Characterization of the clinical and immunologic phenotype and management of 157 individuals with 56 distinct heterozygous NFKB1 mutations

Lorenzini, Tiziana; Fliegauf, Manfred; Klammer, Nils; Frede, Natalie; Proietti, Michele; Bulashevska, Alla; Camacho-Ordonez, Nadezhda; Varjosalo, Markku; Kinnunen, Matias; Vries, Esther de; Meer, Jos W. M. van der; Ameratunga, Rohan; Roifman, Chaim M.; Schejter, Yael D.; Kobbe, Robin; Hautala, Timo; Atschekzei, Faranaz; Schmidt, Reinhold E.; Schroeder, Claudia; Stepensky, Polina; Shadur, Bella; Pedroza, Luis A.; Flier, Michiel van der; Martinez-Gallo, Monica; Ignacio Gonzalez-Granado, Luis; Allende, Luis M.; Shcherbina, Anna; Kuzmenko, Natalia; Zakharova, Victoria; Neves, Joao Farela; Svec, Peter; Fischer, Ute; Ip, Winnie; Bartsch, Oliver; Baris, Safa; Klein, Christoph; Geha, Raif; Chou, Janet; Alosaimi, Mohammed; Weintraub, Lauren; Boztug, Kaan; Hirschmugl, Tatjana; Dos Santos Vilela, Maria Marluce; Holzinger, Dirk; Seidl, Maximilian; Lougaris, Vassilios; Plebani, Alessandro; Alsina, Laia; Piquer-Gibert, Monica; Deya-Martinez, Angela; Slade, Charlotte A.; Aghamohammadi, Asghar; Abolhassani, Hassan; Hammarstrom, Lennart; Kuismin, Outi; Helminen, Merja; Allen, Hana Lango; Thaventhiran, James E.; Freeman, Alexandra F.; Cook, Matthew; Bakhtiar, Shahrzad; Christiansen, Mette; Cunningham-Rundles, Charlotte; Patel, Niraj C.; Rae, William; Niehues, Tim; Brauer, Nina; Syrjanen, Jaana; Seppanen, Mikko R. J.; Burns, Siobhan O.; Tuijnenburg, Paul; Kuijpers, Taco W.; Warnatz, Klaus und Grimbacher, Bodo (2020): Characterization of the clinical and immunologic phenotype and management of 157 individuals with 56 distinct heterozygous NFKB1 mutations. In: Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, Bd. 146, Nr. 4: S. 901-911

Abstract

Background: An increasing number of NFKB1 variants are being identified in patients with heterogeneous immunologic phenotypes. Objective: To characterize the clinical and cellular phenotype as well as the management of patients with heterozygous NFKB1 mutations. Methods: In a worldwide collaborative effort, we evaluated 231 individuals harboring 105 distinct heterozygous NFKB1 variants. To provide evidence for pathogenicity, each variant was assessed in silico;in addition, 32 variants were assessed by functional in vitro testing of nuclear factor of kappa light polypeptide gene enhancer in B cells (NF-kappa B) signaling. Results: We classified 56 of the 105 distinct NFKB1 variants in 157 individuals from 68 unrelated families as pathogenic. Incomplete clinical penetrance (70%) and age-dependent severity of NFKB1-related phenotypes were observed. The phenotype included hypogammaglobulinemia (88.9%), reduced switched memory B cells (60.3%), and respiratory (83%) and gastrointestinal (28.6%) infections, thus characterizing the disorder as primary immunodeficiency. However, the high frequency of autoimmunity (57.4%), lymphoproliferation (52.4%), noninfectious enteropathy (23.1%), opportunistic infections (15.7%), autoinflammation (29.6%), and malignancy (16.8%) identified NF-kappa B1-related disease as an inborn error of immunity with immune dysregulation, rather than a mere primary immunodeficiency. Current treatment includes immunoglobulin replacement and immunosuppressive agents. Conclusions: We present a comprehensive clinical overview of the NF-kappa B1-related phenotype, which includes immunodeficiency, autoimmunity, autoinflammation, and cancer. Because of its multisystem involvement, clinicians from each and every medical discipline need to be made aware of this autosomal-dominant disease. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation and NF-kappa B1 pathway-targeted therapeutic strategies should be considered in the future.

• Dokumententyp: Zeitschriftenartikel
• Fakultät: Medizin
• Themengebiete: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften > 610 Medizin und Gesundheit
• ISSN: 0091-6749
• Sprache: Englisch