RELATIVE INCREASE OF T-CELLS EXPRESSING THE GAMMA-DELTA RATHER THAN THE ALPHA-BETA RECEPTOR IN ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA
RELATIVE INCREASE OF T-CELLS EXPRESSING THE GAMMA-DELTA RATHER THAN THE ALPHA-BETA RECEPTOR IN ATAXIA TELANGIECTASIA
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DOI:
10.1056/nejm199001113220201
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发表时间:
1990-01-11
影响因子:
158.5
通讯作者:
FIORILLI, M
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作者:
CARBONARI, M;CHERCHI, M;FIORILLI, M
In ataxia-telangiectasia, B-cell and T-cell deficiencies are thought to be due to a defect of rearrangements of immunoglobulin and T-cell receptor genes. T cell recognize antigens through two types of CD3-associated receptors: .alpha.-.beta. chains on mature cells and .gamma./.delta. chains mostly on immature cells. We studied 10 patients with ataxia-telangiectasia and found that most had a relative increase of circulating T cells bearing .gamma./.delta. receptors rather then .alpha./.beta. receptors, as compared with normal subjects (P < 0.001). Patients with other immune deficits, including eight with common variable immunodeficiency, one with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, two with hyperimmunoglobulinemia E syndrome, and one with severe combined immunodeficiency, had normal ratios of .gamma./.delta.-bearing to .alpha./.beta.-bearing cells. A marked predominance of .gamma./.delta.-bearing T cells was found in a patient with a primary T-cell defect. The relative increase in .gamma./.delta.-bearing T cells in the patients with ataxia-telangiectasia was largely accounted for by cells that reacted with the monoclonal antibody BB3, an apparently distinct subset of T cells that selectively express the C .gamma.1 gene product of the T-cell receptor. Although they had normal ratios of .gamma./.delta.-bearing to .alpha./.beta.-bearing T cells, the patients with common variable immunodeficiency had a significant increase (p = 0.01) in the number of T cells expressing C .gamma.2 that reacted with the monoclonal antibody .delta.-TCS-1. We conclude that the increased ratio of .gamma./.delta.-bearing to .alpha./.beta.-bearing T cells in ataxia-telangiectasia may reflect both a recombinational defect that interferes with T-cell and B-cell gene rearrangements and an inability to repair damage to the DNA.