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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI471

Expression of arthritis-causing HLA-B27 on Hela cells promotes induction of c-fos in response to in vitro invasion by Salmonella typhimurium.

T Ikawa, M Ikeda, A Yamaguchi, W C Tsai, N Tamura, N Seta, M Trucksess, R B Raybourne, and D T Yu

Rheumatology Division, UCLA School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-167022, USA.

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Published January 1, 1998 - More info

Published in Volume 101, Issue 1 on January 1, 1998
J Clin Invest. 1998;101(1):263–272. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI471.
© 1998 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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Abstract

HLA-B27 confers a very strong genetic predisposition to development of a reactive arthritis after infection by bacteria such as Salmonella typhimurium. This study examines the role of HLA-B27 in the initiation of the earliest host activities after exposure to Salmonella, namely activation of the immediate early genes in the epithelial cells. Our major finding is that in Hela cells, the expression of c-fos was induced by Salmonella invasion only when the cells expressed the transfected HLA-B27 gene, but not the HLA-A1 gene or a truncated HLA-B27 gene lacking the exons encoding the cytoplasmic domain. C-fos is potentially capable of complexing with members of the c-jun family to become the AP-1 transcription complex. Parallel to c-fos expression, we found that only with the HLA-B27 transfectant was there expression of AP-1. AP-1 potentially controls the expression of a large number of genes. On screening a panel of proinflammatory molecules, we found that Salmonella invasion induced expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 in the HLA-B27 cells. Since each of these separate positive findings belong to the same cascade of events after cell activation, together they reinforce the hypothesis that HLA-B27 plays a modulatory role in the early signal transduction events induced by Salmonella invasion. This hypothesis adds another item to the list of allele-specific activities carried out by HLA class I molecules. If similar activation also occurs in the joints, it may play a major role in arthritis.

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