Disease-association of different killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIR) and HLA-C gene combinations in reactive arthritis

Modern Rheumatology
Hong Sheng SunNai Wen Hu

Abstract

Reactive arthritis (ReA) is sterile arthritis triggered by bacterial gastrointestinal or urogenital infections. Although the pathogenesis of ReA remains unclear, genetic factors seem to play an important role. Different killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptors (KIRs) and their corresponding specific histocompatibility leukocyte antigen-C (HLA-C) ligand genotypes have been implicated in susceptibility and resistance to infections and autoimmune diseases but have, thus far, not been investigated in ReA. This study was conducted in 138 ReA patients (65 females, 73 males); aged 18-69 years (mean, 37 years) and 151 randomly selected healthy control individuals matched for ethnicity, age and sex. These subjects were genotyped for KIR genes and HLA-C alleles by polymerase chain reaction with sequence-specific primers. The frequencies of inhibitory KIR2DL2 and KIR2DL5 were significantly lower in the ReA patients than in the controls (p = .005 and p = .033, respectively). The presence of more than seven inhibitory KIR genes was protective (p = .016). Moreover, we found that activating KIR2DS1 alone or in combination with the HLA-C1C1 genotype (which indicates the absence of the HLA ligands for their homologous inhibitory receptor KIR2D...Continue Reading

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