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We analyzed immunoglobulins (Ig) in explanted livers from SAH patients (n=45) undergoing liver transplantation and tissue from corresponding healthy donors (HD, n=10) and found massive deposition of IgG and IgA isotype antibodies associated with complement fragment C3d and C4d staining in ballooned hepatocytes in SAH livers. Ig extracted from SAH livers, but not patient serum exhibited hepatocyte killing efficacy in an antibody-dependent cell-mediated cytotoxicity (ADCC) assay. Employing human proteome arrays, we profiled the antibodies extracted from explanted SAH, alcoholic cirrhosis (AC), nonalcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), primary biliary cholangitis (PBC), autoimmune hepatitis (AIH), hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) and HD livers and found that antibodies of IgG and IgA isotypes were highly accumulated in SAH and recognized a unique set of human proteins as autoantigens. The use of an\n                  <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                  K12 proteome array revealed the presence of unique anti-\n                  <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                  antibodies in SAH, AC or PBC livers. Further, both Ig and\n                  <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                  captured Ig from SAH livers recognized common autoantigens enriched in several cellular components including cytosol and cytoplasm (IgG and IgA), nucleus, mitochondrion and focal adhesion (IgG). Except IgM from PBC livers, no common autoantigen was recognized by Ig and\n                  <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                  captured Ig from AC, HBV, HCV, NASH or AIH suggesting no cross-reacting anti-\n                  <jats:italic>E. coli<\/jats:italic>\n                  autoantibodies. 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