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Structural highlights

Disease

[1B27_HUMAN] Defects in HLA-B are a cause of susceptibility to spondyloarthropathy type 1 (SPDA1) [MIM:106300]. It is a chronic rheumatic disease with multifactorial inheritance. It includes a spectrum of related disorders comprising ankylosing spondylitis, a subset of psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis (e.g. Reiter syndrome), arthritis associated with inflammatory bowel disease and undifferentiated spondyloarthropathy. These disorders may occur simultaneously or sequentially in the same patient, probably representing various phenotypic expressions of the same disease. Ankylosing spondylitis is the form of rheumatoid arthritis affecting the spine and is considered the prototype of seronegative spondyloarthropathies. It produces pain and stiffness as a result of inflammation of the sacroiliac, intervertebral, and costovertebral joints. Note=In the Greek Cypriot population, a restricted number of HLA-B27 subtypes are associated with ankylosing spondylitis and other B27-related diseases and an elevated frequency of the B*2702 allele in ankylosing spondylitis patients is identified. The allele B*2707 seems to have a protective role in this population because it was found only in the healthy controls.^[1]

Function

[1B27_HUMAN] Involved in the presentation of foreign antigens to the immune system. [EBNA6_EBVB9] Plays an essential role for the activation and immortalization of human B-cells. Represses transcription of viral promoters TP1 and Cp through interaction with host RBPJ, and inhibits EBNA2-mediated activation of these promoters. Since Cp is the promoter for all EBNA mRNAs, EBNA6 probably contributes to a negative autoregulatory control loop. Alternatively, EBNA6 also regulates the transcription of the EBV oncogene LMP1 in a cell cycle-dependent manner. It modulates the activity of several host proteins involved in cell cycle regulation including host cyclin A, MYC, RB and p27 mainly through binding to the host SCF(SKP2) complex.^[2]

Evolutionary Conservation

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See Also

• Beta-2 microglobulin
• Major histocompatibility complex

References

1. ↑ Varnavidou-Nicolaidou A, Karpasitou K, Georgiou D, Stylianou G, Kokkofitou A, Michalis C, Constantina C, Gregoriadou C, Kyriakides G. HLA-B27 in the Greek Cypriot population: distribution of subtypes in patients with ankylosing spondylitis and other HLA-B27-related diseases. The possible protective role of B*2707. Hum Immunol. 2004 Dec;65(12):1451-4. PMID:15603872 doi:10.1016/j.humimm.2004.08.177
2. ↑ Knight JS, Sharma N, Robertson ES. Epstein-Barr virus latent antigen 3C can mediate the degradation of the retinoblastoma protein through an SCF cellular ubiquitin ligase. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 Dec 20;102(51):18562-6. Epub 2005 Dec 13. PMID:16352731 doi:0503886102
3. ↑ Stewart-Jones GB, di Gleria K, Kollnberger S, McMichael AJ, Jones EY, Bowness P. Crystal structures and KIR3DL1 recognition of three immunodominant viral peptides complexed to HLA-B*2705. Eur J Immunol. 2005 Feb;35(2):341-51. PMID:15657948 doi:10.1002/eji.200425724