title: Lack of temporal association of iridocyclitis with IgG reactivities to core histones and nucleosome subparticles in pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis.
abstract: This study aimed to measure IgG reactivities to DNA-free nucleosome subparticles (H2AH2B, H3H4) and nucleosome subparticles (H2AH2B-DNA, H3H4-DNA) and to evaluate the temporal relation of these reactivities, as well as those to single core histones, with iridocyclitis (IC) in patients with antinuclear antibody positive (ANA+) pauciarticular juvenile chronic arthritis (JCA). Reactivities to nuclear substrates were determined by enzymatic immunoassays in 120 sera from 45 children with ANA+ pauciarticular JCA. Significantly elevated IgG levels to H3 and H4, to DNA-free nucleosome subparticles, and to the nucleosome subparticle H3H4-DNA were present in patients with ANA+ pauciarticular JCA; no evidence of recognition of conformational epitopes was found. In both horizontal and follow-up studies, no relation between the reactivities studied and the development, presence, or history of IC was found. Our results show the absence of a relation of antibodies to histone molecules or to nucleosome subparticles with IC in patients with ANA+ pauciarticular JCA.
authors.affiliation: Università degli Studi di Pavia, IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Italy.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Massa
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: De Benedetti
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Pignatti
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Albani
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Monestier
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Martini
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000974:Antibodies, Antinuclear / Q000032:analysis; D001171:Arthritis, Juvenile / Q000276:immunology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006657:Histones / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D007074:Immunoglobulin G / Q000032:analysis / Q000276:immunology*; D007223:Infant; D015863:Iridocyclitis / Q000276:immunology*; D008297:Male; D009707:Nucleosomes / Q000276:immunology*; D013997:Time Factors
chemical_list: D000974:Antibodies, Antinuclear; D006657:Histones; D007074:Immunoglobulin G; D009707:Nucleosomes