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Defective Self-Reactive Antibody Repertoire of Serum IgM in Patients with Hyper-IgM Syndrome This information is current as Sébastien Lacroix-Desmazes, Igor Resnick, Dorothea Stahl, of September 25, 2021. Luc Mouthon, Teresa Espanol, Jacov Levy, Srini V. Kaveri, Luigi Notarangelo, Martha Eibl, Alain Fischer, Hans Ochs and Michel D. Kazatchkine J Immunol 1999; 162:5601-5608; ; http://www.jimmunol.org/content/162/9/5601 Downloaded from References This article cites 46 articles, 14 of which you can access for free at: http://www.jimmunol.org/content/162/9/5601.full#ref-list-1 http://www.jimmunol.org/ Why The JI? Submit online. • Rapid Reviews! 30 days* from submission to initial decision • No Triage! Every submission reviewed by practicing scientists • Fast Publication! 4 weeks from acceptance to publication by guest on September 25, 2021 *average Subscription Information about subscribing to The Journal of Immunology is online at: http://jimmunol.org/subscription Permissions Submit copyright permission requests at: http://www.aai.org/About/Publications/JI/copyright.html Email Alerts Receive free email-alerts when new articles cite this article. Sign up at: http://jimmunol.org/alerts The Journal of Immunology is published twice each month by The American Association of Immunologists, Inc., 1451 Rockville Pike, Suite 650, Rockville, MD 20852 Copyright © 1999 by The American Association of Immunologists All rights reserved. Print ISSN: 0022-1767 Online ISSN: 1550-6606. Defective Self-Reactive Antibody Repertoire of Serum IgM in Patients with Hyper-IgM Syndrome1 Se´bastien Lacroix-Desmazes,* Igor Resnick,† Dorothea Stahl,* Luc Mouthon,* Teresa Espanol,‡ Jacov Levy,§ Srini V. Kaveri,* Luigi Notarangelo,¶ Martha Eibl,i Alain Fischer,** Hans Ochs,†† and Michel D. Kazatchkine2* We have analyzed the self-reactive repertoires of IgM and IgG Abs in the serum of 19 patients with hyper-IgM syndrome (HIM) by means of a quantitative immunoblotting technique that allows for a quantitative comparison of Ab repertoires in health and disease by multiparametric statistical analysis. Normal tissue extracts of liver, lung, stomach, and kidney were used as sources of self Ags. Extracts of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Staphylococcus epidermidis were used as sources of nonself Ags. We demonstrate a significant bias in repertoires of reactivities of IgM of patients with HIM with self Ags. Ab repertoires of IgM toward nonself Downloaded from Ags did not differ, however, between patients and controls. No difference was found between IgM repertoires of untreated patients and those of patients receiving substitutive treatment with i.v. IgG. IgG in the serum of HIM patients lacked reactivity with self Ags, although it exhibited a pattern of reactivity with nonself Ags that was similar to that of IgG of healthy controls. The data demonstrate that functional CD40-CD40 ligand interactions are essential for the selection of natural self-reactive B cell repertoires. The Journal of Immunology, 1999, 162: 5601–5608. mmunodeficiency with hyper-IgM syndrome (HIM)3 is a rare thrombocytopenia or other autoimmune manifestations such as he- http://www.jimmunol.org/ disease characterized by normal or increased serum concen- molytic anemia and nephritis (1, 19). An increased incidence of I trations of IgM with decreased or absent IgG, IgA, and IgE autoantibodies, including anti-erythrocyte, anti-platelet, anti- (1, 2). HIM results from defective interactions between CD40 li- thyroid, anti-nuclear, anti-cardiolipin, and anti-smooth muscle gand (CD40L) on activated T cells and CD40 on B cells. The Abs, has been reported in patients with HIM (19–23). X-linked form of HIM (X-HIM) is characterized by defective Natural Abs of the IgM, IgG, and IgA isotypes that are reactive CD40L due to deletions/insertions, point mutations, or truncation with a broad range of self Ags are present in normal serum (24– in the CD40L-encoding gene (3–12). Several in vivo and in vitro 26). Ab repertoires of natural IgM and IgG toward self Ags are studies have documented that T cell-dependent isotype switch is highly homogeneous among healthy individuals and remain invari- by guest on September 25, 2021 strictly dependent on cognate interactions involving CD40 and ant with aging (27–30). Evidence obtained in mice suggests that CD40L and that impaired CD40-CD40L interactions inhibit the the selection of autoreactive B cells requires the presence of CD41 development of germinal centers and the generation of B memory T lymphocytes under conditions of both pathological and physio- cells (13–17). Patients with HIM lack germinal centers in second- logical autoimmunity (31–34). ary lymphoid organs (18). The patients suffer from recurrent upper In the present study, we analyzed the Ab repertoires of IgM and and lower respiratory tract infections and also present with an un- IgG in the serum of patients with HIM by means of a quantitative usual susceptibility to Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia and Cryp- immunoblotting technique that allows for multiparametric statisti- tosporidium