TY - JOUR
T1 - X-linked primary immunodeficiency associated with hemizygous mutations in the moesin (MSN) gene
AU - Lagresle-Peyrou, Chantal
AU - Luce, Sonia
AU - Ouchani, Farid
AU - Soheili, Tayebeh Shabi
AU - Sadek, Hanem
AU - Chouteau, Myriam
AU - Durand, Amandine
AU - Pic, Isabelle
AU - Majewski, Jacek
AU - Brouzes, Chantal
AU - Lambert, Nathalie
AU - Bohineust, Armelle
AU - Verhoeyen, Els
AU - Cosset, François-Loïc
AU - Magerus-Chatinet, Aude
AU - Rieux-Laucat, Frédéric
AU - Gandemer, Virginie
AU - Monnier, Delphine
AU - Heijmans, Catherine
AU - van Gijn, Marielle
AU - Dalm, Virgil A
AU - Mahlaoui, Nizar
AU - Stephan, Jean-Louis
AU - Picard, Capucine
AU - Durandy, Anne
AU - Kracker, Sven
AU - Hivroz, Claire
AU - Jabado, Nada
AU - de Saint Basile, Geneviève
AU - Fischer, Alain
AU - Cavazzana, Marina
AU - André-Schmutz, Isabelle
N1 - Copyright © 2016 American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/12
Y1 - 2016/12
N2 - BACKGROUND: We investigated 7 male patients (from 5 different families) presenting with profound lymphopenia, hypogammaglobulinemia, fluctuating monocytopenia and neutropenia, a poor immune response to vaccine antigens, and increased susceptibility to bacterial and varicella zoster virus infections.OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize the genetic defect involved in a new form of X-linked immunodeficiency.METHODS: We performed genetic analyses and an exhaustive phenotypic and functional characterization of the lymphocyte compartment.RESULTS: We observed hemizygous mutations in the moesin (MSN) gene (located on the X chromosome and coding for MSN) in all 7 patients. Six of the latter had the same missense mutation, which led to an amino acid substitution (R171W) in the MSN four-point-one, ezrin, radixin, moesin domain. The seventh patient had a nonsense mutation leading to a premature stop codon mutation (R533X). The naive T-cell counts were particularly low for age, and most CD8(+) T cells expressed the senescence marker CD57. This phenotype was associated with impaired T-cell proliferation, which was rescued by expression of wild-type MSN. MSN-deficient T cells also displayed poor chemokine receptor expression, increased adhesion molecule expression, and altered migration and adhesion capacities.CONCLUSION: Our observations establish a causal link between an ezrin-radixin-moesin protein mutation and a primary immunodeficiency that could be referred to as X-linked moesin-associated immunodeficiency.
AB - BACKGROUND: We investigated 7 male patients (from 5 different families) presenting with profound lymphopenia, hypogammaglobulinemia, fluctuating monocytopenia and neutropenia, a poor immune response to vaccine antigens, and increased susceptibility to bacterial and varicella zoster virus infections.OBJECTIVE: We sought to characterize the genetic defect involved in a new form of X-linked immunodeficiency.METHODS: We performed genetic analyses and an exhaustive phenotypic and functional characterization of the lymphocyte compartment.RESULTS: We observed hemizygous mutations in the moesin (MSN) gene (located on the X chromosome and coding for MSN) in all 7 patients. Six of the latter had the same missense mutation, which led to an amino acid substitution (R171W) in the MSN four-point-one, ezrin, radixin, moesin domain. The seventh patient had a nonsense mutation leading to a premature stop codon mutation (R533X). The naive T-cell counts were particularly low for age, and most CD8(+) T cells expressed the senescence marker CD57. This phenotype was associated with impaired T-cell proliferation, which was rescued by expression of wild-type MSN. MSN-deficient T cells also displayed poor chemokine receptor expression, increased adhesion molecule expression, and altered migration and adhesion capacities.CONCLUSION: Our observations establish a causal link between an ezrin-radixin-moesin protein mutation and a primary immunodeficiency that could be referred to as X-linked moesin-associated immunodeficiency.
KW - Leukopenia
KW - primary immunodeficiency
KW - moesin
KW - ezrin-radixin-moesin protein
KW - adhesion
KW - migration
U2 - 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.04.032
DO - 10.1016/j.jaci.2016.04.032
M3 - Article
C2 - 27405666
SN - 0091-6749
VL - 138
SP - 1681–1689.e8
JO - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
JF - Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology
IS - 6
ER -