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Mwinyi, Jessica; Grete-Wenger, Christa; Eloranta, Jyrki J.; Kullak-Ublick, Gerd A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/349469

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Volume 2012 | Article ID 349469 | https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/349469

The Impact of PPAR Genetic Variants on IBD Susceptibility and IBD Disease Course

Jessica Mwinyi,^1,2Christa Grete-Wenger,¹Jyrki J. Eloranta,¹and Gerd A. Kullak-Ublick¹

Academic Editor: Ruth Roberts

Received12 Sept 2011

Accepted10 Oct 2011

Published14 Feb 2012

Abstract

PPARγ is a nuclear receptor that regulates numerous pathways including cytokine expression and immune responses and plays an important role in controlling colon inflammation. We aimed at determining the occurring PPARγ SNPs, at predicting the haplotypes, and at determining the frequency outcome in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) patients in comparison with healthy controls. We determined genetic variants in the coding exons and flanking intronic sequences of the NR1C3 gene in 284 IBD patients and 194 controls and predicted NR1C3 haplotypes via bioinformatic analysis. We investigated whether certain NR1C3 variants are associated with susceptibility to IBD or its disease course. None of the detected 22 NR1C3 variants were associated with IBD. Two variants with allelic frequencies over 1% were included in haplotype/diplotype analyses. None of the NR3C1 haplotypes showed association with IBD development or disease course. We conclude that NR1C3 haplotypes are not related to IBD susceptibility or IBD disease activity.

1. Introduction

Crohn’s disease (CD) and ulcerative colitis (UC) are chronic recurrent forms of inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract (inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD), which are characterized by an onset in young adulthood and by an unpredictable disease course that may lead to debilitating complications [1]. The combined prevalence of CD and UC is estimated to be 100 to 200 per 100 000 individuals in developed countries [2]. IBD is thought to be of multifactorial genesis including a complex interplay among genetic, environmental, microbial, and immune factors [3]. The exact molecular pathogenesis of IBD is not yet fully elucidated [4]. Although great advances have been made in the clinical management of IBD, curative therapeutic strategies do not exist.

It has been recognized that components of pro- and anti-inflammatory signalling cascades seem to play an important role in the pathogenesis of IBD. Initially, pro- and anti-inflammatory cytoplasmic receptors that are activated by bacterial lipopolysaccharides, such as nucleotide oligomerisation domain (NOD) 2/caspase recruitment domain (CARD) 15, and NOD1/CARD4, have been especially studied in the past and have been identified as IBD susceptibility genes. These findings emphasized the pivotal role of an interaction between enteric microbes and the intestinal immune system in the pathophysiology of IBD [5–8].

Current evidence suggests that an additional receptor, PPARγ, plays an important role in the regulation of colon inflammation. PPARγ belongs to the nuclear receptor family that consists of approximately 50 different transcription factors, which are known to be involved in the regulation of a wide range of different biological processes. PPARγ controls the expression of a large number of different genes and was initially identified as an important regulator of genes involved in lipid metabolism and insulin sensitisation [9]. PPARγ acts through heterodimerisation with another nuclear receptor, retinoid X receptor α (RXRα). The heterodimer binds to specific DNA response elements within the promoters of its target genes (peroxisome proliferator response elements, PPREs) [10]. PPARγ is mostly expressed in adipose tissue and the large intestine. Kidney, liver, and small intestine express intermediate levels, whereas PPARγ is barely found in muscle [11].

