Analysis of the CDR3 region of the rearranged IgH chain genes in patients with severe combined immunodeficiency and severe lymphopenia
| Autor: | Y Minegishi, K Akagi, K Nishikawa, H Okawa, J Yata |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
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| Zdroj: | The Journal of Immunology. 156:4666-4671 |
| ISSN: | 1550-6606 0022-1767 |
| DOI: | 10.4049/jimmunol.156.12.4666 |
| Popis: | Human B cell-negative severe combined immunodeficiency (B-SCID) is a primary immunodeficiency disease characterized by both T and B lymphocytopenia and agammaglobulinemia. Although lymphocytes of B-SCID patients express defective recombinase activity and rarely succeed in making Ag receptors, the molecular defect of the human B-SCID remains to be identified. To gain more insight into the human B-SCID defect and its effect on the Ab repertoire, we examined the Ig heavy (H) chain genes of the peripheral blood leaky B cells from three B-SCID patients. Although the number of B cells in their peripheral blood was very limited, we could obtain 41 productive VDJ recombinations from the 58 joints. The recombinations showed a grossly altered pattern characterized by short N nucleotides, short deleted nucleotides from 5' JH segments, immature JH and D segment utilization, absence of VDDJ recombination, and all but one JH segment equal to germline JH segments. Therefore, Ab repertoire of IgH chain gene in human B-SCID was limited because of restricted junctional and combinatorial diversity and few somatic mutations. Furthermore, unusually long P nucleotides were inserted in junctional sequences, which might indicate that resolution of hairpin is impaired in human B-SCID as in the murine SCID. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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