Colonic mucosal expression of heat-shock proteins may have a potential prognostic value in ulcerative colitis
Abdel Raouf Abou El Azm1, Mohamed Yousef1, Abdelrahman Kobtan1
1Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Tanta University, Tanta, Egypt.
Background And Study Aims:
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a lifelong, chronic, progressive, and relapsing inflammatory disease. Endoscopy with biopsies is the mainstay in diagnosis and assessment. The development of biomarkers is important for the diagnosis and follow-up of UC. We investigated the expression of molecular chaperones/heat-shock proteins (HSP70 and HSP90) in relation to the grades of inflammation and dysplasia in patients with UC before and after treatment.
Patients And Methods:
A total of 104 naïve patients with UC of varying severity were admitted to the Department of Tropical Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tanta University Hospital. Ten biopsies from the healthy mucosa of patients with irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) served as a control. Disease activity was assessed clinically using the Mayo score system. Endoscopic mucosal biopsies were taken at diagnosis and 6 months after treatment. Histopathological activity was graded for inflammation and dysplasia. Immunohistochemistry was used to determine the percentage of cells positive for HSPs. The results were expressed in a semiquantitative scale.
Results:
The expression of both HSP70 and HSP90 increased in patients with UC at the time of disease activity, and it decreased after treatment and remission. There was a significant correlation between the expression of both proteins and the grades of dysplasia as well as inflammation (P < 0.05). Strong expression of HSPs that persisted after treatment has been associated with cases of true dysplasia.
Conclusions:
The results indicated that HSP70 and HSP90 had the potential for assessment of the activity and prognosis of UC. They can also predict the presence of dysplasia and differentiate it from reactive atypia. Larger studies are needed to confirm this diagnostic and prognostic value of HSPs.
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