REVIEW article

Front. Med., 29 November 2016

Sec. Obstetrics and Gynecological Surgery

Volume 3 - 2016 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmed.2016.00060

A Dormant Microbial Component in the Development of Preeclampsia

  • 1. School of Chemistry, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  • 2. The Manchester Institute of Biotechnology, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  • 3. Centre for Synthetic Biology of Fine and Speciality Chemicals, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

  • 4. The Irish Centre for Fetal and Neonatal Translational Research (INFANT), University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

  • 5. Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland

Abstract

Preeclampsia (PE) is a complex, multisystem disorder that remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in pregnancy. Four main classes of dysregulation accompany PE and are widely considered to contribute to its severity. These are abnormal trophoblast invasion of the placenta, anti-angiogenic responses, oxidative stress, and inflammation. What is lacking, however, is an explanation of how these themselves are caused. We here develop the unifying idea, and the considerable evidence for it, that the originating cause of PE (and of the four classes of dysregulation) is, in fact, microbial infection, that most such microbes are dormant and hence resist detection by conventional (replication-dependent) microbiology, and that by occasional resuscitation and growth it is they that are responsible for all the observable sequelae, including the continuing, chronic inflammation. In particular, bacterial products such as lipopolysaccharide (LPS), also known as endotoxin, are well known as highly inflammagenic and stimulate an innate (and possibly trained) immune response that exacerbates the inflammation further. The known need of microbes for free iron can explain the iron dysregulation that accompanies PE. We describe the main routes of infection (gut, oral, and urinary tract infection) and the regularly observed presence of microbes in placental and other tissues in PE. Every known proteomic biomarker of “preeclampsia” that we assessed has, in fact, also been shown to be raised in response to infection. An infectious component to PE fulfills the Bradford Hill criteria for ascribing a disease to an environmental cause and suggests a number of treatments, some of which have, in fact, been shown to be successful. PE was classically referred to as endotoxemia or toxemia of pregnancy, and it is ironic that it seems that LPS and other microbial endotoxins really are involved. Overall, the recognition of an infectious component in the etiology of PE mirrors that for ulcers and other diseases that were previously considered to lack one.

Introduction

Preeclampsia

Preeclampsia is a multisystem disorder of pregnancy, characterized and indeed defined by the presence of hypertension after 20 weeks’ gestation and before the onset of labor, or postpartum, with either proteinuria or any multisystem complication (). It is a common condition, affecting some 3–5% of nulliparous pregnant women (, ) and is characterized by high mortality levels (). There is no known cure other than delivery, and consequently, preeclampsia (PE) also causes significant perinatal morbidity and mortality secondary to iatrogenic prematurity. There are a variety of known risk factors (Table 1) that may be of use in predicting a greater likelihood of developing PE, albeit there are so many, with only very modest correlations, that early-stage (especially the first-trimester) prediction of late-stage PE remains very difficult (, ).

Table 1

Risk factorCommentsSelected reference
Nulliparous womenEpidemiological observation, suggested biochemical explanations include soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt1):placental growth factor (PlGF) ratio(, )
Increased maternal age (especially >35 years)Epidemiological observation, though may be related to existing age-related disease(, )
History of preeclampsia in previous pregnancyEpidemiological observation, virtually akin to recurrence; among the strongest factors(, )
Multi-fetal gestation, i.e., twins, etc.Extra demands on mother’s circulation; larger placenta, danger of ischemia? Relative risk ~3.5× in nulliparous()
Obesity (especially BMI > 35)Can affect blood pressure (BP) directly, also via intra-abdominal pressure; diabetogenic and inflammatory; possible role for asymmetric dimethylarginine()
Booking diastolic BP > 80 mm HgAn essential part of the later syndrome()
Booking proteinuria on at least 1 occasion, or ≥0.3 g/24 hAn essential part of the later syndrome()
Family history of preeclampsia (mother or sister)Twofold to fivefold increase in likelihood. Genetic factors are said to account for some 50% of the variance, though few properly controlled monozygotic/dizygotic twin studies exist; when done the heritability of PE can be lower to negligible()
Pre-existing medical conditions, including chronic hypertension, diabetes mellitus, antiphospholipid syndrome, thrombophilia, autoimmune disease, renal disease, systemic lupus erythematosus, and infertilityThese are mainly seen as (other) vascular diseases or comorbidities; however, antiphospholipid antibodies (Hughes’ syndrome) are of special interest as they can have an infectious origin; one-third of women with them will develop PE, and they cause recurrent pregnancy loss(, 51)
Urinary tract infection (UTI)An infectious origin for PE is the focus here, and not just from UTI(5254) and see below

Some known risk factors for preeclampsia [based on part in Ref. (, , )].

See also http://bestpractice.bmj.com/best-practice/monograph/326/diagnosis.html. Note that most of these are risk factors that might and do pre-dispose for other diseases (or are themselves diseases).

It is striking that most of the “risk factors” of Table 1 are, in fact, risk factors for multiple vascular or metabolic diseases, i.e., they merely pre-dispose the individual to a greater likelihood of manifesting the disease or syndrome (in this case PE). Indeed, some of them are diseases. This would be consistent with the well-known comorbidities, e.g., between PE and later cardiovascular disease [e.g., Ref. (5565)], between PE and intracerebral hemorrhage during pregnancy [OR 10.39 (66)], and between PE and stroke postpartum (67, 68). The penultimate row of Table 1 lists a series of diseases that amount to comorbidities, although our interest was piqued by the observation that one-third of patients with antiphospholipid syndrome have PE, and infectious agents with known cross-reacting antigens are certainly one original (external) source of the triggers that cause the antiphospholipid antibodies (, , 47, 69) (and see below). Similarly, in the case of urinary tract infection (UTI), the “risk” factor is a genuine external trigger, a point [following the call by Mignini and colleagues (70) for systematic reviews] that we shall expand on considerably here. [A preprint has been lodged at bioRxiv (71).]

In recent decades, intense investigation has led to the development of a two-stage etiological model for PE, first proposed by Redman (72), in which inadequate remodeling of the spiral arteries in early gestation results in poor placental development (stage one) and the resultant ischemia/reperfusion injury and oxidative stress (73) eventually leads to maternal vascular endothelial cell dysfunction and the maternal manifestations of the disease (stage 2) (72, 7477). However, many clinical inconsistencies challenge the simplicity of this model. For example, while the association between poor placentation and PE is well established, it is not specific. Poor placentation and fetal growth restriction (FGR) frequently present without maternal signs of PE. Moreover, FGR is not a consistent feature of PE. While it is commonly seen in PE presenting at earlier gestations, in PE presenting at term, neonates are not growth restricted and may even be large for dates (78).

Thus, the two-stage model has been further refined by Roberts and others (77, 79, 80) to take into account the heterogeneous nature of PE and the varying contribution from mother and infant to the disorder. We now appreciate that normal pregnancy is characterized by a low-grade systemic inflammatory response and specific metabolic changes, and that virtually all of the features of normal pregnancy are simply exaggerated in PE (8183). There is also widespread acceptance that maternal constitutional and environmental factors (such as obesity) can interact to modulate the risk of PE. Thus, with profoundly reduced placental perfusion (or significant “placental loading”), the generation of stage 2 may require very little contribution from the mother to provide sufficient stress to elicit the maternal syndrome. In this setting, almost any woman will develop PE. Conversely, the woman with extensive predisposing constitutional sensitivity could develop PE with very little reduced perfusion, or minimal “placental loading.” As with many complex disorders, multiple factors can affect disease development positively or negatively, with a convenient representation of the two main negative sources (fetal and maternal) being that of a see-saw (84), as in Figure 1.

Figure 1

While this explains the inconsistencies of the two-stage model, the precise mechanisms (1) underlying the initial poor placentation and (2) linking placental stress and the maternal syndrome have still not been fully elucidated.

Much recent research in PE has focused on various angiogenic factors, including the pro-angiogenic factors vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and placental growth factor (PlGF) and the two anti-angiogenic proteins, such as soluble endoglin (sEng) and soluble fms-like tyrosine kinase 1 (sFlt-1). Recent data suggest that alterations in circulating angiogenic factors play a pathogenic role in PE. These angiogenic factors tightly regulate angiogenesis and are also essential for maintenance of normal vessel health. Consequently, the synthesis and action of these factors and their receptors in the uterine bed and placenta are essential for normal placental development and pregnancy (85, 86). In PE, increased levels of the anti-angiogenic sFlt-1 and sEng trap circulating VEGF, PlGF, and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β), respectively. A myriad of data support the idea that circulating levels of these factors alone, or in combination, can be used to predict PE (8789) (and see below under PE biomarkers), but in line with the heterogeneous nature of PE, these data are somewhat inconsistent and their performance as biomarkers seems limited to disease with significant placental loading (). Therefore, angiogenic dysregulation would appear unlikely to be the sole link between the stressed placenta and endothelial dysfunction and the clinical manifestations of the disease.

Notwithstanding these many inconsistencies, the central role of the placenta as a source of “toxin,” in a condition regarded, and indeed often named, as “toxemia of pregnancy” (9092) cannot be refuted. The uncertainty regarding the nature of the toxin continues, and other placental sources of endothelial dysfunction include syncytiotrophoblast basement membrane fragments (STBM) (93) and endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) (94); an increase of reactive oxygen species over scavenging by antioxidants (95, 96) has also been promoted.

The Bradford Hill criteria for causation of a disease Y by an environmental factor X (97) are as follows: (1) strength of association between X and Y, (2) consistency of association between X and Y, (3) specificity of association between X and Y, (4) experiments verify the relationship between X and Y, (5) modification of X alters the occurrence of Y, and (6) biologically plausible cause and effect relationship.

In general terms (98), if we see that two things (A and B) co-vary in different circumstances, we might infer that A causes B, that B causes A, or that something else (C) causes both B and A, whether in series or parallel. To disentangle temporal relations requires a longitudinal study. The job of the systems biologist doing systems medicine is to uncover the chief actors and the means by which they interact (99), in this way fulfilling the Bradford Hill postulates, a topic to which we shall return at the end.

