PMID- 38199058 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20240129 LR - 20240206 IS - 1873-376X (Electronic) IS - 1570-0232 (Linking) VI - 1233 DP - 2024 Feb 1 TI - Characterization of complexes of PF4 and heparins by size-exclusion chromatography coupled with multi-angle light scattering detector. PG - 124004 LID - S1570-0232(24)00012-6 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jchromb.2024.124004 [doi] AB - Heparin-induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) is an immune complication of heparin therapy. Antibodies binding to complexes of platelet factor 4 (PF4) and heparin is the trigger of HIT. A method using size exclusion chromatography with multi-angle laser light scattering detector (SEC-MALS) was developed in this work. The soluble ultra-large complex (ULC) was separated from the small complex (SC) and their molecular weights (MWs) were firstly measured. The complexes of PF4 and three heparins with different MW, including unfractionated heparin (UFH), dalteparin (Daltep) and enoxaparin (Eno) were characterized using this method. The contents and the sizes of ULC increased gradually when heparins were added to PF4 to certain amounts. While, they reduced after more heparins were added. It is the first time to measure the MWs of the biggest ULC of PF4-heparins as millions of Dalton. at the proper ratios of PF4 to heparin (PHR). Meanwhile, those mixtures at those certain PHRs induced the higher expression of CD83 and CD14 markers on dendritic cells (DCs) suggesting that they had stronger immunogenicity and is critical for HIT. CI - Copyright (c) 2024 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Zhao, Jingwen AU - Zhao J AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. FAU - Xue, Yiting AU - Xue Y AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China; School of Biology and Food Engineering, Changshu Institute of Technology, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215500, China. FAU - Tian, He AU - Tian H AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. FAU - Qiu, Piaopiao AU - Qiu P AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. FAU - Ouyang, Yilan AU - Ouyang Y AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. FAU - Liu, Haiying AU - Liu H AD - Haihe Biopharma Co., Ltd., Shanghai, Pudong 201203, China. Electronic address: haiying.liu@haihepharma.com. FAU - Yi, Lin AU - Yi L AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. Electronic address: yilin@suda.edu.cn. FAU - Zhang, Zhenqing AU - Zhang Z AD - Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Neuropsychiatric Diseases and College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215021, China. Electronic address: z_zhang@suda.edu.cn. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20240106 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci JT - Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences JID - 101139554 RN - 9005-49-6 (Heparin) RN - 37270-94-3 (Platelet Factor 4) RN - 0 (Anticoagulants) RN - 0 (Immunologic Factors) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Heparin/pharmacology MH - Platelet Factor 4/chemistry/metabolism MH - Anticoagulants/chemistry MH - *Thrombocytopenia/chemically induced MH - Immunologic Factors MH - Chromatography, Gel OTO - NOTNLM OT - Heparin OT - Heparin induced thrombocytopenia (HIT) OT - Multi-angle light scattering detector (MALS) OT - Platelet factor 4 (PF4) OT - Size-exclusion chromatography (SEC) COIS- Declaration of competing interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2024/01/11 00:41 MHDA- 2024/01/29 06:43 CRDT- 2024/01/10 19:51 PHST- 2023/11/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2023/12/24 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2024/01/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2024/01/29 06:43 [medline] PHST- 2024/01/11 00:41 [pubmed] PHST- 2024/01/10 19:51 [entrez] AID - S1570-0232(24)00012-6 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jchromb.2024.124004 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2024 Feb 1;1233:124004. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2024.124004. Epub 2024 Jan 6.