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Pimtanothai N, Charoenwongse P, Mutirangura A, Hurley CK. Distribution of HLA-B alleles in nasopharyngeal carcinoma patients and normal controls in Thailand. Tissue Antigens 2002; 59:223-5. [PMID: 12074714 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2002.590308.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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HLA-B frequencies in 54 unrelated nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) patients and 49 healthy random controls in Thailand were investigated by direct DNA sequencing. Similar to previous reports in Chinese NPC patients, HLA-B*4601 was observed at a greater frequency in patients (21/54 (40%)) compared to controls (7/49 (14%). An increase in HLA-B*51012 was also demonstrated. B*51012 was present in 6/54 (11%) NPC patients but was not observed (0%) in controls. B*44032 was associated with a decreased risk. Five out of 54 (9%) NPC patients had B*44032 compared to 14/49 (29%) in the control group.
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- Nattiya Pimtanothai
- Immunology Unit, Department of Microbiology, Georgetown University, Waxhington, DC, USA.
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Cohen R, Metzger S, Nahir M, Chajek-Shaul T. Association of the MIC-A gene and HLA-B51 with Behçet's disease in Arabs and non-Ashkenazi Jews in Israel. Ann Rheum Dis 2002; 61:157-60. [PMID: 11796403 PMCID: PMC1753984 DOI: 10.1136/ard.61.2.157] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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BACKGROUND Behçet's disease is known to be strongly associated with HLA-B51 in many different ethnic groups. Recently, it was suggested that MIC-A (major histocompatibility complex class I related gene A) is the pathogenic gene after strong association was found between the MIC-A A6 allele of the transmembrane region and the disease in Japanese and Greek patients, although in Greek patients this association was found to be due to linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B51. OBJECTIVES To investigate microsatellite polymorphism in Arab and non-Ashkenazi Jewish (NAJ) patients in Israel, to determine whether this association occurs in these groups with Behçet's disease, and elucidate the associated HLA allele of the disease. METHODS Forty four Israeli patients with Behçet's disease, including 20 Arabs and 24 NAJ, and 130 ethnically matched healthy controls were examined for MIC-A microsatellite polymorphism of the transmembrane region using polymerase chain reaction, autoradiography, and sequence analysis. RESULTS The MIC-A A6 allele was significantly more frequent in the Arab patient group (19/20 (95%)) than in healthy Arab controls (25/42 (60%)) (p(corr)=0.015, OR=12.92), but not in the NAJ patients (16/24 (67%)) compared with NAJ healthy controls (48 /88 (55%)) (p(corr)=1.02, OR=1.667). In stratification analysis of the Arab subgroup, on the confounding effect of MIC-A A6 on HLA-B51 association and vice versa, Behçet's disease was distinctly associated only with HLA-B51. CONCLUSIONS These results imply strong association between the MIC-A A6 allele and the disease in Israeli Arabs, but not in Israeli NAJ patients. The stratification analysis indicates that this association results secondarily from a strong linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B51, and the real disease susceptibility gene which plays a part in the development of Behçet's disease is most probably the HLA-B51 allele itself.
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- R Cohen
- Department of Medicine, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
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Mizuki N, Ota M, Katsuyama Y, Yabuki K, Ando H, Shiina T, Palimeris GD, Kaklamani E, Ito D, Ohno S, Inoko H. Sequencing-based typing of HLA-B*51 alleles and the significant association of HLA-B*5101 and -B*5108 with Behçet's disease in Greek patients. Tissue Antigens 2002; 59:118-21. [PMID: 12028538 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2002.590207.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Behçet's disease (BD) is widely known to be strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B51 in many different ethnic groups.Recently, HLA-B51 allele typing of Greek BD patients was performed to study the distribution of B*5101-B*5107 alleles in this Greek population, the B51 antigen strongly associated with BD was found to be predominantly encoded by allele B*5101. As it is now known that the B51 antigen can be encoded by 21 alleles, B*5101-B*5121, we performed HLA-B*51 allele genotyping among 58 Greek patients with BD. After serological HLA typing, typing of HLA-B*51 alleles was performed using the polymerase chain reaction-sequencing-based typing (PCR-SBT) method. The frequency of the B51 antigen was found to be significantly higher in the patient group as compared with the control group (75.9% of patients vs 22.0% of controls. In the genotyping of B51 alleles, 34 out of 44 B51-positive patients possessed B*5101, 13 out of the 44 carried B*5108. In contrast, all of the 9 B51-positive normal controls carried B*5101. This study revealed a strong association between Greeks with BD, both B*5101, B*5108, provided important insights into the molecular mechanism underlying the association between HLA status, this disease.
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- N Mizuki
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Japan
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Fujino Y. [Behçet's disease]. Nihon Rinsho 2002; 60 Suppl 1:381-8. [PMID: 11838143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/17/2023]
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- Yujiro Fujino
- Division of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Kosei Nenkin Hospital
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Hirohata S. [Central nervous system involvement in Behçet's disease]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2001; 41:1147-9. [PMID: 12235822] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/26/2023]
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Central nervous system involvement in Behçet's disease, usually called neuro-Behçet's syndrome (NB), includes acute type and chronic progressive type. Acute NB is characterized by acute meningoencephalitis with focal lesions, presenting high intensity areas in T2-weightened images or FLAIR images on MRI scans. Cyclosporin A frequently causes acute NB. Acute NB responds to steroid therapy, and is usually self-limiting. By contrast, chronic progressive NB is characterized by intractable slowly progressive dementia, ataxia and dysarthria with persistent elevation of cerebrospinal fluid IL-6 activity (more than 20 pg/ml). In our series, most patients (approximately 90%) with chronic progressive NB were HLA-B51 positive, and had history of attacks of acute NB prior to the development of progressive neurological symptoms. Chronic progressive NB is resistant to conventional treatment with steroid, cyclophosphamide, or azathioprine. However, recent studies suggest the efficacy of low dose methotrexate in chronic progressive NB.
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- S Hirohata
- Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine
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Paul M, Klein T, Krause I, Molad Y, Narinsky R, Weinberger A. Allelic distribution of HLA-B*5 in HLA-B5-positive Israeli patients with Behçet's disease. Tissue Antigens 2001; 58:185-6. [PMID: 11703827 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.580307.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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In order to investigate the sub-typing of the B5 antigen in Israeli (Jewish and Arabic) patients with Behçet's disease (BD) allele-specific genotyping of B51 and B52 alleles was performed in Israeli BD patients and healthy controls. Among the HLA-B51-positive BD patients, B*5101 was found to be the predominant allele, identified in 62% of all BD patients and 78% of Jewish BD patients. HLA-B*5101 was also the predominant allele in HLA-B51-positive healthy controls. HLA-B*5108 and B*5104 alleles were identified in 23% and 15% of B51-positive BD patients, respectively. The HLA-B*5201 allele was identified in all HLA-B52-positive patients and controls. Our study suggests that both HLA-B*5101 and HLA-B*5201 are the dominant alleles of HLA-B5 in Israeli BD patients.
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- M Paul
- Department of Medicine B, Rabin Medical Center, Beilinson Campus, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Gül A. Behçet's disease: an update on the pathogenesis. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2001; 19:S6-12. [PMID: 11760403] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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Behçet's disease is a chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown etiology. It has long been postulated that immunological abnormalities, which are possibly induced by microbial pathogens in genetically susceptible individuals, are important in its pathogenesis. Recent findings have both supported the significance of genetic factors and better defined the nature of inflammation in Behçet's disease. Molecular genetic studies have strengthened the primary association of HLA-B51 with Behçet's disease. The exact pathogenic mechanism of the HLA-B51 molecule is still unknown, and its contribution to the overall genetic susceptibility to Behçet's disease is estimated to be less than 20%. Spontaneous and/or induced overexpression of pro-inflammatory cytokines (mainly Th1 type) from various cellular sources seems responsible for the enhanced inflammatory reaction in Behçet's disease, and it may be associated with the genetic susceptibility. An antigen-driven immune response superimposed on this primed-state and induced by heat shock proteins or other peptides from different strains of streptoccocci or other microbial agents has been suggested to trigger manifestations of Behçet's disease. Endothelial activation/injury and the resultant occlusive vasculopathy may also contribute to the tissue damage.
