Familial NK cell deficiency associated with impaired IL-2- and IL-15-dependent survival of lymphocytes |
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Authors: | Eidenschenk Céline Jouanguy Emmanuelle Alcaïs Alexandre Mention Jean-Jacques Pasquier Benoit Fleckenstein Ingrid M Puel Anne Gineau Laure Carel Jean-Claude Vivier Eric Le Deist Françoise Casanova Jean-Laurent |
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Institution: | Laboratoire de Génétique Humaine des Maladies Infectieuses, Université de Paris René Descartes-INSERM Unité 550, Faculté de Médecine Necker, 156 rue de Vaugirard, 75015 Paris, France, European Union (EU). |
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Abstract: | We previously reported the clinical phenotype of two siblings with a novel inherited developmental and immunodeficiency syndrome consisting of severe intrauterine growth retardation and the impaired development of specific lymphoid lineages, including transient CD8 alphabeta T lymphopenia and a persistent lack of blood NK cells. We describe here the elucidation of a plausible underlying pathogenic mechanism, with a cellular phenotype of impaired survival of both fresh and herpesvirus saimiri-transformed T cells, in the surviving child. Clearly, NK cells could not be studied. However, peripheral blood T lymphocytes displayed excessive apoptosis ex vivo. Moreover, the survival rates of CD4 and CD8 alphabeta T cell blasts generated in vitro, and herpesvirus saimiri-transformed T cells cultured in vitro, were low, but not nil, following treatment with IL-2 and IL-15. In contrast, Fas-mediated activation-induced cell death was not enhanced, indicating a selective excess of cytokine deprivation-mediated apoptosis. In keeping with the known roles of IL-2 and IL-15 in the development of NK and CD8 T cells in the mouse model, these data suggest that an impaired, but not abolished, survival response to IL-2 and IL-15 accounts for the persistent lack of NK cells and the transient CD8 alphabeta T lymphopenia documented in vivo. Impaired cytokine-mediated lymphocyte survival is likely to be the pathogenic mechanism underlying this novel form of inherited and selective NK deficiency in humans. |
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