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1 Anti–GM-CSF autoantibodies promote a “pre-diseased” state in Crohn’s Disease.
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3 Authors:
4 Arthur Mortha (1,2,4,18)*, Romain Remark (1,5), Diane Marie Del Valle (1,2), Ling-
5 Shiang Chuang (3,6), Zhi Chai (3,6), Inês Alves (15,16), Catarina Azevedo (15), Joana
6 Gaifem (15), Jerome Martin (13, 14), Kevin Tuballes (1,2), Vanessa Barcessat (1,2),
7 Siu Ling Tai (4), Hsin-Hui Huang (2), Ilaria Laface (1,2), Yeray Arteaga Jerez (1), Gilles
8 Boschetti (1,7), Nicole Villaverde (6), Mona D. Wang (4), Ujunwa M. Korie (3,6),
9 Joseph Murray (12), Rok-Seon Choung (12), Takahiro Sato (10), Renee M. Laird (11),
10 Scot Plevy (10), Adeeb Rahman (1,3), Joana Torres (8,9), Chad Porter (11), Mark S.
11 Riddle (11), Ephraim Kenigsberg (3,6), Salomé S. Pinho (15, 16, 17), Judy H. Cho
12 (6,18), Miriam Merad (1,2,3,18)*, Jean-Frederic Colombel (1,8,18)*, Sacha Gnjatic
13 (1,2,3,18)*
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18 Institutions:
19 1. Precision Immunology Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New
20 York, NY, USA
21 2. Tisch Cancer Institute, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Department of Medicine,
22 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
23 3. Human Immune Monitoring Center at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
24 4. Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, CA
25 5. Innate Pharma, Marseille, FR
26 6. Charles Bronfman Institute for Personalized Medicine, Department of Genetics,
27 Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA
28 7. Hépato-Gastroentérologue, Hospices Civils de Lyon, Université Claude Bernard
29 Lyon, FR
30 8. Department of Gastroenterology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New
31 York, NY, USA
32 9. Gastroenterology Division, Hospital Beatriz Ângelo, Loures, PT
33 10. Janssen R&D, Spring House, PA, USA
34 11. Naval Medical Research Center, Silver Spring, MD, USA
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35 12. Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA
36 13. Université de Nantes, Inserm, CHU Nantes, Centre de Recherche en
37 Transplantation et Immunologie, UMR 1064, ITUN, 44000 Nantes, France
38 14. CHU Nantes, Laboratoire d’Immunologie, CIMNA, 44000 Nantes, France
39 15. i3S – Institute for Research and Innovation in Health, University of Porto, 4200-
40 135 Porto, Portugal.
41 16. Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, 4200-319 Porto, Portugal.
42 17. Institute of Biomedical Sciences Abel Salazar (ICBAS), University of Porto, 4050-
43 313 Porto, Portugal.
44 18. These authors contributed equally
45 * Corresponding authors
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51 Grant support: A.M. is supported by a CIHR-Project Grant (388337), a NSERC-
52 Discovery Grant (RGPIN-2019-04521). A.M. is the Tier 2 Canadian Research Chair in
53 Mucosal Immunology and supported by the Tier 2 CRC-CIHR program. S.S.P.
54 acknowledges Portuguese funds through the Portuguese Foundation for Science and
55 Technology (FCT) in the framework of the project POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028772 and
56 support by the Broad Medical Research Program at the Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation
57 of America; the International Organization for the study of Inflammatory Bowel
58 Disease, and the Portuguese Group of Study in IBD (GEDII) for funding. S.S.P. also
59 acknowledges the US Department of Defense, US Army Medical Research Acquisition
60 Activity, FY18 Peer Reviewed Medical Research Program Investigator-Initiated
61 Research Award (award number W81XWH1920053). I.A. thanks FCT for funding
62 [SFRH/BD/128874/2017]. S.L.T. acknowledges funding through the Dr. Edward
63 KETCHUM Graduate Student Scholarships at the University of Toronto and the
64 Canada Graduate Scholarships – Master's (CGS-M) award. M.W. is support by a
65 UROP fellowship by the Department of Immunology at the University of Toronto. J.H.C.
66 acknowledges funding from U01 DK062429, U01 DK062422, R01 DK106593, and the
67 Sanford Grossman Charitable Trust. S.G and J.F.C. are supported through U01
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68 DK124165. S.G. is additionally supported by grants U24 CA224319. Funding and
69 support of the PREDICTS study platform was provided through a Cooperative and
70 Research Development Agreement with direct contributions by Janssen
71 Pharmaceuticals, Prometheus Laboratories and the Naval Medical Research Center
72 (NCRADA number NMR-11-3920). The mass cytometry instrumentation at the Human
73 Immune Monitoring Center was obtained with support from S10 OD023547 and P01
74 CA196521.
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76 Correspondence:
77 Arthur Mortha, Ph.D.
78 University of Toronto, Department of Immunology, Medical Science Building ,1 King’s
79 College Circle, Room 7326, Toronto M5S 1A8, Ontario Canada
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89 and OncoMed and research funding from Bristol-Myers Squibb, Genentech, Janssen
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102 Author Contributions:
103 AM, RR, DMDV, LSC, ZC, IA, CA, JG, JM, KT, SLT, IL, AR, YAJ, GB, NV, MW
104 performed experiments, sample processing data acquisition and analysis. JM, RSC,
105 TS, RML, SP, CP, MSR, EK, SSP, JHC, MM, JFC, AM and SG provided guidance,
106 facilitated sample acquisition or coordinated this study. AM and SG wrote the
107 manuscript.
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109 Data transparency statement:
110 The data that supports the findings of this study are available from the corresponding
111 authors upon reasonable request.
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113 Abstract
114 Background & Aims: Anti–GM-CSF autoantibodies (aGMAb) are detected in ileal
115 Crohn’s Disease (CD) patients. Their induction and mode of action impacting
116 homeostasis during, or prior to disease are not well understood. We aimed to
117 investigate the underlying mechanisms leading to the induction of aGMAb, from
118 functional orientation to recognized epitopes, for their impact on intestinal immune
119 homeostasis and use as predictive biomarker for complicated CD.
120 Methods: Using longitudinally collected sera from active component US personnel, we
121 characterize naturally occurring aGMAb in a subset of CD patients years before
122 disease onset. We employed biochemical, cellular, and transcriptional analysis to
123 uncover a mechanism that governs the impaired immune balance in CD years prior to
124 diagnosis.
125 Results: Neutralizing aGMAb are specific to posttranslational glycosylations on GM-
126 CSF, detectable years prior to diagnosis, and associated with complicated CD at
127 presentation. Glycosylation and production of GM-CSF change in CD patients, altering
128 myeloid homeostasis and destabilizing group 3 innate lymphoid cells. Perturbations in
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129 immune homeostasis precede the inflammation and are detectable in the non-inflamed
130 CD mucosa of patients presenting with anti-GM-CSF autoantibodies.
131 Conclusions: Anti-GM-CSF autoantibodies predict the diagnosis of complicated CD,
132 have unique epitopes, and impair myeloid cell homeostasis across the ILC3-GM-CSF-
133 myeloid cell axis, altering intestinal immune homeostasis long before the diagnosis of
134 disease.
135 Keywords: Crohn’s Disease, innate lymphoid cells, macrophages, GM-CSF,
136 autoantibodies
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138 Introduction:
139 Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), sub-classified into Crohn’s disease (CD) and
140 ulcerative colitis (UC), is an increasingly diagnosed chronic inflammatory pathology of
141 the gastrointestinal tract, affecting 0.3% of the world’s population1. While both CD and
142 UC affect the gastrointestinal tract, their causes remains puzzling and are likely
143 multifactorial2. Genome-wide association studies (GWAS) provide strong support that
144 IBD is a pathology driven by mono and multigenetic variations, but non-genetic and
145 environmental factors are also considered as contributors to the heterogeneity of this
146 disease3,3, 4. Identifying factors contributing to IBD development that may predict
147 disease onset is therefore of high clinical relevance.
148 A key immunologic characteristic of IBD is the break in intestinal homeostasis,
149 commonly manifested through insufficient barrier integrity, decreased immunologic
150 tolerance, or excessive inflammation. The cytokine Granulocyte Macrophage-Colony
151 Stimulating Factor (GM-CSF) reportedly plays a dual role in intestinal inflammation and
152 was shown to have both protective and inflammatory properties in CD5-9. Group 3
153 innate lymphoid cells (ILC3) produce GM-CSF in the gut, which acts on myeloid
154 immune cells to sustain immune homeostasis10. Derived from ILC3, GM-CSF
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155 promotes anti-bacterial and immunomodulatory functions in myeloid cells, to sustain
156 the transcriptional stability of ILC3 via the metabolite retinoic acid (RA), further
157 contributing to the generation and maintenance of immunosuppressive regulatory T
158 cells (Treg)10,11. However, in CD patients, myeloid cells induce differentiation of ILC3
159 into inflammatory group 1 ILC (ILC1) via Interleukin (IL)-12 and IL-2312-14. ILC3 or GM-
160 CSF deficiency impairs anti-microbial immunity and mucosal homeostasis aligning with
161 the identification of mutations in GM-CSF signaling in CD patients6, 10,15. Administration
162 of yeast-produced GM-CSF (sargramostim) improved CD and ameliorated symptoms
163 5, 16. However, larger trials with sargramostim in CD failed to reach statistical
164 significance, possibly due to high placebo group responses and suboptimal study
165 design17-19.
