MAYAGUEZ, Puerto Rico and BALTIMORE, Sept. 23, 2020 - CDI Laboratories, Inc. HuProt™ protein microarray provided important data on a recent high impact paper comparing the immune profiles of MIS-C, healthy children and individuals with COVID-19.

(see https://www.newswise.com/coronavirus/mount-sinai-researchers-study-sars-cov2-caussed-mis-c)

In recent months some children that have been infected with SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) have developed an inflammatory problem that was initially recognized as very similar in presentation to Kawasaki disease (KD), an acute systemic vasculitis.

A recent paper has mapped the cellular and serological immune dysfunction underlying this novel pediatric inflammatory syndrome associated with SARS-CoV-2, and helped define how this unique disease differs from Kawasaki disease..

Mapping Systemic Inflammation and Antibody Responses in Multisystem

Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)

Conor Gruber, et al.

PII: S0092-8674(20)31231-9

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.09.034

Reference: CELL 11634

In the above paper auto-antigen reactivity of MIS-C plasma was assayed with CDI Laboratories HuProt protein arrays which contain 81% of the human proteome. This work revealed both known autoimmune-associated autoantibodies (anti-La) and novel candidates that recognize endothelial, gastrointestinal and immune-cell antigens unique to organs affected by MIS-C.

"CDI is very proud that our HuProt array was so useful in looking into this perplexing side effect of COVID-19 infection in children," said Scott Paschke, CDI VP. "Furthermore, PhIP-Seq technology was also used to look at linear epitopes of auto-antibodies, which is another technology that CDI has recently added."

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