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| Year : 2017 | Volume
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Association of leukotrichia in vitiligo and Asp148Glu polymorphism of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1
A Fatih Aydin1, İkbal Esen Aydıngöz2, Semra Doğru-Abbasoğlu1, Pervin Vural1, Müjdat Uysal1
1 Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
2 Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Acıbadem University, Istanbul, Turkey
| Date of Web Publication | 5-Oct-2017 |
Correspondence Address:
İkbal Esen Aydıngöz
Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Acibadem University, Inonu Caddesi Okur Sokak No: 20, Kozyatağı 34742, Istanbul
Turkey
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DOI: 10.4103/ijt.ijt_4_17
 Abstract | | |
Background: Oxidative stress and increased DNA damage have been implicated in the etiopathogenesis of vitiligo. Oxidative DNA damage is mainly repaired by the base excision repair (BER) pathway. Aim: We sought to determine whether polymorphisms in DNA repair genes may have a role in the pathogenesis of vitiligo. Materials and Methods: We conducted a study including 100 patients with vitiligo and age- and sex-matched 193 control subjects to examine the role of single-nucleotide polymorphisms of BER genes, human 8-oxoG DNA N-glycosylase 1 (codon 326), apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (APE1) (codon 148), and X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (codon 399) as risk factors for vitiligo. These polymorphisms were determined by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction and melting curve analysis. Results: No significant association was observed between the variant alleles of studied genes and vitiligo. Conclusion: However, we showed that the presence of APE1 148Glu variant allele is associated with leukotrichia. This preliminary study suggests that APE1 (codon 148) polymorphism may play a role in vitiligo pathogenesis. Keywords: Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1, DNA repair, gene polymorphism, human 8-oxoguanine DNA N-glycosylase 1, vitiligo, X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1
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Aydin A F, Aydıngöz &E, Doğru-Abbasoğlu S, Vural P, Uysal M. Association of leukotrichia in vitiligo and Asp148Glu polymorphism of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1. Int J Trichol 2017;9:171-6 |
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Aydin A F, Aydıngöz &E, Doğru-Abbasoğlu S, Vural P, Uysal M. Association of leukotrichia in vitiligo and Asp148Glu polymorphism of apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 1. Int J Trichol [serial online] 2017 [cited 2023 Mar 22];9:171-6. Available from: https://www.ijtrichology.com/text.asp?2017/9/4/171/216025 |
| Introduction | |  |
Vitiligo is a progressive depigmentary disorder of skin, resulting in loss of functional melanocytes. Several theories are thought to play a role in this complex process, including autoimmune, cytotoxic metabolites, neural and the genetic theories.[1] Melanin content and synthesis are assumed to be effected by a defective free radical reservoir.[2] Recently, scientific evidences linking oxidative stress and immune system to vitiligo pathogenesis highlight a convergent terminal pathway of oxidative stress–autoimmunity-mediated melanocyte loss.[3] The oxidative stress theory has been studied and incriminated in the etiopathogenesis of vitiligo.[1],[4],[5] Skin, creating an interface between the body and the outside world, is exposed to chemical (heavy metals), physical (ultraviolet radiation), or biological (allergens, microbiological agents) stimuli causing a significant increase in reactive oxygen species (ROS).[6] ROS can also be produced endogenously, primarily through mitochondrial respiration. Furthermore, pigment-forming cells are a potential source of ROS too.[7] In the recent studies, production and accumulation of ROS (i.e., hydrogen peroxide and peroxynitrite) and reduced catalase activity have been shown in the epidermal layer of vitiliginous skin.[4],[8],[9],[10] In addition, an imbalance was found in some important antioxidants, including catalase, glutathione peroxidase, superoxide dismutase, and Vitamin E in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of vitiligo patients, which is correlated with increased intracellular ROS. The latter study shows the presence of systemic oxidative stress in vitiligo.[5]
In cells, DNA is probably the most biologically significant target of oxidative attack by ROS. The lesions induced by ROS on DNA are typically single- and double-strand DNA breaks in apurinic/apyrimidinic (AP) sites or oxidative alteration in DNA bases.[6],[11] Guanine is the most vulnerable DNA base to oxidative stress.[10] Therefore, 8-oxoG can be used as a stable biomarker to detect oxidative DNA damage.[11] Increased 8-oxoG levels have recently been reported in the skin,[10] serum,[10],[12] and in peripheral blood mononuclear cells [5],[13] of patients with vitiligo as compared to controls.
