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RHEUMATOLOGY
卷 50, 期 5, 页码 966-972出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/keq418
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Juvenile idiopathic arthritis; Human leucocyte antigen-G; Human leucocyte antigen-E
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- Ministero della Salute, Progetti di Ricerca Corrente
Methods. Soluble (s)HLA-G and HLA-E were measured in sera from 58 JIA patients and 54 healthy donors. Surface expression of HLA-G, HLA-E and immunoglobulin-like transcript (ILT)2 and ILT4, two receptors for HLA-G, was assessed on T, B cells and monocytes from peripheral blood (PB) and SF of 12 JIA patients and from PB of 12 controls. Results. Serum sHLA-G concentration was significantly lower in patients than in controls. Both sHLA-G and sHLA-E were detected in SF and sHLA-E concentration in SF was higher in extended oligoarticular/polyarticular than in limited oligoarticular JIA. Patients compared with controls showed: (i) down-regulation of HLA-E and ILT2 expression on T cells; (ii) up-regulation of HLA-E expression on B cells and monocytes; and (iii) down-regulation of ILT4 expression on monocytes. Comparing JIA patients' SF and PB we found: (i) up-regulation of HLA-E and ILT2 expression in T and B cells and monocytes; and (ii) down-regulation of ILT4 expression in monocytes. ILT4 was up-regulated in monocytes from oligoarticular extended/polyarticular compared with oligoarticular limited JIA. Conclusions. A lower concentration of sHLA-G in sera may predispose to JIA, as observed for other autoimmune diseases. sHLA-E concentration in SF correlate with the number of affected joints. Higher ILT2 expression on SF cell populations compared with PB may be related to high sHLA-G concentration in SF. Higher HLA-E expression in SF than in PB cell populations may protect them from NK cytolysis.
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