166 Besides genetic defects in GM-CSF signaling, aGMAb may also contribute to CD in a
167 subset of patients, and associate with ileal involvement, disease severity, higher
168 relapse rates and complications20-24. Such autoantibodies can cause pulmonary
169 alveolar proteinosis (PAP), resulting in alveolar macrophage-deficiency and increased
170 lung pathologies25. Why PAP patients do not display intestinal pathologies and why
171 CD patients with aGMAb do not show PAP-associated pulmonary symptoms remains
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172 unknown. Moreover, both the overproduction and absence of GM-CSF significantly
173 increase the susceptibility to develop IBD, emphasizing the heterogeneity in CD
174 pathogenesis, prompting us to investigate the biology of aGMAb prior to diagnosis in
175 CD 5-9, 26.
176 Here, we analyzed >1800 sera, collected longitudinally from active component US
177 military personnel over 10-years including subjects who eventually developed CD
178 (n=220), UC (n=200), and personnel without CD or UC (HD, n=220) 27, along with
179 controls with established CD or PAP. We analyzed titers, isotype profiles, epitopes,
180 and functional consequences of aGMAb, using ELISA, neutralization, and reporter
181 assays, and their effect on immune subsets in non-inflamed ileal CD biopsies by RNA
182 sequencing, to establish mechanisms of pathology prior to disease and at its onset
183 that could be exploited for personalized CD therapies.
184 Methods
185 Human specimen
186 Non-involved intestinal resection and involved intestinal resection samples were
187 obtained from patients with CD undergoing ileal resection surgery at the Mount Sinai
188 Medical Center (New York, NY) after obtaining informed consent. All protocols were
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189 reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board (IRB) at the Icahn School of
190 Medicine at Mount Sinai (IRB 08-1236 and IRB HSM 13-00998). Stored pre-diagnosis
191 serum samples were obtained from the Department of Defense Serum Repository,
192 Silver Spring, MD, USA. 220 CD, 200 UC, and 200 healthy controls (HC) samples were
193 provided, sampled at two to three time points prior to diagnosis of disease and one
194 time point post diagnosis of disease27. Blood samples from six adult CD patients were
195 collected at Porto University Centre Hospital, Portugal (CHUP). PAP control sera were
196 kindly provided by Dr. Lanzavecchia (Institute for Research in Biomedicine,
197 Switzerland). All patients were diagnosed with active CD and were naïve for treatment
198 with biologics at the time of blood collection. Blood samples from healthy donors were
199 used as controls. All participants gave informed consent about all clinical procedures
200 and research protocols were approved by the ethical committee of both hospitals.
201 Serum was collected from peripheral blood by centrifugation at 1620 x g for 10 minutes
202 and stored at -80ºC until analysis.
203 Sample collection: Resection samples and biopsies were cleared by a pathologist and
204 placed in complete RPMI media on ice prior to processing. Patients diagnosed with
205 UC or malignancies were excluded from the analysis.
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206 Isolation of PBMC: Buffy coats obtained from the New York City Blood Center and
207 PBMCs collected via a Ficoll gradient. PBMCs were washed, counted and
208 resuspended in complete RPMI followed by consecutive experiments or further used
209 for the enrichment of monocytes using magnetic anti-CD14-beads (purity of monocytes
210 > 98%).
211 Isolation of lamina propria leukocytes: freshly removed ileal resections were washed
212 in ice-cold PBS and scraped off of mucus. Epithelial cells were removed in HBSS free
213 of calcium and magnesium, supplemented with EDTA (5mM) and HEPES (10mM) for
214 20-30 minutes at 37°C at 100rpm. Fibrotic tissue was removed and non-fibrotic
215 mucosa minced and digested using Collagenase IV and DNase I (both Sigma) in HBSS
216 (Ca2+Mg2+) 2% FBS for 30 minutes at 37°C at 100rpm agitation. Cell suspensions were
217 filtered and live cells enriched using Percoll (80%:40%). The interphase was
218 harvested, washed in FACS buffer (PBS, 5mM EDTA and 2% FBS) for subsequent
219 use.
220 Flow Cytometry and Mass Cytometry
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221 Aldefluor staining: freshly isolated PBMCs or lamina propria leukocytes were washed
222 twice in PBS and stained following the manufacturer protocol. Following Aldefluor
223 staining, cells were washed in PBS and processed for surface staining.
224 Surface staining: Fc-receptors were blocked using Fc-block reagent (BD), following a
225 20 min surface staining with directly conjugated monoclonal antibodies. The following
226 antibodies were used and purchased from BD, R+D, Biolegend and Miltenyi: anti-
227 human CD45, anti-human HLA-DR, anti-human CD11c, anti-human CD14, anti-human
228 CD1c, anti-human CD141, anti-human CD127, anti-human CD117, anti-NKp44, anti-
229 CD161, anti-CD3, anti-CD19, anti-RORgt, anti-CD69. Following surface staining, cells
230 were fix using the FOXP3 staining kit to stain for RORgt.
231 Intracellular cytokine staining: for intracellular cytokine staining of GM-CSF and IFN-g,
232 cells were re-suspended in complete RPMI supplemented with 10% FBS, 1% non-
233 essential amino acids, 1% sodium-pyruvate, 1% L-glutamine, 1% penicillin-
234 streptomycin and 1% HEPES. Media was further supplemented with Brefeldin A (for
235 GM-CSF) or Brefeldin A, PMA (Sigma) and Ionomycin (Sigma) (for IFN-g). Cells were
236 incubated for 4h at 37°C and 5% CO2 prior to surface staining. Post surface staining,
237 cells were fixed for 30minutes in Cytofix/CytoPerm (BD), washed in PBS containing
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238 2% FBS, 5mM EDTA (FACS buffer) and 0.5% Saponin (Sigma). Anti-cytokine staining
239 was performed for 30minutes at 4°C in the dark. Cells were washed and samples were
240 analyzed on a BD LSR Fortessa II.
241 Phospho STAT5 staining: PBMCs or isolated LPL were resuspended in PBS and
242 incubated with GM-CSF (10ng/ml) STAT5 phosphorylation was assessed using the
243 BD PhosFlow Protocol for human PBMCs using PermBuffer II. Intracellular staining of
244 pSTAT5 was performed using anti-human pSTAT5-Alexa647.
245 Mass Cytometry: Cells were stimulated at 1-3x106/cells per reaction with recombinant
246 GM-CSF (10ng/ml) for 20-30mins. Following stimulation cells were fixed for 30mins
247 following the PhosFlow Protocol for human PBMCs using PermBuffer II (BD). Post
248 fixation, groups of cells were barcoded using Cell-ID™ 20-Plex Pd Barcoding Kit and
249 combinations of different metal isotope conjugated anti-CD45 antibodies. Pooled
250 samples were stained with markers listed in SUPPLEMENTARY FIGURE 2A and
251 analyzed on a Helios CyTOF system. Dimensionality reduction of CyTOF data was
252 performed on the Cytobank software using the viSNE algorithm.
253 Anti-GM-CSF ELISA, serum GM-CSF ELISA and Lectin ELISA
254 For anti–GM-CSF ELISAs, plates were coated with recombinant human GM-CSF
255 (sargramostim), washed and blocked with TBST/BSA. Wells were incubated with 10-
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256 50µl of serum diluted in TBST followed by three washing steps. Anti–GM-CSF
257 antibodies were detected by pan anti-human IgG HRP or isotype specific secondary
258 antibodies. Substrate reaction was assessed using a plate reader at 550nm. Detection
259 of lectin-binding motifs in the serum GM-CSF from CD patients and HD was performed
260 by a lectin ELISA adapted from 76. Prior to serum capture, serum from CD patients and
261 HD was concentrated using Amicon® Ultra-2 mL Centrifugal Filters, to reach a final
262 concentration of 4X. Microtiter plates (Maxisorp, Nunc) were coated with a mouse anti-
263 human GM-CSF (DuoSet R&D Systems) in PBS buffer, overnight at room temperature
264 (RT). Blocking was performed with Carbo-free blocking solution (Vector Labs) for 1h
265 at RT. Plates were washed 5 times with PBS + 0.05% Tween 20 (PBST) before the
266 CD/HD plasma samples in PBS containing 1% Carbo-free blocking solution (diluent
267 solution) were added and incubated shaking at 200 rpm for 2h at RT. After washing
268 the wells as described above, biotinylated mouse anti-human GM-CSF (DuoSet R&D
269 Systems) was added and incubated for 2h shaking at 200 rpm at RT. Bound GM-CSF
270 was detected using an HRP-conjugated streptavidin (DuoSet R&D Systems) incubated
271 for 20 minutes and Tetramethylbenzidine substrate (DuoSet R&D Systems) was
272 incubated for 20 minutes protected from dark. Reaction was stopped using H2SO4 and
273 the amount of bound lectin was measured at 450 nm using a μQuant Microplate
274 Reader (BioTek, Agilent).
275 Antibody-binding assay: GM-CSF was heat-denaturated in SDS containing buffer and
276 used for anti–GM-CSF ELISAs. Binding-strength of anti–GM-CSF antibodies in patient
277 sera was assessed using wash step with NaCl salt solutions of increasing
278 concentrations (1-4M NaCl). Binding capacity was calculated as % of maximal binding.
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279 Stripping of glycosylation on GM-CSF: GM-CSF was stripped using N-Glycosidase F,
280 α2-3,6,8,9-Neuraminidase, Endo-α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase, β1,4-galactosidase
281 and β-N-Acetylglucosaminidase (SIGMA) and according to the manufacturer’s
282 recommendations.
