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The Journal of Immunology, 2006, 176: 6055-6064.
Copyright © 2006 by The American Association of Immunologists

Advanced Intercross Line Mapping of Eae5 Reveals Ncf-1 and CLDN4 as Candidate Genes for Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis1

Kristina Becanovic2,*, Maja Jagodic*, Jian Rong Sheng*, Ingrid Dahlman*, Fahmy Aboul-Enein{dagger}, Erik Wallstrom*, Peter Olofsson{ddagger}, Rikard Holmdahl{ddagger}, Hans Lassmann{dagger} and Tomas Olsson*

* Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Neuroimmunology Unit, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.; {dagger} Brain Research Institute, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; {ddagger} Section for Medical Inflammation Research, Biomedical Center, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Eae5 in rats was originally identified in two F2 intercrosses, (DA x BN) and (E3 x DA), displaying linkage to CNS inflammation and disease severity in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE), respectively. This region overlaps with an arthritis locus, Pia4, which was also identified in the (E3 x DA) cross. Two congenic strains, BN.DA-Eae5 and BN.DA-Eae5.R1, encompassing the previously described Eae5 and Pia4, were established. DA alleles within the chromosome 12 fragment conferred an increase in disease susceptibility as well as increased inflammation and demyelination in the CNS as compared with BN alleles. To enable a more precise fine mapping of EAE regulatory genes, we used a rat advanced intercross line between the EAE-susceptible DA strain and the EAE-resistant PVG.1AV1 strain. Linkage analysis performed in the advanced intercross line considerably narrowed down the myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein-EAE regulatory locus (Eae5) to a ~1.3-megabase region with a defined number of candidate genes. In this study we demonstrate a regulatory effect of Eae5 on MOG-EAE by using both congenic strains as well as fine mapping these effects to a region containing Ncf-1, a gene associated with arthritis. In addition to structural polymorphisms in Ncf-1, both sequence polymorphisms and expression differences were identified in CLDN4. CLDN4 is a tight junction protein involved in blood-brain barrier integrity. In conclusion, our data strongly suggests Ncf-1 to be a gene shared between two organ-specific inflammatory diseases with a possible contribution by CLDN4 in encephalomyelitis.




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