HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization

Abstract Associations between particular human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles and susceptibility to—or protection from—autoimmune diseases have been long observed. Allele-specific antigen presentation (AP) has been widely proposed as a culprit, but it is unclear whether HLA molecules might also hav...

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Autores principales: Vincent van Drongelen, Bruna Miglioranza Scavuzzi, Sarah Veloso Nogueira, Frederick W. Miller, Amr H. Sawalha, Joseph Holoshitz
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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:1ae9febf53314ba98be06bb35628670a2021-12-02T13:57:49ZHLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization10.1038/s41598-021-82195-32045-2322https://doaj.org/article/1ae9febf53314ba98be06bb35628670a2021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-82195-3https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Associations between particular human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles and susceptibility to—or protection from—autoimmune diseases have been long observed. Allele-specific antigen presentation (AP) has been widely proposed as a culprit, but it is unclear whether HLA molecules might also have non-AP, disease-modulating effects. Here we demonstrate differential macrophage activation by HLA-DRB1 alleles known to associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection with resultant polarization of pro-inflammatory (“M1”) versus anti-inflammatory (“M2”) macrophages, respectively. RNA-sequencing analyses of in vitro-polarized macrophages in the presence of AP-incompetent short synthetic peptides corresponding to the third allelic hypervariable regions coded by those two HLA-DRB1 alleles showed reciprocal activation of pro- versus anti-inflammatory transcriptomes, with implication of corresponding gene ontologies and upstream regulators. These results identify a previously unrecognized mechanism of differential immune modulation by short HLA-DRB1-coded allelic epitopes independent of AP, and could shed new light on the mechanistic basis of HLA-disease association.Vincent van DrongelenBruna Miglioranza ScavuzziSarah Veloso NogueiraFrederick W. MillerAmr H. SawalhaJoseph HoloshitzNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-15 (2021)
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Vincent van Drongelen
Bruna Miglioranza Scavuzzi
Sarah Veloso Nogueira
Frederick W. Miller
Amr H. Sawalha
Joseph Holoshitz
HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
description Abstract Associations between particular human leukocyte antigen (HLA) alleles and susceptibility to—or protection from—autoimmune diseases have been long observed. Allele-specific antigen presentation (AP) has been widely proposed as a culprit, but it is unclear whether HLA molecules might also have non-AP, disease-modulating effects. Here we demonstrate differential macrophage activation by HLA-DRB1 alleles known to associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection with resultant polarization of pro-inflammatory (“M1”) versus anti-inflammatory (“M2”) macrophages, respectively. RNA-sequencing analyses of in vitro-polarized macrophages in the presence of AP-incompetent short synthetic peptides corresponding to the third allelic hypervariable regions coded by those two HLA-DRB1 alleles showed reciprocal activation of pro- versus anti-inflammatory transcriptomes, with implication of corresponding gene ontologies and upstream regulators. These results identify a previously unrecognized mechanism of differential immune modulation by short HLA-DRB1-coded allelic epitopes independent of AP, and could shed new light on the mechanistic basis of HLA-disease association.
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author Vincent van Drongelen
Bruna Miglioranza Scavuzzi
Sarah Veloso Nogueira
Frederick W. Miller
Amr H. Sawalha
Joseph Holoshitz
author_facet Vincent van Drongelen
Bruna Miglioranza Scavuzzi
Sarah Veloso Nogueira
Frederick W. Miller
Amr H. Sawalha
Joseph Holoshitz
author_sort Vincent van Drongelen
title HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
title_short HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
title_full HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
title_fullStr HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
title_full_unstemmed HLA-DRB1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
title_sort hla-drb1 allelic epitopes that associate with autoimmune disease risk or protection activate reciprocal macrophage polarization
publisher Nature Portfolio
publishDate 2021
url https://doaj.org/article/1ae9febf53314ba98be06bb35628670a
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