory for Nursing Science & Institute of Laboratory Medicine, Guangdong Medical University;The Second Hospital, Jilin University;

关键词: Natural antibodies;    IgG antibody;    Inflammatory cytokines;    Type-2 diabetes;    ELISA;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12950-017-0171-6

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

Abstract Background Inflammatory cytokines have been demonstrated to be involved in developing insulin resistance and type-2 diabetes (T2D). Natural antibodies in the circulation have protective effects on common diseases in humans. The present study was thus designed to test the hypothesis that natural antibodies against inflammatory cytokines could be associated with T2D. Methods An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed in-house to detect plasma IgG against peptide antigens derived from interleukin 1α (IL1α), IL1β, IL6, IL8 and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) in 200 patients with T2D and 220 control subjects. Results Binary regression showed that compared with control subjects, T2D patients had a decreased level of plasma anti-IL6 IgG (adjusted r 2=0.034, p=0.0001), anti-IL8 IgG (adjusted r 2=0.021, p=0.002) and anti-TNF-α IgG (adjusted r 2=0.017, p=0.003). Female patients mainly contributed to decreased levels of anti-IL6 IgG (adjusted r 2=0.065, p=0.0008) and anti-IL8 IgG (adjusted r 2=0.056, p=0.003), while male patients mainly contributed to decreased anti-TNF-α IgG levels (adjusted r 2=0.024, p=0.005). ROC curve analysis revealed a sensitivity of 16.5% against specificity of 95.5% for anti-IL6 IgG assay and a sensitivity of 19.5% against specificity of 95.9% for anti-IL8 IgG assay. Glycated hemoglobin levels measured after 6-month glucose-lowering treatment appeared to be inversely correlated with plasma anti-IL1α IgG (r=-0.477, df=17, p=0.039) and anti-IL6 IgG (r=-0.519, df=17, p=0.023) although such correlation failed to survive the Bonferroni correction. Conclusions Deficiency of natural IgG against inflammatory cytokines is likely to be a risk factor for T2D development and detection of such antibodies may be useful for personalized treatment of the disease.

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