283 Native PAGE, SDS-PAGE/Western Blot, Lectin Blot: Recombinant and stripped GM-
284 CSF (sargramostim) (8µg/well) were separated on 15% resolving native
285 polyacrylamide gels. Gels were stained with Coomassie G Brilliant Blue to confirm
286 stripping. Proteins were then transferred to nitrocellulose membranes and membranes
287 were blocked with 5% Non-Fat Dry Milk in Tris-Buffer Saline 0.1% Tween-20 (TBST)
288 at 4°C. Membranes were then incubated with serum samples (diluted 1:100 in blocking
289 buffer). Bound anti–GM-CSF antibodies were detected using anti-Human IgG AP at
290 1:1000 in TBST. Images of western blots have been cropped in Figure 1C and
291 supplementary Figure 2B and 2C.
292 Lectin Blot and Western Blot :The glycoprofile of recombinant forms of GM-CSF was
293 evaluated by lectin blot. 2 μg of purified GM-CSF were separated as above and
294 membranes blocked with BSA 4%. Phaseolus Vulgaris Leucoagglutinin (L-PHA),
295 Maackia Amurensis Lectin II (MAL-II), Galanthus Nivalis Lectin (GNA) and Aleuria
296 Aurantia Lectin (AAL) (each 2ug/mL) were used and bands visualized using the
297 Vectorstain Elite ABC kit and ECL reagent. For western blot analysis 5μg of purified
298 GM-CSF separated as above and detected using biotinylated GM-CSF antibody
299 (0,1μg/mL R&D Systems). Target bands were visualized as above.
300
301 Cloning, mutagenesis, expression and purification of GM-CSF
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302 A double-stranded, C-terminal polyhistidine-tag (His-tag) containing GM-CSF DNA
303 fragment was cloned into pIRESpuro2. Mutagenesis of putative glycosylation sites was
304 performed using the Q5® Site-Directed Mutagenesis Kit and constructs of wild type
305 and mutated GM-CSF stabely transfected into HEK293 cells (a kind gift by Dr. Goetz
306 Erhardt). Cytokine secretion was validated using intracellular cytokine staining and
307 ELISA as described above. Recombinant GM-CSF variants were purified using Ni-
308 columns followed by western blot or assessment of bioactivity on U937 cells (a kind
309 gift by Dr. Goetz Erhardt, University of Toronto).
310
311 ILC gene signatures
312 ILC1: TBX21, IL12RB2, IL12RB1, IL2RB, GZMB, IFNG, FASLG, IL2RA, IRF8, GZMA,
313 IKZF3, EOMES, ZNF683, GZMM
314 ILC3: TNFSF13B, AHR, CCR6, CCL20, IL1R1, ID2, TOX2 ,NR1D1, IL22, LIF, RORC,
315 KIT, IL23R, CSF2, IL7R, MAF
316
317 Statistical Analyses: We used several visualization and clustering tools to describe the
318 association of the investigated cells and analytes, e.g., scatter plot, heatmap, and t-
319 distributed Stochastic Neighborhood Embedding (t-SNE). Continuous variables were
320 summarized by disease groups (CD, UC, HD, and PAP) using standard descriptive
321 statistics: median, interquartile range (IQR), mean, and standard deviation (SD) as
322 appropriate. Antibody titers ≥ 100 were categorized as seropositive, and seronegative
323 otherwise. The differences in analytes between the groups were assessed using
324 Mann-Whitney, Student t-test, Kruskal-Wallis, and Analysis of variance (ANOVA) as
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325 appropriate. The differences in longitudinal antibody values between sampling time
326 points were evaluated using paired t-test or Wilcoxon tests. We classified the trajectory
327 groups based on the longitudinal antibody titers at earliest time point vs. follow-up time
328 points: 1. Positive: titers ≥100 at baseline and follow-up time points; 2. Negative: titers
329 <100 at baseline and follow-up time points; and 3. Increase: titers ≥100 and increasing
330 at least four times compared to titers at previous time point(s). We explored the impact
331 of prior antibody titers on development of severe CD using the Kaplan-Meier method
332 with log-rank hazard ratio calculations. Data in the main figures show the combined
333 data from a set of 320 patients (n=960 samples) used as a training cohort and another
334 300 patients (n=1200 samples) obtained and tested independently as a validation
335 cohort (the data for training and validation cohorts is presented separately in
336 supplemental figures). The model determined by the training cohort was then tested in
337 the validation cohort, which performance metrics included sensitivity, specificity, and
338 area under curve (AUC). The correlation between antibodies to GM-CSF and to ASCA
339 or between GM-CSF autoantibody titers and pSTAT5 levels was assessed using
340 Spearman’s correlation coefficient. The primary analyses were two-sided at the
341 significant level of 0.05. We used the Bonferroni method to adjust for the situation of
342 multiple testing.
343
344 Results
345 CD-associated aGMAb are distinct from those in PAP and UC.
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346 To assess the prevalence and characteristics of aGMAb in IBD, serum IgG titers
347 against sargramostim, a yeast-produced recombinant GM-CSF, were tested in a
348 cohort of patients with active CD (n=81) or UC (n=37), healthy donors (HD, n=43) and
349 PAP patients (n=12). Among IBD patients, 40% of CD and 14% of UC patients
350 displayed detectable levels of IgG aGMAb (titers >1/100) (FIG.1A). Titers detected in
351 CD but not UC patients were significantly higher compared to HD, but lower when
352 compared to PAP patients (FIG.1A). Only 3/53 sera from IBD patients with aGMAb
353 reacted with other known autoantigens, emphasizing that the vast majority of aGMAb
354 responses were antigen-specific (FIG.S1A). Sera showing broad non-specific antigen
355 reactivity were excluded. Even though aGMAb titers differed between PAP and IBD
356 patients, adjusted titers demonstrated comparable, relative avidity to GM-CSF
357 (FIG.S1B).
358 We examined the isotypes and IgG subclasses of aGMAb in IBD vs. PAP patients.
359 PAP-associated aGMAb were enriched in IgG1 and IgG4, isotypes virtually absent in
360 IBD-associated aGMAb, were enriched in IgG2 and IgA. IgM and IgG3, but not IgE,
361 were detectable in both PAP and IBD, with higher average IgM aGMAb in CD patients
362 (FIG.1B). IBD-associated aGMAb were a specific marker for CD with ileal involvement
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363 and complicated disease, confirming previous studies (FIG.S1C-D and TAB.S1)21-24.
364 Measuring aGMAb thus allows the discrimination of a subgroup of CD patients
365 amongst all IBD patients.
366 Another major difference between IBD- and PAP-associated aGMAb was found in their
367 epitopes. Peptide epitopes in PAP patients have previously been described in GM-
368 CSF, but synthetic overlapping 20-mer linear peptides covering GM-CSF failed to react
369 with CD-associated aGMAb (data not shown)25. Suspecting conformational epitopes,
370 binding of aGMAb to denaturated GM-CSF was virtually absent using CD sera
371 (FIG.S1E). Unlike PAP sera, CD sera did not react with GM-CSF in the absence of
372 posttranslational modifications: only PAP sera bound bacterially produced
373 recombinant GM-CSF, while CD sera required a eukaryotic GM-CSF product in order
374 to react (data not shown). Analysis of yeast-produced GM-CSF by gel electrophoresis
375 revealed three bands at ~19.5 kDa, ~16.5 kDa and ~14.5 kDa (FIG.S1F). The highest
376 band carried posttranslational glycosylations that were lost when enzymatically
377 stripped (FIG.S1F). GM-CSF expressed in HEK293 cells lost this band pattern when
378 all glycosylation sites were mutated to alanine (FIG.S1G). Posttranslational
379 modifications of GM-CSF have previously been suggested as ideal antibody-
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380 recognition sites28. We assessed whether sera from CD patients would react with the
381 different forms of yeast-derived GM-CSF. While PAP sera bound all bands of GM-CSF,
382 CD-associated aGMAb bound larger glycosylated GM-CSF (FIG.1C, S1E-F). When
383 sargramostim was enzymatically stripped of glycans, seroreactivity of CD to the 19.5
384 kDa band was lost but remained to the 16.5 kDa (FIG.1C), while PAP sera also
385 recognized the 14.5 kDa band, which reflected the fully deglycosylated form of GM-
386 CSF ( FIG.S1G)25. Similarly to IgG, IgA aGMAb from CD patients showed high
387 specificity to glycosylation (FIG.1C). We confirmed specificity of CD-associated
388 aGMAb using recombinant human GM-CSF produced in human cells, indicating that
389 reactivity was not exclusive to yeast-specific modifications (data not shown). To
390 evaluate commonalities in the glycan composition, yeast- and mammalian cell-derived
391 GM-CSF, were resolved via SDS-PAGE and the glycoprofile of GM-CSF assessed via
392 lectin blot. To determine commonalities in the glycosylation of GM-CSF, membranes
393 were probed with L-PHA, MALII, GNA and AAL (FIG.S1H). Mammalian cell-derived
394 GM-CSF displays a 25kDa glycoform reacting positive with L-PHA and AAL implicating
395 complex branched and fucosylated N-glycans (FIG.S1I). The 16-17kDa band of
396 mammalian cell-derived GM-CSF reacted with MALII and GNA, revealing high-
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397 mannose N-glycans and hybrid N-glycans with terminal sialylation (FIG.S1I). Yeast-
398 derived GM-CSF reacted only with GNA suggesting high-mannose N-glycans as
399 shared glyco-modification (FIG.S1I). These results demonstrate that mammalian-
400 derived GM-CSF shares high mannose N-glycans with yeast-derived GM-CSF and
401 suggest that CD-associated aGMAb selectively recognize these structures on correctly
402 folded, native GM-CSF. To determine if glycosylations on GM-CSF differed between
403 CD and HD, serum GM-CSF was captured and incubated with lectins. GNA binding
404 was significantly higher on GM-CSF from CD patients, suggesting an increase in high
405 mannose N-glycans on GM-CSF in CD (FIG.1D). While serum GM-CSF levels did not
406 differ in CD and HD, decreased AAL binding indicated a decrease in the core fucose
407 residues in CD (FIG.1D and FIG.S2A). The increase in mannose and decrease in the
408 core-fucose structures suggest a CD-specific glycol-signature on GM-CSF.
