Impaired NFAT regulation and its role in a severe combined immunodeficiency

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Feske, S
Draeger, R
Peter, HH
Rao, A
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[1] Harvard Univ, Sch Med, Ctr Blood Res, Boston, MA 02115 USA
[2] Univ Freiburg, Dept Med, Div Clin Immunol & Rheumatol, D-7800 Freiburg, Germany
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10.1016/S0171-2985(00)80060-1
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R392 [医学免疫学]; Q939.91 [免疫学];
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Severe Combined Immunodeficiency (SCID) is a primary immunodeficiency affecting T cells, B cells, or both. Whereas the clinical symptoms are uniformly dominated by recurrent infections, the molecular causes for SCID are very heterogeneous. Mutations in cell surface receptors, signal transduction molecules and transcription factors have been described, including the common gamma chain of the IL-2 (and IL-4, IL-7, IL-9 and IL-15) receptors, the kinase JAK-3, the epsilon and gamma chains of CD3, the protein tyrosine kinase ZAP-70, as well as CIITA and RFX5 involved in MHC class II gene expression. In this work we describe two infants with SCID whose T cells display a severe defect in T cell activation and cytokine transcription due to impaired activation of the transcription factor NFAT. We show that this defect in activation is not due to mutations in the NFAT proteins expressed in T cells or the phosphatase calcineurin which regulates the activation of NFAT. However, nuclear import of NFAT in response to T cell activation was severely compromised in the patients' T cells. A modest degree of nuclear translocation of NFAT was achieved in the patients' T cells when nuclear export was inhibited using lithium chloride. This low level of nuclear NFAT in the nucleus was not sufficient to compensate for the defect in cytokine production in the patients' T cells. However, elevated levels of extracellular calcium led to an increase in cytokine gene transcription by the SCID T cells, suggesting that the underlying genetic defect in the patients involved calcium influx or the initiation of calcium signalling.
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