Arrested rearrangement of TCR V beta genes in thymocytes from children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1994 Jul 1;153(1):442-8.

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Arrested rearrangement of TCR V beta genes in thymocytes from children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease

J W Sleasman et al. J Immunol. 1994.

Abstract

Human X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease (SCID) is an immunodeficiency disorder in which T cell development is arrested in the thymic cortex. B lymphocytes in children with X-linked SCID seem to differentiate normally. X-linked SCID is associated with a mutation in the gene that encodes the IL-2R gamma-chain. Because TCR-beta gene recombination is a pivotal initial event in T lymphocyte ontogeny within the thymus, we hypothesized that a failure to express normal IL-2R gamma could lead to impaired TCR-beta gene recombination in early thymic development. PCR was used to determine the status of TCR-beta gene-segment rearrangements in thymic DNA that had been obtained from children with X-linked SCID. The initial step in TCR-beta gene rearrangement, that of D beta to J beta recombination, was readily detected in all thymus samples from children with X-linked SCID; in contrast, V beta to DJ beta gene rearrangements were undetectable in the same samples. Both D beta to J beta and V beta to DJ beta TCR genes were rearranged in the thymic tissues obtained from immunologically normal children. We conclude that TCR beta-chain gene rearrangement is arrested in children with X-linked SCID. Our results suggest a causative relationship between the failure of TCR beta-chain gene rearrangements to proceed beyond DJ beta rearrangements and the production of a nonfunctional IL-2R gamma-chain.

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Arrested rearrangement of TCR V beta genes in thymocytes from children with X-linked severe combined immunodeficiency disease - PubMed (original) (raw)