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Cerebrospinal fluid proteome maps detect pathogen-specific host response patterns in meningitis

  1. Anahita Bakochi
  2. Tirthankar Mohanty
  3. Paul Theodor Pyl
  4. Carlos Alberto Gueto-Tettay
  5. Lars Malmström
  6. Adam Linder
  7. Johan Malmström  Is a corresponding author
  1. Lund University, Sweden
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64159
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  1. Anahita Bakochi
  2. Tirthankar Mohanty
  3. Paul Theodor Pyl
  4. Carlos Alberto Gueto-Tettay
  5. Lars Malmström
  6. Adam Linder
  7. Johan Malmström
(2021)
Cerebrospinal fluid proteome maps detect pathogen-specific host response patterns in meningitis
eLife 10:e64159.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64159
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Abstract

Meningitis is a potentially life-threatening infection characterized by the inflammation of the leptomeningeal membranes. Many different viral and bacterial pathogens can cause meningitis, with differences in mortality rates, risk of developing neurological sequelae and treatment options. Here we constructed a compendium of digital cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteome maps to define pathogen-specific host response patterns in meningitis. The results revealed a drastic and pathogen-type specific influx of tissue-, cell- and plasma proteins in the CSF, where in particular a large increase of neutrophil derived proteins in the CSF correlated with acute bacterial meningitis. Additionally, both acute bacterial and viral meningitis result in marked reduction of brain-enriched proteins. Generation of a multi-protein LASSO regression model resulted in an 18-protein panel of cell and tissue associated proteins capable of classifying acute bacterial meningitis and viral meningitis. The same protein panel also enabled classification of tick-borne encephalitis, a subgroup of viral meningitis, with high sensitivity and specificity. The work provides insights into pathogen specific host response patterns in CSF from different disease etiologies to support future classification of pathogen-type based on host response patterns in meningitis.

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The mass spectrometry proteomics data have been deposited to the ProteomeXchange Consortium via the PRIDE [1] partner repository with the dataset identifier PXD023174.

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  1. Anahita Bakochi

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  2. Tirthankar Mohanty

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  3. Paul Theodor Pyl

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  4. Carlos Alberto Gueto-Tettay

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  5. Lars Malmström

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  6. Adam Linder

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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  7. Johan Malmström

    Department of Clinical Sciences, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
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Funding

Knut och Alice Wallenbergs Stiftelse (2017.0271)

  • Johan Malmström

Vetenskapsrådet (2015-02481)

  • Johan Malmström

Vetenskapsrådet (2018-05795)

  • Johan Malmström

Vetenskapsrådet (2018-05973)

  • Johan Malmström

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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  1. Benjamin F Cravatt, The Scripps Research Institute, United States

Ethics

Human subjects: The medical ethics committees (Institutional Review Boards) of the Lund University approved of the study (decision number 790/2005 and 2016/672), and all samples were taken with the informed consent of the participants or next of kin.

Version history

  1. Received: October 20, 2020
  2. Accepted: April 4, 2021
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: April 6, 2021 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: April 13, 2021 (version 2)

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© 2021, Bakochi et al.

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  1. Anahita Bakochi
  2. Tirthankar Mohanty
  3. Paul Theodor Pyl
  4. Carlos Alberto Gueto-Tettay
  5. Lars Malmström
  6. Adam Linder
  7. Johan Malmström
(2021)
Cerebrospinal fluid proteome maps detect pathogen-specific host response patterns in meningitis
eLife 10:e64159.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.64159

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