In infection microbiology, and long predating the Bradford Hill criteria, the essentially equivalent metrics are known [widely, but somewhat inaccurately (100)] as the Koch or Henle–Koch postulates (i.e., criteria). They involve assessing the correlation of a culturable organism with the presence of a disease, the cure of the disease (and its symptoms) upon removal of the organism, and the development of the disease with (re)inoculation of the organism. They are of great historical importance but present us with three main difficulties here. The first is that we cannot apply the third of them to humans for obvious ethical reasons. The second (see also below) and related one is that we cannot usefully apply them in animal models because none of the existing models recapitulates human PE well. Finally, as widely recognized (100107), they cannot be straightforwardly applied when dealing with dormant bacteria or bacteria that are otherwise refractory to culture.

Our solution to this is twofold: (i) we can assess the first two using molecular methods if culturing does not work and (ii) we exploit the philosophy of science principle known as “coherence” (108112). This states that if a series of ostensibly unrelated findings are brought together into a self-consistent narrative and that narrative is thereby strengthened. Our systems approach purposely represents a “coherence” in the sense given.

Overall, known biochemical associations with PE come into four main categories, such as abnormal trophoblast invasion, oxidative stress, inflammation and altered immune response, and anti-angiogenic responses (Figure 2). Each of these can contribute directly to PE, and although they can interact with each other (black arrows), no external or causal source is apparent. Figure 2 has been redrawn from a very nice review by Pennington and colleagues (113), which indicates four main generally accepted “causes” (or at least accompaniments) of PE as the four outer colored circles. As illustrated with the black two-way arrows, many of these also interact with each other. What is missing, in a sense, is then what causes these causes, and that is the nub of our argument here. Since we now know (and describe below) that microbes can affect each of these four general mechanisms, we have added these routes to Figure 1 (using pink arrows) where dormant, resuscitating, or growing microbes are known to contribute.

Figure 2

In a similar vein, Magee and colleagues (114) have nicely set down their related analysis of the causes and consequences of PE, with a central focus (redrawn in Figure 3) on endothelial cell activation. While bearing much similarity in terms of overall content to the analysis of Pennington and colleagues (113), and ours above, it again lacks a microbial or infection component as a causative element, but importantly does note that infection and/or inflammation can serve to lower the threshold for PE in cases of inadequate placentation. In our view, microbes can also enter following normal placentation if their dormant microbiome begins to wake up and/or to shed inflammagens.

Figure 3

Heritability

The question of the extent of heritability of PE (susceptibility) is of interest. Although this seems to vary widely in different studies (Table 1), a number of candidate gene studies (, 115118) imply that a susceptibility to PE is at least partly heritable, consistent with the variance in all the other “risk factors” of Table 1 [and see Ref. ()]. As with all the other gene association studies where phenotypic (“lifestyle”) information is absent (119121), it is not possible to ascribe the heritability to genetics alone, as opposed to an interaction of a genetic susceptibility (e.g., in the HLA system) with environmental factors (117), such as cytomegalovirus infection (122).

Inflammation

Preeclampsia is accompanied by oxidative stress (123, 124) and inflammation and, thus, shares a set of observable properties with many other (and hence related) inflammatory diseases, be they vascular (e.g., atherosclerosis), neurodegenerative (e.g., Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s), or “metabolic” (type 1 and 2 diabetes). It is thus at least plausible that they share some common etiologies, as we argue here, and that knowledge of the etiology of these diseases may give us useful clues for PE.

As well as raised levels of inflammatory cytokines that constitute virtually a circular definition of inflammation, we and others have noted that all of these diseases are accompanied by dysregulation of iron metabolism (84, 125, 126), hypercoagulability and hypofibrinolysis (127, 128), blood microparticles (126), and changes in the morphology of fibrin fibers [e.g., Ref. (129134)] and of erythrocytes [e.g., Ref. (127, 132137)].

In addition, we and others have recognized the extensive evidence for the role of a dormant blood and/or tissue microbiome in these (138143) and related (144147) diseases, coupled in part with the shedding of highly inflammagenic bacterial components such as Gram-negative lipopolysaccharide (LPS) and their Gram-positive cell wall equivalents such as lipoteichoic acids (148). (We shall often use the term “LPS” as a “shorthand,” to be illustrative of all of these kinds of highly inflammagenic molecules.)

The purpose of this review, outlined as a “mind map” in Figure 4, is thus to summarize the detailed and specific lines of evidence suggesting a very important role of a dormant microbial component in the etiology of PE [and see also Ref. (138)]. To do this, we must start by rehearsing what is meant by microbial dormancy.

Figure 4

Bacterial Viability

In microbiology, we usually consider microbes as being in one of the three “physiological macrostates” (Figure 5). The definition of a “viable” bacterium is normally based on its ability to replicate, i.e., “viability” = culturability (149151). In this sense, classical microbiology has barely changed since the time of Robert Koch, with the presence of a “viable” microorganism in a sample being assessed via its ability to form a visible colony on an agar plate containing suitable nutrients. However, it is well known, especially in environmental microbiology [“the great plate count anomaly” (152)], that only a small percentage of cells observable microscopically is typically culturable on agar plates. In principle, this could be because they are/were “irreversibly” non-culturable (operationally “dead”), or because our culture media either kill them (153) or such media lack nutrients or signaling molecules necessary for their regrowth (154, 155) from an otherwise dormant state (156, 157). These statements are true even for microbes that appear in culture collections and (whose growth requirements) would be regarded as “known.”

Figure 5

However, it is common enough in clinical microbiology that we detect the existence or presence of “novel” microbial pathogens with obscure growth requirements before we learn to culture them; this is precisely what happened in the case of Legionella pneumophila (158161), Tropheryma whipplei [Whipple’s disease (162, 163)], and Coxiella burnetii [the causative agent of Q fever (164, 165)]. Even Helicobacter pylori was finally brought into culture on agar plates only because an unusually long Easter holiday break meant that the plates were incubated for an extended period of 5 days (rather than the normal 2) before being thrown out (166, 167)! Consequently, there is ample precedent for the presence of “invisible” microbes to go unremarked before they are discovered as the true cause of a supposedly non-infectious disease, even when they are perfectly viable (culturable) according to standard analyses.

Dormancy

Dormancy for a microbe is defined operationally as a state, commonly of low metabolic activity, in which the organism appears not to be viable in that it is unable to form a colony but where it is not dead in that it may revert to a state in which it can do so, via a process known as resuscitation (156, 157). However, an important issue (and see above) is that dormant bacteria do not typically fulfill the Koch–Henle postulates (100103), and in order for them to do so it is necessary that they be grown or resuscitated. This is precisely what was famously done by Marshall and Warren when they showed that the supposedly non-infectious disease of gastric ulcers was, in fact, caused by a “novel” organism called H. pylori (168, 169). One of the present authors showed in laboratory cultures of actinobacteria that these too could enter a state of true dormancy (170, 171) [as is well known for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, e.g., Ref. (172176)], and could be resuscitated by a secreted growth factor called Rpf (177181). This RPF family has a very highly conserved motif that is extremely immunogenic (182, 183), and it is presently under trials as a vaccine against M. bovis.

Prevalence of Dormant, Persistent, or Latent Bacteria in Infection Microbiology

It is worth stressing here that the presence of dormant or latent bacteria in infection microbiology is well established; one-third of humans carry dormant M. tuberculosis [e.g., Ref. (175, 184187)], most without reactivation, while probably 50–100% are infected with H. pylori, most without getting ulcers or worse (188, 189). As with the risk factors in Table 1, the organisms are merely or equivalently “risk factors” for these infectious diseases and are effectively seen as causative only when the disease is actually manifest.

In a similar vein, so-called persisters are phenotypic variants of infectious microbes that resist antibiotics and can effectively lie in hiding to resuscitate subsequently. This is also very well established [e.g., Ref. (139, 190203)]. In many cases, they can hide intracellularly (204), where antibiotics often penetrate poorly (205) because the necessary transporters (206209) are absent. This effectively provides for reservoirs of reinfection, e.g., for Staphylococcus aureus (210), Bartonella spp. (211), and – most pertinently here – for the Escherichia coli involved in urinary tract (re)infection (212215). The same intracellular persistence is true for parasites such as Toxoplasma gondii (216).

Thus, the main point of the extensive prevalence of microbial dormancy and persistence is that microbes can appear to be absent when they are, in fact, present at high concentrations. This is true not only in cases where infection is recognized as the cause of disease but, as we here argue, such microbes may be an important part of diseases presently thought to lack an infectious component.

Iron and Inflammation

It is well known that [with the possible exception of Borrelia (217, 218)] a lack of free iron normally limits microbial growth in vivo [e.g., Ref. (219243)], and we have reviewed previously (84, 125, 126) the very clear iron dysregulation accompanying PE [e.g., Ref. (90, 244256)].

This has led to the recognition (128, 139, 141) that the source of the continuing inflammation might be iron-based resuscitation of dormant microbes that could release well known and highly potent inflammagens such as LPS. Indeed, we have shown that absolutely tiny (highly substoichiometric) amounts of LPS can have a massive effect on the blood clotting process (257), potentially inducing β-amyloid formation directly (258, 259) [something, interestingly, that can be mimicked in liquid crystals (260, 261)]. The overall series of interactions envisaged [see also Kell et al. (139)] is shown in Figure 6.

