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Autoantibodies and decreased expression of the transcription factor ELF-3 together with increased chemokine pathways support an autoimmune phenotype and altered differentiation in lichen planus located in oral mucosa
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Odontology. Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biosciences.
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biosciences.
Umeå University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Biosciences.
Tayside Tissue Bank/Medical Research Institute, University of Dundee, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.
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2013 (English)In: Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, ISSN 0926-9959, E-ISSN 1468-3083, Vol. 27, no 11, p. 1410-1416Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Background  The pathogenesis of oral lichen planus (OLP), a chronic inflammatory disease, is not fully understood. It is known that OLP has autoimmune features, and it is suggested to be an autoimmune disease. ELF-3 is involved in differentiation of keratinocytes and deregulated in different tumours and inflammatory diseases. CXCR-3 and its ligands CXCL-10 and CXCL-11 are increased in autoimmune diseases and linked to Th-1 immune response. Objectives  To analyse and compare expression of ELF-3, CXCR-3, CXCL-10 and CXCL-11 in OLP lesions and controls in whole and microdissected epithelium. Methods  Tissue biopsies from 20 patients clinically and histologically diagnosed with OLP and 20 healthy controls were studied using whole tissues or microdissected epithelium. By the use of qRT-PCR, mRNA levels of ELF-3, CXCR-3, CXCL-10 and CXCL-11 were studied. Western blot was used for analysis of ELF-3 protein expression. Sera from 19 OLP patients and 20 controls were analysed with ELISA in search for autoantibodies. Results  The upregulation of CXCR-3, CXCL-10 and CXCL-11 found in OLP is similar to previous findings showing an autoimmune phenotype in lichen planus (LP) and lichen sclerosus. Decreased expression of the differentiation-related transcription factor ELF-3 was also seen in OLP lesions, and we further demonstrate presence of circulating autoantibodies against the ELF-3 protein in sera from 3 of 19 (16%) LP patients tested. Conclusions  On the basis of these findings, we confirm that OLP shows features of an autoimmune disease and suggest deregulated differentiation of keratinocytes to be one of the causes of the disease phenotype.

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Wiley-Blackwell, 2013. Vol. 27, no 11, p. 1410-1416
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Basic Medicine Dermatology and Venereal Diseases
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URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-55418DOI: 10.1111/jdv.12027ISI: 000325747200011PubMedID: 23134363Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84885948960OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-55418DiVA, id: diva2:526567
Available from: 2012-05-15 Created: 2012-05-14 Last updated: 2023-03-24Bibliographically approved
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1. Oral lichen planus: studies of factors involved in differentiation, epithelial mesenchymal transition and inflammation
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Oral lichen planus: studies of factors involved in differentiation, epithelial mesenchymal transition and inflammation
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Background: Lichen planus is a chronic inflammation of skin and mucosa with unknown cause. Oral Lichen Planus, OLP, affects around 2% of the population. Autoimmunity has been suggested as a possible cause as the disease has autoimmune features such as female predominance, cyclic nature and cytotoxic T-cell infiltrate. It has been suggested that the intense inflammatory response seen in OLP is caused by factors on the keratinocyte surface triggering the immune system. Chronic inflammation is one of the hallmarks of oral lichen planus and chronic inflammation is connected to increased risk of tumor development. WHO classifies OLP as a potentially malignant condition with increased risk of developing Squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck, SCCHN, but malignant transformation of OLP is a matter of controversy. The aim of these studies was to further elucidate the autoimmune and premalignant character of OLP. Factors involved in malignant transformation, autoimmunity and inflammation were analyzed in normal oral mucosa, OLP and SCCHN. Factors studied were the signal transducers of Transforming growth factor-β the Smad proteins, microRNAs, COX-2, the receptor CXCR-3 and its ligands CXCL-10 and -11 and ELF-3.

Material and methods: In the study on Smad protein expression formalin fixed and paraffin embedded biopsies from normal oral mucosa, OLP and SCCHN was used. For the remaining studies fresh frozen biopsies from OLP and normal controls was used. All of the fresh frozen OLP samples and their controls were micro dissected to be able to analyze the epithelial part only as well as sections of the whole biopsy. Methods used are immunohistochemistry, qRT-PCR and Western blot.

Results: Analyses of smad proteins expression showed a clear increase of smad3 and smad7 in OLP compared to normal oral mucosa. The expressions of smad proteins in the tumors were more heterogeneous. Some of the SCCHN samples showed a similar expression as OLP while others did not. Micro RNA analyzes showed that miR-21 and miR-203 was significantly increased in OLP epithelium compared to normal oral epithelium while the expression of miR-125b and their potential targets p53 and p63 was decreased in OLP. The presence of COX-2 was significantly higher in OLP than normal controls. At the same time the expression of miR-26b, a suggested repressor of COX-2 was decreased in OLP compared to normal mucosa. The receptor CXCR-3 and its ligands CXCL-10 and -11 were increased in OLP. Expressions of the differentiation involved factor ELF-3 mRNA as well as protein were decreased in OLP.

Conclusion: The factors studied are involved in differentiation, malignant transformation and inflammation. Some of the results in these studies indicate a similar expression pattern for OLP and SCCHN. Several of the factors studied are involved in differentiation and their deregulation suggests a disturbed differentiation pattern and this could indicate a premalignant character of OLP but malignant transformation of OLP lesions are relative rare. A lot of these factors are also involved in inflammatory processes and connected to autoimmune diseases and their deregulation in OLP could also support an autoimmune cause of the disease. Based on our studies a suggestion is that the disturbed differentiation pattern triggers the intense immune response directed against the epithelial cells seen in OLP.

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Umeå: Umeå universitet, 2012. p. 60
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Umeå University odontological dissertations, ISSN 0345-7532 ; 122
Keywords
oral lichen planus, differentiation, inflammation, autoimmune, premalign
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Dentistry
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Odontology; Pathology
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urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-55419 (URN)978-91-7459-441-6 (ISBN)
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2012-06-08, Betula, by 6M, Norrlands universitetssjukhus, Umeå, 09:00 (English)
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Available from: 2012-05-16 Created: 2012-05-14 Last updated: 2018-06-08Bibliographically approved

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