Serum soluble CD48 levels as a prognostic marker in mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome.
Serum soluble CD48 levels as a prognostic marker in mycosis fungoides and Sézary syndrome.
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血清可溶性 CD48 水平作为蕈样肉芽肿和 S 的预后标志物
DOI:
10.1016/j.jid.2018.03.1519
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
Sato S.
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作者:
Oka T;Miyagaki T;Takahashi N;Nakajima R;Kamijo H;Suga H;Asano Y;Sugaya M;Sato S.
CD48 is a member of the signaling lymphocyte activation molecule family and is expressed on most hematopoietic cells (Latchman et al., 1998). CD48 has two different ligands, CD2 and CD244, and the latter binds to CD48 with a much higher affinity (Brown et al., 1998). Through interactions with these ligands, CD48 plays important roles in immune cell function and activation, such as enhancing T-cell activation, facilitating adhesion of antigen-presenting cells, and modulating cytotoxic T-cell and natural killer-cell immunity, which are associated with a variety of diseases including autoimmunity, allergy, infection, and cancer (McArdel et al., 2016). In addition to the membrane-bound form, CD48 has also existed in a soluble form in human serum and plasma (Smith et al., 1997), although it is still unknown how soluble CD48 (sCD48) is generated. Plasma sCD48 levels were first reported to be increased in patients with advanced lymphoid malignancies and arthritis (Smith et al., 1997). A recent study showed that serum sCD48 levels were increased in mild atopic asthma (Gangwar et al., 2017). On the other hand, there have been no studies investigating serum sCD48 levels in skin disorders. Here, we measured serum sCD48 levels in patients with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma and atopic dermatitis (AD) to investigate whether sCD48 levels can be a disease marker.Serum samples were obtained from 34 patients with mycosis fungoides (MF)(stage IA 9, stage IB 7, stage IIA 1, stage IIB 9, stage IIIA 3, stage IVA1 3, and stage IVA2 2; mean age±standard deviation [SD]= 58.4±16.5 years; 22 males and 12 females), 12 patients with Sézary syndrome (SS)(stage IVA1 9 and stage IVA2 3; mean age±SD= 64.1±14.8 years; 10 males and 2 females), 33 patients with AD (mild, n= 11; moderate, n= 11, severe, n= 11; mean age±SD= 36.8±13.1 years; 21 males and 12 females), and 14 healthy control individuals (mean age±SD= 43.9±11.4 years; 8 males and 6 females). All patients with MF/SS were given diagnoses according to International Society for Cutaneous Lymphomas/European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer criteria (Olsen et al., 2007, Willemze et al., 2005). As for patients with MF, clinical stage IIB or greater was defined as advanced stage, and clinical stage I and IIA were defined as early stage. All patients with AD were enrolled according to the criteria of Hanifin and Rajka (1980). The disease severity of AD was determined by Physician Global Assessment. The healthy control individuals had no history of allergy, AD, psoriasis, or malignancies. The medical ethics committee of the University of Tokyo approved all described studies. Written informed consent was obtained to use blood samples. Immunoreactive sCD48 was quantified by human ELISA kits (Sino Biological Inc., Beijing, China). Significance of difference was analyzed with Kruskal-Wallis test. Correlation coefficients were determined by using the Spearman rank correlation test. P-values of less than 0.05 were considered statistically significant.