PPARγ is known to modulate the expression of key transcription factors and kinases involved in inflammatory signalling cascades such as NF-κB, c-Jun, c-Fos, and nuclear factor of activated T cell (NFAT). Thereby, PPARγ is able to inhibit the mucosal production of proinflammatory cytokines, such as interleukin 1β (IL-1β) and tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα), and to downregulate the expression of various adhesion molecules [12, 13]. Based on these findings, it has been demonstrated in mouse models that activation of PPARγ leads to an efficient reduction of the severity of intestinal inflammation by suppressing excessive immunoinflammatory responses [14, 15]. As a consequence, PPARγ is currently under investigation as a potential target for novel anti-inflammatory agents [9]. Because of its central role in the regulation of colon inflammation, we hypothesized that PPARγ could be a putative susceptibility gene for the development of IBD. The PPARγ gene NR1C3 is located on chromosome 3 and is composed of 9 exons. Alternative splicing yields three different protein isoforms, PPARγ1, PPARγ2, and PPARγ3, which differ in the amino acid composition at their 5^′ends. The isoform PPARγ2 is the most abundant PPARγ protein found in a number of human tissues [11]. PPARγ is known to be polymorphically expressed. Several SNPs have been described, one of which has been shown to have consequences for both the conformational protein structure and protein function [16, 17]. So far, only a few studies have assessed the role of a few discrete NR1C3 gene polymorphisms in IBD pathogenesis. A systematic study to comprehensively investigate the role of global polymorphic features of the NR1C3 gene with a focus on its role in IBD susceptibility, such as the one presented here, has not been previously performed.

In the present study, we aimed at determining all occurring mutations and SNPs in the exonic regions of the PPARγ gene NR1C3, at bioinformatically predicting the arising haplotypes, and at evaluating their association with the risk to develop IBD and with IBD activity in a well-sized cohort of IBD patients and non-IBD controls.

2. Materials and Methods

2.1. Patients

Two hundred and eighty-four clinically diagnosed Swiss IBD patients (140 UC and 144 CD patients) were recruited at the centers participating in the Swiss Inflammatory Bowel Disease Cohort Study (SIBDCS) [18]. All patients gave their informed consent to the inclusion into the study. An ethical approval was obtained from the Medical Ethical Committees of the University Hospital Lausanne, Switzerland, and all local study sites. EDTA blood samples were stored at the central tissue repository at the Institute of Pathology, University of Bern, Switzerland. The SIBDCS data center at the University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland, provided data on demographics and past and current disease characteristics. Diagnosis of IBD (CD or UC) was confirmed by the study investigations based on clinical presentation, endoscopic findings, and histology. Demographic and clinical information on IBD patients is summarized in Table 1.

2.2. Control Subjects

One hundred and ninety-four non-IBD controls were recruited from gastroenterological patients undergoing surveillance colonoscopy, who did not show any symptoms of IBD. History of colorectal cancer was used as an exclusion criterion for both IBD patients and non-IBD controls. All subjects provided their written informed consent to be included in the study. Ethical approvals were obtained from the local medical ethical committees of all study sites involved in the collection of non-IBD samples.

2.3. Sequencing Reactions

DNA was extracted from EDTA-blood or intestinal biopsies using the QIAcube robotic workstation and a standard procedure (QIAamp DNA Mini Kit, QIAGEN, Switzerland). The PCR and sequencing primer design was based on the NCBI reference sequence for NR1C3 (GenBank accession number NT_022175.18). Primers for genomic DNA were designed to span all 7 exons expressed in case of the most often occurring PPARγ protein variant 2 including at least 50 bp of flanking intronic sequences at both 5′ and 3^′ends. The DNA sequences of purified PCR fragments were obtained with an ABI 3730xl sequencing machine. Details of the PCR primers can be found in the Supplemental Table 1 available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/349469. Optimized PCR conditions, and methods used for subsequent purification, and sequencing of the fragments are available upon request.

2.4. Statistical Analysis of Allele Frequencies and Genotype Distributions

To detect differences in SNP distribution between case and control groups or between disease activity groups, the Chi-Square test or the Fisher’s exact test was used. A value of <0.05 was considered as significant in noncorrected statistical tests and of <0.0023 after correction for multiple testing of 22 variants (according to Bonferroni). Differences in CDAI (Crohn’s disease activity index), mtwsi (modified Truelove Witts severity index), or CRP (C-reactive protein) means in dependency of the genotype were calculated using the Mann-Whitney U test. The statistical analysis was performed using the software package SPSS 19 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL).