infection, suggesting impaired T cell functions. HIM cal analysis of Ab reactivities with self and nonself Ags. We dem- patients often present with persistent neutropenia and may develop onstrate that Ab repertoires of IgM toward self Ags are skewed in patients with HIM, whereas repertoires directed toward bacterial Ags do not differ between patients and healthy controls. In addi- *Institut National de la Sante´et de la Recherche Me´dicale (INSERM), Unit 430 and Universite´Pierre et Marie Curie, Hoˆpital Broussais, Paris, France; †Research Institute tion, little reactivity with self Ags of IgG in the serum of patients of Hematology, Moscow, Russia; ‡Immunology Unit, Vall d’Hebron, Barcelona, with HIM was detected. Our observations demonstrate that the Spain; §Department of Pediatrics, Soroka Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel; ¶De- i lack of functional CD40-CD40L interactions and/or impaired T/B partment of Pediatrics, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy; Institute of Immunology, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; **INSERM, Unit 429, Hoˆpital des Enfants- cell cooperation in HIM affect the selection processes of natural Malades, Paris, France; and ††Department of Pediatrics, University of Washington self-reactive B cell repertoires. Medical School, Seattle, WA 98195 Received for publication September 30, 1998. Accepted for publication February 12, 1999. Patients and Methods Patients The costs of publication of this article were defrayed in part by the payment of page charges. This article must therefore be hereby marked advertisement in accordance EDTA-plasma was obtained from 19 children (18 boys and 1 girl), between with 18 U.S.C. Section 1734 solely to indicate this fact. 3 and 14 years old, diagnosed with immunodeficiency with HIM. Twenty 1 This work was supported by Institut National de la Sante´et de la Recherche Me´di- healthy young adult male blood donors with a mean age of 34 6 5 years cale, France, and the Central Laboratory of the Swiss Red Cross (Bern, Switzerland). were used as normal controls. Previous studies from our laboratory had S.L.D. is a recipient of a grant from the Ministe`re de l’Education Nationale et de la demonstrated that self-reactive Ab repertoires in serum remain highly ho- Recherche, France. I.R. is a recipient of a grant from the European Union (PECO). mogeneous and invariant from early childhood to adulthood (29, 35). 2 Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. Michel D. Kazatchkine, IN- Sixteen of the male patients had X-HIM. Two male patients presented SERM U430, Hoˆpital Broussais, 96, rue Didot, 75014 Paris, France. with autosomal recessive HIM, and one female patient had secondary HIM 3 Abbreviations used in this paper: HIM, hyper-IgM syndrome; X-HIM, X-linked associated with congenital rubella. Activated PBMC totally lacked expres- HIM; CD40L, CD40 ligand; PCA, principal component analysis; LDA, linear dis- sion of the CD40L Ag in 11 X-HIM patients, whereas expression of the Ag criminant analysis; LDL, low density lipoprotein. was low in 3 patients (2 patients with X-HIM and 1 patient with autosomal Copyright © 1999 by The American Association of Immunologists 0022-1767/99/$02.00 5602 SELF-REACTIVE REPERTOIRES OF IgM IN THE HYPER-IgM SYNDROME recessive HIM) and unknown in the remaining 5 cases. All patients had corresponding to peaks of reactivity for concentrations of IgG between 50 suffered from severe and/or recurrent infections before diagnosis, including and 400 mg/ml and of IgM between 5 and 50 mg/ml. Saturation was upper respiratory tract infections (10 of 16), P. carinii pneumonia (2 of 16), achieved for concentrations of IgG and IgM above 400 and 50 mg/ml, and episodic or chronic infectious diarrhea (6 of 16 including Cryptospo- respectively. The reproducibility of the assay was 10% (variation coeffi- ridium infection in 3 cases). Hematological abnormalities included neutro- cient). The 95% confidence interval of the mean area under the curve penia in 11 patients and pure RBC aplasia in 2 patients due to parvovirus corresponding to each peak of immunoreactivity was 30% in the case of B19 infection, as previously reported (36). Nephritis was present in 1 pa- IgM and 25% in the case of IgG, as calculated by Student’s t test (27, 28). tient and arthritis in 2 patients (described in Ref. 1). Autosomal recessive HIM was diagnosed in 2 patients with low or normal expression of the Statistical analysis CD40L Ag, respectively, and suffering from upper respiratory tract infec- tions. One patient had secondary HIM associated with congenital rubella. Densitometric profiles of immunoblots were divided into sections corre- CD40L expression in this patient was normal, and the patient suffered sponding to individual peaks of immunoreactivity. Respective peak areas upper respiratory tract infections. Twelve of the 19 patients received sub- were calculated in the case of each tissue extract. To discriminate between stitutive therapy with i.v. Ig, in amounts ranging from 200 mg/kg/body individual repertoires, peak areas corresponding to sections obtained with weight every 5 wk to 600 mg/kg every 2 wk.