Publication date: Available online 2 November 2017
Source:Clinical Biochemistry
Author(s): Yasuaki Nakagawa, Toshio Nishikimi, Hiroshi Sakai, Seiko Ohno, Hideyuki Kinoshita, Hideaki Inazumi, Kenji Moriuchi, Koichiro Kuwahara, Minoru Horie, Takeshi Kimura
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) is a cardiac hormone widely used as a biomarker for heart failure. Here, we present the first report of extremely high levels of immunoreactive BNP caused by formation of macro-proBNP.A 70-year-old woman with left ventricular hypertrophy and normal systolic function presented with extremely high plasma levels of BNP (35,374pg/ml) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP; 30,600pg/ml). Our recently developed proBNP immunoassay showed that nearly 100% of her immunoreactive BNP was proBNP. Polyethylene glycol precipitation tests reported extremely low BNP recovery (1.3%), while protein G addition tests also reported a remarkably low BNP fraction (3.3%). Gel filtration chromatography with normal elution buffer combined with BNP immunoassays showed a BNP peak with a retention time slightly shorter than that of IgG. With acidic elution buffer (pH3.0), however this peak disappeared and a new BNP peak consistent with glycosylated human proBNP appeared. These results suggest that in this case most BNP immunoreactivity consisted of macro-proBNP, which is an immune complex composed of proBNP and an anti-proBNP autoantibody. Gel filtration chromatography combined with NT-proBNP immunoassays revealed that the NT-proBNP assay cross-reacts with both the proBNP-IgG complex and proBNP. In addition, with acidic buffer, a new large peak appeared with a retention time the same as that of glycosylated NT-proBNP.These results suggest spuriously high levels of BNP and NT-proBNP are caused by macro-proBNP. Macro-NT-proBNP is not detected by the currently available NT-proBNP assay system.
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