Figure 6

As pointed out by a referee, worldwide, iron deficiency anemia is associated with increased perinatal morbidity and mortality, predominantly in low resource settings. This is most recently and comprehensively reviewed by Rahman and colleagues (262). This meta-analysis (262) found that in low- and middle-income countries, maternal hemoglobin concentrations <10 or <11 g dL−1 or hematocrit values <33 or <34% accounted for 12% of low birth weight, 19% of preterm births (PTBs), and 18% of perinatal mortality. However, the independent contribution of iron deficiency is difficult to define, especially since in low resource settings anemia is often not found in isolation but as part of a wider spectrum of nutritional insufficiencies (especially vitamins and folic acid) or as a result of parasitic infection. These can increase susceptibility to other insults such a hemorrhage or infection, also common in low resources settings. In addition, the exact speciation and hence availability of iron may be important (not just the total amount). Thus, the hypothesis presented here is that iron in excess or under certain physiological conditions can be, and indeed is, equally detrimental to maternal health. There is a likely a “Goldilocks” concentration of iron which is optimal for maternal and neonatal health, and the authors are proposing the selected use of treatments such as statins or iron chelators in the at-risk population, rather than as a broad panacea. Furthermore, the use of statins to prevent pregnancy complications is far from controversial (see also below). There are at least two registered current trials of statins to prevent PE (ISRCTN17787139 and ISRCTN23410175).

Detecting Dormant Microbes

By definition, dormant bacteria escape detection by classical methods of assessing viability that involve replication on agar plates. Other growth-associated methods include measurements involving changes in turbidity (263), including an important but now rather uncommon technique referred to as the “most probable number” (MPN). The MPN involves diluting samples serially and assessing by turbidity changes in the presence of growth/no growth. Look-up tables based on Poisson statistics enable estimation of the number of cells or propagules that were present. A particular virtue is that they allow dormant and “initially viable” cells to be discriminated via “dilution to extinction” (171), thereby avoiding many artifacts (157). As mentioned earlier, preincubation in a weak nutrient broth (171, 264) was instrumental in allowing the discovery (177) of an autocrine “wake-up” molecule necessary for the growth of many actinobacteria.

Other more classical means of detecting microbes, but not whether they were culturable, involved microscopy (190, 265268) or flow cytometry (269) with or without various stains that reflected the presence or otherwise of an intact cell wall/membrane (170, 270277). These stains are sometimes referred to as “viability” stains, but this is erroneous as they do not measure “culturability.” Readers may also come upon the term “viable-but-not-culturable”; however, since viable = culturable, this is an oxymoron that we suggest is best avoided (157). Other methods involved measurement of microbial products, e.g., CO2 (278, 279), or changes in the conductivity or impedance of the growth medium (263, 280282).

Most importantly, however, dormant (as well as culturable) cells may be detected by molecular means, nowadays most commonly through PCR and/or sequencing of the DNA encoding their small subunit ribosomal RNA (colloquially “16S”) (283297) or other suitable genes. It is clear that such methods will have a major role to play in detecting, identifying, and quantifying the kinds of microbes that we argue lie at the heart of PE etiology.

A Dormant Blood Microbiome

Of course, actual bacteremia, the presence of replicable bacteria in blood, is highly life-threatening (298), but – as emphasized – viability assays do not detect dormant bacteria. When molecular detection methods are applied to human blood, it turns out that blood does indeed harbor a great many dormant bacteria [e.g., Ref. (299309)]; they may also be detected ultramicroscopically [e.g., Ref. (139141, 190, 267, 300, 310)] or by flow cytometry (311), and dormant blood and tissue microbes probably underpin a great many chronic, inflammatory diseases normally considered to lack a microbial component (139141, 144147, 190, 267, 268, 302, 312321). Multiple arguments serve to exclude “contaminants” as the source of the bacterial DNA (141): (1) there are significant differences between the blood microbiomes of individuals harboring disease states and nominally healthy controls, despite the fact that samples are treated identically; (2) the morphological type of organism (e.g., coccus vs. bacillus) seems to be characteristic of particular diseases; (3) in many cases, relevant organisms lurk intracellularly, which is hard to explain by contamination; (4) there are just too many diseases where bacteria have been found to play a role in the pathogenesis, that all of them may be caused by contamination; (5) the actual numbers of cells involved seem far too great to be explicable by contamination; given that blood contains ~5 × 109 erythrocytes mL−1, if there was just one bacterial cell per 50,000 erythrocytes this will equate to 105 bacteria mL−1. These are big numbers, and if the cells were culturable, that number of cells would be the same as that ordinarily defining bacteriuria.

A recent study by Damgaard and colleagues (306) is of particular interest here. Recognizing the strong mismatch between the likelihood of an infection post-transfusion [very high (306)] and the likelihood of detecting culturable microbes in blood bank units (negligible, ca. 0.1%) (306, 322), Damgaard et al. reasoned that our methods of detecting and culturing these microbes might be the problem. Certainly, taking cells from a cooled blood bag and placing them onto an agar plate at room temperature that is directly exposed to atmospheric levels of gaseous O2 is a huge stress leading to the production of “reactive oxygen species” (125, 323), that might plausibly kill any dormant, injured, or even viable microbes. Thus, they incubated samples from blood on a rich medium (trypticase soy agar) for a full week, both aerobically and anaerobically. Subsequent PCR and sequencing allowed them to identify specific microbes in some 35–53% of the samples. Thus, very careful methods need to be deployed to help resuscitate bacteria from physiological states that normally resist culture, even when these bacteria are well-established species. This is very much beginning to happen in environmental microbiology [e.g., Ref. (154, 324326)], and such organisms are rightly seen as important sources of novel bioactives (327, 328).

As reviewed previously (139143), the chief sources of these blood microbes are the gut microbiome, the oral microbiome [periodontitis (329)], and via UTIs. Consequently, if we are to argue that there is indeed a microbial component to PE, we should expect to see some literature evidence for it (53, 54, 138, 330332). In what follows we shall rehearse the fact that it is voluminous.

Direct Evidence for a Role of Infectious Agents in PE

Although we recognize that many of the more molecular methods cannot distinguish culturable from dormant microbes, quite a number of studies have explicitly identified infection as a cause of PE (Table 2). The commonest microbe seems to be H. pylori; while it is most famously associated with gastric ulcers (168, 169, 333), there are many other extragastric manifestations [e.g., Ref. (334342)]. The odds ratio of no less than 26 in PE vs. controls when the strains can produce CagA antigens is especially striking, not least because it provides a mechanistic link to poor trophoblast invasion via a mechanism involving host antibodies to CagA cross-reacting with trophoblasts (343, 344), and circulating (345) in microparticles (346) or endosomes (347, 348).

Table 2

MicrobesCommentsReference
Chlamydia pneumoniaeIgG seroprevalence and gDNA associated with PE (p < 0.0001)(349)
IgG (but not IgA or IgM) associated with PE, OR = 3.1(350)
Significantly greater numbers with PE, and reversion under antichlamydial treatment(351)
Chlamydia trachomatisIncreased risk of PE, OR = 7.2 or 1.6 based on serology(352, 353)
CytomegalovirusRR for PE 1.5 if infected with CMV(354) [see also Xie et al. (355)]
Helicobacter pyloriSeropositivity or DNA. OR = 2.7 or 26 if CagA seropositivity(343) and editorial (356)
IgG seropositivity 54% PE vs. 21% controls(357)
Anti-CagA antibodies cross-react with trophoblasts and could inhibit placentation(358)
2.8× greater seropositivity in PE group(359)
OR = 2.86 for seropositivity in PE, correlated with high malondialdehyde levels(360)
Wide-ranging review of many studies showing PE more prevalent after Hp infection(361)
Seropositivity PE:control = 84:32% (p < 0.001)(362)
OR for seropositivity 1.83 (p < 0.001)(363)
Seropositivity PE:control 86:43% (p < 0.001)(364)
Human papillomavirusHigh-risk human papillomavirus (HR-HPV) presence implies an OR of 2.18 for PE(365)
Meta-analysesIncidence of PE 19% with asymptomatic bacteriuria vs. 3% (primigravid) or 6% (multigravid) controls (p < 0.005)(366)
UTI more than twice as likely in severe preeclamptics than in controls(367)
OR of 1.6 for PE if UTI present(368)
Increased risk of PE OR 1.57 for UTI, 1.76 for periodontal disease(53)
Early application of antibiotics in infection reduced PE by 52%(330)
Any overt infection led to an RR of 2 for PE(54)
UTI has OR of 3.2 for PE; OR = 4.3 if in third trimester(369)
UTI has OR of 1.3 for mild/moderate and 1.8 for severe PE(370)
Increased risk of PE with UTI (OR 1.22) or antibiotic prescription (OR 1.28)(371)
OR of 6.8 for symptomatic bacteriuria in PE vs. controls(372)
OR 1.3–1.8 of mild or severe PE if exposed to UTI(373)
OR 1.4 for PE following UTI(374)
OR 1.3 for PE after UTI(375)
Meta-analyses showing associations between PD and PE(376378)
Plasmodium falciparum (malaria)Indications that infection with malaria is associated with PE(379)
1.5 RR for PE if malarial(380)
Seasonality: 5.4-fold increase in eclampsia during malaria season(381)
Preeclampsia was significantly associated with malaria infection during pregnancy (p < 0.03) and 69.7% of cases of preeclampsia with infected placenta might be attributable to malaria infection(382)

Many studies have identified a much greater prevalence of infectious agents in the blood or urine of these exhibiting PE than in matched controls.

In contrast to the situation in PE, albeit severe PE is associated with iatrogenic PTBs, there is a widespread recognition [e.g., Ref. (383410)] that infection is a common precursor to PTB in the absence of PE. The failure of antibiotics to help can be ascribed to their difficulty of penetrating to the trophoblasts and placental regions. Unfortunately, no proteomic biomarkers have yet been observed as predictive of PTB (411, 412). In a similar vein, and if we are talking about a time of parturition that is very much more “preterm,” we are in the realm of miscarriages and spontaneous abortions and stillbirths, where infection again remains a major cause (413416). Here, we note that early or pre-emptive antibiotic therapy has also proved of considerable value in improving outcomes after multiple spontaneous abortions (417).

Vaginal, Placental, and Amniotic Fluid Microbiomes in PE

It might be natural to assume that the placenta is a sterile organ, like blood is supposed to be. However, various studies [modulo the usual issues of contamination (418)] have shown the presence of microbes in tissues including the placenta (400, 409, 419432), vagina (393, 433440), uterus (391, 441, 442), amniotic fluid (430, 443448), and follicular fluid (449, 450), and how these may vary significantly in PE [we do not discuss other pregnancy disorders such as small for gestational age (SGA) and intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)]. We list some of these in Table 3.

