Inhibitors in German Hemophilia A Patients Treated with a Double Virus Inactivated Factor VIII Concentrate Bind to the C2 Domain of FVIII Light Chain

Summary

To reduce the risk of transmission of hepatitis A virus, an Octaphar-ma produced factor VIII (fVIII) concentrate treated with solvent detergent (FVIII-SD) was further pasteurized after purification. This product, Octavi SDPlus (FVIII-SDP), was marketed in Europe in 1993 to 1995. Inhibitors appeared from September to October, 1995, in 12 of 109 previously treated German hemophilia A patients. A study of similarly treated Belgian patients, who also developed inhibitors, had shown antibodies to the fVIII light chain (domains A3-C1-C2) only. In the present study, the epitope specificity of 8 German inhibitor plasmas was also found to be restricted to the light chain. In radioimmunoprecipitation assays to localize the light chain epitope(s), antibody binding to heavy chain (domains A1-A2-B) was 11-148 fold lower than to the C2 domain, and binding to recombinant A3-C1 was barely detectable. These results were supported by >95% neutralization of a high responder inhibitor titer by the C2 domain.

 

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