鉴定导致乳糜泻的麸质 T 细胞表位。
Identification of gluten T cell epitopes driving celiac disease.
机构信息
KG Jebsen Coeliac Disease Research Center, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
出版信息
Sci Adv. 2023 Jan 25;9(4):eade5800. doi: 10.1126/sciadv.ade5800.
CD4 T cells specific for cereal gluten proteins are key players in celiac disease (CeD) pathogenesis. While several CeD-relevant gluten T cell epitopes have been identified, epitopes recognized by a substantial proportion of gluten-reactive T cells remain unknown. The identification of such CeD-driving gluten epitopes is important for the food industry and in clinical settings. Here, we have combined the knowledge of a distinct phenotype of gluten-reactive T cells and key features of known gluten epitopes for the discovery of unknown epitopes. We tested 42 wheat gluten-reactive T cell clones, isolated on the basis of their distinct phenotype and with no reactivity to known epitopes, against a panel of synthetic peptides bioinformatically identified from a wheat gluten protein database. We were able to assign reactivity to 10 T cell clones and identified a 9-nucleotide oligomer core region of five previously uncharacterized gliadin/glutenin epitopes. This work represents an advance in the effort to identify CeD-driving gluten epitopes.
针对谷物麸质蛋白的 CD4 T 细胞是乳糜泻(CeD)发病机制中的关键因素。虽然已经确定了几个与 CeD 相关的麸质 T 细胞表位,但仍不清楚大量麸质反应性 T 细胞识别的表位。这些 CeD 驱动的麸质表位的鉴定对于食品工业和临床环境都很重要。在这里,我们结合了对特定麸质反应性 T 细胞表型和已知麸质表位关键特征的了解,用于发现未知表位。我们针对一组合成肽进行了测试,这些肽是从小麦麸质蛋白数据库中通过生物信息学方法鉴定的,共涉及 42 个小麦麸质反应性 T 细胞克隆,这些克隆是基于其独特的表型分离出来的,且对已知表位无反应。我们能够确定 10 个 T 细胞克隆的反应性,并鉴定了五个以前未表征的麦谷蛋白/醇溶谷蛋白表位的 9 个核苷酸寡聚核心区域。这项工作代表了在鉴定 CeD 驱动的麸质表位方面的进展。