title: Gene expression profiles in a rabbit model of systemic lupus erythematosus autoantibody production.
abstract: We previously reported the establishment of a rabbit (Oryctolagus cuniculus) model in which peptide immunization led to production of lupus-like autoantibodies including anti-Sm, -RNP, -SS-A, -SS-B, and -dsDNA characteristic of those produced in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) patients. Some neurologic symptoms in the form of seizures and nystagmus were observed. The animals used in the previous and in the current study were from a National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases colony of rabbits that were pedigreed, Ig-allotype defined, but not inbred. Their genetic heterogeneity may correspond to that found among patients of a given ethnicity. We extended the information about this rabbit model by microarray-based expression profiling. We first demonstrated that human expression arrays could be used with rabbit RNA to yield information on molecular pathways. We then designed a study evaluating gene expression profiles in eight groups of control and treated rabbits (47 rabbits in total). Genes significantly upregulated in treated rabbits were associated with NK cytotoxicity, Ag presentation, leukocyte migration, cytokine activity, protein kinases, RNA spliceosomal ribonucleoproteins, intracellular signaling cascades, and glutamate receptor activity. These results link increased immune activation with upregulation of components associated with neurologic and anti-RNP responses, demonstrating the utility of the rabbit model to uncover biological pathways related to SLE-induced clinical symptoms, including neuropsychiatric lupus. Our finding of distinct gene expression patterns in rabbits that made anti-dsDNA compared with those that only made other anti-nuclear Abs should be further investigated in subsets of SLE patients with different autoantibody profiles.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Geeta
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Rai
authors.forename: Satyajit
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ray
authors.forename: Jacqueline
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Milton
authors.forename: Jun
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yang
authors.forename: Ping
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Ren
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lempicki
authors.forename: Rose G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Mage
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001323:Autoantibodies / Q000276:immunology*; D001324:Autoantigens / Q000276:immunology; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004797:Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay; D015870:Gene Expression / Q000276:immunology*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D006801:Humans; D008180:Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic / Q000235:genetics* / Q000276:immunology; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D011817:Rabbits; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction
chemical_list: D001323:Autoantibodies; D001324:Autoantigens
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