Oxidative DNA damages are mainly repaired by base excision repair (BER) which is a major DNA repair pathway in mammalian cells.[12],[14],[15] In the first step of this pathway, a lesion-specific DNA glycosylase removes the damaged base by hydrolyzing the N-glycosidic bond of the base. In humans, 8-oxoG DNA N-glycosylase 1 (hOGG1) is the the major glycosylase which recognize and excise 8-oxoG. After removing the damaged base, an abasic (AP) site occurs in DNA [14] and this site is incised by AP endonuclease (APE), leaving a single-nucleotide gap. A DNA polymerase fills this gap and a DNA ligase III completes the repair process by sealing the nick.[6],[14] X-ray repair cross-complementing group 1 (XRCC1) is an important scaffold protein that interacts with all these proteins to facilitate efficient repair of DNA damage and coordinate the whole process.[16] Genetic variations in these genes can change BER function and impair DNA damage repair capacity.
There are reports on some oxidative stress-related disorders incriminating DNA repair gene polymorphisms.[17],[18],[19],[20] In the literature, there is only one study showing that APE1 Asp148Glu polymorphism aggravates oxidative stress in human melanocytes and contributes to genetic predisposition to vitiligo in Chinese people.[12] Accordingly, we aimed to investigate the BER gene polymorphisms of three genes; hOGG1 Ser326Cys, APE1 Asp148Glu, and XRCC1 Arg399Gln in the etiopathogenesis of vitiligo.
| Materials and Methods | | |
Patients
A total of 100 vitiligo patients older than 18 years showing any clinical distribution except segmentary type and who were not on systemic or topical therapy were included in the study. Vitiligo was diagnosed on the basis of clinical findings, at the dermatology outpatient clinic. The control group consisted of age- and sex-matched 193 dermatology outpatients who accepted to join the study, with diagnoses of melanocytic nevus, callus, or fibroepithelial polyps that are not known to be associated with oxidative stress or DNA repair system. Additional criteria of no past history of any systemic, infectious, autoimmune, genetic, or atopic disease and a negative family history for vitiligo were also provided. Patients taking any tablet including vitamins were excluded from the study. The study was approved by the Local Ethics Committee and written informed consent was taken from all the participants.
DNA isolation
Genomic DNA was isolated from peripheral blood leukocytes using high pure polymerase chain reaction (PCR) template preparation kit (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany).
Genotyping by fluorescence-based melting curve analysis
Detection of polymorphisms was done by rapid capillary PCR with melting curve analysis using fluorescence-labeled hybridization probes in a LightCycler (Roche Diagnostics GmbH, Mannheim, Germany). Primers and probes were prepared by Metabion International AG (Martinsried, Germany).
Analysis was done in 20 μl volumes using glass capillaries. The PCR mix contained ~50–100 ng of the genomic DNA, 1x LC ™ FastStart DNA Master HybProbe kit (Roche Diagnostics), 0.5 μM of each primer, 0.15 μM of each probe, and 2.5 mM total MgCl2. Reaction conditions were as follows: initial denaturation at 95°C for 10 min then 40 cycles of denaturation at 95°C for 15 s, annealing at 58°C (hOGG1 codon 326) or 56°C (APE/Ref-1 codon 148) or 55°C (XRCC1 codon 399), and elongation at 72°C for 12 s. Melting curve analysis was done with an initial denaturation step at 95°C for 5 s and 20 s at 50°C (45°C for XRCC1 codon 399), slow heating to 75°C with a ramping rate of 0.15°C/s (0.1°C/s for XRCC1 codon 399), and continuous fluorescence detection. Melting curves were converted to melting peaks by plotting the negative derivatives of fluorescence against temperature (−dF/dT). A negative control containing all reagents but water instead of the DNA template was included to each amplification set. Melting curves were evaluated by two independent observers who were blinded to the analysis of the clinical data. In addition, 10% of randomly selected samples were repeated independently to verify genotyping results and 100% concordance was found.
