TY  - JOUR
A1  - Sánchez-Maldonado, Jose Manuel
A1  - Moñiz-Díez, Ana
A1  - ter Horst, Rob
A1  - Campa, Daniele
A1  - Cabrera-Serrano, Antonio José
A1  - Martínez-Bueno, Manuel
A1  - Garrido-Collado, María del Pilar
A1  - Hernández-Mohedo, Francisca
A1  - Fernández-Puerta, Laura
A1  - López-Nevot, Miguel Ángel
A1  - Cunha, Cristina
A1  - González-Sierra, Pedro Antonio
A1  - Springer, Jan
A1  - Lackner, Michaela
A1  - Alcazar-Fuoli, Laura
A1  - Fianchi, Luana
A1  - Aguado, José María
A1  - Pagano, Livio
A1  - López-Fernández, Elisa
A1  - Clavero, Esther
A1  - Potenza, Leonardo
A1  - Luppi, Mario
A1  - Moratalla, Lucia
A1  - Solano, Carlos
A1  - Sampedro, Antonio
A1  - Cuenca-Estrella, Manuel
A1  - Lass-Flörl, Cornelia
A1  - Canzian, Federico
A1  - Loeffler, Juergen
A1  - Li, Yang
A1  - Einsele, Hermann
A1  - Netea, Mihai G.
A1  - Vázquez, Lourdes
A1  - Carvalho, Agostinho
A1  - Jurado, Manuel
A1  - Sainz, Juan
T1  - Polymorphisms within the TNFSF4 and MAPKAPK2 loci influence the risk of developing invasive aspergillosis: a two-stage case control study in the context of the aspBIOmics consortium
JF  - Journal of Fungi
N2  - Here, we assessed whether 36 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) within the TNFSF4 and MAPKAPK2 loci influence the risk of developing invasive aspergillosis (IA). We conducted a two-stage case control study including 911 high-risk patients diagnosed with hematological malignancies that were ascertained through the aspBIOmics consortium. The meta-analysis of the discovery and replication populations revealed that carriers of the TNFSF4\(_{rs7526628T/T}\) genotype had a significantly increased risk of developing IA (p = 0.00022). We also found that carriers of the TNFSF4\(_{rs7526628T}\) allele showed decreased serum levels of TNFSF14 protein (p = 0.0027), and that their macrophages had a decreased fungicidal activity (p = 0.048). In addition, we observed that each copy of the MAPKAPK2\(_{rs12137965G}\) allele increased the risk of IA by 60% (p = 0.0017), whereas each copy of the MAPKAPK2\(_{rs17013271T}\) allele was estimated to decrease the risk of developing the disease (p = 0.0029). Mechanistically, we found that carriers of the risk MAPKAPK2\(_{rs12137965G}\) allele showed increased numbers of CD38+IgM-IgD- plasmablasts in blood (p = 0.00086), whereas those harboring two copies of the allele had decreased serum concentrations of thymic stromal lymphopoietin (p = 0.00097). Finally, we also found that carriers of the protective MAPKAPK2\(_{rs17013271T}\) allele had decreased numbers of CD27-IgM-IgD- B cells (p = 0.00087) and significantly lower numbers of CD14+ and CD14+CD16- cells (p = 0.00018 and 0.00023). Altogether, these results suggest a role of the TNFSF4 and MAPKAPK2 genes in determining IA risk.
KW  - invasive aspergillosis
KW  - TNFSF4
KW  - MAPKAPK2
KW  - genetic susceptibility
KW  - B cells
KW  - monocytes
KW  - serum biomarkers
KW  - TSLP
KW  - TNFSF14
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-220107
SN  - 2309-608X
VL  - 7
IS  - 1
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Lupiañez, Carmen B.
A1  - Villaescusa, Maria T.
A1  - Carvalho, Agostinho
A1  - Springer, Jan
A1  - Lackner, Michaela
A1  - Sánchez-Maldonado, José M.
A1  - Canet, Luz M.
A1  - Cunha, Cristina
A1  - Segura-Catena, Joana
A1  - Alcazar-Fuoli, Laura
A1  - Solano, Carlos
A1  - Fianchi, Luana
A1  - Pagano, Livio
A1  - Potenza, Leonardo
A1  - Aguado, José M.
A1  - Luppi, Mario
A1  - Cuenca-Estrella, Manuel
A1  - Lass-Flörl, Cornelia
A1  - Einsele, Hermann
A1  - Vázquez, Lourdes
A1  - Ríos-Tamayo, Rafael
A1  - Loeffler, Jürgen
A1  - Jurado, Manuel
A1  - Sainz, Juan
T1  - Common Genetic Polymorphisms within NF kappa B-Related Genes and the Risk of Developing Invasive Aspergillosis
JF  - Frontiers in Microbiology
N2  - Invasive Aspergillosis (IA) is an opportunistic infection caused by Aspergillus, a ubiquitously present airborne pathogenic mold. A growing number of studies suggest a major host genetic component in disease susceptibility. Here, we evaluated whether 14 single-nucleotide polymorphisms within NFκB1, NFκB2, RelA, RelB, Rel, and IRF4 genes influence the risk of IA in a population of 834 high-risk patients (157 IA and 677 non-IA) recruited through a collaborative effort involving the aspBIOmics consortium and four European clinical institutions. No significant overall associations between selected SNPs and the risk of IA were found in this large cohort. Although a hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT)-stratified analysis revealed that carriers of the IRF4rs12203592T/T genotype had a six-fold increased risk of developing the infection when compared with those carrying the C allele (ORREC = 6.24, 95%CI 1.25–31.2, P = 0.026), the association of this variant with IA risk did not reach significance at experiment-wide significant threshold. In addition, we found an association of the IRF4AATC and IRF4GGTC haplotypes (not including the IRF4rs12203592T risk allele) with a decreased risk of IA but the magnitude of the association was similar to the one observed in the single-SNP analysis, which indicated that the haplotypic effect on IA risk was likely due to the IRF4rs12203592 SNP. Finally, no evidence of significant interactions among the genetic markers tested and the risk of IA was found. These results suggest that the SNPs on the studied genes do not have a clinically relevant impact on the risk of developing IA.
KW  - Invasive Aspergillosis
KW  - genetic polymorphisms
KW  - susceptibility
KW  - NFkB-relatedgenes
KW  - interaction
Y1  - 2016
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-165209
VL  - 7
IS  - 1243
ER  -