Altered keratin 17 peptide ligands inhibit in vitro proliferation of keratinocytes and T cells isolated from patients with psoriasis
Altered keratin 17 peptide ligands inhibit in vitro proliferation of keratinocytes and T cells isolated from patients with psoriasis
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改变的角蛋白 17 肽配体可抑制从银屑病患者分离的角质形成细胞和 T 细胞的体外增殖。
DOI:
10.1016/j.jaad.2006.02.033
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发表时间:
2006-06-01
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Li, Cheng-X.
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作者:
Shen, Zhu;Chen, Ling;Li, Cheng-X.
Background: Identification of critical autoantigenic T-cell epitopes is key to developing antigen-based therapies for autoimmune diseases, including psoriasis. Our previous work demonstrated that 3 peptides on keratin 17 are able to stimulate peripheral blood lymphocytes of HLA-DRB1*07-positive patients with psoriasis and to serve as immunodominant T-cell epitopes.Objective. We sought to determine antagonistic altered peptide ligands to psoriatic T cells with a down-modulatory effect in inhibiting keratinocyte proliferation.Methods: Psoriatic altered peptide ligands were generated by single alanine residue substitutions at a critical T-cell receptor contact residue position. Antagonistic altered peptide ligands were identified by suppression screening of psoriatic T-cell activation and keratinocyte proliferation.Results: Altered peptide ligands 119R and 355L can inhibit psoriatic T-cell activation more effectively than other altered peptide ligands, especially 355L, with inhibition of T-cell proliferation and the secretion of interferon gamma and interleukin 2 in parallel with the up-regulation of interleukins 4 and 10 as well as transforming growth factor-beta. In coincubation assay, altered peptide ligands 119R and 355L can downregulate the function of psoriatic T cells more effectively than wild-type epitopes solely, but less effectively than altered peptide ligands solely. in prepulse assay altered peptide ligand 119R can down-regulate the activation of psoriatic T cells more effectively than in coincubation but less effectively as compared with altered peptide ligand 119R only. Altered peptide ligand 355L was also shown to have a similar presentation. T-cell culture Supernatants (1:100) from the concentrations (10 mu g . mL(-1) and 100 mu g . mL(-1) with 119R, 100 mu g . mL(-1) with 355L) were more effective than the other ratios in inhibiting keratinocyte proliferation.Limitations: This study had a relatively small sample size (52 patients and 48 healthy controls).Conclusion: Our findings show that the altered peptide ligands 119R (VAALEEANTELEVKI) and 355L (ENRYCVQASQIQGLI) are capable of inhibiting proliferative responses of psoriatic T cells and keratinocyte proliferation in vitro, at least, with enhanced helper T cell type 2 polarization. Thus, to our knowledge, this article is the first report of the demonstration of therapeutic activity of altered peptide ligands derived from keratin 17.