2.5. Haplotype and Diplotype Analysis

The FAMHAP software was used to calculate the haplotypes and diplotypes based on the detected SNPs and mutations in the NR1C3 gene and to detect differences in haplotypes and diplotype distributions in case and control groups. FAMHAP performs a permutation test on associations between estimated haplotypes and the affection state based on Monte Carlo simulations. A value of was considered to be significant. Haplotype and diplotype calculations were performed on 256 IBD patients and 148 non-IBD controls, from which all sequence data of adequate quality were obtained. To allow referral to specific haplotypes, a frequency-based priority criterion was used to name haplo- and diplotypes (e.g., H_1 or D_1 for the most often occurring haplotype or diplotype, Table 8).

2.6. Calculation of Linkage Disequilibria

Linkage disequilibria (LD) were calculated using the statistics. Calculations were performed using the software package Haploview (http://www.broadinstitute.org/scientific-community/science/programs/medical-and-population-genetics/haploview/haploview).

3. Results

3.1. NR1C3 Sequence Variability

DNA samples from 284 IBD patients (CD or UC) and 194 healthy controls were initially sequenced for the seven NR1C3 splice variant 2 coding exons including at least 50 bp of the neighbouring intronic sequences. The sequencing results of 256 IBD patients (126 UC and 130 CD patients) and of 148 healthy controls were of adequate quality and complete for all seven exons to be further used in haplotype analyses. Table 1 shows the demographic data of the individuals included into the NR1C3 analysis.

The sequence data were screened for genetic variation in the NR1C3 gene, using the Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST; http://www.ncbi.nih.gov) and the GenBank entry NT_02257.18 as the reference sequence. As shown in Tables 2 and 3, altogether 22 variants were detected, which—with exception of one mutation (one individual was found to be homozygous for variant number 6)—were in Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium. The majority of variants were single-nucleotide substitutions. Only one variant was characterised by a base-pair insertion leading to a frame shift. The majority of variants have not yet been described in the NCBI SNP database. Nine variants were found in exonic regions, 11 variants were found in intronic regions, one variant was detected in the 5′-prime region, and 1 variant was found within the 3′ end of NR1C3. Only two of the detected variants (no. 1 and no. 7, Table 2) lead to nonsynonymous amino acid exchanges within the PPARγ protein. Furthermore, only two variants occurred with an allelic frequency of more than one percent (rs1801282 and rs3856806), thus fulfilling a definition of a genetic polymorphism (Table 3).

The two most often occurring variants rs1801282 and rs3856806 were found to be in moderately strong linkage (Figure 1, , SNP numbers 4 and 19) This finding is in good agreement with previous publications [19–21]. With the exception of two individuals, who were carriers of mutation numbers 18 and 20 or 7 and 10 in combination, no subject ever carried more than one rare NR1C3 variant.

3.2. Distribution of Allele and Genotype Frequencies within IBD Patient and Healthy Control Group

As shown in Table 3, only two variants (rs1801282 and rs3856806) occurred in an allele frequency higher than 1% in IBD and non-IBD control group. No significant differences in allele frequencies were observed.

Table 4 shows the results when comparing the frequency of NR1C3 genotypes carrying distinct genetic variants in heterozygous or homozygous form in IBD patients and non-IBD controls. No significant differences in the distribution of variant carriers were observed. In case of the often occurring SNPs rs1801282 and rs3856806, we investigated also the variant carrier frequency outcome after stratification according to disease subgroup (CD or UC) and different disease activity parameters, such as fistula state, occurrence of extraintestinal manifestations (EIMs) and overall clinical disease activity as evaluated by the disease activity indices CDAI and mtwsi. As demonstrated in Tables 5, 6 and 7, none of the mentioned factors were significantly associated with the occurrence of variants rs1801282 or rs3856806.

