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  • Title: HLA-B27-restricted T cells from patients with ankylosing spondylitis recognize peptides from B*2705 that are similar to bacteria-derived peptides.
    Author: Frauendorf E, von Goessel H, May E, Märker-Hermann E.
    Journal: Clin Exp Immunol; 2003 Nov; 134(2):351-9. PubMed ID: 14616798.
    Abstract:
    Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory systemic disease affecting the spine, sacroiliacal and peripheral joints. Although the aetiology of AS remains unknown, the strong association with the HLA-B27 allele might reflect directly a detrimental effect of the HLA-B27 molecule itself, resulting from its potential capability to present 'arthritogenic' peptides to CD8+ T cells. Because some forms of SpA are triggered by enterobacterial infection, such arthritogenic peptides might originate from autologous and/or bacterial proteins triggering cross-reactive CD8+ T cell clones. Intriguingly, two peptides from the second extracellular domain of HLA-B*2705 share sequence homologies with several enterobacterial antigens, exhibit the HLA-B27-binding-motif, and are presented by HLA-B*2705 itself. The objective of this study was to examine the clonal T cell reactivity against these peptides in patients with AS. To this end, we screened peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) of 26 patients with AS and 24 healthy donors for TNF-alpha-producing cells using ELISPOT assays. PBL and synovial fluid-derived lymphocytes (SFL) of peptide-responsive patients were then stimulated and cultured with the relevant peptide and control peptides in vitro. Antigen-specific T cell lines (TCL) were identified by standard chromium release assays. Clonal analysis was performed subsequently applying TCRB-CDR3 spectratyping. Among eight peptides tested, only the HLA-B27 168-176 peptide LRRYLENGK was recognized by PBL from B27+ AS patients but not from B27+ healthy controls (P=0.001). LRRYLENGK-specific T cell clones used preferentially the TCRBV5S1 and the BV14 segment. These results suggest that an HLA-B27-derived peptide with homology to bacterial peptides may play a role in AS.
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