The expression of serologic HLA-B27 epitopes on leukocytes of patients with reactive arthritis or ankylosing spondylitis has been shown to be modified in the course of the disease. The purpose of this work was to study whether phagocytosis of arthritis-triggering microbes in vitro alters the expression of HLA-B27 molecules on human antigen-presenting cells and to characterize the underlying mec...

PURPOSE To investigate the association of single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the manganese superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) and two chemokine genes (CCL2 and CCL5) in patients with anterior uveitis (AU). METHODS Seventy-nine Chinese patients with acute AU were recruited, and genotyping of four SNPs including MnSOD 47, CCL2 -2518, CCL2 -2076, and CCL5 -403 alleles was performed with SNP gen...

Yersinia-induced reactive arthritis is highly associated with HLA-B27, the role of which in defense against the triggering bacteria remains unclear. The aim of this study was to examine the capacity of rats transgenic for HLA-B27 to mount a cytotoxic T-lymphocyte (CTL) response against Y. pseudotuberculosis and to determine the influence of the HLA-B27 transgene on this response. Rats transgeni...

HLA-B27 has an unpaired cysteine on or near its serologically defined spondylitis associated epitope, and it has been argued that its sulphydryl side chain may be chemically reactive. In a previous study it was shown that chemical treatment of HLA-B27 cells with the sulphydryl binding agent p-chloromercuriphenylsulphonic acid (pCMPSA) specifically reduced binding of antibodies to HLA-B27 by up ...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the role of HLA-B27 expression in the regulation of RNA binding protein (RBP) Embryonic Lethal Abnormal Vision (ELAV) L1/Human antigen R (HuR) expression in Salmonella-infected or LPS-stimulated human monocytic cells, since HuR is a critical regulator of the post-transcriptional fate of many genes (e.g. TNFα) important in inflammatory response. METHODS U937 monocytic ...

PURPOSE Previously we could show increased numbers and densities of dendritic-like cells (DLCs) in the subbasal nerve plexus of the central cornea in patients with herpetic anterior uveitis (HAU). Now we aimed to explore these and other inflammatory cells seen in this layer in different subtypes of anterior uveitis using in vivo confocal microscopy. METHODS Consecutive eyes of patients with d...

Background: The detection of HLA-B27 expression is one of the most powerful diagnostic tools in ankylosing spondylitis and other spondylarthropaties, hence the importance of a reliable and accurate detection method. Flow cytometry is often used as an alternative HLA-B27 typing technique, mainly because it is a rapid test. However, even though it is based on various monoclonal antibodies, their ...

The efficiency of complement activation was studied in sera from HLA-B27 positive and negative subjects (27 with previous yersinia arthritis and 35 controls). Activation of complement with zymosan induced higher mean levels of the anaphylatoxin C3a in HLA-B27 positive sera (mean (SD) 7.40 (1.66) mg/l) than in HLA-B27 negative sera (6.41 (1.79) mg/l). Similarly, higher levels of C3d,g, another C...

The association between the major histocompatibility antigen HLA-B27 and ankylosing spondylitis is the strongest of all known associations between class I HLA and disease. Over 90% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis have B27,1 whereas it is found only in 7-15% of normal white subjects. In addition, B27 is associated with certain reactive inflammatory conditions following gastrointestinal o...

Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and human leukocyte antigen (HLA) loci are both highly polymorphic, and some HLA class I molecules bind and trigger cell-surface receptors specified by KIR genes. We examined whether the combination of KIR3DS1/3DL1 genes in concert with HLA-B27 genotypes is associated with susceptibility to ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Two HLA-B27-positive Caucas...