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Chang HK, Kim JU, Cheon KS, Chung HR, Lee KW, Lee IH. HLA-B51 and its allelic types in association with Behçet's disease and recurrent aphthous stomatitis in Korea. Clin Exp Rheumatol 2001; 19:S31-5. [PMID: 11760395] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/23/2023]
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OBJECTIVE This case-control study was undertaken to evaluate the association of HLA-B51 antigen and its allelic types with Behçet's disease (BD) and with recurrent aphthous stomatitis (RAS), to investigate the degree of this association with diagnostic types and clinical variables of BD. METHODS The DNA typing of HLA-B51 by nested PCR-SSP was performed in 61 patients with BD, 56 patients with RAS, and in 70 healthy controls. Also, blind quality control study was done to assess the accuracy of nested PCR-SSP in HLA-B51-positive and negative BD patients on the microlymphocytotoxicity. In addition, direct DNA sequencing analysis was carried out in HLA-B51-positive individuals. RESULTS The outcome of nested PCR-SSP showed 100% concordance with those of the microlymphocytotoxicity. The prevalence of HLA-B51 in patients with BD was 55.7%, 16.1% in patients with RAS, and 15.7% in healthy controls. According to the diagnostic types of BD, all ten patients with complete BD had HLA-B51 antigen, and 47.1% in patients with incomplete BD (p = 0.002). In addition, the prevalence of HLA-B51 was statistically significant in patients with BD who had uveitis (p = 0.003) or erythema nodosum (p = 0.042). Direct DNA sequencing analysis revealed that the major allelic types in BD, RAS, and in healthy control were mostly HLA-B*51011. CONCLUSIONS Compared to patients with RAS or healthy controls, prevalence of HLA-B51 in the Korean patients with BD was much higher. The BD patients with B51 seemed to be susceptible for manifesting uveitis, erythema nodosum, and the full-blown syndrome as complete BD. Therefore the presence of HLA-B51 antigen in BD patients would be a genetic marker for the severe disease. In addition, there was no difference on the major allelic types of HLA-B51 in BD, RAS, and in healthy control.
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- H K Chang
- Department of Internal Medicine, Asan Kangnung Hospital, Ulsan University, Kangnung.
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Mizuki N, Ota M, Katsuyama Y, Yabuki K, Ando H, Shiina T, Nomura E, Onari K, Ohno S, Inoko H. HLA-B*51 allele analysis by the PCR-SBT method and a strong association of HLA-B*5101 with Japanese patients with Behçet's disease. Tissue Antigens 2001; 58:181-4. [PMID: 11703826 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.580306.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Behçet's disease (BD) is known to be associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B51 in many different ethnic groups. An increased incidence of HLA-B51 in the patient group has also been reported in a Japanese population. Recently, the B51 antigen has been identified to comprise 21 alleles, B*5101-B*5121. Further, not only HLA-B*5101 but also HLA-B*5108 were found to be relatively increased in the patient groups among Italian and Saudi Arabian populations. Therefore, we performed HLA-B*51 allele genotyping by the polymerase chain reaction-sequencing based typing (PCR-SBT) method in order to investigate whether there is any correlation of one particular B51-associated allele with Japanese BD. Ninety-six Japanese patients with BD and 132 healthy Japanese volunteers were enrolled in this study. As a result, the phenotype frequency of the B51 antigen was confirmed to be remarkably increased in the patient group as compared to the ethnically matched control group (59.4% in patients vs. 13.6% in controls; Pc=0.0000000000098, R.R.=9.3). In the B*51 allele genotyping, 56 out of 57 B51-positive patients were defined as B*5101 and the remaining one was B*5102. In contrast, all of 18 B51-positive normal controls were B*5101. None of the Japanese patients and healthy controls carried the HLA-B*5108 allele. This study revealed that B*51 allelic distribution in Japanese was different from those in Italian and Saudi Arabian populations, and that the significantly high incidence of the HLA-B51 antigen in the Japanese BD patient group was mostly caused by the significant increase of the HLA-B*5101 allele.
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- N Mizuki
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Kötter I, Günaydin I, Stübiger N, Yazici H, Fresko I, Zouboulis CC, Adler Y, Steiert I, Kurz B, Wernet D, Braun B, Müller CA. Comparative analysis of the association of HLA-B*51 suballeles with Behçet's disease in patients of German and Turkish origin. Tissue Antigens 2001; 58:166-70. [PMID: 11703824 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.580304.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The distribution of the different HLA-B*51 suballeles among patients with Behçet's disease (BD) of German (n=33) and Turkish (n=92) origin in comparison to their presence in the respective ethnically matched healthy control groups (German: n=325, Turkish: n=93) was studied. HLA-B*51x was significantly increased in both patient groups in comparison to the controls (Germans: 58% vs. 12%, OR 9.76, P<0.001; Turkish: 75% vs. 25%, OR 9.13, P<0.001). Molecular subtyping of B*51x revealed HLA-B*51011 and B*5108 as the predominant suballeles in both patient groups and controls although with a slightly increased frequency of HLA-B*5108 in the diseased individuals. HLA-B*5105 was the only further HLA-B*51x subtype detected in one Turkish patient heterozygous also for HLA-B*5101. HLA-B*5107 although present in a Turkish as well as German control was absent in the patient groups. There was also a tendency towards a higher degree of homozygosity for HLA-B*51x in both patient groups versus the matched controls (Germans: 10% in patients vs. 2,5% in controls; Turkish: 27% in patients vs. 13% in controls). Our study further supports previous hypothesis of an association of BD with B51 suballeles which share amino-acid residues at positions 63 and 67 as well as at positions 77-83 for specific peptide binding and natural killer (NK)-cell interactions. This applies to HLA-B*5101 and B*5108, but not to HLA-B*5107 different at position 67, which could be negatively associated with BD.
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- Department II of Internal Medicine, Section of Transplantation Immunology and Immunohematology, University Hospital, Otfried-Müller Strasse 10, D-72076 Tübingen, Germany.
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McDonald HR. Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges. Retina 2001; 21:167-71. [PMID: 11321144 DOI: 10.1097/00006982-200104000-00011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Luckey CJ, Marto JA, Partridge M, Hall E, White FM, Lippolis JD, Shabanowitz J, Hunt DF, Engelhard VH. Differences in the expression of human class I MHC alleles and their associated peptides in the presence of proteasome inhibitors. J Immunol 2001; 167:1212-21. [PMID: 11466336 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.167.3.1212] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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We have studied the contributions of proteasome inhibitor-sensitive and -insensitive proteases to the generation of class I MHC-associated peptides. The cell surface expression of 13 different human class I MHC alleles was inhibited by as much as 90% or as little as 40% when cells were incubated with saturating concentrations of three different proteasome inhibitors. Inhibitor-resistant class I MHC expression was not due to TAP-independent expression or preexisting internal stores of peptides. Furthermore, it did not correlate with the amount or specificity of residual proteasome activity as determined in in vitro proteolysis assays and was not augmented by simultaneous incubation with multiple inhibitors. Mass spectrometry was used to directly characterize the peptides expressed in the presence and absence of proteasome inhibitors. The number of peptide species detected correlated with the levels of class I detected by flow cytometry. Thus, for many alleles, a significant proportion of associated peptide species continue to be generated in the presence of saturating levels of proteasome inhibitors. Comparison of the peptide-binding motifs of inhibitor-sensitive and -resistant class I alleles further suggested that inhibitor-resistant proteolytic activities display a wide diversity of cleavage specificities, including a trypsin-like activity. Sequence analysis demonstrated that inhibitor-resistant peptides contain diverse carboxyl termini and are derived from protein substrates dispersed throughout the cell. The possible contributions of inhibitor-resistant proteasome activities and nonproteasomal proteases residing in the cytosol to the peptide profiles associated with many class I MHC alleles are discussed.
