DNA demethylation of inflammasome-associated genes is enhanced in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes

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• 作者：Roser Vento-Tormo ; PhD^a ; ^&lowast ; ; Damiana Á ; lvarez-Errico ; PhD^a ; ^&lowast ; ; ^{dalvarez@idibell.cat} ; Antonio Garcia-Gomez ; PhD^a ; Jos&eacute ; Herná ; ndez-Rodrí ; guez ; MD ; PhD^b ; Segundo Bujá ; n ; MD ; PhD^c ; Maria Basagañ ; a ; MD ; PhD^d ; Maria M&eacute ; ndez ; MD^e ; Jordi Yagü ; e ; MD ; PhD^f ; Manel Juan ; MD ; PhD^f ; Juan I. Aró ; stegui ; MD ; PhD^f ; Esteban Ballestar ; PhD^a ; ^{eballestar@idibell.cat}
• 关键词：Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes ; familial Mediterranean fever ; autoinflammatory diseases ; inflammasome ; epigenetics ; DNA methylation ; active demethylation
• 刊名：Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：139
• 期：1
• 页码：202-211.e6
• 全文大小：866 K
• 卷排序：139

文摘

Inflammasomes are cytosolic multiprotein complexes in macrophages. They assemble after infection- or stress-associated stimuli, activating both caspase-1–mediated inflammatory cytokine secretion and pyroptosis. Increased inflammasome activity resulting from gene mutations is related to monogenic autoinflammatory syndromes. However, variable penetrance among patients with the same gene mutations suggests involvement of additional mechanisms associated with inflammasome gene regulation.ObjectiveWe sought to investigate the role of DNA demethylation in activating inflammasome genes during macrophage differentiation and monocyte activation in healthy control subjects and patients with autoinflammatory syndrome.MethodsInflammasome-related genes were tested for DNA methylation and mRNA levels by using bisulfite pyrosequencing and quantitative RT-PCR in monocytes in vitro differentiated to macrophages and exposed to inflammatory conditions. The contribution of Tet methylcytosine dioxygenase 2 (TET2) and nuclear factor κB to DNA demethylation was tested by using chromatin immunoprecipitation, small interfering RNA–mediated downregulation, and pharmacologic inhibition.ResultsWe observed that inflammasome-related genes are rapidly demethylated in both monocyte-to-macrophage differentiation and on monocyte activation. Demethylation associates with increased gene expression, and both mechanisms are impaired when TET2 and nuclear factor κB are downregulated. We analyzed DNA methylation levels of inflammasome-related genes in patients with cryopyrin-associated periodic syndromes (CAPS) and familial Mediterranean fever, 2 archetypical monogenic autoinflammatory syndromes. Under the above conditions, monocytes from untreated patients with CAPS undergo more efficient DNA demethylation than those of healthy subjects. Interestingly, patients with CAPS treated with anti–IL-1 drugs display methylation levels similar to those of healthy control subjects.ConclusionOur study is the first to demonstrate the involvement of DNA methylation–associated alterations in patients with monogenic autoinflammatory disease and opens up possibilities for novel clinical markers.