Table 3

OrganismsCommentsReference
Multiple, including Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans, Fusobacterium nucleatumMany more in PE placentas relative to controls (p ≤ 0.0055)(451)
MultipleHalf of second-trimester pregnancies have culturable or PCR-detectable bacteria/mycoplasmas(419)
Multiple38% of placental samples were positive for selected bacteria and viruses(452)
Bifidobacterium spp. and Lactobacillus rhamnosusBifidobacteria and L. rhamnosus (from gut) detected in 31/34 and 33/34 placental samples(420)
MultipleDetectable in 27% of all placentas and 54% of spontaneous preterm delivery(421)
Multiple16S/NGS, major review(400)
MultipleFrom 16S and NGS analysis of placental tissue of 7 PE patients (12.5%) (controls all negative)(453)
E. coli and L. monocytogenesWhen added ex vivo can migrate to extravillous trophoblasts(422)
MultipleReview, with some focus on preterm birth(423)
MultipleOverview, some focus on preterm birth(425)
MultipleGood recent overview, with possible implication of a physiological role(426)
Multiple320 placentas; changed microbiome as a function of excess gestational weight gain(427)
MultipleOne-third of placentas from preterm births were culture-positive(428)
MultipleMajor differences in placental microbiome in preterm birth(432)
Plasmodium falciparum (malaria)Increased likelihood of PE(380)
Plasmodium falciparum (malaria)Reviews of placental malaria(454, 455)
Porphyromonas gingivalisOR of PE = 6.3 if detected in umbilical cord(456)
Porphyromonas gingivalisOR 7.59 in placental tissues with hypertensive disorders(457)
Treponema denticolaOR 9.39 in placental tissues with hypertensive disorders(457)
Meta-analysisWidespread occurrence of microbes in female genital tract during pregnancy(403)

Evidence for microbes in placental tissues, including those with PE.

Origins of a Blood and Tissue Microbiome

As assessed previously (139141) over a large literature, the chief source of blood microbes is the gut (426), with another major entry point being via the oral microbiome (especially in periodontitis, see below). For rheumatoid arthritis (142, 458460) and diseases of pregnancy, UTI (see below and Table TT) also provides a major source.

Gut Origins of Blood Microbes and LPS

We have recently rehearsed these issues elsewhere (139141), so a brief summary will suffice. Clearly, the gut holds trillions of microbes, with many attendant varieties of LPS (461), so even low levels of translocation [e.g., Ref. (462464)], typically via Peyer’s patches and M cells, provide a major source of the blood microbiome. This may be exacerbated by intra-abdominal hypertension and overeating (465467) that can indeed stimulate the translocation of LPS (468). For reasons of space and scope, we do not discuss the origins and translocation of microbes in breast milk (469) nor the important question of the establishment of a well-functioning microbiome in the fetus and neonate (470), and the physiological role of the mother therein.

Preeclampsia and Periodontal Disease

One potential origin of microbes that might be involved in, or represent a major cause of, PE is the oral cavity, and in particular when there is oral disease (such as periodontitis and gum bleeding) that can allow microbes to enter the bloodstream. If this is a regular occurrence one would predict that PE would be much more prevalent in patients with pre-existing periodontitis [but cf. Ref. (471) for those in pregnancy] than in matched controls; this is indeed the case (Table 4). As with many of the tables herein, the odds ratios are far beyond anything that might weakly be referred to as an “association.”

Table 4

OrganismsCommentsReference
Meta-analysesOR of PE increased 3.69-fold if PD before 32 weeks(472)
OR of 3 for the development of PE if ureaplasmas present at first antenatal visit(473)
OR 5.56 for PD preceding PE(474)
OR 2.1 for preceding PE(475)
Extensive overview of role of oral health and periodontal disease in PE(476)
OR 3.71 for PE if history of periodontal treatment(477)
Excellent overview of likely relationship between PD and PE(478)
OR = 8.6 or 2.03 for PE if PD was present vs. controls(479)
Strong association between PD and PE (p < 0.01)(480)
Overview with many references(481)
OR for association between PD and PE = 3.73. No correlation with TNF-α or IL(482)
OR 2.46 PE:controls(483)
Excellent overviews, focusing on means of transport of microbes from mouth to reproductive tissue(484) [see also Bobetsis et al. (485)]
Relationship between C-reactive protein, PE, and severity of PD(486)
Adjusted PE RR 5.8 for Women with periodontal disease and CRP >75th percentile compared to women without periodontal disease(487)
PD prevalence 65.5% and significantly higher (p < 0.0001) in females with hypertension (RR = 1.5)(488)
Meta-analysis(489)
Periodontal bacteria “much more prevalent” in PE than controls, but OR not given(490)
Overview, stressing role of LPS(491)
Overview and meta-analysis of 25 studies(492)
OR 4.79–6.6 for PE is PD(493)
Porphyromonas gingivalisIts LPS inhibits trophoblast invasion(494)
OR = 3 overall(495)
Not statedSignificantly higher periodontal probing depth and clinical attachment level scores in the preeclamptic group compared with controls (2.98 vs. 2.11 and 3.33 vs. 2.30, respectively).(496)

Periodontal disease (PD) and preeclampsia.

Urinary Tract Infections

A particular feature of UTIs is the frequency of reinfection (497504). This is because the organisms can effectively “hide” in bladder epithelial cells as the so-called “quiescent intracellular reservoirs” (212, 501, 503, 505509) of (presumably) dormant cells that can resuscitate. This is why reinfection is often from the same strains that caused the original infection (510514). Other complications can include renal scarring (515). Bacteriuria (often asymptomatic) is a frequent occurrence in pregnancy [e.g., Ref. (373, 375, 473, 516522)], and the frequency of UTI as a source of microbes causing PE is clear from Table 2.

From Blood to and from the Placenta: A Role for Microparticles

We and others have noted the fact that many chronic, inflammatory disease are accompanied by the shedding of various antigens and other factors; typically they pass through the bloodstream as microparticles (126, 140, 523530), sometimes known as endosomes (345, 347, 348, 524, 531) [and see later under microRNAs (miRNAs)]. Similarly, LPS is normally bound to proteins such as the LPS-binding protein and apoE (140). Given their prevalence, their role in simply finding their way from maternal blood to placenta, and the fact that we discussed them extensively in two previous reviews (126, 140), we do not discuss them further here.

Evidence from Antibiotic Therapies

Antibiotic drug prescriptions (532534) may be seen as a proxy for maternal infection, so if dormant (and resuscitating and growing) bacteria are a major part of PE etiology one might imagine an association between antibiotic prescriptions and PE. According to an opposite argument, antibiotics and antibiotic prescriptions given for nominally unrelated infections (UTI, chest, etc., and in particular diseases requiring long-term anti-infective medication that might even last throughout a pregnancy) might have the beneficial side-effect of controlling the proliferation of dormant cells as they seek to resuscitate. There is indeed some good evidence for both of these, implying that it is necessary to look quite closely at the nature, timing, and duration of the infections and of the anti-infective therapy relative to pregnancy. A summary is given in Table 5. A confounding factor can be that some (e.g., the antiretroviral) therapies are themselves quite toxic (535, 536); while the OR for avoiding PE was 15.3 in one study of untreated HIV-infected individuals vs. controls, implying (as is known) a strong involvement of the immune system in PE, the “advantage” virtually disappeared upon triple-antiretroviral therapy (537). Overall, it is hard to draw conclusions from antiretrovirals (538, 539). However, we have included one HIV study in the table. Despite a detailed survey, we found no reliable studies with diseases such as Lyme disease or tuberculosis, where treatment regimens are lengthy, that allowed a fair conclusion as to whether antibiotic treatment was protective against PE. However, we do highlight the absolutely stand-out study of Todros and colleagues (540), who noted that extended spiramycin treatment (of patients with T. gondii) gave a greater than 10-fold protection against PE, when the parasite alone had no effect (541). This makes such an endeavor (assessing the utility of early or pre-emptive antibiotics in PE) potentially highly worthwhile.

Table 5

Target organismsCommentsReference
HIVOR of 0.65 for patients treated with mono- or triple antiretroviral therapy(542)
Toxoplasma gondiiMassive (OR = 0.092) protection against PE in patients treated with spiramycin(540)
Various organisms52% decrease in PE following 10-day antibiotic therapy(330)

Examples of decreased PE following antibiotic therapies given for various reasons.

Role of LPS in PE

It is exceptionally well known that LPS (sensu lato) is highly inflammagenic, and since one of us recently reviewed that literature in extenso (140) this is not directly rehearsed here. However, since we are arguing that it has a major role in PE naturally or in vivo, we do need to ask whether the literature is consistent with this more focused question. The answer is, of course, a resounding “yes.” Notwithstanding that only primates, and really only humans, are afflicted by “genuine” PE, so the genuine utility of rodent models is questionable (543), even if some can recapitulate elements of the disease (544, 545). Hence, it is somewhat ironic that there are a number of animal models in which LPS (also known as “endotoxin”) is used experimentally to induce a condition resembling PE [e.g., Ref. (546551) and also see Ref. (552)]. We merely argue that it is not a coincidence that exogenous administration of LPS has these effects, because we consider that it is, in fact, normally one of the main mediators of PE. Also note, in the context of gestational diabetes, that serum levels of LPS are raised significantly in both type 1 (466, 553) and type 2 (554556) diabetes.

The standard sequelae of LPS activation, e.g., TLR signaling and cytokine production, also occur in PE (557559), bolstering the argument that this is precisely what is going on. In a similar vein, double-stranded RNA-mediated activation of TLR3 and TLR7/8 can play a key role in the development of PE (560562). What is new here is our recognition that LPS and other inflammagens [e.g., Ref. (563565)] may continue to be produced and shed by dormant and resuscitating bacteria that are generally invisible to classical microbiology.

