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Published in: BMC Immunology 1/2009

Open Access 01-12-2009 | Research article

Variable expression of cysteinyl leukotriene type I receptor splice variants in asthmatic females with different promoter haplotypes

Authors: Milena Sokolowska, Karolina Wodz-Naskiewicz, Malgorzata Cieslak, Karolina Seta, Andrzej K Bednarek, Rafal Pawliczak

Published in: BMC Immunology | Issue 1/2009

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Abstract

Background

Cysteinyl leukotrienes are potent inflammatory mediators implicated in the pathogenesis of asthma. Human cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1 (CYSLTR1) gene contains five exons that are variably spliced. Within its promoter few polymorphisms were described. To date, there has been no evidence about the expression of different splice variants of CysLT1 in asthma and their association with CYSLTR1 promoter polymorphisms.
The goal of our study was to investigate CysLT1 alternative transcripts expression in asthmatic patients with different CYSLTR1 promoter haplotypes.
The study groups consisted of 44 patients with asthma, diagnosed according to GINA 2008 criteria and 18 healthy subjects. Genomic DNA and total RNA was extracted from peripheral blood mononuclear cells. Real-time PCR was performed with specific primers for transcript I [GenBank:DQ131799] and II [GenBank:DQ131800]. Fragments of the CYSLTR1 promoter were amplified by PCR and sequenced directly to identify four single nucleotide polymorphisms: C/T [SNP:rs321029], A/C [SNP:rs2637204], A/G [SNP:rs2806489] and C/T [SNP:rs7066737].

Results

The expression of CysLT1 transcript I and II in asthma did not differ from its expression in healthy control group. However, in major alleles homozygotic CAAC/CAAC women with asthma we found significantly higher expression of transcript I as compared to heterozygous CAAC/TCGC women in that loci. CysLT1 transcript I expression tended to negative correlation with episodes of acute respiratory infection in our asthmatic population. Moreover, expression of CysLT1 transcript II in CAAC/CAAC homozygotic women with asthma was significantly lower than in CAAC/CAAC healthy control females.

Conclusions

Genetic variants of CYSLTR1 promoter might be associated with gender specific expression of CysLT1 alternative transcripts in patients with asthma. CysLT1 splice variants expression might also correlate with the susceptibility to infection in asthmatic population.
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Metadata
Title
Variable expression of cysteinyl leukotriene type I receptor splice variants in asthmatic females with different promoter haplotypes
Authors
Milena Sokolowska
Karolina Wodz-Naskiewicz
Malgorzata Cieslak
Karolina Seta
Andrzej K Bednarek
Rafal Pawliczak
Publication date
01-12-2009
Publisher
BioMed Central
Published in
BMC Immunology / Issue 1/2009
Electronic ISSN: 1471-2172
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2172-10-63

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