TY - JOUR
T1 - Proteome analysis of rheumatoid arthritis gut mucosa
AU - Bennike, Tue Bjerg
AU - Ellingsen, Torkell
AU - Glerup, Henning
AU - Bonderup, Ole Kristian
AU - Carlsen, Thomas Gelsing
AU - Meyer, Michael Kruse
AU - Bøgsted, Martin
AU - Christiansen, Gunna
AU - Birkelund, Svend
AU - Andersen, Vibeke
AU - Stensballe, Allan
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory joint disease leading to cartilage damage and ultimately impaired joint function. To gain new insight into the systemic immune manifestations of RA, we characterized the colon mucosa proteome from 11 RA-patients and 10 healthy controls. The biopsies were extracted by colonoscopy and analyzed by label-free quantitative proteomics, enabling the quantitation of 5,366 proteins. The abundance of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) was statistically significantly increased in RA-patient biopsies compared to controls, and correlated with the administered dosage of methotrexate (MTX), the most frequently prescribed immunosuppressive drug for RA. Additionally, our data suggests that treatment with Leflunomide, a common alternative to MTX, increases DHFR. The findings were supported by immunohistochemistry with confocal microscopy, which furthermore demonstrated that DHFR was located in the cytosol of the intestinal epithelial- and interstitial cells. Finally, we identified 223 citrullinated peptides from 121 proteins. Three of the peptides were unique to RA. The list of citrullinated proteins was enriched in extracellular- and membrane proteins, and included known targets of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs). Our findings support that the colon mucosa could trigger the production of ACPAs, which could contribute to the onset of RA. The MS-data has been deposited to ProteomeXchange with identifiers PXD001608 and PXD003082.
AB - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory joint disease leading to cartilage damage and ultimately impaired joint function. To gain new insight into the systemic immune manifestations of RA, we characterized the colon mucosa proteome from 11 RA-patients and 10 healthy controls. The biopsies were extracted by colonoscopy and analyzed by label-free quantitative proteomics, enabling the quantitation of 5,366 proteins. The abundance of dihydrofolate reductase (DHFR) was statistically significantly increased in RA-patient biopsies compared to controls, and correlated with the administered dosage of methotrexate (MTX), the most frequently prescribed immunosuppressive drug for RA. Additionally, our data suggests that treatment with Leflunomide, a common alternative to MTX, increases DHFR. The findings were supported by immunohistochemistry with confocal microscopy, which furthermore demonstrated that DHFR was located in the cytosol of the intestinal epithelial- and interstitial cells. Finally, we identified 223 citrullinated peptides from 121 proteins. Three of the peptides were unique to RA. The list of citrullinated proteins was enriched in extracellular- and membrane proteins, and included known targets of anti-citrullinated protein antibodies (ACPAs). Our findings support that the colon mucosa could trigger the production of ACPAs, which could contribute to the onset of RA. The MS-data has been deposited to ProteomeXchange with identifiers PXD001608 and PXD003082.
U2 - 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00598
DO - 10.1021/acs.jproteome.6b00598
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 27627584
SN - 1535-3893
VL - 16
SP - 346
EP - 354
JO - Journal of Proteome Research
JF - Journal of Proteome Research
IS - 1
ER -