Effects of LPS and Other Microbial Antigens on Disrupting Trophoblast Invasion and/or Stimulating Parturition

As with other cases of cross-reactivity such as that of various antigens in Proteus spp. that can cause disease in rheumatoid arthritis (458460), the assumption is that various microbial antigens can lead to the production of (auto-)antibodies that attack the host, in the present case of interest by stopping the placentation by trophoblasts. This is commonly referred to as “molecular mimicry” [e.g., Ref. (566569)] and may extend between molecular classes, e.g., peptide/carbohydrate (570, 571). Table 6 shows some molecular examples where this has been demonstrated.

Table 6

OrganismAntigen and commentsReference
Gram-negativesLPS can stimulate parturition, via corticotropin-releasing hormone(572)
Gram-negativesLPS can stimulate parturition, via MAPKinase(559)
Helicobacter pyloriAnti-CagA antibodies cross-react with trophoblasts and could inhibit placentation(344, 358)
Porphyromonas gingivalisLPS inhibits trophoblast invasion(494)
VariousAntiphospholipid antibodies (that can be induced by microbes, see above)(573576)

Molecular examples of bacterial antigens that can elicit antibodies that stop successful trophoblast implantation or stimulate parturition.

In many cases, the actual (and possibly microbial) antigens are unknown, and clearly the microbial elicitation of antibodies to anything that might contribute to PE points to multiple potential origins. To this end, we note that PE has also been associated with antibodies to angiotensin receptors (577590), to smooth muscle (591, 592) [such blocking may be anti-inflammatory (593595)], to adrenoceptors (596), to the M2 muscarinic receptor (597), and to Th17 (598) [and see Ref. (599)]. It is not unreasonable that epitope scanning of the antibody targets coupled with comparative sequence analysis of potential microbes might light up those responsible. In the case of angiotensin II type 1 receptor antibodies, the epitope is considered (600) to be AFHYESQ, an epitope that also appears on parvovirus B19 capsid proteins; in the event, parvoviruses seem not to be the culprits here (601). However, the role of these antibodies in activating the angiotensin receptor is also considered to underpin the lowering of the renin–angiotensin system that is commonly seen in PE (602605), but which is typically raised during normal pregnancy.

Th-17 is of especial interest here, since these are the helper T (Th)-cell subset that produces IL-17. IL-17 is probably best known for its role in inflammation and autoimmunity (599, 606610). However, it also has an important role in induction of the protective immune response against extracellular bacteria or fungal pathogens at mucosal surfaces (608, 611623). Th17 cells seem to participate in successful pregnancy processes and can be lower in PE (624626), although more studies show them as higher (599, 627635) or unchanged (636, 637). One interpretation, consistent with the present thesis, is that the antimicrobial effects of placental IL-17 relative to Treg cells are compromised during PE (599, 633, 638).

A Note on the Terminology of Sepsis

As one may suppose from the name, sepsis (and the use of words like “antiseptic”) was originally taken to indicate the presence of culturable organisms in (or in a sample taken from) a host, e.g., as in bacteremia. Recognizing that it is the products of bacteria, especially cell wall components, that cause the cytokine storms that eventually lead to death from all kinds of infection (639643), “sepsis” nowadays has more come to indicate the latter, as a stage (in the case of established infection) on a road that leads to septic shock and (eventually) to death [with a shockingly high mortality, and many failures of initially promising treatments, e.g., Ref. (644, 645), and despite the clear utility of iron chelation (84, 125, 646648)]. In most cases, significant numbers of culturable microbes are either unmeasured or absent, and like most authors, we shall use “sepsis” to imply the results of an infection whether the organisms are detected or otherwise. Overall, it is possible to see the stages of PE as a milder form of the sepsis cascade on the left-hand side of Figure 7. Figure 7 compares the classical route of sepsis-induced death with the milder versions that we see in PE; they are at least consistent with the idea that PE is strongly related to the more classical sepsis in degree rather than in kind.

Figure 7

Preeclampsia and Neonatal Sepsis

If PE is really based on infectious agents, it is reasonable that one might expect to see a greater incidence of neonatal sepsis (i.e., infection) following PE. While there are clearly other possible explanations (e.g., simply a weakened immune system, sometimes expressed as neutropenia, after PE), there is certainly evidence that this is consistent with this suggestion (649653).

PE Biomarkers and Infection

Because of the lengthy development of PE during pregnancy, there has long been a search for biomarkers (somewhat equivalent to the “risk factors” discussed earlier) that might have predictive power, and some of these, at both metabolome (, 654661) and proteome (662667) level, are starting to come forward. The typical experimental design is a case–control, in which markers that are raised or lowered significantly relative to the age-matched controls are considered to be candidate markers of PE. However, just as noted with leukocyte markers (81) and polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS) (668) that does not mean that they might not also be markers for other things too, such as infection (669)!

Thus, one prediction is that if dormant and resuscitating bacteria are responsible for PE then at least some of these biomarkers should also be (known to be) associated with infection. However, one obvious point is that the markers may appear only after infection, and this may itself be after the first-trimester; clearly then these would not then be seen as “first-trimester” biomarkers! There are many well-known inflammatory biomarkers that are part of the innate [and possibly trained (670)] immune response, such as the inflammatory cytokines CRP [cf. Ref. (671, 672)], IL-6 (673), IL-1β (674), TNF-α (675), and macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) (676), which are also all biomarkers of infection (677681). Certainly, the fact that these increase in PE is consistent with a role for an infectious component. However, we shall mainly look at other biomarkers that are known to increase with PE, and see if they are also known to be biomarkers for (or at least changed in the presence of) infection (and see Th17/IL-17 above), and we next examine this. We shall see that pretty well every biomarker that is changed significantly in PE is also known to be changed following infection, a series of findings that we consider adds very strong weight to our arguments.

Proteomic and Similar Biomarkers – Circulating and Placental

What is really needed is a full systems biology strategy [see, e.g., Ref. (99, 682684)] that brings together the actors that interact then parametrizes the nature of these interactions in a suitable encoding [e.g., SBML (685)] that permits their modeling, at least as an ODE model using software such as CellDesigner (686), COPASI (687), or Cytoscape (688). Thus, to take a small example, “agonistic autoantibodies against the angiotensin II type 1 receptor autoantibodies (AT1-AA) are described. They induce NADPH oxidase and the MAPK/ERK pathway leading to NF-κB and tissue factor activation. AT1-AA are detectable in animal models of PE and are responsible for elevation of soluble fms-related tyrosine kinase-1 (sFlt1) and soluble endoglin (sEng), oxidative stress, and endothelin-1, all of which are enhanced in pre-eclamptic women. AT1-AA can be detected in pregnancies with abnormal uterine perfusion” (589). Many such players have been invoked, and we next list some.

Activin A

Activin A is a member of the TGF-β superfamily. Its levels are raised significantly in PE (118, 689691). However, activin A is also well established as a biomarker of infection (692695).

Calretinin

In a proteomic study of preclamptic vs. normal placentas (696), calretinin was one of the most differentially upregulated proteins (p = 1.6 × 10−13 for preterm PE vs. controls, p = 8.9 × 10−7 for term PE vs. controls), and in a manner that correlated with the severity of disease. While calretinin [normally more expressed in neural tissue and mesotheliomas (697)] is not normally seen as a marker of infection, it is, in fact, raised significantly when Chlamydia pneumoniae infects human mesothelial cells (698).

Chemerin

Chemerin is a relatively recently discovered adipokine, whose level can increase dramatically in the first-trimester of preeclamptic pregnancies (699), and beyond (700). Its levels are related to the severity of the PE (701703). Specifically, an ROC curve (704) analysis showed that a serum chemerin level >183.5 ng mL−1 predicted PE with 87.8% sensitivity and 75.7% specificity (AUC, 0.845; 95% CI, 0.811–0.875) (699). Papers showing that chemerin is also increased by infection (hence inflammation) include (705, 706); it even has antibacterial properties (707, 708) and was protective in a skin model of infection (709, 710). In a study of patients with sepsis (711), circulating chemerin was increased 1.69-fold compared with controls (p = 0.012) and was also protective as judged by survival. These seem like particularly potent argument for a role of chemerin as a marker of infection rather than of PE per se, and for the consequent fact that PE follows infection and not vice versa.

Copeptin

Copeptin, a glycosylated polypeptide consisting of the 39 C-terminal amino acids of arginine vasopressin, has been suggested as “a new biomarker that is specific for preeclampsia” (712), and certainly changes during its development (713). However, it turns out that it is also essentially a measure of all kinds of stresses and adverse events (714719), including those caused by infection (720729).

Cystatin C

Not least because kidney function is impaired in PE, low molecular weight (MW) proteins may serve as biomarkers for it. To this end, cystatin C (13 kDa) has been found to be raised significantly in PE (730736); it also contributed to the marker set in the SCOPE study (, ). Notably, although it certainly can be raised during infection (737), it seems to be more of a marker of inflammation or kidney function (738, 739).

d-Dimer

d-dimer” is a term used to describe quite varying forms of fibrin degradation products (740). Given that PE is accompanied by coagulopathies, it is probably not surprising that d-dimer levels are raised in PE (741745), although this is true for many conditions (746), and some of the assays would bear improvement (747, 748). Needless to say, however, raised d-dimer levels are also a strong marker for infection (749, 750).

Endocan

Endothelial cell-specific molecule-1 (ESM-1), known as endocan, is a cysteine-rich dermatan sulfate proteoglycan expressed (and sometimes released) by endothelial cells. It has been suggested to be a new biomarker for endothelial dysfunction and PE (751, 752). It would appear, however, to be a rather less specific inflammatory biomarker (753, 754) and is associated with a variety of diseases, including chronic kidney disease (755, 756) and cardiovascular disease (755). Most pertinently from our perspective, it is also raised strongly during sepsis (757760).

