Aberrant antigen processing and presentation: Key pathogenic factors leading to immune activation in Ankylosing spondylitis
- 2 February 2021
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Springer Science and Business Media LLC in Seminars in Immunopathology
- Vol. 43 (2), 245-253
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00281-020-00833-w
Abstract
The strong association of HLA-B*27 with ankylosing spondylitis (AS) was first reported nearly 50 years ago. However, the mechanistic link between HLA-B*27 and AS has remained an enigma. While 85–90% of AS patients possess HLA-B*27, majority of HLA-B*27 healthy individuals do not develop AS. This suggests that additional genes and genetic regions interplay with HLA-B*27 to cause AS. Previous genome-wide association studies (GWAS) identified key genes that are distinctively expressed in AS, including the Endoplasmic Reticulum Aminopeptidase (ERAP) 1 and ERAP2. As these gene-encoding molecules are primarily implicated in the process of peptide processing and presentation, potential pathological interaction of these molecules with HLA-B*27 may operate to cause AS by activating downstream immune responses. The aberrant peptide processing also gives rise to the accumulation of unstable protein complex in endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which drives endoplasmic reticulum–associated protein degradation (ERAD) and unfolded protein response (UPR) and activates autophagy. In this review, we describe the current hypotheses of AS pathogenesis, focusing on antigen processing and presentation operated by HLA-B*27 and associated molecules that may contribute to the disease initiation and progression of AS.Keywords
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