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- C J Luckey
- Department of Microbiology, Carter Immunology Center, University of Virginia Health Sciences Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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Sano K, Yabuki K, Imagawa Y, Shiina T, Mizuki N, Ohno S, Kulski JK, Inoko H. The absence of disease-specific polymorphisms within the HLA-B51 gene that is the susceptible locus for Behçet's disease. Tissue Antigens 2001; 58:77-82. [PMID: 11696219 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.580202.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Behçet's disease is known to be associated with HLA-B51 in many different populations. Genetic evidence supports that the susceptible gene for Behçet's disease is the HLA-B51 allele at the HLA-B locus. This study was aimed to determine the HLA-B51 nucleotide sequence variation in three Behçet's disease patients and three healthy controls in order to elucidate if any disease specific mutations or polymorphisms may exist in the HLA-B51 gene of patients. Long-range polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was first carried out to give a PCR-amplified product of 9.5 kb which was then used as a template for nested PCR to give a final amplified product of 4.2 kb. This final product containing the 1.3-kb promoter/enhancer region and the entire HLA-B gene except for a 363-bp 3' terminal end segment encoding the 3' untranslated region was subcloned by the BP cloning technique and sequenced. The sequencing results showed that all the patients possessed the HLA-B*51011 allele, and there were no differences in the exonic nucleotide sequences between the three Behçet's disease patients and the three healthy controls. The HLA-B*51011 intronic and promoter/enhancer nucleotide sequences from the three patients had 22 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), a single insertion of 6 bp and a single deletion of 2 bp. On the other hand, the three healthy controls had 24 SNPs in their intronic and promoter/enhancer regions. However, none of these polymorphisms in the patients were specific for the disease. Therefore, these results clearly demonstrate that the HLA-B exonic sequence that encodes the HLA-B51 allele is the real pathogenic factor in Behçet's disease.
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- K Sano
- Department of Genetic Information, Division of Molecular Life Science, Tokai University School of Medicine, Bohseidai, Isehara, Kanagawa, Japan
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Seki SS, Sugimura K, Ota M, Matsuzawa J, Katsuyama Y, Ishizuka K, Mochizuki T, Suzuki K, Yoneyama O, Mizuki N, Honma T, Inoko H, Asakura H. Stratification analysis of MICA triplet repeat polymorphisms and HLA antigens associated with ulcerative colitis in Japanese. Tissue Antigens 2001; 58:71-6. [PMID: 11696218 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.580201.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/12/2023]
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We previously reported a conserved haplotype of HLA B52-DR2 and a significantly high frequency of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I chain-related gene A (MICA) transmembrane-short tandem repeat (TM-STR) 6 allele in Japanese patients with ulcerative colitis (UC). To examine the predominance of the MICA TM-STR 6 allele as a marker of the susceptibility to UC within the susceptible haplotype, the association of each allele with UC was estimated following stratification of the patients to control for any possible confounding effects of other alleles positively associated with UC. Sixty-four patients with UC and 236 unrelated healthy controls were included in this study. All subjects were Japanese. HLA-A, -B, -C, and -DR antigens were determined serologically. A triplet repeat polymorphism of the MICA was determined by direct sequencing. To control for the effect of linkage disequilibrium, Mantel-Haenszel weighed odds ratios were calculated. Significantly higher phenotype frequencies of B52, MICA TM-STR 6, and DR2 were observed in patients with UC. Linkage disequilibria among alleles associated with UC revealed that a B52 - MICA TM-STR 6 - DR2 haplotype was conserved in patients with UC, as in controls. When the association of HLA-B52 was estimated after patient stratification for the possible confounding effect of MICA TM-STR 6 or DR2, a strong significant association of B52 with UC was still observed. In contrast, no association with UC was observed for MICA TM-STR 6 or DR2, after stratification of the possible confounding effect of HLA-B52. These results imply that the significant increase in MICA TM-STR 6 in Japanese patients with UC is attributable to linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B52.
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- S S Seki
- The 3rd Division, Department of Internal Medicine, Niigata University School of Medicine, Niigata, Japan
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Salvarani C, Boiardi L, Mantovani V, Olivieri I, Ciancio G, Cantini F, Salvi F, Malatesta R, Molinotti C, Govoni M, Trotta F, Filippini D, Paolazzi G, Viggiani M. Association of MICA alleles and HLA-B51 in Italian patients with Behçet's disease. J Rheumatol 2001; 28:1867-70. [PMID: 11508592] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/21/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the distribution of the MHC class I chain related gene A transmembrane (MICA-TM) alleles in Italian patients with Behçet's disease (BD), and to investigate the relative contribution of MICA alleles and HLA-B51 in the susceptibility and specific clinical features of BD. METHODS A total of 69 consecutive Italian patients who satisfied the International Study Group criteria for BD were followed at rheumatology, ophthalmology, and neurology units during a 3 year period (1997-99). We selected 130 healthy subjects from the same geographic areas as controls. All patients and controls were examined for MICA microsatellite polymorphisms using polymerase chain reaction. Serological HLA class B51 typing was performed by a standard microlymphocytotoxicity technique. RESULTS A strong association with HLA-B51 was observed in patients with BD (OR 5.7, 95% CI 2.8-11.3). The MICA-TM allele A6, in linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B51, was only slightly increased in patients compared to controls (60.9% vs 50.8%; p = NS). No significant associations between HLA-B51 or MICA-TM alleles and clinical subgroups, particularly central nervous system or eye involvement, were found. CONCLUSION HLA-B51 is the most important susceptibility gene in BD. Association with MICA-A6, when it exists, is secondary to the strong linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B51.
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- C Salvarani
- Unità di Reumatologia, Ospedale di Reggio Emilia, Italy.
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Ferriès E, Connan F, Pagès F, Gaston J, Hagnéré AM, Vieillefond A, Thiounn N, Guillet J, Choppin J. Identification of p53 peptides recognized by CD8(+) T lymphocytes from patients with bladder cancer. Hum Immunol 2001; 62:791-8. [PMID: 11476902 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(01)00266-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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In many types of cancer, p53 frequently accumulates in tumor cells and anti-p53 antibodies can be detected. However, only four CD8(+) T-cell epitopes from p53 have been identified in humans so far. To further analyze the development of a T-cell response against p53, peptides having binding motifs specific for HLA-A1, -A2, -A3, -A24, -B7, -B35, -B44, and -B51 molecules have been defined. The HLA-binding capacity of those peptides was tested, and the stability of formed complexes was defined. Thirteen peptides that bound to HLA-A24 and -B44 molecules are presented. The positive peptides were then used to detect the anti-p53 response of CD8(+) T lymphocytes from patients with bladder cancer. Six peptides, presented by HLA-A2, -B51, or -A24, were able to stimulate T cells from two patients (among 16) with tumor cells that strongly accumulated p53. On the contrary, p53 peptides systematically failed to stimulate T cells from healthy donors or patients with low or undetectable levels of p53 in their tumor cells. These results have led to the identification of four new potential T CD8(+) epitopes from p53: 194-203 associating with HLA-B51 and 204-212, 211-218, and 235-243 associating with HLA-A24.
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- E Ferriès
- INSERM U445, Laboratoire Associé No9 du Comité de Paris de la Ligue contre le Cancer, Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire, Université René Descartes, Paris, France.
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Etessami S, Tarsitani C, Lias M, Broadous M, Conger N, Randol G, Delory M, Bahrami S, Lee JH, Randall G. A unique murine monoclonal antibody recognizing HLA-B53, B37, B51, B52, +/-B44. Hum Immunol 2001; 62:732-8. [PMID: 11423180 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(01)00254-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Monoclonal antibodies have played an important role in studying the biochemistry of the HLA-Class I molecules. Some murine anti-HLA mAbs can identify configurations of HLA epitopes that have never been reported in human allosera. One of these configurations is identified by an IgM mAb designated as: BHA-1441. This antibody was produced using a lymphoblastoid cell line typed as: A*02, A*25; B*38, B*4402/4405; C*0501, C*07, BW4, as the immunogen. A lymphocytotoxicity test of this mAb over a panel of 109 frozen, 452 fresh and, later, 44 DNA typed T cells revealed its specificity as B53, 37, 51, 52, +/- 44. All of the antigens recognized by this mAb share the Bw4 motif at positions 81-83, except for the HLA-B37, which shares only 82L and 83R. Furthermore, while B37 and B44 cross-react due to the aspartic acid (D) substitution at position 156, the reactivity with B53, B5 (51,52), B37 and 60% of B44 cells, makes it unlikely that the target epitope could be due only to the primary amino-acid sequence. The antibody-binding site might involve changes in tertiary structure and peptides bound by the MHC. BHA-1441 is an interesting tool to study and type the HLA-B53 antigen and its cross-reactive epitopes.