Endoglin

Endoglin is the product of a gene implicated (761, 762) in the rare disease Hereditary Hemorrhagic Telangiectasia. The role of endoglin remains somewhat enigmatic (763). However, endoglin levels were 2.5-fold higher in preeclamptic placentas compared to normal pregnancies (15.4 ± 2.6 vs. 5.7 ± 1.0, p < 0.01). After the onset of clinical disease, the mean serum level of sEng in women with preterm PE was 46.4 ng mL−1, as compared with 9.8 ng mL−1 in controls (p < 0.001) (88). Women with a particular endoglin polymorphism (AA) were 2.29 times more likely to develop PE than those with the GG genotype (p = 0.008) (764), and endoglin is seen as a reasonably good marker for PE (88, 691, 765768) [cf. Ref. (769)]. Again, endoglin levels are raised following infection by a variety of organisms (770773), with a particularly clear example that it is a marker of infection coming from the fact that there is raised endoglin only in infected vs. aseptic loosening in joints following arthroplasty (774). In general, it seems likely that these circulating (anti)angiogenic factors are more or less markers of endothelial cell damage, just as we have described for serum ferritin (126).

Ferritin

The natural iron transporter in blood is transferrin [e.g., Ref. (775780)], present at ca. 1–2 g L−1, with ferritin being an intracellular iron storage molecule, so one is led to wonder why there is even any serum ferritin at all (126, 781). The answer is almost certainly that it is a leakage molecule from damaged cells (126), and when in serum it is found to have lost its iron content (782785). Serum ferritin is, as expected, raised during PE (244, 246, 249, 253, 255, 786, 787) and in many other inflammatory diseases (126), including infection [e.g., Ref. (788, 789) and above].

microRNAs

microRNAs are a relatively novel and highly important class of ~22 nt non-coding, regulatory molecules (790793). Some are placenta specific, and those in the circulation [often in endo/exosomes (794796)] can be identified during pregnancy (797800), potentially providing a minimally invasive readout of placental condition (801803). There is aberrant expression of placenta-specific miRNAs in PE including miR-517a/b and miR-517c (804810) and miR-1233 (811). C19MC is one of the largest miRNA gene clusters in humans, maps to chromosome 19q13.41, and spans a ~100 kb long region. C19MC miRNAs are processed from the cluster (812), are primate-specific, conserved in humans, and comprise 46 miRNA genes, including the miR-517 family (813). miR-517 is known to be antiviral (814, 815), while miR-517a overexpression is apoptotic (816) and can inhibit trophoblast invasion (817). Importantly for our argument, miR-517 molecules are overexpressed following infection (818, 819).

Neuropeptide Y

Although, as its name suggests, neuropeptide Y is a neurotransmitter, it is also correlated with stress. Certainly, it is related to noradrenaline (see below) that may itself be responsible for the raised blood pressure (BP) in PE (820). It is also raised in sepsis, where it is considered to counterbalance the vasodilation characteristic of septic shock [e.g., Ref. (821, 822)]. The apparent paradox of a raised BP in PE and a lowered one in septic shock is considered to be related to the very different concentrations of endotoxin involved (Figure 7).

NGAL (Lipocalin 2, Siderocalin)

Neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL) is a lipocalin that is capable of binding catecholate-based siderophores (125, 823, 824). As such it is antimicrobial and is also an inflammatory or sepsis biomarker (825, 826). Given our interest in iron, it is not surprising that it is changed during PE. While one study suggested it to be decreased in PE (827), a great many other studies showed it to be increased significantly in PE, and typically in a manner that correlated with PE severity (735, 828837). Pertinently to PE, it is also well established as an early biomarker of acute kidney injury (AKI) (838841). However, it is not a specific biomarker for AKI vs. sepsis (839, 842850) and its origin in sepsis differs (851, 852). Of course, it can be the sepsis that leads to the AKI (853, 854). Fairly obviously, while it does tend to be increased during PE, we again see its direct role as an antimicrobial and marker of sepsis as highly supportive of our present thesis.

Placental Growth Factor

This is a member of the VEGF Family that despite its name has a great many activities (855). It is often considered in parallel with endoglin and sFlt, with a high sFlt:PlGF ratio being considered as especially discriminatory for PE (89, 856869), i.e., a lower PlGF can be diagnostic of PE (769, 870873). PlGF tends to be raised in sepsis unrelated to pregnancy (874, 875), while its lowering in PE may be due to the excess sFLT that decreases it (855, 876, 877). In one study of a patient with CMV infection and PE, it was, in fact, raised (878), while, in the case of IUGR, it was massively lowered (879). PlGF alone is thus probably not a useful general marker for either PE or sepsis if one is trying to disentangle them, although it has clear promise when PE is superimposed on CKD (872, 880).

Procalcitonin

Procalcitonin is the 116 amino acid polypeptide precursor of calcitonin, a calcium regulatory hormone. It is another marker that has been observed to be raised (according to severity) in preeclamptics (742, 881, 882) [but cf. Ref. (713)]. However, it is also a known marker of bacterial infections or sepsis (881, 883891).

Serum Amyloid A

This is an inflammatory biomarker, which was shown to increase fourfold in PE in one study (892), was significantly raised in another (882), but not in a third (893). However, it is a well-established (and potent) biomarker for infection/sepsis [e.g., Ref. (894907)]. Defective amyloid processing may be a hallmark of PE more generally (908), and of course amyloid can be induced by various microbes (317, 319, 909, 910) and their products (257).

Soluble fms-Like Tyrosine Kinase 1

The sFlt receptor is a splice variant of the VEGF receptor (766). It is raised considerably in PE (691, 767, 856, 862, 864, 911914) and may be causal (545, 590, 915918). Needless to say, by now, we can see that it is also a very clear marker of infection (767, 919, 920), whose levels even correlate with the severity of sepsis (921923). Of particular note is the fact that sFLT is actually anti-inflammatory (922).

Thrombomodulin

Soluble thrombomodulin was recognized early as an endothelial damage biomarker and is raised in PE (924934). Interestingly, it has been found to have significant efficacy in the treatment of sepsis [-based disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC)] (935943).

TLR4

TLR4 upregulation in preeclamptic placentas (944) is entirely consistent with infection and the “danger model” as applied to PE (945). As well as LPS activation [reviewed in Kell and Pretorius (140)], the heat shock protein 60 of Chlamydia also activates TLR4 (138).

Visfatin

Visfatin is another adipokine that is raised in PE, approximately 2-fold in the study of Fasshauer and colleagues (946), and 1.5-fold in that of Adali and colleagues (947). However, it was little different in a third study (948), while in a different study, it was rather lower in PE than in controls (949). This kind of phenomenon rather lights up the need for excellent quality studies, including ELISA reagents, when making assessments of this type.

Fairly obviously, the conclusion that this long list of biomarkers that are raised in PE might be specific “PE” biomarkers is challenged very strongly by the finding that they are, in fact, all known markers of infection, a finding that in our view strongly bolsters the case for an infectious component in PE.

In a similar vein, there are a number of other sepsis markers (where sepsis is varied via, or occurs as, an independent variable) that we would predict are likely to be visible as raised in PE patient. These might include (680, 950) PAI-1, sE-selectin (951), and sVCAM-1 (921). In particular, Presepsin looks like a potentially useful marker for sepsis (888, 889, 952961), but we can find no literature on its use as a PE biomarker, where we predict that it may also be raised.

Metabolomic Biomarkers

For fundamental reasons connected with metabolic control and its formal, mathematical analysis (962966), changes in the metabolome are both expected (967) and found (968971) to be amplified relative to those in the transcriptome and proteome. For similar reasons, and coupled with evolution’s selection for robustness (972978) (i.e., homeostasis) in metabolic networks, we do not normally expect to find single metabolic biomarkers for a complex disease or syndrome. Since our initial metabolomic analyzes (654), the technology has improved considerably (979982), a full human metabolic network reconstruction has been published (978, 983985) in the style of that done for yeast (986), and a number of candidate metabolomics biomarkers for PE have been identified reproducibly on an entirely separate validation set (, 655).

This latter, LC-MS-based, study () found a cohort of 14 metabolites from the first-trimester that when combined gave an OR of 23 as being predictive of third-trimester PE. For convenience, we list them in Table 7. Note that because they were characterized solely via their mass, there are some uncertainties in the exact identification in some cases, and that untargeted metabolomics of this type has a moderately high limit of detection (maybe 10 μM) such that many potentially discriminatory metabolites are below the limit of detection.

Table 7

MetaboliteUp or down in PEAverage mass (Da)Chemspider identifier
5-hydroxytryptophanDown220.225141
MonosaccharideUpUnspecifiedUnspecified
DecanoylcarnitineUp315.4488420677
Methylglutaric and/or adipic acidDown146.14111549/191
Oleic acidUp282.461393217
Docosahexaenoic acid and/or docosatriynoic acidUp328.488393183/absent
γ-Butyrolactone and/or oxolan-3-one (dihydrofuran-3-one)Up86.0897029/461367
2-Oxovaleric acid and/or oxo-methylbutanoic acidUp116.11567142/absent
Acetoacetic acidUp102.08994
Hexadecenoyleicosatetraenoyl-sn-glycerolUpn/aAbsent
Di-(octadecadienoyl)-sn-glycerolUp616.9544942782
Sphingosine-1-phosphateUp379.4724446673
Sphinganine 1-phosphateUp381.488559277
Vitamin D3 derivativesUpn/aUnspecified

Fourteen metabolites contributing to a preeclamptic “signature” ().

A number of features of interest emerge from this:

  • All the markers save 5-hydroxytryptophan and adipic/methylglutaric acid that were raised in PE; 5-hydroxytryptophan is a precursor of serotonin [which in some studies (987) has been seen to be mildly elevated in PE].

  • Markers came from multiple classes of metabolite or areas of metabolism, including amino acids, carbohydrates, carnitines, dicarboxylic acids, fatty acids (especially), (phospho)lipids, and sterols.

  • γ-Butyrolactone derivatives can act as signaling molecules for a variety of bacteria (988, 989).

