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Thromb Haemost ; 119(11): 1767-1772, 2019 Nov.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31587247

RESUMO

Thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) is a rare thrombotic microangiopathy (TMA) characterized by the severe deficiency of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13 (ADAMTS13) activity (< 10%). Rapid ADAMTS13 testing is crucial for an early diagnosis and optimal management of acute TTP. We evaluated the performance of the HemosIL AcuStar ADAMTS13 activity assay (Instrumentation Laboratory, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States), a fully automated chemiluminescent immunoassay with an analytical time of 33 minutes. A method comparison study was performed on 176 samples from 49 healthy donors and 127 TMA patients (109 TTP, 7 atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, 11 other TMAs), comparing this new assay with an in-house FRETS-VWF73 assay and a commercial enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) (TECHNOZYM ADAMTS-13 Activity, Technoclone GmbH, Vienna, Austria). Agreement between methods was assessed with focus on ADAMTS13 activity less than 10%, the medical decision level relevant for TTP diagnosis. The HemosIL AcuStar ADAMTS13 Activity showed good correlation with both the FRETS-VWF73 (r = 0.96) and ELISA (r = 0.96) methods. Slope of the Passing-Bablok regression was 1.05 for FRETS-VWF73 and 1.02 for ELISA, and absolute bias at the medical decision level was +0.1 and +0.3%, respectively. The study also revealed high agreement with FRETS-VWF73 (kappa 0.97) and ELISA (kappa 0.98) methods in classifying TTP patients with a severe deficiency of ADAMTS13 activity. Because of its short turnaround time and full automation, the HemosIL AcuStar ADAMTS13 activity assay might become the assay of choice to rapidly test ADAMTS13 activity in plasma and thus establish the diagnosis of acute TTP in emergency settings.


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Proteína ADAMTS13/sangue , Síndrome Hemolítico-Urêmica Atípica/diagnóstico , Imunoensaio/métodos , Púrpura Trombocitopênica Trombótica/diagnóstico , Proteína ADAMTS13/deficiência , Síndrome Hemolítico-Urêmica Atípica/sangue , Síndrome Hemolítico-Urêmica Atípica/enzimologia , Automação Laboratorial , Biomarcadores/sangue , Estudos de Casos e Controles , Ensaio de Imunoadsorção Enzimática , Humanos , Medições Luminescentes , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Púrpura Trombocitopênica Trombótica/sangue , Púrpura Trombocitopênica Trombótica/enzimologia , Reprodutibilidade dos Testes , Fatores de Tempo , Fluxo de Trabalho
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Clin J Am Soc Nephrol ; 10(6): 1011-9, 2015 Jun 05.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-25854283

RESUMO

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Genetic and acquired abnormalities causing dysregulation of the complement alternative pathway contribute to atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS), a rare disorder characterized by thrombocytopenia, nonimmune microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, and acute kidney failure. However, in a substantial proportion of patients the disease-associated alterations are still unknown. DESIGN, SETTING, PARTICIPANTS, & MEASUREMENTS: Whole-exome and whole-genome sequencing were performed in two unrelated families with infantile recessive aHUS. Sequencing of cDNA from affected individuals was used to test for the presence of aberrant mRNA species. Expression of mutant diacylglycerol kinase epsilon (DGKE) protein was evaluated with western blotting. RESULTS: Whole-exome sequencing analysis with conventional variant filtering parameters did not reveal any obvious candidate mutation in the first family. The report of aHUS-associated mutations in DGKE, encoding DGKE, led to re-examination of the noncoding DGKE variants obtained from next-generation sequencing, allowing identification of a novel intronic DGKE mutation (c.888+40A>G) that segregated with disease. Sequencing of cDNA from affected individuals revealed aberrant forms of DGKE mRNA predicted to cause profound abnormalities in the protein catalytic site. By whole-genome sequencing, the same mutation was found in compound heterozygosity with a second nonsense DGKE mutation in all affected siblings of another unrelated family. Homozygous and compound heterozygous patients presented similar clinical features, including aHUS presentation in the first year of life, multiple relapsing episodes, and proteinuria, which are prototypical of DGKE-associated aHUS. CONCLUSIONS: This is the first report of a mutation located beyond the exon-intron boundaries in aHUS. Intronic mutations such as these are underreported because conventional filtering parameters used to process next-generation sequencing data routinely exclude these regions from downstream analyses in both research and clinical settings. The results suggest that analysis of noncoding regions of aHUS-associated genes coupled with mRNA sequencing might provide a tool to explain genetically unsolved aHUS cases.


Assuntos
Síndrome Hemolítico-Urêmica Atípica/genética , Diacilglicerol Quinase/genética , Íntrons , Mutação , Adolescente , Síndrome Hemolítico-Urêmica Atípica/diagnóstico , Síndrome Hemolítico-Urêmica Atípica/enzimologia , Sequência de Bases , Western Blotting , Criança , Análise Mutacional de DNA , Diacilglicerol Quinase/metabolismo , Feminino , Estudos de Associação Genética , Predisposição Genética para Doença , Heterozigoto , Homozigoto , Humanos , Lactente , Masculino , Dados de Sequência Molecular , Fenótipo , Valor Preditivo dos Testes , Fatores de Risco
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