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- S Etessami
- One Lambda, Inc, Canoga Park, California 91303, USA.
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Sakane T, Takeno M. [Behçet's disease]. Ryoikibetsu Shokogun Shirizu 2001:361-4. [PMID: 11269105] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/19/2023]
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- T Sakane
- Departments of Immunology and Medicine, St. Marianna University School of Medicine
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PURPOSE To examine retrospectively the features of Behçet's disease patients with familial occurrence and make a comparison between familial Behçet's patients with ocular lesions and those without ocular lesions. METHODS We sent questionnaires about Behçet's disease patients with familial occurrence to 114 hospitals that reported treating such patients in previous nationwide hospital surveys, and to 341 hospitals selected at random in Japan. RESULTS We obtained reports on 83 Behçet's patients with familial occurrence. The positive rate of HLA-B51 was 53.1%. The positive rate of HLA-B51 among patients with ocular lesions was 64.0%, that in patients without ocular lesions was 14.3%, and that in patients with genital ulcers was 40.9%. The mean birth year and onset year of the patients with ocular symptoms was significantly lower than that of the patients without ocular symptoms. Although there was no significant difference between these two groups, parent-child involvement was more common among the patients without ocular lesions than in those with ocular lesions. CONCLUSIONS The findings of this study suggest that the number of familial Behçet's disease patients with ocular lesions and high HLA-B51 positivity has been decreasing recently. To elucidate the etiology of familial occurrence, larger scale epidemiological studies and further molecular studies of Behçet's disease are needed.
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- M Nishiyama
- Department of Public Health Sciences, Dokkyo University School of Medicine, Tochigi, Japan
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Gül A, Uyar FA, Inanc M, Ocal L, Tugal-Tutkun I, Aral O, Koniçe M, Saruhan-Direskeneli G. Lack of association of HLA-B*51 with a severe disease course in Behçet's disease. Rheumatology (Oxford) 2001; 40:668-72. [PMID: 11426025 DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/40.6.668] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE To investigate the previously reported association of HLA-B51 with the manifestations and severity of Behçet's disease (BD). METHODS The study group consisted of 148 consecutive BD patients (89 male, 59 female) with a minimum disease duration of 5 yr followed up at an out-patient BD clinic in a tertiary referral centre. The patients were classified into three severity groups (mild, moderate, severe) using a modified form of the BD total activity index. HLA-B alleles were determined by DNA amplification using the polymerase chain reaction and sequential hybridization with sequence-specific oligonucleotide probes. RESULTS The frequencies of genital ulceration [odds ratio (OR)=3.1, 95% confidence interval (CI) 1.3-7.5], skin findings (erythema nodosum, folliculitis or acne-like lesions) (OR=4.4, 95% CI 1.1-17.7), a positive skin pathergy test (OR=3.4, 95% CI 1.1-10.9) and eye disease (OR=1.8, 95% CI 0.9-3.7) were all higher in B*51-positive patients. By contrast, no significant association was observed between B*51 positivity and a severe disease course, and B*51 homozygosity did not exhibit a prominent association with the severity of BD. Male sex was found to be the strongest determinant of the severity of BD by logistic regression analysis (OR=4.7, 95% CI 1.9-11.2). CONCLUSION HLA-B*51 does not exhibit a strong association with a more severe disease course in BD. The involvement of other genetic and/or environmental factors seems to be required and to be more important than B*51 for the progression of BD.
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- A Gül
- Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Istanbul School of Medicine, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
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Mizuki N, Ota M, Katsuyama Y, Yabuki K, Ando H, Yoshida M, Onari K, Nikbin B, Davatchi F, Chams H, Ghaderi AA, Ohno S, Inoko H. HLA class I genotyping including HLA-B*51 allele typing in the Iranian patients with Behçet's disease. Tissue Antigens 2001; 57:457-62. [PMID: 11556970 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.057005457.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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It is well known that Behçet's disease (BD) is strongly associated with human leukocyte antigen (HLA) B51 in many ethnic groups. However, there has been no published report as yet with respect to this association among the Iranian people. Furthermore, since it is now known that the B51 antigen can be encoded by 21 alleles, B*5101-B*5121, we performed HLA-B*51 allele typing as well as HLA class I genotyping of 48 Iranian patients with this disease. As a result, the frequency of the B*51 allele was significantly higher (62.1%) in the patient group as compared with the ethnically matched control group (31.8%) (Pc=0.067, R.R.=3.51). In the genotyping of B*51 alleles, 33 out of the 36 B*51-positive patients possessed B*5101 and the remaining 3 carried B*5108. This study revealed that Iranian patients with BD also had a strong association with HLA-B51. In addition, this significantly high incidence of HLA-B*51 was found to be caused by an increase in both the HLA-B*5101 and HLA-B*5108 alleles. However, there was no significant difference in the HLA-B*51 allelic distribution between the patient and control groups.
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- N Mizuki
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Kanazawa-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Elsner HA, Drábek J, Rebmann V, Ambruzova Z, Grosse-Wilde H, Blasczyk R. Non-expression of HLA-B*5111N is caused by an insertion into the cytosine island at exon 4 creating a frameshift stop codon. Tissue Antigens 2001; 57:369-72. [PMID: 11380950 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2001.057004369.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The identification of the "blank" allele HLA-B*5111N, which was detected in German and Czech individuals, is described. In the pedigree analysis this new allele segregates with the serological haplotype HLA-A2; B-; DR4 which is frequent in Czech population. The non-expression of B*5111N is caused by the insertion of an additional cytosine molecule at the cytosine island between the nucleotides 621-626 (codons 183-185, first three codons of exon 4) leading to a frame shift that creates a stop codon at codon 196. This insertion may be explained either by conversion with the pseudogene HLA-J or by slipped-strand mispairing. In order not to overlook the presence of alleles with altered expression in case of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, both serological and DNA-based typing should be performed (Note).
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- H A Elsner
- Department of Transfusion Medicine, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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Thimme R, Chang KM, Pemberton J, Sette A, Chisari FV. Degenerate immunogenicity of an HLA-A2-restricted hepatitis B virus nucleocapsid cytotoxic T-lymphocyte epitope that is also presented by HLA-B51. J Virol 2001; 75:3984-7. [PMID: 11264388 PMCID: PMC114890 DOI: 10.1128/jvi.75.8.3984-3987.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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The recent identification of hepatitis B virus (HBV) epitopes restricted by multiple HLA alleles has greatly expanded the epitope repertoire available for T-cell-mediated therapeutic vaccine development. The HLA-B51-restricted peptide HBc19-27 is particularly interesting because it is located entirely within the HLA-A2-restricted HBc18-27 epitope. Here we show that HLA-B51-restricted cytotoxic T lymphocytes specific for HBc19-27 from a patient with acute HBV infection were also able to lyse HLA-B51-positive target cells pulsed with HBc18-27 and to produce gamma interferon when stimulated by that peptide, implying that HBc18-27 can be presented by HLA-B51 as well as by HLA-A2. These results demonstrate the concept of degenerate immunogenicity across HLA class supertype boundaries in a human viral disease setting. In addition, they could facilitate the development of an epitope-based therapeutic vaccine to terminate chronic HBV infection that could provide a broad and diverse population coverage with a single peptide.