  • In common with many other inflammatory diseases (145), Vitamin D3 levels [usually measured as 25(OH)vitD or calcidiol] are often lower in PE (990994) [cf. Ref. (995997)], consistent with the levels of their derivatives being raised. However, the direction of causality inflammation ←→ vitamin D levels is not yet known (998) [see also Ref. (143, 145, 996)].

  • None of these metabolites was among four metabolites proposed as first-trimester biomarkers in two other (smaller) studies from different groups (656, 999).

  • Sphingolipid metabolism can be deranged in PE (1000) [also in Parkinson’s (1001)].

As well as the non-targeted metabolomics noted above, a number of other small molecule biomarkers have been turned up by more conventional measurements.

Noradrenaline (Norepinephrine)

An interesting early study (1002) found that venous plasma noradrenaline was raised by 67% in preeclamptics vs. controls. Similar data were found by others (1003). This is of particular interest in the present context since noradrenaline is well established as highly growth stimulatory to Gram-negative microorganisms [e.g., Ref. (10041008)], in part by acting as a siderophore (10091011). It also raises the levels of neuropeptide Y (820), and as a stress hormone (1012), is of course well known for its role in raising BP, a hallmark of PE.

There is relatively little metabolomics work in sepsis, but in one study, carnitine and sphingolipid metabolism were also modified during sepsis (1013), while in another (1014), a suite of molecules were decreased during acute sepsis. However, the patients involved here were quite close to death, so it is not clear that comparisons between the metabolome in PE and in dying patients are that worthwhile.

We also note a recent and rather interesting suggestion by Eggers (1015) that the maternal release of adrenaline (rather than noradrenaline) may have an important etiological role in PE, although as with the rest of our thesis here it is not there indicated as to what causes the adrenaline to rise (although infection and inflammation can of course do so).

Uric Acid

Hyperuricemia is a moderately common finding in preeclamptic pregnancies and may even be involved in its pathogenesis [see, e.g., Ref. (10161022)]. However, it does not seem to be very specific (10231027) and is seemingly not an early biomarker [and it did not appear in our own study ()]. Its lack of specificity is illustrated by the fact that there is considerable evidence for the roles of purinergic signaling (1028), and especially the role of uric acid, in Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease (10291031), as well as in a variety of other kinds of inflammatory processes, including pro-inflammatory cytokine production (1032, 1033), the Plasmodium falciparum-induced inflammatory response (1034), the mechanistic basis for the action of alum as an adjuvant (1035), and even peanut allergy (10361038). As is common in case–control studies when just one disease (e.g., PE) is studied, artificially high levels of sensitivity and (especially) specificity may appear when other patients with other diseases are not considered.

Clotting, Coagulopathies, and Fibrinogen in PE

In much of our previous work [e.g., Ref. (126134)], we have noted that each of these chronic, inflammatory diseases is accompanied by changes in fibrin fiber morphologies, coagulopathies, and changes in erythrocytes that are both substantial and characteristic. They can variously be mimicked by adding unliganded iron or LPS. As is well known, LPS itself is a strong inducer of coagulation, whether via tissue factor or otherwise [e.g., Ref. (10391048)], and will bind to fibrin strongly (259, 1049). The morphological methods have not yet, to our knowledge, been performed on blood from preeclamptics, whether as a diagnostic or a prognostic, although we note that clotting factors came top in one GWAS looking for gene–PE associations (117). Fibrinogen itself is a TLR4 ligand (1050), is raised in PE (10511055), and we note the extensive evidence for coagulopathies during pregnancies with PE [e.g., Ref. (64, 128, 527, 741, 10561068)]. In the worst cases, these are the very frightening DIC (1047, 10691073) that can, of course, also emerge as a consequence of sepsis (10741080). Variations in the plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 may contribute to the hypofibrinolysis observed (10811083).

We recently showed that LPS can potently induce amyloid formation in fibrin (258, 259, 1084, 1085). Thus, in addition, we note the increasing recognition that amyloid proteins themselves, that may occur as a result of coagulopathies, are themselves both inflammatory [e.g., Ref. (565, 669, 10861091)] and cytotoxic [e.g., Ref. (257, 10921096)], and that this can of itself contribute strongly to the death of, e.g., trophoblasts.

Related to clotting parameters are three other “old” but easily measured variables that probably reflect inflammation (1097), that have been suggested to differ in PE from normotensives, and may have some predictive power. The first two are the erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR) (1098, 1099) and the red cell distribution width (RDW) (1100) [but cf. Ref. (1101)]. Interestingly, the former was the only variable that was predictive of a subsequent stroke following sub-arachnoid hemorrhage (1102). The third relates to the morphology of erythrocytes (that may in part underpin the other two). We and others have shown in a series of studies [e.g., Ref. (134136, 11031106)] that erythrocyte morphology diverges very considerably from that “classical” discoid shape adopted by normal healthy cells, and that this can be a strong indicator of disease (137). In extreme cases [e.g., Ref. (133, 11071112)], including following infection (1113), this results in eryptosis, the suicidal death of erythrocytes. It is of interest that ceramide, a precursor of sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) (Table 7), is raised in various diseases such as Parkinson’s and may serve to stimulate eryptosis (1114). Although we know of no direct measurements to date, there is evidence that eryptosis may play a significant role in PE (1115).

Prevention Strategies

Apart from low-dose aspirin [that may have little effect (11161119) unless initiated relatively early in pregnancy (11201124)], and low-dose calcium (1125), there are relatively few treatment options in present use (11261129). [Magnesium sulfate (11301132) has been used as a treatment for eclampsia and, interestingly, prevents LPS-induced cell death in an in vitro model of the human placenta (1133).]

In the history of science or medicine, some treatments are empirical, while others are considered to have a mechanistic basis. The general assumption is that the more we know about the originating etiology of a disease or syndrome the more likely we are to be able to treat its causes effectively, and not just its symptoms. Clearly, also, clinicians are rightly loth to give complex and potentially teratogenic treatments to pregnant women when this can be avoided (11341137). However, the surprising lack of systematic data with antibiotics (1138), modulo one particularly spectacular success (540), suggests that we ought to be performing trials with safe antibiotics on women at special risk (1139). These must take care to avoid any Jarisch–Herxheimer reaction (11401143) due to the release from microbes induced by antibiotics of inflammagens such as LPS (11441147). A related strategy recognizes that some FDA-approved drugs can actually exert powerful antibiotic effects in vivo (but not on petri plates) by modifying the host (1148).

Because of the known oxidative stress accompanying PE, it had been assumed that antioxidants such as vitamin C (ascorbate) might be preventive; however, this turned out not to be the case (even the opposite) for ascorbate (1118, 1149). Probably, this is because in the presence of unliganded iron, ascorbate is, in fact, pro-oxidant (125). However, polyphenolic antioxidants that actually act by chelating iron (84, 125) seem to be more effective (1150).

Another area that we and others have previously highlighted recognizes the ability of non-siderophoric iron chelators to act as iron-withholding agents and thereby limit the growth of bacteria. Again, a prediction is that women with iron overload diseases should be more susceptible to PE, a prediction that is borne out for α-thalassemia (1151, 1152) though not apparently for hereditary hemochromatosis (1153). However, the extent of use of chelators and degree of control of free iron, thereby obtained is rarely recorded in any detail, so in truth it is difficult to draw conclusions.

The general benefits of nutritional iron chelators such as blueberries and other fruits and vegetables containing anthocyanins have been discussed elsewhere [e.g., Ref. (84, 125, 1154)].

How significant coagulopathies are to the etiology of PE development (as opposed to providing merely an accompaniment) is not entirely clear, but on the basis that they are then anticoagulants would potentially assist, just as thrombomodulin does in DIC accompanying sepsis (942, 943, 1079, 1080). Of course, one of many effects of low-dose aspirin is to act as an anticoagulant. There is also evidence for the efficacy of heparin (, 1127, 11551160), which is especially interesting given our highlighting of the role of coagulopathies in PE. These anticoagulants that avoid bleeding (1161) are obviously of particular interest, while anything stopping the fibrin forming β-amyloid (258, 259) should serve as an especially useful anti-inflammatory anticoagulant.

With a change in focus from function-first to target-first-based drug discovery (976), there has been an assumption that because a drug is (i) found to bind potently to a molecular target and (ii) has efficacy at a physiological level in vivo, the first process is thus responsible for the second. This has precisely no basis in logic [it is a logical fault known variously as “affirming the consequent” or “post hoc ergo propter hoc” (1162)]. This is because the drug might be acting physiologically by any other means, since drug binding to proteins is typically quite promiscuous [e.g., Ref. (11631167)]. Indeed, the average known number of binding sites for marketed drugs is six (208, 1168). In particular, it is likely, from a network or systems pharmacology perspective [e.g., Ref. (978, 11691172)], that successful drugs (like aspirin) are successful precisely because they hit multiple targets. The so-called “statins” provide a particularly good case in point (125).

It had long been known that the enzyme HMGCoA reductase exerted strong control on the biosynthetic flux to cholesterol, and that inhibiting it might lower the flux and steady-state cholesterol levels (as indeed it does). Notwithstanding that cholesterol alone is a poor predictor of cardiovascular disease (11731175), especially in the normal range, HMGCoA reductase inhibitors have benefits in terms of decreasing the adverse events of various types of cardiovascular disease (1176). Following an original discovery of natural products such as compactin (mevastatin) and lovastatin containing a group related to hydroxymethylglutaric acid (rather than a CoA version) that inhibited the enzyme (1177), many variants with this (hydroxyl)methylglutaric substructure came to be produced, with the much larger “rest” of the molecule being considerably divergent [see Figure 8, where the MW values vary from 390.5 (mevastatin) to 558.6 (atorvastatin)]. Despite this wide structural diversity (Figure 8), they are still collectively known as “statins,” and despite the wildly illogical assumption that they might all work in the same way(s). The fact that different statins can cause a variety of distinct expression profiles (1178) is anyway utterly inconsistent with a unitary mode of action. In particular, in this latter study, statins clustered into whether they were (fluvastatin, lovastatin, and simvastatin) or were not (atorvastatin, pravastatin, and rosuvastatin) likely to induce the side-effect of rhabdomyolysis or any other myopathy. Clearly, any choice of “statin” should come from the latter group, with pravastatin and rosuvastatin being comparatively hydrophilic.

