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1. | Papoutsopoulou S.♦, Burkitt Michael D.♦, Bergey F.♦, England H.♦, Hough R.♦, Schmidt L.♦, Spiller David G.♦, White Michael H. R.R.♦, Paszek P.♦, Jackson Dean A.♦, Martins Dos Santos Vitor A. P.♦, Sellge G.♦, Pritchard D. M.♦, Campbell Barry J.♦, Müller W.♦, Probert Chris S.♦, Macrophage-Specific NF-κB Activation Dynamics Can Segregate Inflammatory Bowel Disease Patients, Frontiers in Immunology, ISSN: 1664-3224, DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2019.02168, Vol.10, pp.2168-1-11, 2019 Abstract: The heterogeneous nature of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) presents challenges, particularly when choosing therapy. Activation of the NF-κB transcription factor is a highly regulated, dynamic event in IBD pathogenesis. Using a lentivirus approach, NF-κB-regulated luciferase was expressed in patient macrophages, isolated from frozen peripheral blood mononuclear cell samples. Following activation, samples could be segregated into three clusters based on the NF-κB-regulated luciferase response. The ulcerative colitis (UC) samples appeared only in the hypo-responsive Cluster 1, and in Cluster 2. Conversely, Crohn's disease (CD) patients appeared in all Clusters with their percentage being higher in the hyper-responsive Cluster 3. A positive correlation was seen between NF-κB-induced luciferase activity and the concentrations of cytokines released into medium from stimulated macrophages, but not with serum or biopsy cytokine levels. Confocal imaging of lentivirally-expressed p65 activation revealed that a higher proportion of macrophages from CD patients responded to endotoxin lipid A compared to controls. In contrast, cells from UC patients exhibited a shorter duration of NF-κB p65 subunit nuclear localization compared to healthy controls, and CD donors. Analysis of macrophage cytokine responses and patient metadata revealed a strong correlation between CD patients who smoked and hyper-activation of p65. These in vitro dynamic assays of NF-κB activation in blood-derived macrophages have the potential to segregate IBD patients into groups with different phenotypes and may therefore help determine response to therapy. Keywords:inflammatory bowel disease, NF-kB, macrophages, cytokines, Crohn’s disease, ulcerative colitis Affiliations:
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