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| Status |
Public on Jan 28, 2022 |
| Title |
Thymic epithelial cell alterations and defective thymopoiesis lead to central and peripheral tolerance perturbation in MHCII deficiency |
| Organism |
Mus musculus |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing
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| Summary |
Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class II (MHCII) deficiency, also known as Bare Lymphocyte Syndrome (BLS), is a rare combined immunodeficiency due to mutations in genes regulating expression of MHCII molecules. MHCII deficiency results in impaired cellular and humoral immune responses, leading to severe infections and autoimmunity. The contribution of thymic epithelial cell (TEC) defects to the pathogenesis of this primary immunodeficiency has not been well characterized to date, in particular in regard to immune dysregulation. To this aim, we have performed an in-depth cellular and molecular characterization of TEC alterations in this disease. We observed an overall perturbation of thymic structure and function in both MHCII-/- mice and patients. Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling of murine TEC revealed several alterations. In particular, in MHCII-/- mice, impaired cross-talk and mTEC maturation resulted in altered promiscuous gene expression and leaky central tolerance. Furthermore, we observed peripheral tolerance impairment, likely due to defective Treg cell generation and/or function and B cell tolerance breakdown. Overall, our findings reveal disease-specific TEC defects resulting in perturbation of central tolerance and limiting the potential effect of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in MHCII deficiency.
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| Overall design |
mRNA sequencing of sorted cTEC and mTEC from pooled WT and Aβ0/0 mice, with three replicates per condition.
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| Contributor(s) |
Ferrua F, Villa A, Bosticardo M |
| Citation(s) |
34211466 |
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| Submission date |
Feb 09, 2021 |
| Last update date |
Jan 30, 2022 |
| Contact name |
Paolo Uva |
| Organization name |
IRCCS Istituto Giannina Gaslini
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| Lab |
Clinical Bioinformatics
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| Street address |
Via Gerolamo Gaslini, 5
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| City |
Genoa |
| ZIP/Postal code |
16147 |
| Country |
Italy |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL21493 |
Illumina HiSeq 3000 (Mus musculus) |
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| Samples (12)
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA701010 |
| SRA |
SRP305522 |
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