Figure 8

The epidemiological fact of improved survival despite the comparative irrelevance of cholesterol levels to atherosclerotic plaque formation and heart disease in the normal range provides an apparent paradox (1179). This is easily solved by the recognition [e.g., Ref. (11801193), and many other references and reviews] that “statins” are, in fact, anti-inflammatory. They may also be antimicrobial/antiseptic, whether directly or otherwise (11941198), and we also note the role of cholesterol in mopping up endotoxin (1199). Finally, here, it needs to be recognized that statins do themselves serve to lower iron levels (12001202), and (while oddly this seems not to have been tested directly) simple inspection of their structures (Figure 8) implies that the better ones (with their multiple OH groups) might, in fact, chelate iron directly.

In consequence, a number of authors have indicated the potential utility of statins in treating PE (113, 545, 12031213), and pravastatin has been the subject of a number of favorable studies (545, 1204, 1206, 1209, 1211, 1214, 1215), including in humans (1204, 12161218). Pravastatin seems more than ripe for a proper, randomized clinical trial (1203).

Another “vascular” class of drugs that has been proposed for treating PE is represented by those of the family of vasodilatory phosphodiesterase 5 inhibitors such as sildenafil (Viagra) and vardenafil (Levitra), as it is reasonable that they might improve endothelial function, especially if started early in pregnancy (1219). Thus, vardefanil restores endothelial function by increasing PlGF (1220), and sildenafil has shown promise in a number of animal studies (12211226) and in human tissues (1227, 1228), with a clinical trial ongoing (1229). In particular (1226), it was able to normalize the metabolomics changes observed in a mouse model (the COMT−/− model) of PE.

Anti-hypertensive therapy for PE has been reviewed by Abalos and colleagues (1230) and Magee and colleagues (114). Anti-hypertensives did halve the incidence of hypertension but had no effect on PE. Methyldopa is one of the most commonly used anti-hypertensives in pregnancy, but it may also stimulate eryptosis (1231); alternative drugs were considered to be better (1230) for hypertension. Nifedipine (1232) and labetalol (1233) are considered a reasonable choice. There was also a slight reduction in the overall risk of developing proteinuria/PE when beta blockers and calcium channel blockers considered together (but not alone) were compared with methyldopa (1230). In mice, olmesartan (together with captopril) proved usefully anti-hypertensive (1234); this is of interest because olmesartan is also an agonist of the vitamin D receptor (1235). However, it was not mentioned in either Ref. (1230) or Ref. (114).

Lipopolysaccharide itself has long been recognized as a target of inflammatory diseases. Unfortunately, despite initially promising trials of an anti-LPS antibody known as centoxin (1236), it was eventually withdrawn, apparently because of a combination of ineffectiveness (1237, 1238) and toxicity (1239, 1240). LPS is rather hydrophobic, and thus it is hard to make even monoclonal antibodies very selective for such targets, such that the toxicity was probably because of its lack of specificity between lipid A and other hydrophobic ligands (1241). Other possible treatments based on LPS, such as “sushi peptides” (12421249) [or variants (1250, 1251)], and LPS-binding protein were covered elsewhere (140).

If an aberrant or dysbiotic gut microbiome is the source of the microbes that underpin PE, it is at least plausible that the gut microbiome should be predictive of PE (378), but we know of no suitably powered study that has been done to assess this, and this would clearly be worthwhile. However, in a study of primiparous women, the OR for getting severe PE was only 0.6 if probiotic milk drinks containing lactobacilli were consumed daily (1252). This is a very significant effects, such that this too seems an area well worth following up.

From a metabolomics point of view, the molecules seen to be raised in PE may either be biomarkers of the disease etiology or of the body’s attempts to respond to the disease [and this is true generally (1253)]. Thus, it is of great interest that S1P was raised in PE [see Kenny () and Table 7]. S1P is mainly vasoconstrictive (1254, 1255), but agonists of the S1P-1 receptor (that is involved in endothelial cell function) seemed to have considerable value in combatting the cytokine storm that followed infection-driven sepsis (12561261). The detailed mechanism seems not to be known, but in the context of infection, a need for S1P and other sphingolipids for successful pregnancies (1262, 1263) [see also Parkinson’s (1001)], and the induction of PE by its disruption (1000, 12641268), some serious investigation of the potential protective effects of S1PR1 agonists seems highly warranted.

Among other small molecules, melatonin has shown some promise in the treatment of septic shock, by lowering inflammatory cytokine production (1269) [and see Gitto et al. (1270) for neonatal oxidative stress], and a trial is in prospect for PE (1271).

Lipoxin A4 (LXA4) is considered to be an endogenous stop signal in inflammation. While recognizing the difficulties with rodent PE models (above), we note that in one study, the effect of BML-111 (a synthetic analog of LXA4) was tested on experimental PE induced in rats by low-dose endotoxin (LPS), and showed highly beneficial effects (549).

Coda – A Return to the Bradford Hill Criteria

Returning to the Bradford Hill criteria for ascribing causation of a disease to an environmental factor (

97

), we can now ask whether a detectable (if largely dormant) microbiome X, that is more likely to replicate with free iron, and that can anyway secrete or shed a variety of inflammatory components such as LPS, represents a plausible and major etiological factor for PE (Y):

  • (1)

    what is the strength of association between X and Y? We found an overwhelming co-occurrence of microbes or their products and PE.

  • (2)

    what is the consistency of association between X and Y? Almost wherever we looked, whether via periodontal disease (PD), UTI, or other means of ingress, we could find a microbial component in PE.

  • (3)

    what is the specificity of association between X and Y? Insufficient data are available to ascribe PE solely to one type of organism; however, these data clearly indicate that a variety of microbes, each capable of shedding inflammatory molecules such as LPS, can serve to stimulate or exacerbate PE.

  • (4)

    experiments verify the relationship between X and Y. It is unethical to do these in humans in terms of purposely infecting pregnant women, but data from antibiotics show the expected improvements.

  • (5)

    modification of X alters the occurrence of Y; this is really as (4).

  • (6)

    biologically plausible cause and effect relationship. Yes, this is where we think the ideas set down here are entirely consistent with current thinking on the main causes of PE. What we add in particular is the recognition that bacteria (and other microbes) that may be invisible to culture are both present and responsible, by established means, for the inflammation and other sequelae (and especially the coagulopathies) seen as causative accompaniments to PE.

Other Predictions

Classical clinical microbiology, involving mainly replication-based methods, is evolving rapidly to assess the microbial content of samples on the basis of DNA sequences (296, 1272), including 16S rDNA (287, 288, 290, 292, 293, 295, 297, 1273), suitable protein-encoding housekeeping genes [e.g., Ref. (12741279)], and, increasingly, full genome sequences (1280). In the future, we can thus expect a considerable increase in molecular assessments of the microbiological content of blood, urine, and tissues, and this will obviously be a vital part of the experimental assessment and development of the ideas presented here. Molecular methods will also be used to assess maternal circulating DNA (12811283) and RNA (1284) in terms of both its presence and sequencing, as well as the use of digital PCR (1285).

Since PE has such a strong vascular component, we also predict that measurements designed to detect coagulopathies will increase in importance, for both diagnosis and prognosis, and for assessing treatments.

New drugs designed to kill non-growing bacteria (12861290) or to overcome amyloid coagulopathies (12911295) will be needed and will come to the fore.

Finally, we consider that real progress in understanding PE from a systems biology perspective means that it must be modeled accordingly, and this must be a major goal.

Concluding Remarks

We have brought together a large and widely dispersed literature to make the case that an important etiological role in PE is played by dormant microbes, or at least ones that are somewhat refractory to culture, and that these can awaken, shed inflammagens such as LPS, and thereby initiate inflammatory cascades. (The sequelae of these, involving cytokines, coagulopathies, and so on, are well enough accepted.) The case is founded on a large substructure of interlocking evidence, but readers might find the following elements as discussed above, especially persuasive and/or worthy of follow-up:

  • the regular presence of detectable microbes in preeclamptic placentas [e.g., Ref. (400, 426, 427)].

  • the fact that endotoxin (LPS) can act as such a mimic for invoking PE in experimental models.

  • the fact that every known proteomic biomarker suggested for PE has also been shown to increase during infection.

  • the significant number of papers reviewing a link between infection and PE [e.g., Ref. (53, 54, 138, 371)].

  • the almost complete absence (one case) of PE in patients treated with spiramycin (540).

Any and all of these provide powerful strategies for testing whether PE is, in fact, such as gastric ulcers (166, 168, 169, 1296), essentially initiated as an infectious disease.

Author Notes

This is the paper number 8 of the series “The dormant blood microbiome in chronic, inflammatory diseases”. The other articles of the series can be found in the reference list with the numbers 141; 139; 140; 257; 147; 143; 1084; 258; 142.

Statements

Author contributions

Both authors made substantial, direct, and intellectual contributions to the work and approved it for publication.

Funding

DK thanks the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (grant BB/L025752/1) for financial support. LK is a Science Foundation Ireland Principal Investigator (grant number 08/IN.1/B2083). LK is also The Director of the Science Foundation Ireland-funded INFANT Research Centre (grant no. 12/RC/2272).

Conflict of interest

The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest.

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Keywords

preeclampsia, dormancy, infection, biomarkers, sepsis, coagulopathies, amyloidoses

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Kell DB and Kenny LC (2016) A Dormant Microbial Component in the Development of Preeclampsia. Front. Med. 3:60. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2016.00060

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27 June 2016

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04 November 2016

Published

29 November 2016

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3 - 2016

Edited by

Belinda Jim, Jacobi Medical Center, USA

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Ana Claudia Zenclussen, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany; Zaleha Abdullah Mahdy, National University of Malaysia, Malaysia

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*Correspondence: Douglas B. Kell,

Specialty section: This article was submitted to Obstetrics and Gynecology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Medicine

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