The Role of Osteopontin (OPN/SPP1) Haplotypes in the Susceptibility to Crohn's Disease

Osteopontin represents a multifunctional molecule playing a pivotal role in chronic inflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Its expression is increased in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). The aim of our study was to analyze the association of osteopontin (OPN/SPP1) gene variants in a large cohort of IBD patients. Genomic DNA from 2819 Caucasian individuals (n = 841 patients with Crohn's disease (CD), n = 473 patients with ulcerative colitis (UC), and n = 1505 healthy unrelated controls) was analyzed for nine OPN SNPs (rs2728127, rs2853744, rs11730582, rs11739060, rs28357094, rs4754 = p.Asp80Asp, rs1126616 = p.Ala236Ala, rs1126772 and rs9138). Considering the important role of osteopontin in Th17-mediated diseases, we performed analysis for epistasis with IBD-associated IL23R variants and analyzed serum levels of the Th17 cytokine IL-22. For four OPN SNPs (rs4754, rs1126616, rs1126772 and rs9138), we observed significantly different distributions between male and female CD patients. rs4754 was protective in male CD patients (p = 0.0004, OR = 0.69). None of the other investigated OPN SNPs was associated with CD or UC susceptibility. However, several OPN haplotypes showed significant associations with CD susceptibility. The strongest association was found for a haplotype consisting of the 8 OPN SNPs rs2728127-rs2853744-rs11730582-rs11439060-rs28357094-rs112661-rs1126772-rs9138 (omnibus p-value = 2.07×10⁻⁸). Overall, the mean IL-22 secretion in the combined group of OPN minor allele carriers with CD was significantly lower than that of CD patients with OPN wildtype alleles (p = 3.66×10⁻⁵). There was evidence for weak epistasis between the OPN SNP rs28357094 with the IL23R SNP rs10489629 (p = 4.18×10⁻²) and between OPN SNP rs1126616 and IL23R SNP rs2201841 (p = 4.18×10⁻²) but none of these associations remained significant after Bonferroni correction. Our study identified OPN haplotypes as modifiers of CD susceptibility, while the combined effects of certain OPN variants may modulate IL-22 secretion

Synthesis of five-coordinate manganese(I) carbonyl complex [(CO)3Mn (-S,-Se-C6H3-4-Me)]-: influences of non-innocent ligand to the structure, reactivity and electrochemical property

[[abstract]]Oxidative addition of Br2 to [Mn(CO)5]− leads to the formation of [(CO)4MnBr], followed by the ligand exchange of bromide to [S,Se-C6H3-4-Me]22− to form complex (CO)3Mn (µ-ŋ4-SC6H3-4-(CH3)Se-SeC6H3-4-(CH3)S)Mn(CO)3 (1). A new five-coordinate complex [(CO)3Mn(-S,-Se-C6H3-4-CH3)]− (2) can be synthesized through two different routes: (a) oxidative addition of diselenide [HS,Se-C6H3-4-Me]2 to the [Mn(CO)5]− followed by deprotonation and ligand dissociation to generate complex 2; (b) reduction of diselenide bonds of complex 1 by [BH4]− to produce 2. Drop-wise addition of HBF4·OEt2 at 0 °C results in the formation of complex 1. The X-ray analysis shows that complex 2 has relative short Mn–Se and Mn–S bond distances compare to the published structures of cis-[(CO)4Mn(EPh)2]− (E = S and Se; Liaw et al. in J. Chin. Chem. Soc. 43:427–431, 1996; Liaw et al. in Inorg. Chem. 35:2530, 1996). Interestingly, exposure of the coordinated unsaturated complex 2 under CO(g) atmosphere resulted in complex cis-[(CO)4Mn(-S,-Se-C6H3-4-Me)]− (3) being formed. After purging the solution of complex 3 with N2, it was reconverted completely back to complex 2; this observation was characterized by FTIR. The cyclic voltammetry scan of complex 2 shows a quasi-reversible redox couple with E1/2 = −1.94 V and Ipa/Ipc = 0.68. Ligand [HS, Se-C6H3-4-CH3]2 and complexes 1 and 2 are all characterized by IR, UV–Vis, NMR, EA and X-ray single crystal diffraction.[[notice]]補正完