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- R Thimme
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California 92037, USA
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Tang Y, Wang H. Endogenous expression and HLA stabilization assay of Plasmodium falciparum CTL epitope minigene in human HLA-A2. 1 and HLA-B51 cells. Chin Med Sci J 2001; 16:29-34. [PMID: 12899345] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/04/2023]
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OBJECTIVE To evaluate the Plasmodium falciparum CTL epitope vaccines in HLA class I allele specific human cell lines that have high frequency among Chinese population. METHODS Synthesized oligonucleotides encoding for P. f. CTL epitope genes, constructed eukaryotic expression plasmids, transfected the minigenes into HLA class I allele specific human cell lines and identified endogenous expressing of the minigenes by RT-PCR and HLA stabilization assay. RESULTS Two mini-genes encoding Plasmodium falciparum CTL epitopes were designed and cloned, respectively, into an eukaryotic expressing vector to form TR26 which was restricted to HLA-B51, SH6 which was restricted to HLA-A2. 1, and TS, which had the two aforementioned mini-genes fused in tandem. All of these CTL epitope genes were transfected and endogenously expressed in respective cell lines containing appropriate HLA molecules. The obviously increased expressions of HLA class I molecules were detected in the transfected cell lines. It was demonstrated that the two discrete Plasmodium falciparum epitope genes were effectively processed and presented, and the close proximity of the two epitope genes in one chain as in mini-gene TS did not interfere with the processing and presenting of each epitope gene in corresponding cell line. CONCLUSION A successful expression and presentation of multiple CTL epitope mini-gene in MHC class I allele specific human cell lines were demonstrated by an in vitro assay, which could be corresponding to the vaccination of CTL vaccines in people with different MHC I molecules. This work also suggested the possibility of constructing a multiple CTL epitope Plasmodium falciparum DNA vaccine that could cover most of Chinese population.
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- Y Tang
- Department of Etiology, Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, CAMS & PUMC, Beijing 100005
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Muñoz-Medina L, Callejas-Rubio JL, Troncoso-García E, Ortego-Centeno N. Utility of HLA typing in the differential diagnosis of severe aphthosis and Behçet's disease. Dermatology 2001; 201:280-1. [PMID: 11096210 DOI: 10.1159/000018481] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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HLA class I polymorphism in Moroccan patients with Behçet's disease has not been investigated so far. In this study, HLA-B* phenotype frequencies were analyzed in 86 unrelated Moroccan patients (45 males, 41 females) and 111 ethnically matched healthy controls. The predisposing effect of the B*51 was confirmed (30.2% in patients and 15.3% in controls, OR = 2.39, 95% CI [1.2-4.8], p = 0.015). It was mostly observed in males with young age at disease onset (OR= 5.5 [1.9-15.9], p = 0.002 compared to controls). The Moroccan BD group also presented a previously unknown association with HLA-B*15 (25.6% of patients versus 11.7% of controls, OR = 2.59 [1.2-5.5], p = 0.014), both in females and in males with late-onset of the disease. Altogether, the B*15 and/or B*51 alleles were expressed in 55.8% of patients compared to 27% of controls (OR = 3.4 [1.9-6.2], p < 10-4, Pc = 0.003). Our data indicate HLA-B effects on BD pathogenesis should be considered separately for men and women.
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- F Choukri
- Faculté des Sciences Ben Msik, Casablanca, Morocco
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Mizuki N, Ota M, Yabuki K, Katsuyama Y, Ando H, Palimeris GD, Kaklamani E, Accorinti M, Pivetti-Pezzi P, Ohno S, Inoko H. Localization of the pathogenic gene of Behçet's disease by microsatellite analysis of three different populations. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 2000; 41:3702-8. [PMID: 11053265] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/18/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Behçet's disease (BD) is known to be associated with HLA-B51 in many ethnic groups. However, the pathogenic gene responsible for BD is as yet unknown. To localize the critical region of the pathogenic gene, microsatellite markers distributed around the HLA-B gene were investigated. The BD patients studied were of three ethnic origins: Japanese, Greek, or Italian. METHODS The total group consisted of 172 BD patients, of whom were 95 Japanese, 55 Greek, and 22 Italian. Eight polymorphic microsatellite markers distributed within 1100 kb of the HLA-B gene were analyzed using PCR and subsequent automated fragment detection by fluorescent-based technology. RESULTS Among the eight markers, allele 348 of the MIB microsatellite was remarkably common in all three BD populations (Japanese, PC: = 0.000014; Greek, PC: = 0. 00047; Italian, PC: = 0.11). However, HLA-B51 was found to be the marker most strongly associated with BD in each population (Japanese, PC: = 0.000000000017; Greek, PC: = 0.00000032; Italian, PC: = 0. 0074). In genotypic differentiation between the patients and controls, only HLA-B51 was found to be significantly associated with BD in all three populations. Stratification analysis suggested that significant associations of BD with MICA and other microsatellites resulted from a linkage disequilibrium with HLA-B51. CONCLUSIONS These results suggest that the pathogenic gene of BD is HLA-B51 itself and not other genes located in the vicinity of HLA-B.
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- N Mizuki
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Maenaka K, Maenaka T, Tomiyama H, Takiguchi M, Stuart DI, Jones EY. Nonstandard peptide binding revealed by crystal structures of HLA-B*5101 complexed with HIV immunodominant epitopes. J Immunol 2000; 165:3260-7. [PMID: 10975842 DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.165.6.3260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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The crystal structures of the human MHC class I allele HLA-B*5101 in complex with 8-mer, TAFTIPSI, and 9-mer, LPPVVAKEI, immunodominant peptide epitopes from HIV-1 have been determined by x-ray crystallography. In both complexes, the hydrogen-bonding network in the N-terminal anchor (P1) pocket is rearranged as a result of the replacement of the standard tyrosine with histidine at position 171. This results in a nonstandard positioning of the peptide N terminus, which is recognized by B*5101-restricted T cell clones. Unexpectedly, the P5 peptide residues appear to act as anchors, drawing the peptides unusually deeply into the peptide-binding groove of B51. The unique characteristics of P1 and P5 are likely to be responsible for the zig-zag conformation of the 9-mer peptide and the slow assembly of B*5101. A comparison of the surface characteristics in the alpha1-helix C-terminal region for B51 and other MHC class I alleles highlights mainly electrostatic differences that may be important in determining the specificity of human killer cell Ig-like receptor binding.
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MESH Headings
- Amino Acid Motifs/immunology
- Animals
- Binding Sites/immunology
- Cell Line
- Computer Simulation
- Cross Reactions
- Crystallography, X-Ray
- Cytotoxicity Tests, Immunologic
- HIV-1/chemistry
- HIV-1/immunology
- HIV-1/metabolism
- HLA-B Antigens/chemistry
- HLA-B Antigens/metabolism
- HLA-B51 Antigen
- Humans
- Immunodominant Epitopes/chemistry
- Immunodominant Epitopes/metabolism
- Killer Cells, Natural/immunology
- Killer Cells, Natural/metabolism
- Macromolecular Substances
- Mice
- Models, Molecular
- Peptide Fragments/chemistry
- Peptide Fragments/immunology
- Peptide Fragments/metabolism
- Protein Binding/immunology
- Protein Conformation
- Receptors, Immunologic/chemistry
- Receptors, Immunologic/metabolism
- Receptors, KIR
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/immunology
- T-Lymphocytes, Cytotoxic/metabolism
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- K Maenaka
- Division of Structural Biology, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Headington, Oxford, United Kingdom.
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Iwatsuki K, Deguchi K, Narai H, Hayashi T, Warita H, Manabe Y, Kashihara K, Abe K. [A case of neuro-Behçet's disease with HLA B54 and predominant cerebral white matter lesions]. Rinsho Shinkeigaku 2000; 40:921-5. [PMID: 11257790] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2023]
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We report a 55-year-old woman with neuro-Behçet's disease with HLA B54 and predominant cerebral white matter lesions. She showed a cryptogenic high fever and cerebral cortical symptoms such as perseveration, limbkinetic apraxia and dementia. CSF study showed an increase of cell count and protein and a decrease of sugar. MRI showed diffuse T2-high signal intensity mainly in the subcortical white matter of left parieto-occipital lobes and basal ganglia. Her clinical signs greatly improved after administration of prednisolone. Her HLA type was not B51 but B54. Though our patient did not completely satisfy clinical criteria for neither neuro-Behçet's disease nor Sweet's syndrome, she showed partial features of both Behçet's disease and Sweet's syndrome.
