Exome Sequencing Identifies a NovelMAP3K14Mutation in Recessive Atypical Combined Immunodeficiency. Schlechter, N., Glanzmann, B., Hoal, E. G., Schoeman, M., Petersen, B., Franke, A., Lau, Y., Urban, M., van Helden, P. D., Esser, M. M., Möller, M., & Kinnear, C. Frontiers in Immunology, 8:1624, 2017.
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Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDs) render patients vulnerable to infection with a wide range of microorganisms and thus provide goodin vivomodels for the assessment of immune responses during infectious challenges. Priming of the immune system, especially in infancy, depends on different environmental exposures and medical practices. This may determine the timing and phenotype of clinical appearance of immune deficits as exemplified with early exposure to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination and dissemination in combined immunodeficiencies. Varied phenotype expression poses a challenge to identification of the putative immune deficit. Without the availability of genomic diagnosis and data analysis resources and with limited capacity for functional definition of immune pathways, it is difficult to establish a definitive diagnosis and to decide on appropriate treatment. This study describes the use of exome sequencing to identify a homozygous recessive variant inMAP3K14, NIKVal345Met, in a patient with combined immunodeficiency, disseminated BCG-osis, and paradoxically elevated lymphocytes. Laboratory testing confirmed hypogammaglobulinemia with normal CD19, but failed to confirm a definitive diagnosis for targeted treatment decisions. NIKVal345Metis predicted to be deleterious and pathogenic by twoin silicoprediction tools and is situated in a gene crucial for effective functioning of the non-canonical nuclear factor-kappa B signaling pathway. Functional analysis of NIKVal345Met- versus NIKWT-transfected human embryonic kidney-293T cells showed that this mutation significantly affects the kinase activity of NIK leading to decreased levels of phosphorylated IkappaB kinase-alpha (IKKα), the target of NIK. BCG-stimulated RAW264.7 cells transfected with NIKVal345Met also presented with reduced levels of phosphorylated IKKα, significantly increased p100 levels and significantly decreased p52 levels compared to cells transfected with NIKWT. Ideally, these experiments would have been conducted in patient-derived immune cells, but we were unable to source these cells from the patient. The functional analysis described in this paper supports previous illustrations of the importance of NIK in human immune responses and demonstrates the involvement of function-altering mutations inMAP3K14in PIDs. The genomic approach used for this patient demonstrates its value in the diagnosis of an unusual PID and as a tool for detecting rarer mutations to help guide treatment approaches.
@article{schlechter_exome_2017,
	title = {Exome {Sequencing} {Identifies} a {NovelMAP3K14Mutation} in {Recessive} {Atypical} {Combined} {Immunodeficiency}},
	volume = {8},
	issn = {1664-3224},
	doi = {10.3389/fimmu.2017.01624},
	abstract = {Primary immunodeficiency disorders (PIDs) render patients vulnerable to infection with a wide range of microorganisms and thus provide goodin vivomodels for the assessment of immune responses during infectious challenges. Priming of the immune system, especially in infancy, depends on different environmental exposures and medical practices. This may determine the timing and phenotype of clinical appearance of immune deficits as exemplified with early exposure to Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccination and dissemination in combined immunodeficiencies. Varied phenotype expression poses a challenge to identification of the putative immune deficit. Without the availability of genomic diagnosis and data analysis resources and with limited capacity for functional definition of immune pathways, it is difficult to establish a definitive diagnosis and to decide on appropriate treatment. This study describes the use of exome sequencing to identify a homozygous recessive variant inMAP3K14, NIKVal345Met, in a patient with combined immunodeficiency, disseminated BCG-osis, and paradoxically elevated lymphocytes. Laboratory testing confirmed hypogammaglobulinemia with normal CD19, but failed to confirm a definitive diagnosis for targeted treatment decisions. NIKVal345Metis predicted to be deleterious and pathogenic by twoin silicoprediction tools and is situated in a gene crucial for effective functioning of the non-canonical nuclear factor-kappa B signaling pathway. Functional analysis of NIKVal345Met- versus NIKWT-transfected human embryonic kidney-293T cells showed that this mutation significantly affects the kinase activity of NIK leading to decreased levels of phosphorylated IkappaB kinase-alpha (IKKα), the target of NIK. BCG-stimulated RAW264.7 cells transfected with NIKVal345Met also presented with reduced levels of phosphorylated IKKα, significantly increased p100 levels and significantly decreased p52 levels compared to cells transfected with NIKWT. Ideally, these experiments would have been conducted in patient-derived immune cells, but we were unable to source these cells from the patient. The functional analysis described in this paper supports previous illustrations of the importance of NIK in human immune responses and demonstrates the involvement of function-altering mutations inMAP3K14in PIDs. The genomic approach used for this patient demonstrates its value in the diagnosis of an unusual PID and as a tool for detecting rarer mutations to help guide treatment approaches.},
	language = {eng},
	journal = {Frontiers in Immunology},
	author = {Schlechter, Nikola and Glanzmann, Brigitte and Hoal, Eileen Garner and Schoeman, Mardelle and Petersen, Britt-Sabina and Franke, Andre and Lau, Yu-Lung and Urban, Michael and van Helden, Paul David and Esser, Monika Maria and Möller, Marlo and Kinnear, Craig},
	year = {2017},
	pmid = {29230214},
	pmcid = {PMC5712007},
	keywords = {BCG dissemination, nuclear factor-kappa B-inducing kinase, primary immunodeficiency, tuberculosis, whole exome sequencing},
	pages = {1624},
}

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