409
410 Neutralizing capacity of CD-associated aGMAb
411 The enriched abundance of binding of aGMAb to GM-CSF in CD patients (TAB.S1 and
412 FIG.1A-B) supports the hypothesis that aGMAb possess neutralizing capacities20. We
413 next determined whether aGMAb abrogate GM-CSFR signaling in monocytes,
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414 dendritic cells (DC) and plasmacytoid DC (pDC) of HC. Blood leukocytes stimulated
415 with recombinant human GM-CSF ex vivo for 20min in the presence of PAP-sera (n=9),
416 CD-sera negative for aGMAb (n=20), or CD-sera positive for aGMAb (n=20). Post
417 stimulation, phosphorylation of STAT5 as measured by mass cytometry (TABLE.S2).
418 Reduced STAT5 phosphorylation was observed in the presence of PAP-sera and CD-
419 sera positive for aGMAb (FIG.1E and FIG.S2B-C). Stimulation of with GM-CSF did not
420 result in pSTAT5 in T/B/NK cells across all groups (FIG.S2B). IL-3 stimulation on
421 basophils was likewise unaffected by aGMAb+ CD-sera, suggesting unaltered
422 common beta chain signaling (FIG.S2D). Decreased pSTAT5 correlated with aGMAb
423 titers demonstrating neutralizing activity on circulating precursors of intestinal antigen-
424 presenting cells (APC) (FIG.1F).
425
426 CD-associated aGMAb precede the onset of complicated disease.
427 The presence of neutralizing aGMAb in CD patients suggests that isotypes may
428 contribute to disease pathophysiology and possibly etiology. In order to address this
429 hypothesis, we tested sera obtained from the Department of Defense Serum
430 Repository, prospectively collected from military service members during their annual
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431 routine medical examinations29. Some of these service members were eventually
432 diagnosed with either UC or CD during the course of their service. Three to four
433 longitudinal serum samples spanning up to 10 years, obtained prior, at and post
434 diagnosis from 220 CD, 200 UC, and 200 matched individuals remaining healthy (HD),
435 were analyzed in two independent runs (TAB.S3). Total IgG and IgA anti–GM-CSF
436 ELISAs were performed for each time point of collection. Healthy military service
437 members and service members diagnosed with UC had a similar 5-10% detection rate
438 of anti-GM-CSF IgG, with low mean titers below the limit of significance (between 1/25
439 and 1/50), and nearly no anti–GM-CSF IgA detection (0-1%), without significant
440 change by time point (FIG.2A-B and FIG.S3A-D). In contrast, IgG and IgA aGMAb
441 were already found 6 years prior to CD diagnosis in 21% and 7% of samples, with
442 additional patients seroconverting and mean titer increasing from 1/190 to 1/320
443 towards the time of diagnosis (FIG.2A-C and FIG.S3). At the time of diagnosis, IgA
444 aGMAb were exclusively elevated in 12% of CD, while IgG were significantly more
445 frequent (25%) compared to HD and UC (FIG.2A-B and FIG.S3C). Nearly all CD
446 patients with detectable aGMAb 6 years prior to diagnosis maintained or increased
447 their titers until the time of diagnosis (FIG.2C and FIG.S3E-F). Most (75%) anti–GM-
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448 CSF IgA co-occurred with IgG, while IgG to GM-CSF was more frequent and detected
449 in 63% of cases in the absence of IgA.
450 Anti-GMAb in CD associated with ileal/ileocolonic involvement and complications
451 within 100 days of diagnosis, with a 2.8 risk hazard ratio of having penetrating and/or
452 stricturing disease or surgery at, or soon after clinical diagnosis (FIG.2D and FIG.S4A-
453 D). Presence of IgA up to 6 years prior to diagnosis provided a predictor for CD
454 development with >97% specificity and with sensitivity increasing from 15% to 21% as
455 time to diagnosis decreased (AUC 0.6). The detection of aGMAb did not correlate with
456 date of birth, sex, race, or year of sample acquisition, rendering this biomarker
457 universal across patients (data not shown). Anti-Saccharomyces cerevisiae antibodies
458 (ASCA) a common serological marker for IBD were shown to present prior to diagnosis
459 using similar cohorts3, 30,31. Anti-GMAb preceded the occurrence of anti-ASCA IgA and
460 showed no significant correlations 2000 days prior to diagnosis (FIG.2E and
461 TABLE.S4).
462
463 The CD mucosa shows impaired homeostatic functions in GM-CSF-responsive
464 myeloid cells.
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465 GM-CSF engages the heterodimeric GM-CSFR, composed of the GM-CSF binding
466 alpha chain CD116 (CSF2RA) and the signal transducing common beta chain CD131
467 (CSF2RB) activating the transcription factor STAT5. To understand impairments in
468 GM-CSFR signaling, we determined CD116 and CD131 expression across most
469 hematopoietic cells in the inflamed (INF) and non-inflamed (NI) CD mucosa
470 (TAB.S2B). While CD16+ or CD14+ monocytes, CD141+ DC, CD1c+ DC, pDC and
471 neutrophils differed in their abundance, CD116 and CD131 expression and STAT5
472 phosphorylation remained unchanged between INF and NI CD tissues (FIG.3A-D and
473 FIG.S5A-B). These findings suggest unperturbed GM-CSFR expression and
474 responsiveness in the INF and NI CD mucosa.
475 GM-CSF stimulation controls essential myeloid functions including RA production. We
476 next assessed the production of RA by APCs using ALDEFLUOR staining on HLA-
477 DR+CD11c+ APCs from the INF and NI CD mucosa. APCs including CD14+ MP,
478 CD141+ DC and CD1c+ DC showed decreased ALDEFLUOR staining specifically in
479 the INF mucosa (FIG.3E-F, FIG.S5C-D). Monocytes and precursor DC continuously
480 infiltrate the intestinal mucosa to differentiate into DC and MP and require GM-CSF for
481 RA production10, 15,32, 33. GM-CSF-stimulation of blood-derived CD14+ monocytes
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482 confirmed a GM-CSF-dependent increase in ALDEFLUOR staining comparable to
483 staining in APCs from the NI CD mucosa (FIG.S5C-E). APCs isolated from a patient
484 carrying a CSF2RBMUT allele revealed the requirement for GM-CSF in maintaining APC
485 function even in NI tissues (FIG.3G-H). To determine if aGMAb alter GM-CSF-driven
486 gene expression in the NI CD mucosa, expression of STAT5A, STAT5B, IRF5, CCR2,
487 CCL22, CCL17, VDR, SOCS3, ALDH1A1, ALDH1A2, ALDH1A3, TNF, NOS2, IL1B
488 was investigated in total tissue RNAseq data. Subdivision of patients based on their
489 aGMAb status revealed decreased ALDH1A1, ALDH1A3, CCL22, IL23A, VDR,
490 CCL17, IRF5, CCL2, NOS2 and IL1B levels and increased CCR2, TNF and ALDH1A2
491 expression in the presence of aGMAb (FIG.3I). These data suggest that GM-CSF
492 regulates homeostatic gene expression incl. RA production in the NI CD mucosa,
493 implicating an aGMAb-driven perturbation of homeostasis even prior to inflammation.
494
495 T cells and ILC3 contribute to the pool of GM-CSF in the non-inflamed and inflamed
496 CD mucosa.
497 Assessment of spontaneously released GM-CSF by CD45+ cells was comparable
498 between INF and NI CD tissues (FIG.4A), in line with unchanged serum GM-CSF
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499 levels in CD patients (FIG.S2A). A characterization of GM-CSF-producing cells in the
500 NI CD ileal mucosa revealed that 80% were NKp44+CD3- innate lymphoid cells (ILC),
501 while the remaining 20% composed of CD3+ T cells, or cells lacking both markers
502 (FIG.4B). Interestingly, the number of GM-CSF-producing T cells increased in the INF
503 CD mucosa while the number of GM-CSF+NKp44+ cells decreased (FIG.4B-C). GM-
504 CSF-secreting NKp44+ cells co-expressed CD117, CD127, CD161, CD69 and the
505 transcription factor Retinoic acid-related Orphan Receptor (ROR) gamma (g) t
506 (FIG.4D), identifying them as natural cytotoxicity receptor (NCR)+ group 3 ILC
507 (NCR+ILC3)34. Analyzing NCR+ILC3 numbers and cytokine release revealed lower
508 levels of GM-CSF production and GM-CSF producers in the INF mucosa (FIG.4E-F
509 and FIG.S5F). Despite of increased GM-CSF+ T cell frequencies, a lower per cell
510 output was observed in these cells (FIG.4C and FIG.S5F). We next determined if
511 NCR+ILC3 increasingly differentiated into group 1 ILCs (ILC1) as reported in CD12, 14.
512 ILC1s were increased in the INF mucosa releasing higher levels of interferon(IFN)-g
513 (FIG.4G)35, 36. These findings demonstrate changes in the source and levels of GM-
514 CSF in the INF CD mucosa, accompanied by decreased NCR+ILC3 and increased
515 ILC1 counts (FIG.4E-G). The aberrantly glycosylated GM-CSF observed in CD sera
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516 (FIG.1D), inspired the analysis of glycogene-expression in GM-CSF+ leukocytes of the
517 INF and NI CD mucosa. Published scRNA-Seq data from CD patients was analyzed
518 for the expression of glycosyltransferases in T cells, NCR+ILC3s and ILC137.