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- K Iwatsuki
- Department of Neurology, Okayama University Medical School
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Although it is known that a single peptide can be recognized by CTL restricted to two MHC class I alleles, there is no direct evidence for presentation of a single peptide by two MHC class I molecules. Furthermore, it is unclear whether such peptides are presented to the same T cell or to different T cells. Our previous study suggested that CTL recognition of the human immunodeficiency virus-1 (HIV-1) Pol HIV-B35-SF2-24 epitope (IPLTEEAEL) occurs via both HLA-B35 and HLA-B51 restriction. Here we provide the first direct evidence that a single CTL clone can recognize this peptide presented by both HLA-B35 and HLA-B51. Furthermore, we directly purified this peptide eluted from both HLA-B*3501 and HLA-B*5101 molecules isolated from target cells infected with HIV-1 recombinant vaccinia virus. These results demonstrate that HIV-B35-SF2-24 is a naturally processed peptide which is presented by both HLA-B*3501 and HLA-B*5101. TCR analysis of one CTL clone suggested that it is a single clone. B*3501-SF2-24-tetrameric complexes inhibited both HLA-B*3501- and HLA-B*5101-restricted recognition of this clone, suggesting that the TCR of this clone cross-recognize the structure of both HLA class I-peptide complexes.
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- H Tomiyama
- Division of Viral Immunology, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Japan
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Kurhan-Yavuz S, Direskeneli H, Bozkurt N, Ozyazgan Y, Bavbek T, Kazokoglu H, Eksioglu-Demiralp E, Wildner G, Diedrichs-Möhring M, Akoglu T. Anti-MHC autoimmunity in Behçet's disease: T cell responses to an HLA-B-derived peptide cross-reactive with retinal-S antigen in patients with uveitis. Clin Exp Immunol 2000; 120:162-6. [PMID: 10759778 PMCID: PMC1905613 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2249.2000.01176.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 34] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Immune response to retinal autoantigens plays a central role in the pathogenesis of uveitis. A synthetic peptide (B27PD) from a common sequence of various HLA-B molecules associated with uveitis, such as HLA-B27 and 51, which shares amino acid homologies with a retinal-S antigen (S-Ag)-derived peptide (PDSAg), was shown to be immunogenic in human and experimental uveitis in the rat. In this study we investigated T cell responses to B27PD and PDSAg in patients with Behçet's disease and posterior uveitis (BD-posterior uveitis; n = 33) in comparison with non-Behçet anterior uveitis (AU, n = 14), Behçet's patients without uveitis (BD, n = 15) and healthy controls (HC, n = 32) in a 6-day proliferation assay. Patients with BD and posterior uveitis had significantly higher responses (stimulation index (SI) 2.8 +/- 1.3) than those with AU (SI 1.5 +/- 0.4), BD without uveitis (SI 1.1 +/- 0.4) and HC (SI 1.1 +/- 0.6) for B27PD (P < 0.0001). Responses to PDSAg were also higher in BD with posterior uveitis patients (SI 3.3 +/- 1.6) than AU (SI 1.5 +/- 0.4), BD without uveitis (SI 1.2 +/- 0.3) and HC (SI 1.1 +/- 0.6) (P < 0. 0001). A significant correlation between the responses to PDSAg and B27PD (r = 0.56, P < 0.001) was observed. Elevated levels of IL-2 and tumour necrosis factor-alpha were also observed in culture supernatants obtained from peripheral blood mononuclear cells after stimulation with the peptides, but no correlation was found between the proliferative responses and cytokine levels. These results suggest that cellular immunity to cross-reactive HLA-B and S-Ag-derived peptides might play a role in the pathogenesis of posterior uveitis in BD.
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- S Kurhan-Yavuz
- Department of Rheumatology, University of Marmara, Istanbul, Turkey
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Yamada S, Takatsuka H, Takemoto Y, Okamoto T, Fujimori Y, Tamura S, Wada H, Okada M, Kanamaru A, Kakisita E. Association of cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis with HLA-type following allogeneic bone marrow transplantation. Bone Marrow Transplant 2000; 25:861-5. [PMID: 10808207 DOI: 10.1038/sj.bmt.1702244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/08/2022]
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Certain human leukocyte antigens may increase the risk of cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis, an important complication of bone marrow transplantation. The prevalence of this pneumonitis was compared between patients possessing either HLA-B51 or HLA-B52 and patients without either antigen. The role of tumor necrosis factor-alpha in cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis was also studied. Among 72 patients undergoing allogeneic bone marrow transplantation at our institution during the past 5 years, HLA-B51 or -B52 was detected in 29. Among these 29 patients, 13 (45%) developed cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis, a significantly higher rate (P < 0.001) than among patients without these HLA types (4/43, 9%). In the pre-conditioning and stable phases, tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels were higher in patients with HLA-B51 or HLA-B52 than in patients without (P < 0.05; t-test). Throughout the period from pre-conditioning to around day 40, except on day 0, tumor necrosis factor-alpha levels were also significantly higher (P < 0.05 to P < 0.001) in patients developing cytomegalovirus infection than in those without it. These results suggest that HLA-B51 and HLA-B52 may be risk factors for cytomegalovirus interstitial pneumonitis after bone marrow transplantation, with an increase of tumor necrosis factor-alpha also being involved.
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- S Yamada
- Second Department of Internal Medicine, Hyogo College of Medicine, Hyogo, Japan
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Koelman CA, Vaessen LM, Balk AH, Weimar W, Doxiadis II, Claas FH. Donor-derived soluble HLA plasma levels can not be used to monitor graft rejection in heart transplant recipients. Transpl Immunol 2000; 8:57-64. [PMID: 10834611 DOI: 10.1016/s0966-3274(00)00009-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/17/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Increased levels of both donor- and recipient-derived HLA class I molecules (sHLA-I) can be found in serum or plasma of transplanted patients during rejection. Earlier data indicate that levels of donor-derived sHLA-I (dsHLA-I) correlate better with graft rejection than total sHLA Class I (Zavazava N, Kraatz E, Gassel AM, Muller-Ruchholtz W. Plasma MHC class I expression in cardiac graft patients: donor-specific soluble antigen in a pre-sensitized graft patient. Transplant Proc 1991;23:2258-2260; Claas FHJ, Jankowska-Gan E, DeVito LD, et al. Monitoring of heart transplant rejection using a donor-specific soluble HLA class I ELISA. Hum Immunol 1993;37:121). Therefore, quantifying donor-derived soluble counterparts of HLA Class I (sHLA-I) in the plasma of the recipient may offer a new possibility for non-invasive monitoring of rejection after organ transplantation. METHODS In an extended study with 34 heart transplant recipients, we used sHLA-I specific ELISAs to monitor donor-derived soluble sHLA-A2, -A3, -A9, -B7, -B12 and B51. RESULTS The assays were sensitive enough to detect dsHLA Class I in plasma of the recipients. However, the levels of sHLA were not found to be a useful tool for monitoring rejection. Rejection was often associated with low levels of donor sHLA. The recent finding that antibodies can inhibit the detection of sHLA molecules might explain this discrepancy. In order to test this hypothesis, patient sera were screened for the presence of anti-HLA antibodies and the results were related to the donor-derived sHLA levels. Only in four out of 34 patients HLA Class I specific antibodies could explain the low sHLA levels during rejection. CONCLUSIONS In heart transplantation increased donor-derived sHLA levels are not a suitable marker for rejection and that antibody formation can not explain these results. Therefore, monitoring rejection episodes on the basis of donor-derived soluble HLA molecules is not a realistic approach to decrease the number of biopsies after heart transplantation.
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- C A Koelman
- Department of Immunohaematology and Blood Transfusion, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
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Tamouza R, Carbonnelle E, Schaeffer V, Sadki K, Abed Y, Marzais F, Poirier JC, Fortier C, Toubert A, Raffoux C, Charron D. A novel HLA-B*51 allele (B*5116) identified by nucleotide sequencing. Tissue Antigens 2000; 55:182-4. [PMID: 10746794 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.2000.550214.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We report here an additional HLA-B*51 variant designated HLA-B*5116. Detected by an abnormal serological reactivity pattern, this variant was identified as a B*51 allele by polymerase chain reaction using sequence-specific primers (PCR-SSP) and characterized by nucleotide sequencing. The new variant sequence match closely with the classical HLA-B*5101 excepted two adjacent nucleotide substitutions at positions 216 and 217 of the third exon and the subsequent Leucine to Glutamic acid change at codon 163 of the alpha2 domain (CTG-->GAG). This new variant was not detected in three different ethnic groups (French, Algerian and Lebanese) suggesting a very rare frequency.
