Abstract:
:Genetic and functional studies suggest that polymorphism in cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA4) and inducible costimulator (ICOS) genes, both reported to harbour autoimmune susceptibility loci, could regulate the immune activation through affecting their expression and splicing of CTLA4. To address this, we studied expression of CTLA4 and ICOS and the role of polymorphisms in the gene region by measuring the relative amounts of transcripts, including the soluble CTLA4 (sCTLA4) splicing isoform in healthy volunteers. We combined a physiologically relevant in vitro activation for human CD4(+) T lymphocytes and a quantitative RT-PCR. The susceptibility allele CT60G in CTLA4 gene was confirmed to be associated with a decreased amount of sCTLA4, but only in resting cells. During the T cell activation two genetic variants in ICOS gene, IVS1+173T/C and c.1624C/T, affected expression of CTLA4 isoforms and ICOS, respectively. We could not confirm that the level of sCTLA4 is down-regulated following T lymphocyte activation, instead the levels of CTLA4 splicing isoforms correlated to each others. Our results indicate that genetic variation in this gene region regulates the expression of both CTLA4 and ICOS and not only the splicing of sCTLA4 as suggested earlier.
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Mol Immunoljournal_title
Molecular immunologyauthors
Kaartinen T,Lappalainen J,Haimila K,Autero M,Partanen Jdoi
10.1016/j.molimm.2006.08.010subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2007-03-01 00:00:00pages
1644-51issue
7eissn
0161-5890issn
1872-9142pii
S0161-5890(06)00572-4journal_volume
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