Peripheral blood mononuclear cells are hypomethylated in active rheumatoid arthritis and methylation correlates with disease activity.

Rheumatology
Ilka LieboldBruno Stuhlmüller

Abstract

Epigenetic modifications are dynamic and influence cellular disease activity. The aim of this study was to investigate global DNA methylation in peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) of RA patients to clarify whether global DNA methylation pattern testing might be useful in monitoring disease activity as well as the response to therapeutics. Flow cytometric measurement of 5-methyl-cytosine (5'-mC) was established using the cell line U937. In the subsequent prospective study, 62 blood samples were investigated, including 17 healthy donors and 45 RA patients at baseline and after 3 months of treatment with methotrexate, the IL-6 receptor inhibitor sarilumab, and Janus kinase inhibitors. Methylation status was assessed with an anti-5'-mC antibody and analysed in PBMCs and CD4+, CD8+, CD14+ and CD19+ subsets. Signal intensities of 5'-mC were correlated with 28-joint DASs with ESR and CRP (DAS28-ESR and DAS28-CRP). Compared with healthy individuals, PBMCs of RA patients showed a significant global DNA hypomethylation. Signal intensities of 5'-mC correlated with transcription levels of DNMT1, DNMT3B and MTR genes involved in methylation processes. Using flow cytometry, significant good correlations and linear regression values w...Continue Reading

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