TY - JOUR
T1 - Insights in to the pathogenesis of axial spondyloarthropathy based on gene expression profiles
AU - Sharma, Srilakshmi M.
AU - Choi, Dongseok
AU - Planck, Stephen R.
AU - Harrington, Christina A.
AU - Austin, Carrie R.
AU - Lewis, Jinnell A.
AU - Diebel, Tessa N.
AU - Martin, Tammy M.
AU - Smith, Justine R.
AU - Rosenbaum, James T.
N1 - Funding Information:
We are indebted to Atul Deodhar for identification of patients with SpA. Supported by NIH Grants EY015858 and EY010572; Research to Prevent Blindness Awards to the Casey Eye Institute and to JTR, SRP, and JRS; the Stan and Madelle Rosenfeld Family Trust; the Fund for Arthritis and Infectious Disease Research; the Schnitzer-Novack Foundation; and a Keeler Foundation Scholarship to SMS.
PY - 2009/11/9
Y1 - 2009/11/9
N2 - Introduction: Axial spondyloarthropathy (SpA) is a group of inflammatory diseases, with ankylosing spondylitis as the prototype. SpA affects the axial skeleton, entheses, joints and, at times, the eyes. This study tested the hypothesis that SpA is characterized by a distinct pattern of gene expression in peripheral blood of affected individuals compared with healthy controls.Methods: High-density, human GeneChip® probe arrays were used to profile mRNA of peripheral blood cells from 18 subjects with SpA and 25 normal individuals. Samples were processed as two separate sets at different times (11 SpA + 12 control subjects in primary set (Set 1); 7 SpA+ 13 control subjects in the validation set (Set 2)). Blood samples were taken at a time when patients were not receiving systemic immunomodulatory therapy. Differential expression was defined as a 1.5-fold change with a q value < 5%. Gene ontology and pathway information were also studied.Results: Signals from 134 probe sets (representing 95 known and 12 unknown gene transcripts) were consistently different from controls in both Sets 1 and 2. Included among these were transcripts for a group of 20 genes, such as interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptors 1 and 2, Nod-like receptor family, pyrin domain containing 2 (NLRP2), secretory leukocyte peptidase inhibitor (SLPI), secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC), and triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (TREM-1) that are clearly related to the immune or inflammatory response and a group of 4 transcripts that have a strong role in bone remodeling.Conclusions: Our observations are the first to implicate SPARC, SLPI, and NLRP2, a component of the innate immune system, in the pathogenesis of SpA. Our results also indicate a possible role for IL-1 and its receptors in SpA. In accord with the bone pathology component of SpA, we also found that expression levels of transcripts reflecting bone remodeling factors are also distinguishable in peripheral blood from patients with SpA versus controls. These results confirm some previously identified biomarkers implicated in the pathogenesis of SpA and also point to novel mediators in this disease.
AB - Introduction: Axial spondyloarthropathy (SpA) is a group of inflammatory diseases, with ankylosing spondylitis as the prototype. SpA affects the axial skeleton, entheses, joints and, at times, the eyes. This study tested the hypothesis that SpA is characterized by a distinct pattern of gene expression in peripheral blood of affected individuals compared with healthy controls.Methods: High-density, human GeneChip® probe arrays were used to profile mRNA of peripheral blood cells from 18 subjects with SpA and 25 normal individuals. Samples were processed as two separate sets at different times (11 SpA + 12 control subjects in primary set (Set 1); 7 SpA+ 13 control subjects in the validation set (Set 2)). Blood samples were taken at a time when patients were not receiving systemic immunomodulatory therapy. Differential expression was defined as a 1.5-fold change with a q value < 5%. Gene ontology and pathway information were also studied.Results: Signals from 134 probe sets (representing 95 known and 12 unknown gene transcripts) were consistently different from controls in both Sets 1 and 2. Included among these were transcripts for a group of 20 genes, such as interleukin-1 (IL-1) receptors 1 and 2, Nod-like receptor family, pyrin domain containing 2 (NLRP2), secretory leukocyte peptidase inhibitor (SLPI), secreted protein acidic and rich in cysteine (SPARC), and triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells 1 (TREM-1) that are clearly related to the immune or inflammatory response and a group of 4 transcripts that have a strong role in bone remodeling.Conclusions: Our observations are the first to implicate SPARC, SLPI, and NLRP2, a component of the innate immune system, in the pathogenesis of SpA. Our results also indicate a possible role for IL-1 and its receptors in SpA. In accord with the bone pathology component of SpA, we also found that expression levels of transcripts reflecting bone remodeling factors are also distinguishable in peripheral blood from patients with SpA versus controls. These results confirm some previously identified biomarkers implicated in the pathogenesis of SpA and also point to novel mediators in this disease.
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U2 - 10.1186/ar2855
DO - 10.1186/ar2855
M3 - Article
C2 - 19900269
AN - SCOPUS:77952470000
SN - 1478-6354
VL - 11
JO - Arthritis Research and Therapy
JF - Arthritis Research and Therapy
IS - 6
M1 - R168
ER -