PMID- 27602574 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20170804 LR - 20181113 IS - 1932-6203 (Electronic) IS - 1932-6203 (Linking) VI - 11 IP - 9 DP - 2016 TI - Cigarette Smoke Induces Immune Responses to Vimentin in both, Arthritis-Susceptible and -Resistant Humanized Mice. PG - e0162341 LID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0162341 [doi] LID - e0162341 AB - Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease marked by chronic synovial inflammation and both, genetic and environmental factors are involved in its pathogenesis. Human leukocyte antigen (HLA) DRB1*0401 is associated with susceptibility to develop RA, while cigarette smoke (CS) exposure promotes seropositive disease with increased severity in DRB1*0401+ individuals. Smokers have higher levels of antibodies against citrullinated peptides. In this study, we determined whether the response to a known autoantigen, Vimentin (Vim) is shared epitope specific and how CS influences this response using transgenic-mice carrying RA-susceptible,*0401, and -resistant, *0402, genes. Following relatively brief exposure to CS, peptidyl arginine deiminase (PAD) enzyme expression was increased in murine lungs. Cigarette smoking led to production of Interferon (IFN)-gamma with reduced levels of Interleukin (IL)-10 by splenocytes of *0401 mice. In contrast, CS augmented Th2 cytokines along with T-regulatory cells in *0402 mice. An increase in levels of antibodies to native and citrullinated Vim was observed in naive mice of both strains following CS exposure. Our data showed that both arthritis-susceptible and -resistant mice can generate cellular and humoral immunity to Vim; however CS-induced modulation of host immunity is dependent on the interaction with the host HLA genes. FAU - Bidkar, Mitali AU - Bidkar M AD - Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. FAU - Vassallo, Robert AU - Vassallo R AD - Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. FAU - Luckey, David AU - Luckey D AD - Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. FAU - Smart, Michele AU - Smart M AD - Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. FAU - Mouapi, Kelly AU - Mouapi K AD - Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. FAU - Taneja, Veena AU - Taneja V AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-2401-694X AD - Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. AD - Division of Rheumatology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America. LA - eng GR - R01 AR030752/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R21 AR060077/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States GR - R56 AR030752/AR/NIAMS NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article DEP - 20160907 PL - United States TA - PLoS One JT - PloS one JID - 101285081 RN - 0 (Cytokines) RN - 0 (Epitopes) RN - 0 (HLA-DRB1 Chains) RN - 0 (Vimentin) RN - EC 3.- (Hydrolases) RN - EC 3.5.3.15 (Protein-Arginine Deiminases) SB - IM CIN - Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2016 Nov;12 (11):624. PMID: 27652505 MH - Animals MH - Arthritis, Rheumatoid/enzymology/genetics/*immunology MH - Cell Proliferation MH - Cytokines/metabolism MH - Disease Resistance/genetics/*immunology MH - Disease Susceptibility MH - Epitopes/immunology MH - Female MH - HLA-DRB1 Chains/genetics MH - Humans MH - Hydrolases/metabolism MH - Immunity, Humoral MH - Lung/enzymology/pathology MH - Lymphocyte Count MH - Mice, Inbred C57BL MH - Mice, Transgenic MH - Protein-Arginine Deiminases MH - Smoking/*adverse effects MH - T-Lymphocytes/immunology MH - Vimentin/*immunology PMC - PMC5014446 COIS- The authors have declared that no competing interests exist. EDAT- 2016/09/08 06:00 MHDA- 2017/08/05 06:00 PMCR- 2016/09/07 CRDT- 2016/09/08 06:00 PHST- 2016/04/29 00:00 [received] PHST- 2016/08/22 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2016/09/08 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2016/09/08 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2017/08/05 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/09/07 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - PONE-D-16-17440 [pii] AID - 10.1371/journal.pone.0162341 [doi] PST - epublish SO - PLoS One. 2016 Sep 7;11(9):e0162341. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0162341. eCollection 2016.