Aberrant expression of interleukin-10 and activation-induced cytidine deaminase in B cells from patients with Behçet's disease

Despite extensive studies, the pathogenesis of Behçet's disease (BD) remains unclear. In particular, the roles of B cells in patients with BD have not been elucidated. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is a critical enzyme for immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain class switching and somati...

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Published in:Biomedical reports 2017-12, Vol.7 (6), p.520-526
Main Authors: Yoon, Jeong-Yun, Lee, Yeojin, Yu, Seong-Lan, Yoon, Hee-Kyung, Park, Ha-Yan, Joung, Chung-Il, Park, Seok-Rae, Kwon, Mihye, Kang, Jaeku
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aberration
Activation-induced cytidine deaminase
Autoimmunity
B cells
Behcet's syndrome
Behçet's disease
CD19 antigen
CD43 antigen
Cell activation
Class switching
cluster of differentiation 43
Cytidine deaminase
Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay
Enzymes
Fluorescein
Immunoglobulin A
Inflammation
Interleukin 10
Interleukins
Lupus
Lymphocyte receptors
Lymphocytes
Lymphocytes B
Medical research
mRNA
Pathogenesis
Patients
Peripheral blood
Plasma levels
RNA
Somatic hypermutation
Somatotropin
Studies
Systemic lupus erythematosus
T cell receptors
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Summary:Despite extensive studies, the pathogenesis of Behçet's disease (BD) remains unclear. In particular, the roles of B cells in patients with BD have not been elucidated. Activation-induced cytidine deaminase (AID) is a critical enzyme for immunoglobulin (Ig) heavy chain class switching and somatic hypermutation in B cells and the abnormal expression of AID in various immune conditions has previously been studied. B10 cells, an interleukin (IL)-10-secreting subset of regulatory B cells, function to downregulate inflammation and autoimmunity. Thus, in the present study, the relevance of B cells in patients with BD was investigated. The plasma levels of IL-10 and IgA and the proportions of cluster of differentiation (CD)43+ B cells, excluding naïve B cells, were measured in 16 patients with BD and 16 age- and sex-matched healthy controls (HCs). Additionally, the mRNA levels of IL-10 and AID were assessed in B cells from fresh peripheral blood samples of the BD patients and HCs. The plasma level of IL-10 in patients with BD did not differ significantly from that in HCs. Similarly, there was no significant difference in the plasma level of IgA, although a slight increase was observed in patients with BD compared with that in HCs. There were no differences in CD43+CD19+ B cell numbers between patients with BD and HCs. However, IL-10 mRNA levels were significantly reduced (P
ISSN:2049-9434
2049-9442
DOI:10.3892/br.2017.996