Statistical analysis
Differences in genotype distributions and allele frequencies in the cases and the controls were compared for statistical significance using the Chi-square (χ2) test. The statistical significance for deviations from Hardy–Weinberg Equilibrium (HWE) was determined using the Pearson χ2-test. Odds ratios were calculated and given with 95% confidence intervals. The wild-type genotype/allele served as a reference category. Comparison of individual clinical variables between genotypes was assessed with χ2-test. Statistical analyses were performed with SPSS version 11.0 for Windows (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA). In addition, the NCSS 2000 statistical package was used to evaluate the power analysis.
| Results | | |
A total of 293 subjects (100 vitiligo and 193 controls) were included in this case–control study. [Table 1] depicts the clinical characteristics of the vitiligo patients including clinical type of the disease, duration, family history, leukotrichia, stability within 1 year, and associated diseases. The mean age was 35.6 ± 9.6 years (100 female and 93 male, range 18–72 years) for controls. There was no significant difference among the study and control groups in terms of mean age and sex distribution (P = 0.061 and P= 0.435, respectively). We had an 87.5% power to detect an effect size (W) of 0.20 using a 2 degrees of freedom (α = 0.05).
The genotypic and allelic distributions of the polymorphisms in hOGG1, APE1, and XRCC1 genes in the patients and controls are shown in [Table 2]. The distributions of the hOGG1 codon 326, APE/Ref-1 codon 148, and XRCC1 codon 399 genotypes were in accordance with the HWE among the controls (P = 0.77, P= 0.61 and P= 0.76, respectively) and the patients with vitiligo (P = 0.56, P= 0.95 and P= 0.85, respectively) The variant allele frequencies found in the control group were consistent with our previous studies.[17],[21],[22],[23] A relation between these polymorphisms and the clinical features of vitiligo patients (type of the disease, duration/age of onset, family history, leukotrichia, stability within 1 year and associated diseases) was also analyzed. Among these parameters, only leukotrichia was found to be related with the Asp148Glu variant allele of APE1 polymorphism [Table 3]. | Table 2: Distribution of genotypes and allele frequencies in patients with vitiligo (n=100) and control group (n=193)
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 | Table 3: Distribution of apyrimidinic endonuclease 1 (Asp148Glu) genotypes and allele frequencies in patients with vitiligo with and without leukotrichia
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| Discussion | | |
The BER pathway is the most important cellular protection mechanism responding to oxidative DNA damage, and hOGG1 is a key enzyme removing damaged bases by cleavage of the N-glycosylic bonds between the bases and the deoxyribose moieties. Previous studies have revealed the presence of several polymorphisms in the gene encoding hOGG1 protein. Of these, Ser326Cys is the most common polymorphism and has attracted widespread attention.[17] In this polymorphism, the C to G substitution occurs at position 1245 in exon 7 of hOGG1 gene, resulting in an amino acid substitution of serine with cysteine in codon 326. It has been found that hOGG1 Ser326Cys polymorphism is associated with a reduced capacity to repair oxidative DNA damage.[21],[22] Although some studies have shown conflicting results.[23] Moreover, there are some epidemiological studies showing increased risk of disease in the presence of this polymorphism.[16],[17],[19] Contrary to the findings of increased 8-oxoG levels in vitiligo and the role of hOGG1 in removal of 8-oxoG, we did not find any association between allele or genotype frequencies of the hOGG1 Ser326Cys variant and the risk for vitiligo.