519 Glycogene signatures differed in T cells and NCR+ILC3s between INF and NI mucosa,
520 implicating the production of differential glycovariants of secreted proteins including
521 GM-CSF. T cells and NCR+ILC3 in the INF mucosa displayed an upregulation of
522 mannose-related (ALG6, ALG8, ALG9), fucosylation-related (FUT2, FUT7) and α2,3-
523 sialylation-related glycogenes, when compared to the NI mucosa, in line with previous
524 reports (FIG.4H-I)38-42. Noteworthy, substrate availability and modulation of
525 glycosyltransferases expression may collectively, or individually result in aberrantly
526 glycosylated proteins including GM-CSF. The decreased availability of NCR+ILC3-
527 derived GM-CSF was reported to reduce myeloid RA production in mice, aligning with
528 our findings in CD patients (FIG.3E-G and FIG.S5C-F)10, 43. Importantly, myeloid-
529 derived RA prevents the accumulation of inflammatory ILC1, suggesting that aGMAb
530 perturb the equilibrium of tissue-resident ILCs in pre-diagnostic CD patients through
531 the modulation of GM-CSF-dependent myeloid RA production29,30. To determine if the
532 presence of aGMAb coincided with altered NCR+ILC3 and ILC1 gene signatures, bulk
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533 mRNA-Seq data from NI ileal CD biopsies (n = 191) and non-IBD controls (n = 121)
534 was re-analyzed for ILC1 and ILC3 signature gene expression. Samples were
535 displayed based on their PC-NCR+ILC3 and PC-ILC1 signatures gene expression
536 profiles and revealed groups with high NCR+ILC3 and ILC1 (3H1H), low NCR+ILC3
537 and ILC1 (3L1L) and low NCR+ILC3 and high ILC1 signatures (3L1H) (FIG.4J). We
538 next evaluated aGMAb titers across the most differential PC signatures and found
539 aGMAb enriched in groups low in NCR+ILC3 signature gene expression (FIG.4J-K),
540 suggesting an association of aGMAb with lower NCR+ILC3 genes signatures in NI CD
541 tissues.
542
543 Unmodified GM-CSF as a potential way to restore homeostatic functions of GM-CSF.
544 Enzymatically stripped and genetically engineered GM-CSF, lacking posttranslational
545 glycosylations remained biologically active and initiated phosphorylation of STAT5
546 (FIG.S6A-C). We hypothesize that GM-CSF devoid of glycosylations would render the
547 cytokine capable of escaping neutralization by CD-associated aGMAb. Freshly
548 isolated PBMCs stimulated with glycosylated and deglycosylated GM-CSF in the
549 presence or absence of aGMAb were analyzed for STAT5 phosphorylation. The
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550 neutralizing effects of CD-associated aGMAb were recapitulated for glycosylated GM-
551 CSF but reverted when enzymatically stripped GM-CSF was used (FIG.S6A-D).
552
553 DISCUSSION
554 Here, we report the presence of aGMAb in the sera of CD patients years before
555 diagnosis, and propose that these antibodies contribute to the pathophysiology of CD.
556 We demonstrated IgG2- and IgA-skewed aGMAb isotypes in CD patients, suggesting
557 an origin within the intestinal mucosa. Anti–GM-CSF autoantibodies were associated
558 with ileal disease location, were present up to 6 years before diagnosis in
559 asymptomatic subjects developing CD, and predicted complications at disease
560 presentation (HR=2.9 by log rank, p<0.001). IgA aGMAb, were an exclusive hallmark
561 of CD, and blocked GM-CSFR signaling by binding to GM-CSF glycovariants. This in
562 turn impaired communication of ILC3 and myeloid cells in the NI CD mucosa at steady-
563 state, resulting in significantly lower expression of an ILC3-specific gene signature in
564 the presence of aGMAb. Furthermore, GM-CSF target gene expression in the NI
565 mucosa of CD patients is reduced in the presence of aGMAb, identifying a subgroup
566 of individuals at high risk of developing complicated CD through alterations of the
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567 intestinal immune balance. Importantly, GM-CSF in CD patients is aberrantly
568 glycosylated via an altered gene expression of glycosyltransferases in GM-CSF-
569 producing ILC3 and T cells, suggesting immunogenicity of post-translational epitopes
570 recognized by aGMAb. Together, these results support a novel mechanism of disease
571 pathophysiology that may be exploited for developing personalized CD-preventive and
572 therapeutic strategies.
573 Myeloid cells of the INF CD mucosa displayed markedly reduced GM-CSF-dependent
574 RA production, associated with reduced NCR+ILC3 numbers, lower GM-CSF output
575 and altered glycogene expression. Abrogating GM-CSF-mediated signaling altered
576 myeloid cell function and increased ILC1 signature gene expression even in NI tissues,
577 suggesting a role for aGMAb in abrogating homeostasis13, 14, 34, 36, 44. Enrichment in
578 lower ILC3 signatures in aGMAb+ CD patients suggest a GM-CSF-dependent myeloid
579 regulation of the ILC3/ILC1 balance. Autoreactive aGMAb thus promote the
580 accumulation of inflammatory ILC1 by disrupting the NCR+ILC3-myeloid cell circuit.
581 We suggest that CD-associated aGMAb promote immune imbalance during the years-
582 long “pre-diagnostic” period of CD by altering GM-CSF-dependent homeostasis, a
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583 hypothesis supported by our data that demonstrates reduced GM-CSF-dependent
584 gene expression even in the NI CD mucosa of aGMAb+ patients.
585 There is rising interest in identifying the preclinical phase of CD where prevention
586 strategies may eventually be pursued45. Measuring aGMAb adds to the list of predictive
587 biomarkers which have been recently identified, such as microbial antibodies46 and
588 intestinal permeability47. One specific interest is that aGMAb are associated with
589 complicated CD disease at onset and thus may one day help identify relevant
590 candidates for disease prevention at its earliest phase.
591 The differential glycosylation of GM-CSF and altered glycosyltransferase expression
592 suggest that new (glyco)epitopes on GM-CSF may promote the development of
593 aGMAb. Engineering of GM-CSF variants with functional activity but capable of
594 circumventing aGMAb may provide a way to re-establish homeostasis, or delay
595 disease progression. Our data calls for revisiting the use of GM-CSF in clinical trials
596 with modified versions of active GM-CSF not prone to antibody neutralization, with
597 careful pre-selection of patients based on their aGMAb profiles. Our findings
598 demonstrate an intriguing mechanism for the development of complicated CD and
599 allow the identification of these patients using a predictive serological biomarker.
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600 Collectively, these findings open new roads for the precise diagnosis, classification,
601 and personalized treatment of CD patients.
602
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748 FIGURE LEGENDS
749
750 FIGURE 1. Characterization of aGMAb in CD patients.
751 A) Reciprocal titers for total serum IgG aGMAb in sera of HD, PAP, CD and UC
752 patients. B) Isotype profiles of aGMAb in PAP and CD patients. Horizontal rows
753 represent patients and vertical rows indicate isotypes. C) Western blots probed with
754 polyclonal sera from CD and PAP patients shows binding of anti-GM-CSF IgG and IgA
755 to glycosylated (PT-modified) and stripped GM-CSF D) Levels of GNA, AAL and L-
756 PHA binding to GM-CSF from healthy donors (black) and Crohn’s Disease (red)
757 patients, normalized for the total levels of GM-CSF in each sample. Schematic
758 representation of N-glycan highlighting lectin recognition. E) Plots show quantification
759 of pSTAT5 signal in DC, MP and pDC either unstimulated or stimulated with GM-CSF
760 pre-incubated with serum form the indicated patient groups. F) Loss in pSTAT5
761 correlates with aGMAb titers. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) Bonferroni’s
762 multiple comparison test was performed. Mann-Whitney test *p-value <0.05
763
764 FIGURE 2. CD-specific aGMAb precede the onset of disease by years.
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765 A) and B) show reciprocal titers of aGMAb (IgG and IgA) in combined serum samples
766 (training and validation cohort) at two time points prior to and one time point post
767 diagnosis. C) Trajectory of aGMAb titers in CD patients. Blue lines indicate aGMAb+,
768 black line aGMAb- patients and red lines indicate sero-converters. D) Kaplan-Meier
769 analysis with hazard ratio for developing complications after diagnosis in aGMAb+ (red)
770 and aGMAb- patients 6 years prior to disease. E) Correlations of aGMAb with ASCA
771 IgG and ASCA IgA antibodies a different time points prior to diagnosis.
772
773 FIGURE 3. The inflamed CD mucosa shows impaired homeostatic functions in GM-
774 CSF-responsive myeloid cells.
775 LPL from NI and INF ileal mucosa were analyzed . A) ViSNE analysis shows
776 distribution of leukocyte populations in NI and INF tissues indicating supervised
777 annotation of populations. B) Stimulation of cells in A) with GM-CSF, followed by
778 pSTAT5 measurement. Signal intensity is visualized in t-SNE plots (blue=low,
779 red=high pSTAT5). C) Representative histograms show pSTAT5 levels in the indicated
780 myeloid cell populations. D) Heat map shows pSTAT5 intensity across myeloid
781 populations from A) and B). E) DC subset and MP identification by floc cytometry. F)
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782 Mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) of ALDEFLOUR staining in CD45+CD11c+HLA-DR+
783 cells. ALDEFLUOR staining in CD45+CD11+HLA-DR+ cells in CD control and one
784 CSF2RBMUT carrier from G) NI and H) INF tissue biopsies. I) Gene expression analysis
785 of total tissue RNA from NI ileal tissues CD patients positive (n=14) of negative (n=27)
786 for aGMAb. Heat map shows fold change in gene expression in aGMAb+ patients
787 compared to aGMAb- CD patients.
