Journal
FRONTIERS IN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
FRONTIERS MEDIA SA
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2018.01700
Keywords
inflammatory bowel diseases; ulcerative colitis; Crohn's disease; vedolizumab; RNA sequencing; integrin; cytokines
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Funding
- Emerging Fields Initiative of the University Erlangen-Nurnberg
- Deutsche Forschungsge-meinschaft
- [DFG-KFO257]
- [DFG-CRC1181]
- [DFG-SFB/TRR241]
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Background and aims: Despite proven clinical efficacy of vedolizumab (VDZ) for inducing and maintaining remission in patients with Crohn's disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC), subgroups of patients have no therapeutic benefit from anti-alpha 4 beta 7 integrin therapy with VDZ. Within this study, we aimed to identify genetic, cellular, and immunological mechanisms that define response and failure to VDZ treatment. Methods: Intestinal RNA sequencing was performed in UC and CD patients before and at week 14 of VDZ therapy. alpha 4 beta 7 expression on peripheral and mucosal immune cells was assessed by flow cytometry and immunohistochemistry. Cellular modes of VDZ-mediated action were analyzed ex vivo and in VDZ-treated inflammatory bowel disease patients. Results: Transcriptome analysis showed an impairment of signaling cascades associated with adhesion, diapedesis, and migration of granulocytes and agranulocytes upon VDZ therapy. In non-remitters to VDZ therapy, a tissue destructive and leukocyte-mediated inflammatory activity with activation of TNF-dependent pathways was present, all of which were inhibited in remitters to VDZ. Clinical remission was associated with a significant reduction of alpha 4 beta 7 expression on Th2 and Th17 polarized mucosal CD4(+) T cells at week 14 of VDZ therapy and with significantly higher numbers of alpha 4 beta 7-expressing mucosal cells prior to the initiation of VDZ therapy compared with non-remitters. Conclusion: Intestinal alpha 4 beta 7 expression prior to VDZ therapy might represent a biomarker that predicts therapeutic response to subsequent VDZ treatment. Due to high activation of TNF signaling in VDZ non-remitters, anti-TNF treatment might represent a promising therapeutic strategy in VDZ refractory patients.
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