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April 14, 2020; 94 (15 Supplement) Sunday, April 26

Autoimmunity to Hypocretin/Orexin and Molecular Mimicry to Flu in Type 1 Narcolepsy (4989)

Guo Luo, Aditya Ambati, Ling Lin, Markku Partinen, Xuhuai Ji, Holden Maecker, Emmanuel Mignot
First published April 14, 2020,
Guo Luo
1Stanford Center for Sleep Sciences and Medicine
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2Helsinki Sleep Clinic
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Autoimmunity to Hypocretin/Orexin and Molecular Mimicry to Flu in Type 1 Narcolepsy (4989)
Guo Luo, Aditya Ambati, Ling Lin, Markku Partinen, Xuhuai Ji, Holden Maecker, Emmanuel Mignot
Neurology Apr 2020, 94 (15 Supplement) 4989;

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Abstract

Objective: To investigate the pathophysiology of Type 1 Narcolepsy.

Background: Type 1 narcolepsy (T1N) is caused by a hypocretin (HCRT, also called orexin) cell loss. Association with DQB1*06:02/DQA1*01:02 (DQ0602, 98% vs. 25%), T cell receptors (TCR) and other loci indicate autoimmunity. Onset is seasonal and associated with influenza-A, notably pandemic 2009H1N1 (pH1N1) infection and the pH1N1 vaccine Pandemrix. The strong HLA association and unique effects in TCRA and TCRB suggest that autoantigen presentation by DQ0602 to CD4+ T cell is crucial. We surveyed CD4+ T cell binding to autoantigens and flu antigens presented by DQ0602 in narcolepsy versus controls, identifying the immunological basis of narcolepsy.

Design/Methods: DQ0602 binding was tested for peptides overlapping RFX4, HCRT and flu HA, NA, PB1and NP sequences. Reactivity to ~100 tetramers was tested in 6 narcolepsy and 4 controls after expansion of cells in 10-day cultures. Higher tetramer-peptide specific CD4+ T cells was found with HCRT54–66-NH2, HCRT86–97-NH2 (HCRTNH2), pHA273–287 and NP17–31, further confirmed for HCRTNH2 and pHA273–287 in 77 T1N and 44 DQ0602 controls. Single cell TCR sequencing after FACS sorting was conducted and public TCR clones transfected into Jurkat76 cells to test for activation after peptide presentation by K562-DQ0602 or RM3-DQ0602 cells.

Results: Most commonly used public sequences CDR3β-TRBV4-2-CASSQETQGRNYGYTF, CDR3a-TRAV2-CAVETDSWGKLQF-TRAJ24 and TRAV26-1-CIVRSQGGSYIPTF-TRAJ6 were retrieved using both DQ0602-HCRTNH2 and DQ0602-pHA273–287 but not DQ0602-NP17–31 tetramers. Sharing of clones using TRAJ24 and TRBV4-2 was notable as these exact segments (~0.8% of repertoire) are modulated by rs1154155/rs1483979 and rs1008599, polymorphisms associated with T1N. Jurkat cells transfected with some clones were activated by HCRTNH2 and pHA273–287, suggesting molecular mimicry. As a control, NP17–31 involved different TCRs, notably TRAV8-6_TRAJ34 with TRBV7-9_TRBJ2-3 and was only activated by NP17–31.

Conclusions: Our results provide strong evidence for autoimmunity and molecular mimicry with flu antigens modulated by genetic components in the pathophysiology of T1N.

Disclosure: Dr. Luo has nothing to disclose. Dr. Ambati has nothing to disclose. Dr. Lin has nothing to disclose. Dr. Partinen has received personal compensation for consulting, serving on a scientific advisory board, speaking, or other activities with Has participated in advisory boards of AOP Orphan, Bioprojet, UCB, and Umecrine. Dr. Partinen has received research support from Has received research support for clinical trials for Bioprojet, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, MSD, and Umecrine. Dr. Ji has nothing to disclose. Dr. Maecker has nothing to disclose. Dr. Mignot has received personal compensation for consulting, serving on a scientific advisory board, speaking, or other activities with Dr Mignot has consulted for Novo Nordisk and Reset Pharmaceuticals, and is on the speakers' bureau for Vox Media.. Dr. Mignot has received research support from Dr. Mignot has received research support from Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Merck, and Glaxo Smith Kline (GSK).

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