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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6837
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-5-31
pubmed:abstractText
Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, the two main types of chronic inflammatory bowel disease, are multifactorial conditions of unknown aetiology. A susceptibility locus for Crohn's disease has been mapped to chromosome 16. Here we have used a positional-cloning strategy, based on linkage analysis followed by linkage disequilibrium mapping, to identify three independent associations for Crohn's disease: a frameshift variant and two missense variants of NOD2, encoding a member of the Apaf-1/Ced-4 superfamily of apoptosis regulators that is expressed in monocytes. These NOD2 variants alter the structure of either the leucine-rich repeat domain of the protein or the adjacent region. NOD2 activates nuclear factor NF-kB; this activating function is regulated by the carboxy-terminal leucine-rich repeat domain, which has an inhibitory role and also acts as an intracellular receptor for components of microbial pathogens. These observations suggest that the NOD2 gene product confers susceptibility to Crohn's disease by altering the recognition of these components and/or by over-activating NF-kB in monocytes, thus documenting a molecular model for the pathogenic mechanism of Crohn's disease that can now be further investigated.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
31
pubmed:volume
411
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
599-603
pubmed:dateRevised
2010-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Alleles, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Carrier Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Chromosomes, Human, Pair 16, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Cloning, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Colitis, Ulcerative, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Crohn Disease, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Gene Frequency, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Genetic Linkage, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Genetic Predisposition to Disease, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Genetic Variation, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Genotype, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Intracellular Signaling Peptides and Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Leucine, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-NF-kappa B, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Nod2 Signaling Adaptor Protein, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11385576-Signal Transduction
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Association of NOD2 leucine-rich repeat variants with susceptibility to Crohn's disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Fondation Jean Dausset CEPH, 27 rue J. Dodu 75010 Paris, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't