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JOURNAL OF ORAL MICROBIOLOGY
卷 10, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/20002297.2018.1487742
关键词
Porphyromonas gingivalis; periodontitis; atherosclerosis; Alzheimer's disease; rheumatoid arthritis; citrullination; deimination; PPAD
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资金
- European Commission [FP7-HEALTH-306029]
- University of Central Lancashire, UK
- US NIH/NIDCR [DE 022597, DE 023207]
- National Science Center [2011/01/B/NZ6/00268]
Periodontitis, rheumatoid arthritis (RA), atherosclerosis (AS), and Alzheimer's disease (AD) are examples of complex human diseases with chronic inflammatory components in their etiologies. The initial trigger of inflammation that progresses to these diseases remains unresolved. Porphyromonas gingivalis is unique in its ability to secrete the P. gingivalis-derived peptidyl arginine deiminase (PPAD) and consequently offers a plausible and exclusive link to these diseases through enzymatic conversion of arginine to citrulline. Citrullination is a post-translational enzymatic modification of arginine residues in proteins formed as part of normal physiological processes. However, PPAD has the potential to modify self (bacterial) and host proteins by deimination of arginine amino acid residues, preferentially at the C-terminus. Migration of P. gingivalis and/or its secreted PPAD into the bloodstream opens up the possibility that this enzyme will citrullinate proteins at disparate body sites. Citrullination is associated with the pathogenesis of multifactorial diseases such as RA and AD, which have an elusive external perpetrator as they show epidemiological associations with periodontitis. Therefore, PPAD deserves some prominence as an external antigen, in at least, a subset of RA and AD cases, with as yet unidentified, immune/genetic vulnerabilities.
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