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Development of autoimmunity in patients with common variable immune deficiency

2013-09-24
(Press-News.org) Common variable immune deficiency (CVID) is a genetic disease associated with enhanced susceptibility to infection, autoimmunity, and decreased antibody production. Mutations in the tumor necrosis factor receptor superfamily member TACI, are associated with CVID and autoimmunity development. Interestingly, autoimmunity develops in CVID patients with only one mutated copy of TACI, and CVID patients with two mutated TACI alleles do not develop autoimmunity. In this issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, Eric Meffre and colleagues at Yale University evaluated B cell activation and tolerance development in healthy individuals and CVID patients with one or two mutated copies of TACI. The authors found that CVID patients with a single altered TACI allele maintained some residual B cell responsiveness that promoted development of autoantibodies, whereas individuals with 2 mutated copies of TACI have complete impairment of B cell responses, which likely prevents autoimmunity. In the companion commentary, Antonia La Cava of the University of California Los Angeles suggests that targeting residual B cell activity in CVID patients that are heterozygous for TACI mutations may provide clinical relief.

INFORMATION:

TITLE: CVID-associated TACI mutations affect autoreactive B cell selection and activation

AUTHOR CONTACT: Eric Meffre
Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA
Phone: 1-203-737-4535; Fax: 1-203-785-7903; E-mail: eric.meffre@yale.edu

View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/69854?key=6b28b9a1ced274a85616

ACCOMPANYING COMMENTARY

TITLE: Common variable immunodeficiency: two mutations are better than one

AUTHOR CONTACT: Antonio La Cava
University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Phone: 310-267-4975; Fax: 310 206-8606; E-mail: alacava@mednet.ucla.edu

View this article at: http://www.jci.org/articles/view/72476?key=89e682357107d9fc0553

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[Press-News.org] Development of autoimmunity in patients with common variable immune deficiency