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- R Tamouza
- Laboratoire d'Immunologie et d'Histocompatibilité, Hôpital Saint Louis, and INSERM U396, Paris, France.
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A 22-year-old Japanese man developed polyarthritis with fever and urethritis. He was diagnosed as Reiter's syndrome since he was found to have uveitis and persistent aseptic pyuria. Although, he was negative for HLA-B27 or any other HLA-B27 cross-reactive MHC class I antigens, he was positive for HLA-B51. The laboratory examination showed significant elevation of serum IgG and IgA anti-Chlamydia antibodies. He was successfully treated with a combination of doxycycline, naproxen, salazosulfapyridine and methotrexate with a decrease in IgG and IgA anti-Chlamydia antibodies. Previous studies provided evidence that HLA-B51 itself might be involved in the development of Behcet's disease, which shares common features with Reiter's syndrome, such as uveitis, skin lesions, and polyarthritis. It is therefore suggested that combination of Chlamydia infection and HLA-B51 might play a role in the pathogenesis of Reiter's syndrome in our patient.
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- Y Shimamoto
- Department of Internal Medicine, Teikyo University School of Medicine, Itabasni-ku, Tokyo
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Binisti P. [Eye and Behçet's disease]. Rev Prat 1999; 49:1999-2003. [PMID: 10626485] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/15/2023]
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Posterior uveitis is the most severe manifestation of ocular Behçet's disease, as it can lead to residual permanent damage. However, a better use of corticosteroid and immunosuppressive therapy in a multidisciplinary context has dramatically improved the overall visual prognosis and bilateral blindness is now rare.
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- P Binisti
- Service d'ophtalmologie Hôpital Cochin, Paris
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Nawata R, Shinohara K, Takahashi T, Yamada T, Katsuki K. [Refractory anemia with trisomy-8 complicated by Behçet's disease with elevated levels of inflammatory cytokines]. Rinsho Ketsueki 1999; 40:1100-4. [PMID: 10565228] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/14/2023]
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A man with refractory anemia and trisomy 8 complained of repeated febrile episodes. He exhibited oral aphtha, exanthema, genital ulcer, and epididymitis. Laboratory data obtained during febrile episodes revealed leukocytosis with elevated CRP and ESR. Repeated examinations for infectious bacterial agents were negative. HLA analysis detected HLA-B51. Behçet's disease of incomplete type was diagnosed and successfully treated with prednisolone. It was speculated that the repeated febrile episodes may have been a manifestation of neutrophil hyper-function induced by increased blood levels of inflammatory cytokines, including IL-6, IL-8 and G-CSF, in association with rare complications of Behçet's disease.
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- R Nawata
- Department of Medicine, Yamaguchi Prefecture Central Hospital
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Behçet's disease (BD), also known as the Silk Road disease, is a blinding inflammatory disorder of young adults found predominantly between the Mediterranean basin and the Orient, and is strongly associated with the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) antigen HLA-B51. In this article we review the history of Behçet's disease since its first description by Hippocrates, the development of the trading routes collectively known as the Silk Road and the effect of population movement on the distribution of HLA-B51. The global distribution of this antigen among healthy control populations bears a striking similarity both to the ancient trading routes and the distribution of Behçet's disease, suggesting a genetic risk that migrated in parallel with population movement between the Mediterranean and Asia. However, certain indigenous Amerindian peoples have a high prevalence of HLA-B51 but no reported cases of BD. Furthermore, a clear genealogical relationship exists between eastern, but not central, Siberian populations with the Amerindians. Since a high level of recombination within the MHC is known to have occurred in these eastern populations before their migration into Beringia, we suggest that disruption of genetic loci in linkage disequilibria with HLA-B51 may be one reason for the absence of disease in these high HLA-B51-bearing populations. However, a contributory influence of environmental factors is not excluded by this data, and the wide variation that exists in relative risk of HLA-B51 even within Europe would support other non-genetic risk factors on the Silk Road which may be absent, or non-contributory to disease, in the Americas.
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- D H Verity
- Rayne Institute, St Thomas' Hospital, London, UK.
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Verity DH, Wallace GR, Vaughan RW, Kondeatis E, Madanat W, Zureikat H, Fayyad F, Marr JE, Kanawati CA, Stanford MR. HLA and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) polymorphisms in ocular Behçet's disease. Tissue Antigens 1999; 54:264-72. [PMID: 10519363 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.540307.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 87] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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The role of HLA-B*51 and other major histocompatibility complex (MHC) genes in Behçet's disease (BD) remains unknown. We have performed HLA and tumour necrosis factor (TNF) polymorphism analysis in BD and evaluated their contribution to ocular disease. In this study, 102 patients and 115 controls of Middle Eastern descent were investigated by HLA and B*51 subtyping using novel primers, and by LT alpha NCo 1 and TNF 308 promoter polymorphism analysis. The frequency of the HLA-B*51 family of alleles was raised in patients compared to controls (66% vs. 15%, Pc=2.5x10(-12), OR=10.9). The odds ratio (OR) of this group of alleles for subgroups of patients was as follows: non-ocular patients 7.8, all ocular patients 12.6, blind patients >22. HLA-B*51 subtyping detected B*5101, 07, 08 and 09 alleles, with a similar frequency among patients and controls. HLA-Cw*1602 was associated with B*5108, but was not an independent risk factor for disease. The LT alpha (TNFB*2) allele was associated with HLA-B*51 among patients and the frequency of this allele was significantly higher among completely blind patients compared to both non-ocular patients (P=0.048, OR >3.6) and to healthy controls (P=0.022, OR >4.3). The rare TNF-2 polymorphism at the TNF -308 promoter position was associated with HLA-B*50 (not B*51), and was not associated with BD. Thus, in this population the HLA*B51 family of alleles is a strong risk factor for BD, and in particular the development of ocular disease. HLA-B*51 subtyping did not define new markers for BD. A primary role for TNF gne polymorphisms in BD was not identified, but co-expression of the TNFB*2 allele with HLA-B*51 may contribute to severity of ocular disease.
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- D H Verity
- St Thomas' Hospital, King's College, London, UK.
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BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Adamantiades-Behçet disease is a rare entity at a juvenile age. We aimed to enlighten epidemiological and clinical characteristics of juvenile-onset disease in Germany. METHODS Data from the German Registry were used to compare clinical and epidemiological features of patients with juvenile-onset (</=16 years) and adult-onset (>16 years) disease diagnosed according to the criteria of the International Study Group. RESULTS Twenty-eight (17%) of 168 patients of the German Registry exhibited the onset of the disease and 8 (5%) of them the complete symptom complex at a juvenile age. Juvenile-onset disease was characterized by an increase in familial cases (25 vs. 8% in patients with adult-onset; p = 0.047). The frequency of diagnostic signs was similar between the two study groups. In juvenile-onset disease, delayed development of the complete symptom complex (median value 35 months vs. 12 months after onset; p = 0.014) and lower prevalence of severe complications (9 vs. 29%; p = 0.042) were detected. CONCLUSIONS The major clinical features of juvenile-onset and adult-onset disease in Germany are comparable, but in juvenile-onset disease, the course is delayed and patients experience less severe complications. In addition, there is a higher rate of familial occurrence of the disease in patients with juvenile-onset.
