Homeostatic expansion of autoreactive immunoglobulin-secreting cells in the Rag2 mouse model of Omenn syndrome
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Cassani, Barbara
Fondazione Humanitas per la Ricerca, 20089 Rozzano, Italy
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Poliani, Pietro Luigi
Department of Pathology, University of Brescia, 25100 Brescia, Italy
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Marrella, Veronica
Italian National Research Council (CNR)-Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche, 20090 Milan, Italy - Istituto Clinico Humanitas, 20089 Rozzano, Italy
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Schena, Francesca
Laboratory of Immunology and Rheumatic Disease, IGG, 16147 Genoa, Italy
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Sauer, Aisha V.
San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (HSR-TIGET), 20132 Milan, Italy
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Ravanini, Maria
Department of Pathology, University of Brescia, 25100 Brescia, Italy
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Strina, Dario
Italian National Research Council (CNR)-Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche, 20090 Milan, Italy - Istituto Clinico Humanitas, 20089 Rozzano, Italy
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Busse, Christian E.
Max Planck Research Group Molecular Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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Regenass, Stephan
Division of Clinical Immunology, University Hospital Zürich, Zürich CH 8091, Switzerland
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Wardemann, Hedda
Max Planck Research Group Molecular Immunology, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, D-10117 Berlin, Germany
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Martini, Alberto
Laboratory of Immunology and Rheumatic Disease, IGG, 16147 Genoa, Italy
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Facchetti, Fabio
Department of Pathology, University of Brescia, 25100 Brescia, Italy
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Burg, Mirjam van der
Department of Immunology, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, 3015 GE Rotterdam, Netherlands
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Rolink, Antonius G.
Department of Biomedicine, University of Basel, 4031 Basel, Switzerland
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Vezzoni, Paolo
Italian National Research Council (CNR)-Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche, 20090 Milan, Italy - Istituto Clinico Humanitas, 20089 Rozzano, Italy
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Grassi, Fabio
Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB), Faculty of Biomedical Sciences, Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland - Dipartimento di Biologia e Genetica per le Scienze Mediche, Università’ degli Studi di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
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Traggiai, Elisabetta
Laboratory of Immunology and Rheumatic Disease, IGG, 16147 Genoa, Italy
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Villa, Anna
Italian National Research Council (CNR)-Istituto Tecnologie Biomediche, 20090 Milan, Italy - San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy (HSR-TIGET), 20132 Milan, Italy
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- Journal of experimental medicine. - 2010, vol. 207, no. 7, p. 1525-1540
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Hypomorphic RAG mutations, leading to limited V(D)J rearrangements, cause Omenn syndrome (OS), a peculiar severe combined immunodeficiency associated with autoimmune-like manifestations. Whether B cells play a role in OS pathogenesis is so far unexplored. Here we report the detection of plasma cells in lymphoid organs of OS patients, in which circulating B cells are undetectable. Hypomorphic Rag2R229Q knock-in mice, which recapitulate OS, revealed, beyond severe B cell developmental arrest, a normal or even enlarged compartment of immunoglobulin-secreting cells (ISC). The size of this ISC compartment correlated with increased expression of Blimp1 and Xbp1, and these ISC were sustained by elevated levels of T cell derived homeostatic and effector cytokines. The detection of high affinity pathogenic autoantibodies toward target organs indicated defaults in B cell selection and tolerance induction. We hypothesize that impaired B cell receptor (BCR) editing and a serum B cell activating factor (BAFF) abundance might contribute toward the development of a pathogenic B cell repertoire in hypomorphic Rag2R229Q knock-in mice. BAFF-R blockade reduced serum levels of nucleic acid-specific autoantibodies and significantly ameliorated inflammatory tissue damage. These findings highlight a role for B cells in OS pathogenesis.
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