Furthermore a comparison of the mean values of leukocyte or CRP concentrations in plasma did not show any significant differences between IBD patients carrying the variant rs1801282 or rs3856806 and non-variant carriers within the patient group (data not shown).

3.3. Haplotype and Diplotype Analysis

The two NR1C3 genetic variants rs1801282 and rs3856806, which occurred in an allele frequency of higher than 1%, were included in the bioinformatic haplotype prediction using the computer programme FAMHAP. For this analysis, all individuals were considered, for which the sequencing outcome of all 22 variant loci was complete. Thus, it was possible to include 256 IBD patients (126 UC and 130 CD patients) and 148 controls. As shown in Table 8, four haplotypes (H1 to H4) were predicted to be in best reconstruction for both cohorts leading to eight different putatively occurring diplotypes (D1 to D8). All haplotypes and five diplotypes were predicted to occur at a frequency higher than 1% in the non-IBD control group.

Neither the overall haplotype nor the overall diplotype pattern varied significantly between the IBD group (or the IBD subgroups) and the control group. The result remained non-significant when investigating a possible relationship between the occurring haplotype or diplotype distribution pattern and disease activity (abundance of EIMs, fistulas, or high activity indices; Tables 9–11).

4. Discussion

PPARγ is an important modulator of pro- and anti-inflammatory signalling cascades involving NF-κB. The importance of PPARγ is underlined by the fact that efficient anti-inflammatory effects can be reached when targeting PPARγ therapeutically. An important example of an anti-inflammatory acting drug, which exerts agonistic effects on PPAR-γ and which is widely used in the therapy of especially UC is 5-aminosalicylic acid (5-ASA) [22].

Former studies, which investigated the impact of a polymorphic expression of PPARγ on diseases characterized by proinflammatory processes, focused specifically only on the analysis of the two commonly occurring NR1C3 SNPs rs1801282 and/or rs3856806. Several investigations showed that these NR1C3 gene variants are putatively associated with a moderately higher risk for the development of lifestyle-associated diseases (e.g., metabolic syndrome, coronary artery disease, and type 2 diabetes) or for colorectal cancer [23–29]. However, these findings were only partly supported in subsequent meta-analyses [30–32].

In the study presented here, we aimed at comprehensively investigating the occurring polymorphisms within the PPARγ gene by sequencing all exonic regions and neighbouring intronic sequences. We analysed the frequency of arising genotypes and haplotypes in a large cohort of IBD patients and non-IBD control subjects and investigated the impact of the observed NR1C3 variants on IBD susceptibility and disease course.

Interestingly, NR1C3 appears to be strongly conserved. Only the two genetic variants rs1801282 and rs3856806, which have already been described in the literature and which are characterized by a moderately strong linkage behaviour, were found to occur in an allelic frequency of >1%. This observation, together with the fact that all other detected NR1C3 gene mutations occurred alone in >99% of all cases and never in combination with other PPARγ gene variants in any individual included in our study, supports the important physiological function of PPARγ, which apparently does not allow a highly polymorphic expression of this protein.

We did not find any significant association of distinct NR1C3 haplotypes with higher IBD susceptibility or with a modified IBD course. A few other studies have hitherto investigated the impact of a polymorphic PPARγ expression on IBD susceptibility. These studies focused mainly on the investigation of the Pro12Ala polymorphism (rs1801282) and its putative influence on UC disease risk. These studies showed heterogeneous results. While [33] observing a significantly higher frequency of homozygous Pro12Ala SNP carriers in UC patients compared to controls in a Danish cohort, Shrestha et al. only observed a putative relationship between a higher UC disease activity and the occurrence of the Pro12Ala variant in a Dutch population, which they could not confirm in a Chinese cohort [34]. A third study focused specifically on the functional impact of the Pro12Ala SNP and showed that this variant appears to be associated with lower PPARγ mRNA levels in diseased mucosa of UC patients. This finding was combined with a higher prevalence of the Ala-variant in UC patients, when compared to CD patients and healthy controls. The latter observation, however, derives from only a relatively small number of individuals (29 UC and 10 CD patients, 134 controls), which were included in the analysis [35]. Two additional small studies did not find any significant impact of the SNP Pro12Ala on disease susceptibility for CD [36] or UC [37]. In the context of the heterogeneous study outcomes published so far, our study rather supports the hypothesis that a polymorphic expression of the PPARγ gene NR1C3 does not significantly influence the IBD risk or the course of the IBD forms, CD and UC.