788
789 FIGURE 4. Innate and adaptive sources of intestinal GM-CSF in CD patients
790 A) shows GM-CSF+CD45+ cells the adjacent dot plot their frequency in NI and INF CD
791 mucosa. B) GM-CSF+CD45+ cells were analyzed for CD3 and NKp44 expression in NI
792 and INF CD mucosa. Numbers in gate represents percentages. C) Plots show
793 percentages of NKp44+GM-CSF+ and CD3+GM-CSF+ cells. D) Expression of CD127,
794 CD161, RORgt and CD69 on NKp44+ CD117+ cells. E) GM-CSF production by
795 NCR+ILC3 (CD45+CD3-CD4-CD127+CD161+NKp44+CD117+), F) NCR+ILC3
796 frequencies and G) INFg-producing ILC1 were quantified. Numbers in gates represent
797 percentages. H) and I) show gene expression analysis of glycosyltransferase genes in
798 the indicated population from INF and NI CD patients. J) Scatter plot shows PC1 values
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799 of ILC1-PC and NCR+ILC3-PC derived from PCA analysis of signature ILC1 and ILC3
800 genes against a sub-dataset (195 NI ileal CD and 121 NI ileal non-IBD samples) of the
801 bulk mRNAseq samples from the MSCCR. Blue dots and red dots indicate anti-GM-
802 CSF status. K) The top 25 samples with either the lowest and highest NCR+ILC3 or
803 ILC1 signature gene expression were tested for aGMAb titers. Reciprocal titers are
804 shown in plots.
805
806 FIGURE S1. Specificity and affinity of anti–GM-CSF autoantibodies in CD patients.
807 A) ELISA specific to cytokines (G-CSF, IL-2 and GM-CSF), nuclear antigens and
808 unrelated autoantigens was performed using sera from PAP patients and IBD patients.
809 Sera simultaneously reacting against GM-CSF and other antigens were excluded from
810 the study. B) Binding avidity of aGMAb was determined using anti–GM-CSF ELISA
811 with adjusted PAP and IBD sera. Post incubation of plates with anti–GM-CSF sera,
812 wells were washed with buffers containing increasing amounts of NaCl. Signal
813 detected by the ELISA plate reader post washing with high salt buffer was normalized
814 to signals obtained in regular ELISAs. The binding strength of PAP sera (black) and
815 IBD sera (red) are displayed. C) Anti–GM-CSF ELISA were performed using CD, UC
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816 and HC sera. Secondary antibodies recognizing IgG, IgA and IgM were used to identify
817 enrichment of aGMAb in CD patients. D) Sera from CD patient were tested for their
818 association with one of the three behavioral stages described in the Montreal
819 Classification. E) Bar graph shows titers of aGMAb ELISA on native and denaturated
820 GM-CSF using sera from PAP and CD patients. F) Native PAGE of GM-CSF
821 (sargramostim) and stripped GM-CSF stained with Coomassie Brilliant Blue. G)
822 Western blot of sargramostim, recombinantly expressed human GM-CSF purified from
823 HEK293 cells stably secreting wild type human GM-CSF, or human GM-CSF mutated
824 to lack glycosylations. H) Scheme adjacent to plot shows exemplified positioning of the
825 evaluated N-linked glycosylations. I) Characterization of N-glycosylation of yeast (Y)-
826 and mammalian (M)-produced GM-CSF by lectin blot for L-PHA, MALII, GNA and AAL.
827 Western blot for GM-CSF confirms the position and molecular weight of the
828 recombinant protein.
829
830 FIGURE S2. Neutralization of GM-CSF by aGMAb from CD patients.
831 A) Total serum GM-CSF concentration in healthy donor (HD) or CD patients. B)
832 PBMCs were isolated from a buffy coat. For every tested serum, 2 million PBMCs were
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833 seeded into the well of a 96 well plate. Cells were either left unstimulated or stimulated
834 with rhGM-CSF for 20 minutes. GM-CSF-stimulated samples were pre-incubated with
835 either serum from aGMAb- CD patients, aGMAb+ CD patients or PAP patients. Cells
836 were fixed after stimulation, barcoded prior to surface staining, then pooled and stained
837 for surface marker and intracellular pSTAT5. Phosphorylation of STAT5 was analyzed
838 in the indicated populations. Heat maps show signal intensity of anti-pSTAT5 staining
839 in yellow color code for individual patients (lanes) within the indicated population (row).
840 C) Representative pSTAT5 staining in monocytes either left untreated (grey), or
841 stimulated with GM-CSF in the presence of control CD serum (blue) or CD serum
842 containing aGMAb (red). D) PBMCs were stimulated in vitro with rhIL-3 in the presence
843 or absence of the indicated sera for 20 minutes. Cells were washed, barcoded, pooled
844 and then stained with surface antibodies follow by Intracellular staining with antibodies
845 against phosphorylated STAT5. Mass cytometry was performed and intensity of
846 pSTAT5 was visualized using heat maps. Scatter plots show quantification of IL-3
847 mediated STAT5 phosphorylation in Basophils in the presence aGMAb- or aGMAb+
848 CD sera.
849
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850 FIGURE S3. Anti–GM-CSF autoantibodies precede the onset of Crohn‘s Disease.
851 A-D) Anti–GM-CSF ELISA was performed using serum samples obtained from CD
852 patients, UC patients and HD. Sera were obtained at two (training cohort) and three
853 (validation cohort) time points prior to diagnosis of disease and one time point after
854 diagnosis of disease. Titers of anti–GM-CSF IgG and IgA were determined for each
855 time point. Trajectory of aGMAb titers in CD, UC and HD across different time points
856 are displayed in E) and F). Blue line indicate patient tested positive at the earliest time
857 point of collection. Red lines indicate sero-converter, while black lines indicate patients
858 without aGMAb.
859
860 FIGURE S4. Anti–GM-CSF autoantibodies determine disease location and disease
861 severity in two independent cohorts.
862 A-F) Serum samples described in supplementary table 3 were analyzed for the
863 association of IgG and IgA with disease location, obstruction, penetrance, surgery,
864 perianal involvement and complications. A trainings cohort was established A-C) and
865 compared to a validation cohort D-F).
866
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867 FIGURE S5. The inflamed CD mucosa shows intact GM-CSFR expression but
868 reduced homeostatic, GM-CSF-dependent myeloid functions.
869 A) and B) show CD116 and CD131 expression intensity across all leukocyte
870 populations in NI A) and B) INF tissues identified by t-SNE analysis. Scale adjacent to
871 plots indicates signal intensity. C) Histogram of representative ALDEFLOUR staining
872 on intestinal macrophages from the NI (red) and INF (blue) CD mucosa. D) Plots show
873 percentages of ALDEFLUOR staining+ MP, CD141+DC and CD1c+DC. E) Blood
874 CD14+ monocytes were cultured in GM-CSF or M-CSF. Cells were analyzed for RA
875 production using ALDEFLUOR staining 5 days later. F) Plots show quantification of
876 GM-CSF+ NCR+ILC3 cells, relative abundance of NCR+ILC3s among all ILCs,
877 IFNg+CD45+CD3-CD4-CD127+CD161+NKp44- ILC1/ex-NCR+ILC3 cells and GM-
878 CSF+CD3+ cells. Datasets shown are representative of 9-20 individual ileal CD
879 resections. Statistical analysis was performed using paired student’s t-test. P values
880 are indicated adjacent to datasets.
881
882 FIGURE S6. Deglycosylated GM-CSF escapes aGMAb neutralization.
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883 A) Purified CD14+ monocytes were stimulated with rhGM-CSF (sargramostim) or
884 stripped rhGM-CSF for 20min. Cells were analyzed for pSTAT5 levels. B) U937
885 myelomonocytic cells were analyzed for their expression of CD116 and CD131.
886 Histograms show surface stained cells (blue) and unstained controls (grey). C) U937
887 cells were stimulated with rhGM-CSF (sargramostim), purified fully glycosylated GM-
888 CSF or mutated GM-CSF lacking all posttranslational glycosylation sites. Following
889 stimulation, pSTAT5 levels were analyzed. D) Plots show quantification of pSTAT5
890 signal intensity in monocytes and DC either stimulated with GM-CSF or stripped GM-
891 CSF for 20 minutes pre-incubated with serum form the indicated patient groups. One-
892 way analysis of variance (ANOVA) Bonferroni’s multiple comparison test was
893 performed.
894
895 Supplementary Table 1.
896 Available patient information for serum samples used in FIGURE.1.
897 Supplementary Table 2.
898 Table shows antibodies and isotope conjugates used in mass-cytometry analysis of
899 peripheral blood mononucleated cells (PBMC) and lamina propria leukocytes (LPL).
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900 Scheme adjacent to tables demonstrate the workflow for pSTAT5 staining in these
901 samples.
