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JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY
卷 187, 期 4, 页码 1977-1985出版社
AMER ASSOC IMMUNOLOGISTS
DOI: 10.4049/jimmunol.1101247
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- National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health
- National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research [K22AI07812, R21DE018339]
- National Institutes of Health [EY014864, EY006225]
- Research to Prevent Blindness
Noninfectious uveitis is a leading cause of blindness and thought to involve autoimmune T cell responses to retinal proteins (e. g., retinal arrestin [soluble-Ag (S-Ag)]). There are no known biomarkers for the disease. Susceptibility is associated with HLA, but little is known about susceptible class II alleles or the potentially pathogenic epitopes that they present. Using a humanized HLA-transgenic mouse model of S-Ag-induced autoimmune uveitis, we identified several susceptible and resistant alleles of HLA-DR and -DQ genes and defined pathogenic epitopes of S-Ag presented by the susceptible alleles. The sequences of these epitopes overlap with some previously identified peptides of S-Ag (M and N), known to elicit memory responses in lymphocytes of uveitis patients. HLA-DR-restricted, S-Ag-specific CD4(+) T cells could be detected in blood and draining lymph nodes of uveitic mice with HLA class II tetramers and transferred the disease to healthy mice. Importantly, tetramer-positive cells were detected in peripheral blood of a uveitis patient. To our knowledge, these findings provide the first tangible evidence that an autoimmune response to retina is causally involved in pathogenesis of human uveitis, demonstrating the feasibility of identifying and isolating retinal Ag-specific T cells from uveitis patients and may facilitate their development as biomarkers for the disease. The Journal of Immunology, 2011, 187: 1977-1985.
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