Genetic evidence supporting the association of protease and protease inhibitor genes with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review

Cleynen, Isabelle; Jüni, Peter; Bekkering, Geertruida E; Nüesch, Eveline; Mendes, Camila T; Schmied, Stefanie; Wyder, Stefan; Kellen, Eliane; Villiger, Peter M; Rutgeerts, Paul; Vermeire, Séverine; Lottaz, Daniel (2011). Genetic evidence supporting the association of protease and protease inhibitor genes with inflammatory bowel disease: a systematic review. PLoS ONE, 6(9), e24106. Lawrence, Kans.: Public Library of Science 10.1371/journal.pone.0024106

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As part of the European research consortium IBDase, we addressed the role of proteases and protease inhibitors (P/PIs) in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), characterized by chronic mucosal inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, which affects 2.2 million people in Europe and 1.4 million people in North America. We systematically reviewed all published genetic studies on populations of European ancestry (67 studies on Crohn's disease [CD] and 37 studies on ulcerative colitis [UC]) to identify critical genomic regions associated with IBD. We developed a computer algorithm to map the 807 P/PI genes with exact genomic locations listed in the MEROPS database of peptidases onto these critical regions and to rank P/PI genes according to the accumulated evidence for their association with CD and UC. 82 P/PI genes (75 coding for proteases and 7 coding for protease inhibitors) were retained for CD based on the accumulated evidence. The cylindromatosis/turban tumor syndrome gene (CYLD) on chromosome 16 ranked highest, followed by acylaminoacyl-peptidase (APEH), dystroglycan (DAG1), macrophage-stimulating protein (MST1) and ubiquitin-specific peptidase 4 (USP4), all located on chromosome 3. For UC, 18 P/PI genes were retained (14 proteases and 4 protease inhibitors), with a considerably lower amount of accumulated evidence. The ranking of P/PI genes as established in this systematic review is currently used to guide validation studies of candidate P/PI genes, and their functional characterization in interdisciplinary mechanistic studies in vitro and in vivo as part of IBDase. The approach used here overcomes some of the problems encountered when subjectively selecting genes for further evaluation and could be applied to any complex disease and gene family.

Item Type:

Journal Article (Original Article)

Division/Institute:

04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM)
04 Faculty of Medicine > Pre-clinic Human Medicine > BioMedical Research (DBMR) > Forschungsbereich Pathologie > Forschungsgruppe Molekularbiologie
04 Faculty of Medicine > Department of Dermatology, Urology, Rheumatology, Nephrology, Osteoporosis (DURN) > Clinic of Rheumatology and Immunology

UniBE Contributor:

Jüni, Peter, Nüesch, Eveline, Wyder, Stefan (B), Villiger, Peter Matthias

ISSN:

1932-6203

Publisher:

Public Library of Science

Language:

English

Submitter:

Factscience Import

Date Deposited:

04 Oct 2013 14:22

Last Modified:

29 Mar 2023 23:32

Publisher DOI:

10.1371/journal.pone.0024106

PubMed ID:

21931648

Web of Science ID:

000294802800024

BORIS DOI:

10.7892/boris.7358

URI:

https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/7358 (FactScience: 212567)

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