902 Supplementary Table 3.
903 Available patient information for serum samples used in Figure.3, Figure S3 and Figure
904 S4.
905 Supplementary Table 4.
906 ELISAs for ASCA-specific antibodies were performed on serum samples collected at
907 three different time points (time point 1 and 2 = prior to disease diagnosis, time point 3
908 post disease diagnosis). ASCA-specific IgG and IgA were measured.
909
910 Graphical abstract: Establishing a pre-diseased state through aGMAb in CD
911 Model of CD development in aGMAb+ individuals. Scheme shows cellular crosstalk in
912 healthy intestinal tissue (left). NCR+ILC3 and T cells produce GM-CSF that engages
913 the GM-CSFR on myeloid cells to trigger the production of RA. Retinoic acid in turn
914 stabilizes NCR+ILC3 and prevents excessive differentiation of NCR+ILC3 into IFN-g
915 producing ILC1. The middle scheme displays the scenario in the presence of aGMAb.
916 GM-CSF produced by T cells and NCR+ILC3 is aberrantly glycosylated and may drive
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917 the activation of glycosylation-specific B cells. B cell-derived aGMAb neutralize GM-
918 CSF and reduce GM-CSFR signaling, leading to a decreased production of retinoic
919 acid. Consequently, NCR+ILC3s differentiation into IFNg producing ILC1. The right
920 scheme resembles the immune landscape in full-blown CD. The inflamed CD mucosa
921 is characterized by a decrease in NCR+ILC3 numbers, lower levels of GM-CSF
922 produced by NCR+ILC3, reduced levels of RA from myeloid cells and excessive
923 differentiation into IFNg producing ILC1 and T cells. The presence of aGMAb may
924 interrupt the NCR+ILC3 – myeloid cell circuit, destabilizing homeostasis towards the
925 scenario of full-blown CD.
926
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0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 Ulcerative 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1
0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1
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0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 Colitis (n=37) 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 3 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 Reciprocal Titer (IgG) Titer Reciprocal 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 2 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 1 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 Healthy stripped GM-CSF (IgG) 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 10 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 30 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 Donors (n=43) 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 100% 40% 14% 5% 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 -1 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 10 0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 0 0 PAP CD UC HD Reciprocal Titer IgE IgA IgG (n=12) (n=81) (n=37) (n=43) IgM IgG1 IgG2 IgG3 IgG4 0 106 15 Crohn‘s Disease D Healthy Donors L-PHA GNA AAL 30 PT modified GM-CSF (IgA) 3 0.3 15 L-PHA GNA AAL 2 0.2 10
1 0.1 5 15 Absorbance 450 Absorbance Absorbance 450 Absorbance 450 Absorbance 0 0 0
Dendritic cells Monocytes pDC Dendritic cells Monocytes Data**** 1 F E **** **** 40 40 CD control 40 20 *** 40 *** ** 20 CD anti-GM-CSF 30 30 30 30 unstimulated PAP anti-GM-CSF CD control 20 r= -0.6153 20 r= -0.7883 20 20 1010 CD anti-GM-CSF pSTAT5 pSTAT5
pSTAT5 10 10 pSTAT5 pSTAT5 PAP anti-GM-CSF 10 10 r= -0.7857 r= -0.8469 0 0 0 0 00 101 102 103 104 105 106 101 102 103 104 105 106 titer titer medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.23.21262143; this version posted August 26, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission.
Figure 2.
A IgG **** C 104 104 D **** 100 Seronegative at d-2175 103 103 IgG IgA 105 Seropositive at d-2175 **** 2 102
IgG 10 104 * ** 1 1 3 10 10 10 50 0 0 102 10 10 CD CD Log Rank 101 10-1 10-1 HR: 2.8 (1.5-5.4) -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 p<0.0001 0 % complication-free 10 104 104 0
Titer anti-GM-CSF 21% 22% 25% 5% 6% 6% 6% 8% 10% 0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 10-1 103 103 Follow-up (days) d+0 d+0 d-740 d-720 2 2 d-2175d-1300d+100 d-3500 **** d-3500 10 10 B IgA CD UC HD **** 1 1 E (n=220) (n=200) (n=200) 10 10 105 d-2160: Spearman r=0.56, **** d-2160: Spearman r=0.17, ns **** 100 100 d-1230: Spearman r=0.57, **** d-1230: Spearman r=0.23, *
IgA 4 * * 10 UC UC d+84: Spearman r=0.70, **** d+84: Spearman r=0.26, ** 10-1 10-1 104 104 103 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 IgG IgA IgG
4 IgA 4 IgA
10 10 IgG 102 103 103 Anti-GM-CSF positive 3 3
1 CSF 10 10 Anti-GM-CSF increased CSF CSF
10 - - Anti-GM-CSF negative 102 102 0 2 2
10 GM 10 10 GM - 7% 9% 12% 1% 1% 0% 1% 0% 0% - Titer anti-GM-CSF10 -1 101 101 101 101
d+0 d+0 0 0 Titer anti-GM-CSF
d-740 d-720 10 10 Titer anti-GM-CSF d-2175d-1300d+100 d-3500 d-3500 0 0
Titer anti Titer 10 10 HD anti Titer HD CD UC HD -1 -1 10 10 0 50 100 0 20 40 60 80 (n=220) (n=200) (n=200) -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 ASCA IgG (EU) ASCA IgA (EU) Days prior to diagnosis medRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.08.23.21262143; this version posted August 26, 2021. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission.
Figure 3. A B PBS GM-CSF C D NI NI NI CD14+ Monocytes CD16+ Monocytes PBS CD14+ Monocytes GM-CSF
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tSNE2 CD16 Monocytes
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CSF 60 CSF 30 cells of cells - - 0.5 + 60 30 + CSF - - 40 20 CSF 40 20 CD161-Pe-Cy7 CD127-BV570 - of all CD45
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NI INF % NKp44 CD45-APC-Cy7 NKp44 - Pe 00 00 E G J NI INF NI INF F + PC-NCRILC3ILC3-PC1-Ab-only ILC3_PC1, CD uninvolvedILC3-PC1 inflamedileum, n=195 NI 10000 inflamed non inflamed 64.2 non inflamed RORgt-APC CD69-APC 16 5000
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PerCP-Cy5.5 -20000 H I ALG9 FUT2 FUT7 + K ALG6 ALG9 ALG8 CD4 FUT2 ALG6 NCR+ILC3 ILC1 3 T cells 3 6 P < 0.0001 6 activated NCR+ILC3 NI NI type 3 ILC1 4 4
activated NCR+ILC3 2 2 INF INF type 3 ILC1
Glycosyltransferases Glycosyltransferases x10 (IgG) titer Reciprocal 0 x10 (IgG) titer Reciprocal 0 high low high low FIGURE S1. * ns ns 100 ns ns ns ns ns ns A B C 10000 *** *** ** D 10000
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UC CD UC CD UC CD B1 B2 B3 B1 B2 B3 B1 B2 B3 - 1 0 IgG IgA IgM 0 1 2 3 4 IgG IgA IgM Concentration NaCl (M) non-stricturing, non-fistulating stricturing Y = Yeast fistulating E 10107 7 native G H M = Mammalian 10106 6 Y M Y M Y M Y M Y M 5 denaturated MALII 10105 I 10104 4 10103 3 25 kDa L-PHA 2 2 1010 25 kDa 10101 1 15 kDa GNA Reciprocaltiters (IgG) 1001 AAL 15 kDa
CD PAP F 20kDa
mutated 15kDa fully glycosylated-CSF 10kDa Sargramostim GM L-PHA MALII GNA AAL Anti-GM-CSF GM-CSF stripped -CSF GM-CSF GM FIGURE S2.
B CD anti-GM-CSF unstimulated CD + GM-CSF Crohn‘s Disease + GM-CSF A Healthy Donors D Ctrl + IL-3 CD anti-GM-CSF +IL-3
T/B/NK C Basophils 40 PAP + GM-CSF ns 30
20
pSTAT5 10
Unstimulated Basophils in pSTAT5 0 CD + GM-CSF + anti-GM-CSF -CSF -3 DC DC DC pDC pDC pDC CD + GM-CSF GM Baso Mono Baso Mono Baso Mono - 3 T/B/NK T/B/NK T/B/NK CD - anti Ctrl + IL + IL FIGURE S3.
