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Trial reportJournal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950)2014

The IL18RAP region disease polymorphism decreases IL-18RAP/IL-18R1/IL-1R1 expression and signaling through innate receptor-initiated pathways.

Matija Hedl, Shasha Zheng, Clara Abraham

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Trial report in Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
2.4field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 61 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Matija HedlDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510.
Shasha ZhengDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510.
Clara AbrahamDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510 clara.abraham@yale.edu.
Yale University · US

Funding

Yale Liver CenterP30DK034989 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI YASUKO IWAKIRI · 1986 to 2026
$31.1M
Yale University Inflammatory Bowel Disease Genetics Research CenterU01DK062422 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Ling-shiang Chuang · 2002 to 2026
$10.8M
Functional outcomes of inflammatory bowel disease associated variantsR01DK099097 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CLARA ABRAHAM · 2013 to 2026
$7.0M
Yale Autoimmunity Center of ExcellenceU19AI082713 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CHO, JUDY H. · 2009 to 2013
$3.6M
Mechanisms of Chronic Nod2-mediated Effects in Human MacrophagesR01DK077905 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI ABRAHAM, CLARA · 2008 to 2012
$1.7M
NIAID NIH HHS U19-AI082713NIDDK NIH HHS DK062422NIDDK NIH HHS DK099097NIDDK NIH HHS DK-P30-34989NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK034989NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK077905NIDDK NIH HHS R01DK077905NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK099097NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK062422
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Fine-tuning of cytokine-inducing pathways is essential for immune homeostasis. Consistently, a dysregulated increase or decrease in pattern-recognition receptor (PRR)-induced signaling and cytokine secretion can lead to inflammatory bowel disease. Multiple gene loci are associated with inflammatory bowel disease, but their functional effects are largely unknown. One such region in chromosome 2q12 (rs917997), also associated with other immune-mediated diseases, encompasses IL18RAP. We found that human monocyte-derived macrophages (MDMs) from rs917997 AA risk carriers secrete significantly less cytokines than G carriers upon stimulation of multiple PRRs, including nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain 2 (NOD2). We identified that IL-18 signaling through IL-18RAP was critical in amplifying PRR-induced cytokine secretion in MDMs. IL-18RAP responded to NOD2-initiated early, caspase-1-dependent autocrine IL-18, which dramatically enhanced MAPK, NF-κB, PI3K, and calcium signaling. Reconstituting MAPK activation was sufficient to rescue decreased cytokines in NOD2-stimulated IL-18RAP-deficient MDMs. Relative to GG carriers, MDM from rs917997 AA carriers had decreased expression of cell-surface IL-18RAP protein, as well as of IL-18R1 and IL-1R1, genes also located in the IL18RAP region. Accordingly, these risk-carrier MDMs show diminished PRR-, IL-18-, and IL-1-induced MAPK and NF-κB signaling. Taken together, our results demonstrate clear functional consequences of the rs917997 risk polymorphism; this polymorphism leads to a loss-of-function through decreased IL-18RAP, IL-18R1, and IL-1R1 protein expression, which impairs autocrine IL-18 and IL-1 signaling, thereby leading to decreased cytokine secretion in MDMs upon stimulation of a broad range of PRRs.

Indexed as

Autocrine CommunicationCalcium SignalingChromosomes, Human, Pair 2Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesFemaleGene Expression RegulationHumansInflammatory Bowel DiseasesInterleukin-18Interleukin-18 Receptor alpha SubunitInterleukin-18 Receptor beta SubunitMacrophagesMaleMAP Kinase Signaling SystemNF-kappa BPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesExtracellular Signal-Regulated MAP KinasesIL18R1 protein, humanIL18RAP protein, humanIL1R1 protein, humanInterleukin-18Interleukin-18 Receptor alpha SubunitInterleukin-18 Receptor beta SubunitNF-kappa BPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesReceptors, Interleukin-1 Type I

Identifiers

PMID24842757
PMCPMC4146459
OpenAlexW2145163215

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