Publication Date:
2006-09-16
Description:
Herpes simplex virus-1 (HSV-1) encephalitis (HSE) is the most common form of sporadic viral encephalitis in western countries. Its pathogenesis remains unclear, as it affects otherwise healthy patients and only a small minority of HSV-1-infected individuals. Here, we elucidate a genetic etiology for HSE in two children with autosomal recessive deficiency in the intracellular protein UNC-93B, resulting in impaired cellular interferon-alpha/beta and -lambda antiviral responses. HSE can result from a single-gene immunodeficiency that does not compromise immunity to most pathogens, unlike most known primary immunodeficiencies. Other severe infectious diseases may also reflect monogenic disorders of immunity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Casrouge, Armanda -- Zhang, Shen-Ying -- Eidenschenk, Celine -- Jouanguy, Emmanuelle -- Puel, Anne -- Yang, Kun -- Alcais, Alexandre -- Picard, Capucine -- Mahfoufi, Nora -- Nicolas, Nathalie -- Lorenzo, Lazaro -- Plancoulaine, Sabine -- Senechal, Brigitte -- Geissmann, Frederic -- Tabeta, Koichi -- Hoebe, Kasper -- Du, Xin -- Miller, Richard L -- Heron, Benedicte -- Mignot, Cyril -- de Villemeur, Thierry Billette -- Lebon, Pierre -- Dulac, Olivier -- Rozenberg, Flore -- Beutler, Bruce -- Tardieu, Marc -- Abel, Laurent -- Casanova, Jean-Laurent -- G0900867/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2006 Oct 13;314(5797):308-12. Epub 2006 Sep 14.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratoire de Genetique Humaine des Maladies Infectieuses, Universite de Paris Rene Descartes, INSERM, U550, Faculte de Medecine Necker, Paris 75015, France.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16973841" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Child, Preschool
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Cytokines/biosynthesis
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Encephalitis, Herpes Simplex/*genetics/immunology
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Female
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*Genetic Predisposition to Disease
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*Herpesvirus 1, Human/immunology
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Humans
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Infant
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Interferon-alpha/biosynthesis/immunology
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Interferon-beta/biosynthesis/immunology
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Interferon-gamma/biosynthesis/immunology
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Interferons/*biosynthesis/immunology
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Leukocytes, Mononuclear/immunology
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Male
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Membrane Transport Proteins/*deficiency/genetics/*physiology
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Mutation
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Pedigree
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Signal Transduction
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Toll-Like Receptor 3/agonists/physiology
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Toll-Like Receptors/agonists/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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