TRAINING COHORT VALIDATION COHORT **** **** **** **** **** A IgG **** B IgA **** C IgG **** D IgA ** 5 *** 105 ** 105 * 105 ** 10 ** ** **
IgA 4
IgA 4 4 4 IgG IgG 10 10 10 10
3 103 103 103 10
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101 101 101 101
100 100 100 100 Titer anti-GM-CSF anti-GM-CSF Titer
Titer anti-GM-CSF anti-GM-CSF Titer 14% 13% 15% 16% 5% 7% 6% 6% 7% 7% 7% 11% 6% 5% 7% 9% 2% 2% 1% 0% 0% 0% 0% 0% Titer anti-GM-CSF anti-GM-CSF Titer Titer anti-GM-CSF anti-GM-CSF Titer 26% 29% 33% 4% 6% 5% 5% 9% 8% 8% 12% 16% 0% 0% 0% 1% 0% 0% 10-1 10-1 10-1 10-1
UC 0 HD 0 UC 0 HD 0 UC 0 ±0 HD 0 ±0 UC 0 ±0 HD 0 ±0
UC -750 ±45 UC -750 ±45 CD -634CD +127 ±98 ±87 UC -727 ±39 HD -724 ±48 CD -634CD +127 ±98 ±87 UC -727 ±39 HD -724 ±48 CD -2160 ±59CD +84 ±102 HD -712 ± 44 CD -2160 ±59CD +84 ±102 HD -712 ± 44 UC -1465 ±62 HD -1458 ±64 UC -1465 ±62 HD -1458 ±64 CD -1230 ±126UC -2978 ±570 HD -3122 ±622 CD -1230 ±126UC -2978 ±570 HD -3122 ±622 CD -2198CD -1496 ±253 ±222 UC -3962 ±966 HD -4152 ±677 CD -2198CD -1496 ±253 ±222 UC -3962 ±966 HD -4152 ±677 Crohn's D. Ulcer. C. Healthy Crohn's D. Ulcer. C. Healthy Crohn's D. Ulcer. C. Healthy Crohn's D. Ulcer. C. Healthy (n=120) (n=100) (n=100) (n=120) (n=100) (n=100) (n=100) (n=100) (n=100) (n=100) (n=100) (n=100) E F
Crohn's Disease (CD) Ulcerative Colitis (UC) Healthy Donors (HD) Crohn's Disease (CD) Ulcerative Colitis (UC) Healthy Donors (HD) 10000 10000 10000 10000 10000 10000
1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 1000 CSF IgG CSF CSF IgG CSF 100 100 - 100 100 100 - 100 Titer Titer Titer Titer Titer 10 10 Titer 10 10 10 10 GM GM - - 1 1 1 1 1 1 anti anti 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0
10000 10000 10000 10000 10000 10000 Anti-GM-CSF positive Anti-GM-CSF positive 1000 1000 1000 Anti-GM-CSF increased 1000 1000 1000 Anti-GM-CSF increased
100 100 100 Anti-GM-CSF negative 100 100 100 Anti-GM-CSF negative CSF IgA CSF CSF IgA CSF Titer - Titer Titer Titer Titer Titer - 10 10 10 10 10 10
1 1 1 GM 1 1 1 GM - - 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.1
-7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 anti -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 -7000 -2000 -1000 0 anti FIGURE S4.
Crohn'sTraining Disease only (max cohort IgG or IgA) ns ns Crohn's Disease only (max IgG or IgA) ns Crohn's Disease only (max IgG or IgA) A * **** ** B C ns ns ns *** * ** ns ns 42% 16% 53% 19% 18% 5% 21% 10% *** ** 50% 37% 59% 30% 36% 13% 26% 12% 10000 30% 64% 38% 100% 12% 28% 13% 100% 10000 10000 1000 1000 1000
100 100 100
Reciprocal Titer 10 Reciprocal Titer 10 Reciprocal Titer 10
1 1 1 L1: Ileum (terminal) L2: Colon L1 (28%)L2 (16%)L3 (39%) L1 (28%)L2 (16%)L3 (39%)
L3: Ileocolon Surgery (1%) Surgery (1%) Unknown (17%) Unknown (17%) Penetrating (7%) Penetrating (7%) Obstructing (21%) Obstructing (21%) IgG IgA Perianal No (88%) Perianal No (88%) IgG IgA Perianal Yes (12%) Perianal Yes (12%) Complications No (72%) Complications No (72%) Crohn's Disease only (max IgG or IgA) Non-obstr, non-penetr (72%) Non-obstr, non-penetr (72%) Complications Yes (28%) Complications Yes (28%) Validation cohort Crohn's Disease only (max IgG or IgA) ns ns Crohn's Disease only (max IgG or IgA) IgG IgA ns D ns ns * ns E F **** ns ** *** *** 10% 20% 32% 14% 10% 11% 29% 4% 36% 15% 23% 12% 18% 6% 20% 4% ns ns ** * 10000 10000 14% 31% 42% 0% 4% 23% 41% 0% 10000 1000 1000 1000 100 100 100
Reciprocal Titer 10
Reciprocal Titer 10
Reciprocal Titer 10
1 1 1
L1 (11%)L2 (33%)L3 (30%) L1 (11%)L2 (33%)L3 (30%)
Surgery (3%) Surgery (3%) Unknown (26%) Unknown (26%) Perianal No (90%) Perianal No (90%) ObstructingPenetrating (13%) (12%) ObstructingPenetrating (13%) (12%) Perianal Yes (10%) Perianal Yes (10%) IgG IgA IgG IgA ComplicationsComplications Yes (28%) No (72%) ComplicationsComplications Yes (28%) No (72%) Non-obstr, non-penetr (72%) Non-obstr, non-penetr (72%) IgG IgA FIGURE S5. A B
CD116 NI CD131 NI CD116 INF CD131 INF tSNE2 tSNE2
tSNE1 tSNE1 tSNE1 tSNE1 C D E MUCOSA CD14+ MONOCYTES
AF % pos CD141 AF % pos CD1c DC DC MP + 50 50 50 + NON-INFLAMED + GM-CSF CD1c CD14 CD141 + + + 25 25 INFLAMED 25 M-CSF
staining control staining control 0 0 00 % ALDEFLUOR %
% ALDEFLUOR % NI INF NI INF ALDEFLUOR % NI INF ALDEFLUOR ALDEFLUOR % GM-CSF in CD3+ P = 0.0016 P = 0.0227 P = 0.0049 P = 0.0006 88 F 40 100 30 ILC3 + + ILC3 + 66
30 CD3
NCR 20 + - NCR
+ 20 50 44 CSF -
CSF 10 ILC1/ex - 22 10 + g % GM % NCR+ILC3 of all ILC % GM 0 0 0 00 NI INF NI INF % INF NI INF NINI INFINF FIGURE S6. A C Monocytes U937 cells
unstimulated GM-CSF GM-CSF (stripped) unstimulated
Sargramostim
pSTAT5 Recombinant fully glycosylated Unstained control GM-CSF B Stained U937 cells Recombinant GM-CSF mutated pSTAT5 D pSTAT5 dg GM Monocytes Monocytes pSTAT5Dendritic dg Dendritic cells cells 60 40 55 40 * ** 55 30 50 30
CD116 50 20 45 20
45 pSTAT5 10 40 10
40 0 35 0 CD control + GM-CSF CD control + GM-CSF (stripped)
CD anti-GMIBD serum-CSF rhGM-CSFIBD +serum GM dgGM-CSF-CSF CD anti-GM-CSF + GM-CSF (stripped) IBD serum anti-GMIBD serumrhGM-CSF anti-GM dgGM-CSF CD131 IBD serum rhGM-CSFIBD serum dgGM-CSF
IBD serum anti-GMIBD serumrhGM-CSF anti-GM dgGM-CSF TABLE S1. TABLE S2.
A B PBMC LPL LPL isotope antigen isotope antigen PBMC Pd102Di Pd102Di Rh103Di viability Rh103Di Viability In115Di CD45_115 harvesting cells harvesting cells Pd104Di Pd104Di La139Di FceR1a Pd105Di Pd105Di Pr141Di CD45_141 Pd106Di Pd106Di Nd142Di CD19 GM-CSF stimulation GM-CSF stimulation Pd108Di Pd108Di Nd144Di CD141 Pd110Di Pd110Di Nd145Di CD4 Nd144Di CD141 Nd146Di CD8 fixation fixation Nd148Di CD16 Nd148Di CD16 Nd150Di pSTAT5 Sm149Di CD66 CD45 barcoding paladium barcoding Eu151Di CD123 Nd150Di p-STAT5 Sm152Di CD66b Eu151Di CD123 Eu153Di CD1c Eu153Di CD1c pool CD45 barcoding Tb159Di CD45_159 Sm154Di CD163 Gd160Di CD14 Tb159Di CD11c Dy162Di CD64 Gd160Di CD14 surface stain pool Ho165Di CD45_165 Dy162Di CD32 Tm169Di CD45_169 Ho165Di CD116 intracellular stain surface stain Er170Di CD3 Er166Di CD24 Yb172Di CD11b Er167Di CD38 Yb173Di CD56 Er168Di CD206 analysis intracellular stain Yb174Di HLA-DR Tm169Di CD131 Lu175Di CD45_175 Er170Di CD3 Ir191Di DNA Yb173Di CD56 analysis Ir193Di DNA Yb174Di HLADR Ir191Di DNA Ir193Di DNA TABLE S3.
Training cohort Validation cohort CD UC HC CD UC HC N subjects 120 100 100 100 100 100 N samples 360 300 300 400 400 400 Mean age 30.8 29.11 29.18 31.9 32.2 34.39 Sex (M) 79% 100% 100% 78% 80% 97% % complication 28.3% - - 28% - - L1 27.5 11% - - L2 15.8 33% - - L3 39.1 30% - - Unknown location 17.5 26% - - TABLE S4.
Healthy Controls Ulcerative Colitis Crohn’s Disease
ASCA-IgG (-2000 days) Spearman r = 0.40; p < 0.0001 **** Spearman r = 0.35; p = 0.0003 Spearman r = 0.56; p < 0.0001 **** *** ASCA-IgG (-500 days) Spearman r = 0.38; p < 0.0001 **** Spearman r = 0.31; p = 0.0019 ** Spearman r = 0.57; p < 0.0001 **** ASCA-IgG (+100 days) Spearman r = 0.48; p < 0.0001 **** Spearman r = 0.29; p = 0.0034 ** Spearman r = 0.70; p < 0.0001 **** ASCA-IgA (-2000 days) Spearman r = 0.18; n.s. Spearman r = 0.18; n.s. Spearman r = 0.17; n.s. ASCA-IgA (-500 days) Spearman r = 0.15; n.s. Spearman r = 0.18; n.s. Spearman r = 0.23; p = 0.0115 * ASCA-IgA (+ 100 days) Spearman r = N/A; n.s. Spearman r = 0.17; n.s. Spearman r = 0.26; p = 0.0049 **