Generalized atrophic benign epidermolysis bullosa. Either 180-kd bullous pemphigoid antigen or laminin-5 deficiency.
Generalized atrophic benign epidermolysis bullosa. Either 180-kd bullous pemphigoid antigen or laminin-5 deficiency.
复制标题
全身性萎缩性良性大疱性表皮松解症。
作者:
M. Jonkman;M. D. de Jong;K. Heeres;P. Steijlen;K. Owaribe;W. Küster;M. Meurer;T. Gedde;A. Sonnenberg;L. Bruckner
BACKGROUND
Generalized atrophic benign epidermolysis bullosa (GABEB) is a form of nonlethal junctional epidermolysis bullosa, clinically characterized by generalized blistering after birth, atrophic healing, and incomplete universal atrophic alopecia with onset in childhood. Recently, we discovered a deficiency of the 180-kd bullous pemphigoid antigen (BP180) and a reduced amount of BP180 messenger RNA in three patients with GABEB. It is not yet clear, however, whether GABEB is invariably caused by BP180 deficiency.
RESULTS
We examined 18 patients with nonlethal junctional epidermolysis bullosa from unrelated families; nine of these individuals presented with the clinical characteristics of GABEB. Specimens of clinically normal skin obtained from the patients were stained by immunofluorescence with monoclonal antibodies to BP180 and laminin-5. The BP180 epitopes were not expressed in eight patients, all of whom were sharing the typical clinical features of GABEB. In one of the nine patients with GABEB, the BP180 level was sufficient, but the laminin-5 level was reduced. Among the nine patients with junctional epidermolysis bullosa without atrophic alopecia, laminin-5 level was not expressed in one patient, while in the other patients both antigens were normally expressed.
CONCLUSIONS
Not all patients with GABEB are deficient in BP180, since some individuals with GABEB only exhibit reduction of the laminin-5 expression. The BP180 deficiency in the skin invariably seems to result in GABEB. Immunofluorescence analysis using monoclonal antibodies against BP180 (and laminin-5) may allow early subtyping, which is of prognostic significance, in children born with junctional epidermolysis bullosa.
DOI:
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12605904
发表时间:
1995
期刊:
The Journal of investigative dermatology
影响因子:
--
作者:
McGrath,JA;Pulkkinen,L;Christiano,AM;Leigh,IM;Eady,RA;Uitto,J
通讯作者:
Uitto,J
影响因子:
--
作者:
Fine,JD;Horiguchi,Y;Couchman,JR
通讯作者:
Couchman,JR
影响因子:
6.5
作者:
GIUDICE, GJ;EMERY, DJ;DIAZ, LA
通讯作者:
DIAZ, LA