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JOURNAL OF PROTEOME RESEARCH
Volume 9, Issue 5, Pages 2600-2609Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/pr100044d
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AIRE; apoptosis; autoimmunity; mass spectrometry; 2D-DIGE; ICPL
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- Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) [EME2006-26]
- Eurothymaide CE Intregrated Project [LSHB-CT-2003-503410]
- Spanish Ministry of Education [SAF2006-08928]
- Fundacion Genoma Espana
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Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy-candidiasis-ectodermal dystrophy (APECED) is a rare autosomal recessive autoimmune disease, affecting many endocrine tissues. APECED is associated to the lack of function of a single gene called AutoImmune REgulator (AIRE). Aire knockout mice develop various autoimmune disorders affecting different organs, indicating that Aire is a key gene in the control of organ-specific autoimmune diseases. AIRE is mainly expressed by medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs), and its absence results in the loss of tolerance against tissue restricted antigens (TRAs). Aire induces the transcription of genes encoding for TRAs in mTECs. In this report, the analysis of AIRE's effect on the cellular proteome was approached by the combination of two quantitative proteomics techniques, 2D-DIGE and ICPL, using an AIRE-transfected and nontransfected epithelial cell line. The results showed increased levels of several chaperones, (HSC70, HSP27 and tubulin-specific chaperone A) in AIRE-expressing cells, while various cytoskeleton interacting proteins, that is, transgelin, caldesmon, tropomyosin alpha-1 chain, myosin regulatory light polypeptide 9, and myosin-9, were decreased. Furthermore, some apoptosis-related proteins were differentially expressed. Data were confirmed by Western blot and flow cytometry analysis. Apoptosis assays with annexin V and etoposide demonstrated that AIRE-positive cells suffer more spontaneous apoptosis and are less resistant to apoptosis induction.
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