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- R Treudler
- Department of Dermatology, University Medical Center Benjamin Franklin, The Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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Yabuki K, Mizuki N, Ota M, Katsuyama Y, Palimeris G, Stavropoulos C, Koumantaki Y, Spyropoulou M, Giziaki E, Kaklamani V, Kaklamani E, Inoko H, Ohno S. Association of MICA gene and HLA-B*5101 with Behçet's disease in Greece. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci 1999; 40:1921-6. [PMID: 10440244] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/13/2023] Open
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PURPOSE Behçet's disease (BD) is known to be associated with HLA-B51 in many different ethnic groups. Recently MICA, a member of a novel family of the human major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I genes termed MIC (MHC class I chain-related genes), was identified near the HLA-B gene, and a triplet repeat microsatellite polymorphism was found in the transmembrane (TM) region. Because a strong association with BD of one particular MICA-TM allele, A6, was shown in a Japanese population, the present study was conducted to investigate microsatellite polymorphism in Greek patients with BD to know whether this association is generally observed in BD occurring in other populations. METHODS Thirty-eight Greek patients with BD and 40 ethnically matched control subjects were examined for MICA microsatellite polymorphism using polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and subsequent automated fragment detection by fluorescent-based technology. RESULTS Similar to the Japanese patients with BD, the phenotype frequency of the MICA-TM A6 allele was significantly increased in the Greek patients with BD (50.0% in control subjects versus 86.8% in BD cases), with an odds ratio (OR) of 6.60 (P = 0.0012). The MICA-A6 allele was found in a high frequency both in males and females (weighted OR = 6.68; P = 0.0017). No association was found between the A6 allele and several disease features. A strong association exists between the MICA-TM A6 allele and the B*5101 allele in both the control subjects and patients with BD (weighted OR = 44.39; P = 0.0000023). CONCLUSIONS This study revealed in Greek patients a strong association of BD with a particular MICA-TM allele, MICA-A6, providing insight into the molecular mechanism underlying the development of BD.
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- K Yabuki
- Department of Ophthalmology, Yokohama City University School of Medicine, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan
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Tomiyama H, Sakaguchi T, Miwa K, Oka S, Iwamoto A, Kaneko Y, Takiguchi M. Identification of multiple HIV-1 CTL epitopes presented by HLA-B*5101 molecules. Hum Immunol 1999; 60:177-86. [PMID: 10321954 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(98)00113-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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We attempted to identify and characterize HIV-1 CTL epitopes presented by HLA-B51 which is associated with a slow progression to AIDS. HLA-B*5101 stabilization assay showed that 33 out of 172 HIV-1 peptides carrying HLA-B*5101 anchor residues bound to HLA-B*5101. Seven peptides were suggested as HIV-1 CTL epitopes presented by HLA-B*5101 because the specific CTL was induced for these peptides in PBMC from three HIV-1 seropositive individuals carrying HLA-B51 by stimulation with HLA-B*5101 binding peptides. Analysis of these epitopes using the specific CTL clones confirmed that six of seven HIV-1 peptides are epitopes presented by HLA-B*5101. Three epitopes presented by HLA-B*5101 are highly conserved among the clade B strain, suggesting that the specific CTL for these epitopes might play an important role in recognition of HIV-1 infected cells. These epitopes will be useful to analyze CTL responses in HIV-1 infected individuals.
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- H Tomiyama
- Division of Viral Immunology, Center for AIDS Research, Kumamoto University, Japan
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Scott I, Dunn PP, Day S, Pesoa S, Little AM, Madrigal JA, Vullo C. A novel HLA allele, HLA-B*5113, identified in the Kolla Amerindians of North-West Argentina. Tissue Antigens 1999; 53:194-7. [PMID: 10090621 DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-0039.1999.530211.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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A novel HLA-B51 allele, B*5113, was identified in a Kolla Amerindian individual from North-West Argentina. HLA-B*5113 differs from B*51011 by two nucleotide substitutions, one synonymous, the other nonsynonymous. The resulting amino acid difference at residue 116 in the HLA-B molecule's peptide binding site is likely to affect the nature of the peptides which bind to this molecule. The finding of this novel allele supports previous findings of increased diversity at HLA-B in Amerindian groups.
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- I Scott
- Anthony Nolan Research Institute, Royal Free Hospital, London, UK
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There have not been any breakthroughs in understanding of the pathogenesis of Behçet's syndrome within the past year. We still do not know the meaning of the HLA-B51 association. The role of T cells in pathogenesis is still undefined, and it is not yet clear whether an extrinsic antigen or antigens produces the disease. Likewise the role of the neutrophil in pathogenesis is under scrutiny. More pediatric cases are being described. We are beginning to have a better understanding of central nervous system involvement, the prime pathology of which might not be vasculitis. Azathioprine, not a panacea, is nevertheless effective for long-term management. Thalidomide has clearly been shown to be effective in mucocutaneous disease even at a dose of 100 mg/d. However, relapses are seen with cessation of therapy.
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- H Yazici
- Department of Internal Medicine, Cerrahpasa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Turkey
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Tamouza R, Visser CJ, El Kassar N, Poirier JC, Toubert A, Bierling P, Raffoux C, Charron D. Identification of a novel HLA-B*51 variant: HLA-B*5112. Tissue Antigens 1998; 52:489-91. [PMID: 9864040 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1998.tb03077.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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- R Tamouza
- Laboratoire d'Immunologie et d'Histocompatibilité, Hôpital Saint Louis, and INSERM U396, Paris, France.
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González-Escribano MF, Rodríguez MR, Walter K, Sanchez-Roman J, García-Lozano JR, Núñez-Roldán A. Association of HLA-B51 subtypes and Behçet's disease in Spain. Tissue Antigens 1998; 52:78-80. [PMID: 9714478 DOI: 10.1111/j.1399-0039.1998.tb03027.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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We have studied the distribution of the different HLA-B51* alleles among patients with Behçet's disease (BD) and ethnically matched healthy controls in a Spanish population. The serological B51 specificity was increased in BD patients (37.5% versus 15.5% in controls). Among the B51-associated alleles, the frequencies of B*5101 (32%) and 5108 (5.5%) were increased in BD patients with respect to the control frequencies (13% and 1.2% respectively). The fact that different HLA-B51 subtypes are associated with BD could suggest that common motifs shared by HLA-B51-related alleles are involved in the susceptibility to BD or, in the light of recent studies, that a mutation causing the susceptibility to BD occurred in the B*5101 haplotype, close to HLA-B gene, before the divergence of B*5108 from the B*5101 allele.
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Koumantaki Y, Stavropoulos C, Spyropoulou M, Messini H, Papademetropoulos M, Giziaki E, Marcomichelakis N, Palimeris G, Kaklamanis P, Kaklamani E. HLA-B*5101 in Greek patients with Behçet's disease. Hum Immunol 1998; 59:250-5. [PMID: 9568801 DOI: 10.1016/s0198-8859(98)00011-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Behçet's disease (BD) is a recurrent systemic vasculitis of unknown etiology. Genetic factors and infectious agents seem to be related to the etiology and pathogenesis of the disease. BD is strongly associated with HLA-B51 antigen in many ethnic groups. As there are differences in HLA profile in different ethnic groups, we designed this case-control study to examine the association of HLA-B51 alleles and BD as well as to investigate the influence of sex, age at development of the International Study Group (ISG) for Behçet's Disease criteria and certain features of disease severity on the strength of this association. The study includes 62 Greek BD patients who fulfill the ISG criteria for Behçet's disease and 87 controls. Serological HLA Class-I typing was performed by standard microlymphocytotoxicity technique. HLA-DNA typing for the B5 group was performed in all B51 subjects and controls by PCR-SSO. Allele B*5101 was found in 80% of BD patients and in 26% of controls (odds ratio (OR) 10.48, p < 10[-6]). Males who carry this allele have a higher risk than females for BD (OR 16.97 and 5.74 respectively). B*5101 predisposes to BD at a younger age in both sexes and to the development of erythema nodosum (OR = 11, p = 0.004). This was confirmed by multiple logistic regression analysis. A weak but not significant association was found between B*5101 and uveitis (OR = 2). No association was found between B*5101 and vasculitis or skin lesions in either sex. It was concluded that in the Greek population allele B*5101 is a predisposing marker for BD, as in most ethnic groups, and that this allele predisposes to the development of the disease at a younger age in both sexes and to the development of erythema nodosum.
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- Y Koumantaki
- University of Athens Medical School, Goudi, Greece
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Sakane T. [Physiopathology and therapy of Behcet's syndrome]. Nihon Naika Gakkai Zasshi 1998; 87:422-429. [PMID: 9577569] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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