机构:[1]Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming,Yunnan 650032, China昆明医科大学附属第一医院[2]Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The No. 1 Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of TraditionalChinese Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China[3]Department of Dermatology, Tianjin Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated Hospital, Tianjin 300120, China[4]Department of Liver Diseases, The Third People’s Hospital of Kunming City, Kunming, Yunnan 650041, China
Methylation variabilities of inflammatory cytokines play important roles in the development of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), and primary Sjogren's syndrome (pSS). With heightened focus on personalized and precise medicine, it is necessary to compare and contrast the difference and similarity of cytokine methylation status between the 3 most classic autoimmune diseases (AIDs). In this study, we integrated 5 Cytolcine-Chips from genome-wide DNA methylation datasets of the 3 kind of AIDs, delta-beta value was calculated for intergroup difference, and comprehensive bioinformatics analyses of cytokine genes with aberrant methylations were performed. 125 shared differential methylation variabilities (DMVs) were identified. There were 102 shared DMVs with similar methylation status; 3 hypomethylated differential methylation regions (DMRs) across the AIDs were found, and all 3 DMRs were hypomethylated. DMRs (AZU1, LTBR, and RTEL1) were likely to serve as activator in the inflammatory process. Particularly, AZU1 and LTBR with hypomethylated TSS and first exon located in the promoter regions were able to trigger inflammation signaling cascades and play critical roles in autoimmune tautology. Moreover, functional epigenetic module (FEM) algorithm showed that different inflammatory networks are involved in different AIDs; 5 hotspots were identified as biologically plausible pathways in inducing or perpetuating of inflammation which are epigenetically deregulated in AIDs. We concluded methylation variabilities among the same cytokines can greatly impact the perpetuation of inflammatory process or signal pathway of AIDs. Differentiating the cytokine methylation status will serve as valuable resource for researchers alike to gain better understanding of the epigenetic mechanisms of the three AIDS. Even more importantly, better understanding of cytokine methylation variability existing between the three classic AIDs will aid in identification of potential epigenetic biomarkers and therapeutic targets. This trial is registered with ChiCTR-INR-16010290, a clinical trial for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis with Warming yang and Smoothening Meridians.
基金:
the National Natural
Science Foundation of China (81160379, 81360543,
81460256, 81560233, 81501406, and 81760296), Chinese
Clinical Trial Registry (201507001-07), the Funding of
Yunnan Provincial Health Science and Technology
Plan (2014NS171, 2016NS026, 2017NS051, 2018NS0045,
2018NS0046, 2018NS0133, and 2018NS0134), Innovative
Research Team of Kunming Medical University
(CXTD201613), Yunnan Provincial Fund for Preparatory
Young Leaders in Academia and Technology
(2015HB071), the Funding of Ministry of Science and
Technology of Yunnan Province (2014HC018), the Funding
of Yunnan Provincial Department of Education, and
Applied Basic Research Foundation of Yunnan Province
(2017FE467, 2017FE467 (-138), and 2016FA037).
第一作者机构:[1]Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, First Affiliated Hospital of Kunming Medical University, Kunming,Yunnan 650032, China[2]Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The No. 1 Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of TraditionalChinese Medicine, Kunming, Yunnan 650021, China
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推荐引用方式(GB/T 7714):
Wang Xingqiang,Lei Dongyun,Ding Jie,et al.A DNA-Methylated Sight on Autoimmune Inflammation Network across RA, pSS, and SLE[J].JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH.2018,2018:doi:10.1155/2018/4390789.
APA:
Wang, Xingqiang,Lei, Dongyun,Ding, Jie,Liu, Shuang,Tao, Li...&Xu, Jian.(2018).A DNA-Methylated Sight on Autoimmune Inflammation Network across RA, pSS, and SLE.JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH,2018,
MLA:
Wang, Xingqiang,et al."A DNA-Methylated Sight on Autoimmune Inflammation Network across RA, pSS, and SLE".JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY RESEARCH 2018.(2018)