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Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity.

ABSTRACT: Sialic acid acetylesterase (SIAE) is an enzyme that negatively regulates B lymphocyte antigen receptor signalling and is required for the maintenance of immunological tolerance in mice. Heterozygous loss-of-function germline rare variants and a homozygous defective polymorphic variant of SIAE were identified in 24/923 subjects of European origin with relatively common autoimmune disorders and in 2/648 controls of European origin. All heterozygous loss-of-function SIAE mutations tested were capable of functioning in a dominant negative manner. A homozygous secretion-defective polymorphic variant of SIAE was catalytically active, lacked the ability to function in a dominant negative manner, and was seen in eight autoimmune subjects but in no control subjects. The odds ratio for inheriting defective SIAE alleles was 8.6 in all autoimmune subjects, 8.3 in subjects with rheumatoid arthritis, and 7.9 in subjects with type I diabetes. Functionally defective SIAE rare and polymorphic variants represent a strong genetic link to susceptibility in relatively common human autoimmune disorders.

SUBMITTER: Surolia I

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2900412 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity.

Surolia Ira I Pirnie Stephan P SP Chellappa Vasant V Taylor Kendra N KN Cariappa Annaiah A Moya Jesse J Liu Haoyuan H Bell Daphne W DW Driscoll David R DR Diederichs Sven S Haider Khaleda K Netravali Ilka I Le Sheila S Elia Roberto R Dow Ethan E Lee Annette A Freudenberg Jan J De Jager Philip L PL Chretien Yves Y Varki Ajit A MacDonald Marcy E ME Gillis Tammy T Behrens Timothy W TW Bloch Donald D Collier Deborah D Korzenik Joshua J Podolsky Daniel K DK Hafler David D Murali Mandakolathur M Sands Bruce B Stone John H JH Gregersen Peter K PK Pillai Shiv S

Nature 20100616 7303

Sialic acid acetylesterase (SIAE) is an enzyme that negatively regulates B lymphocyte antigen receptor signalling and is required for the maintenance of immunological tolerance in mice. Heterozygous loss-of-function germline rare variants and a homozygous defective polymorphic variant of SIAE were identified in 24/923 subjects of European origin with relatively common autoimmune disorders and in 2/648 controls of European origin. All heterozygous loss-of-function SIAE mutations tested were capab ...[more]

PMID: 20555325

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Project description:Fibroblasts from patients with sialic acid storage disease (SASD), sialidosis, mucolipidosis II, and from normal controls, were incubated in the presence of the glycoprotein fetuin that was tritium-labelled in its sialic acid residues by the periodate/[3H]borohydride reduction method, and the fate of the intracellular radioactive sialic acid (C7-sialic acid) followed in pulse-chase experiments. The model glycoprotein was readily endocytosed and degraded, more than 90% of the radioactivity being trichloroacetic acid (TCA)-soluble after 4 days of incubation. In all of the patients' fibroblasts, there was an increased accumulation of TCA-soluble radioactivity and, upon chase, a much lower rate of elimination than in normal controls. Gel chromatography of the material from the chase experiment showed that, in normal cells, most of the radioactivity at zero time behaved as free C7-sialic acid. This, as well as material of larger size (sialyloligosaccharides), was very much diminished by 48 h. In cells from two patients with SASD, there were large peaks both in the sialic acid and oligosaccharide positions; whereas the oligosaccharides were somewhat decreased by the end of the chase period, the sialic acid was essentially unchanged. In sialidosis fibroblasts, the radioactive material consisted of oligosaccharides, but very little C7-sialic acid; the elimination of the oligosaccharides was retarded. In normal cells, about 80% of the radioactivity released into the medium after 48 h chase behaved as free C7-sialic acid upon gel chromatography and t.l.c. Subcellular fractionation in Percoll gradients showed that the radioactive C7-sialic acid remaining in normal cells after 48 h of chase was mainly localized in the cytosol. In SASD cells, on the other hand, it was associated with lysosomal fractions which, unexpectedly, exhibited an abnormally low density. Our findings demonstrate that SASD fibroblasts degrade the sialoglycoprotein but, unlike normal cells, accumulate the liberated C7-sialic acid along with sialyloligosaccharides in their lysosomes. The results therefore support the concept of a defective transport system for sialic acid in the lysosomal membrane of patients with SASD.

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Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity.

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Functionally defective germline variants of sialic acid acetylesterase in autoimmunity.

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