5. Conclusions

In conclusion, we have performed a comprehensive study analyzing the role of NR1C3 genetic variants in IBD susceptibility and IBD course in a Swiss cohort of IBD patients. We showed that the polymorphic expression of the PPARγ gene is not a general modulating risk factor for IBD.

Abbreviations

IBD:	Inflammatory bowel disease
UC:	Ulcerative colitis
CD:	Crohn’s disease
PPARγ:	Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma
SNP:	Single nucleotide polymorphism
NR1C3:	Nuclear receptor subfamily 1, group C, member 3
EIMs:	Extraintestinal manifestations.
MTWSI:	Modified truelove witts severity index
CDAI:	Crohn’s disease activity index.s

Authors’ Contribution

J. Mwinyi and C. Grete-Wenger contributed equally to this work.

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Christian Hiller for excellent technical assistance, members of our team for fruitful discussions, and the Swiss IBD Cohort Study Group (SIBDCS): Pierluigi Ballabeni, Peter Bauerfeind, Christoph Beglinger, Stefan Begré, José Bengoa, Janek Binek, Daniel Boller, Jan Borovicka, Christian Braegger, Patrick Brun, Patrick Bühr, Bernard Burnand, Rafael Camara, Dominique Criblez, Philippe de Saussure, Lukas Degen, Joakim Delarive, Tobias Ehmann, Matthias Engelmann, Ali El Wafa, Christian Felley, Alain Frei, Remus Frei, Michael Fried, Florian Froehlich, Suzanne Gallot-Lavallée, Tilman Gerlach, Martin Geyer, Marc Girardin, Oliver Goetze, Horst Haack, Serge Hediger, Peter Hengstler, Klaas Heyland, Patrick Janiak, Pascal Juillerat, Vera Kessler Brondolo, Christoph Knoblauch, Gerd A. Kullak-Ublick, Michael Manz, Rémy Meier, Christa Meyenberger, Pierre Michetti, Christian Mottet, Christoph Müller, Beat Müllhaupt, Thierry Nicolet, Andreas Nydegger, Isabelle Pache, Franziska Piccoli, Julia Pilz, Valérie Pittet, Ronald Rentsch, Jean-Pierre Rey, Silvia Rihs, Daniela Rogler, Gerhard Rogler, Markus Sagmeister, Bernhard Sauter, Niklaus Schaub, Susanne Schibli, Alain Schoepfer, Franck Seibold, Johannes Spalinger, Philippe Stadler, Michael Steuerwald, Alex Straumann, Michael Sulz, Michela Schäppi, Joël Thorens, John-Paul Vader, Stephan Vavricka, Jürg Vögtlin, Roland Von Känel, Gert Wachter, Jürg Wermuth, and Paul Wiesel. This study was financially supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation (Grant 320030_120463), the Swiss IBD Cohort Study (SNF Grant 33CSC0-108792), Zurich University Research Priority Programme “Integrative Human Physiology” (ZIHP), the Center of Clinical Research at the University Hospital Zurich, the Novartis Foundation for Biomedical Research, the IBD Research Foundation, and the Olga Mayenfisch Foundation.

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DNA sequences are shown in 5' to 3' direction. F, forward; R, reverse.

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