APE1 is another essential enzyme in BER pathway which incises AP site, in the DNA by hydrolyzing the phosphodiester backbone.[16] The Asp148Glu polymorphism of APE1 gene predicts an amino acid change from aspartic acid to glutamic acid change at amino acid 148 of APE1 protein. Wei et al. investigated APE1 Asp148Glu polymorphism as a candidate risk factor for vitiligo in a Han Chinese population.[12] They found that 148Glu variant genotypes (Asp/Glu heterozygotes and Glu/Glu variant genotype) were associated with a slight increased risk (1.24- and 1.48-fold, respectively) of vitiligo compared with the wild type genotype (Asp/Asp). This association was more pronounced in the subgroup of nonsegmental, male, active vitiligo patients with an age of onset after 20 years.[12] Furthermore, in cultured human melanocytes, 8-oxoG levels were found to be increased in patients carrying APE1-148Glu variant. Consequently, the authors suggested that APE1 polymorphisms may increase oxidative DNA damage of human melanocytes and affect the risk of vitiligo in the described subgroup of their study population.[12] However, our study did not show a direct significant association of this polymorphism and vitiligo. We carried out a detailed investigation of the associations, if any, between APE1 polymorphisms and subgroups of vitiligo patients with different clinical characteristics. Within this frame type of the vitiligo, age of onset, duration of the disease, family history, stability within 1 year, presence of leukotrichia, and presence of associated diseases were evaluated. We found out that the presence of APE1 148Glu variant allele was related only with leukotrichia.
This is the first study showing APE1 148Glu variant allele is associated with leukotrichia. Leukotrichia is defined as the presence of a localized patch of white hair and has been reported in 9%–45% of vitiligo patients.[24] Leucotrichia can follow or precede depigmentation of surrounding epidermis. It is caused by loss of hair melanocytes found deep in the proximal anagen hair bulb. Vitiliginous areas with overlying leukotrichia usually fail to achieve repigmentation by conventional medical treatments. Thus, leukotrichia is known to be a poor prognostic sign. Actually, hair bulb is an immune priviledged site and its involvement may be a sign of severe damage. Therapy resistance may be the result of deficient melanocyte reservoir or repair difficulties in this location. Follicular pigmentation is controlled by different intrinsic and extrinsic factors. Since oxidative stress is a well-known factor in the destruction of follicular melanocytes, it is assumed that BER mechanisms should be working in this process. The functional significance of 148 Glu variant of APE1 protein has not been elucidated. Previously, it was suggested that genetic variants of APE1 may cause reduced or missed enzymatic activity leading to inadequate repair. Recently, altered endoribonuclease activity of APE1 variants has been identified in the human population.[25] With reference to what is known, we think APE1 polymorphism may contribute severe oxidative damage of melanocytes by lack of repair.
XRCC1 is an important platform protein participating in the BER pathway, which is recruited to the site of repair till the last stage of ligation. It regulates and coordinates the whole process by interacting with DNA ligase and certain polymerases.[26],[27] XRCC1 also facilitates exchange of DNA glycosylase with APE1 at the damaged substrate. Although over 300 polymorphisms have been described in XRCC1 gene, the Arg399Gln has been the most extensively studied. The G → A substitution in codon 399 of exon 10 in XRCC1 gene alter amino acid sequence of XRCC1 protein from arginine to glutamine. This alteration may affect the capacity to undergo DNA repair and produces significant conformational changes in the XRCC1 protein, including the loss of secondary structural features that may be critical for protein–protein interactions in BER.[28] XRCC1-codon 399, the variant allele has been suggested to be associated with increased DNA damage in lymphocytes,[29] mononuclear cells,[30] and leukocytes.[31] It has been found to be likely that an impaired DNA damage may induce an autoimmune response in susceptible individuals. In our previous research, we have studied XRCC1 gene polymorphisms as a candidate risk factor for various disease.[17],[18],[32],[33],[34] However, in this study, there was no significant association between XRCC1 Arg399Gln polymorphism and the risk of vitiligo. Similarly, Wei et al. did not detect any significant association of this polymorphism in their study group of Chinese vitiligo patients.[12]
This study has some limitations. Although we are aware of the preference of larger sample size, we were obliged to work on a relatively small number of subjects due to budget restrictions.
| Conclusion | | |
APE1 polymorphism has been found to be associated with leukotrichia in our study group of vitiligo patients. The preliminary results of this study may prove to be valuable in understanding possible underlying mechanisms and the therapy resistance in this subset of patients. Furthermore, it may help develop treatments targeting DNA repair pathways besides surgical procedures. Finally, we admit the need for controlling these findings with larger and population-based studies on various geographic areas and with different genetic backgrounds.
Financial support and sponsorship
This study was supported by the Research Fund of the Turkish Dermatological Society.
Conflicts of interest
There are no conflicts of interest.
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