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Title: | A fast procedure for the detection of defects in toll-like receptor signaling | Authors: | Von Bernuth, Horst Ku, Cheng Lung Rodriguez-Gallego, Carlos Zhang, Shenying Garty, Ben Zion Maródi, László Chapel, Helen Chrabieha, Maya Miller, Richard L. Picard, Capucine Puel, Anne Casanova, Jean Laurent |
UNESCO Clasification: | 32 Ciencias médicas 320110 Pediatría |
Keywords: | Flow cytometry Interleukin-1 Signal transduction |
Issue Date: | 2006 | Journal: | Pediatrics | Abstract: | Objectives: Inborn defects in Toll-like receptor signaling are recently described primary immunodeficiencies that predispose affected children to life-threatening infections. Patients with interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-4 deficiency are prone to invasive pneumococcal disease, and patients with UNC-93B deficiency are prone to herpes simplex virus encephalitis. These genetic disorders are underdiagnosed, partly because diagnosis currently requires expensive and time-consuming techniques available at only a few specialized centers worldwide. We, therefore, aimed to develop a cheap and fast test for the detection of defects in Toll-like receptor signaling. Patients and methods: We used flow cytometry to evaluate the cleavage of membrane-bound L-selectin on granulocytes in 38 healthy controls and in 7 patients with genetically defined Toll-like receptor signaling defects (5 patients with interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-4 deficiency and 2 patients with UNC-93B deficiency), on activation with various Toll-like receptor agonists. Results: Impaired L-selectin shedding was observed with granulocytes from all of the interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-4-deficient patients on activation with agonists of Toll-like receptors 1/2, 2/6, 4, 7, and 8 and with granulocytes from all of the UNC-93B-deficient patients on activation with agonists of Toll-like receptors 7 and 8. All of the healthy controls responded to these stimuli. Conclusions: The assessment of membrane-bound L-selectin cleavage on granulocytes by flow cytometry may prove useful for the detection of primary immunodeficiencies in the Toll-like receptor pathway, such as interleukin-1 receptor-associated kinase-4 deficiency and UNC-93B deficiency. This procedure is cheap and rapid. It may, therefore, be suitable for routine testing worldwide in children with invasive pneumococcal disease and in patients with herpes simplex encephalitis. | URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10553/48637 | ISSN: | 0031-4005 | DOI: | 10.1542/peds.2006-1845 | Source: | Pediatrics[ISSN 0031-4005],v. 118, p. 2498-2503 |
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