scispace - formally typeset
Open AccessJournal ArticleDOI

An autoinflammatory disease due to homozygous deletion of the IL1RN locus.

Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
A patient with an autoinflammatory disease in which the main clinical features are pustular rash, marked osteopenia, lytic bone lesions, respiratory insufficiency, and thrombosis is described, which contains a 175-kb homozygous deletion at chromosome 2q13, which encompasses several interleukin-1 family members.
Abstract
We describe a patient with an autoinflammatory disease in which the main clinical features are pustular rash, marked osteopenia, lytic bone lesions, respiratory insufficiency, and thrombosis. Genetic studies revealed a 175-kb homozygous deletion at chromosome 2q13, which encompasses several interleukin-1 family members, including the gene encoding the interleukin-1–receptor antagonist (IL1RN). Mononuclear cells, obtained from the patient and cultured, produced large amounts of inflammatory cytokines, with increasing amounts secreted after stimulation with lipopolysaccharide. A similar increase was not observed in peripheral-blood mononuclear cells from a patient with neonatal-onset multisystem inflammatory disorder (NOMID). Treatment with anakinra completely resolved the symptoms and lesions.

read more

Content maybe subject to copyright    Report

Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Interleukin-1 in the pathogenesis and treatment of inflammatory diseases

TL;DR: This review summarizes acute and chronic inflammatory diseases that are treated by reducing IL-1β activity and proposes that disease severity is affected by the anti-inflammatory members of the IL- 1 family of ligands and receptors.
Journal ArticleDOI

The Interleukin-1 Family: Back to the Future

TL;DR: The key properties of IL-1 family members are reviewed, with emphasis on pathways of negative regulation and orchestration of innate and adaptive immunity.
Journal ArticleDOI

Treating inflammation by blocking interleukin-1 in a broad spectrum of diseases

TL;DR: Monotherapy blocking IL-1 activity in autoinflammatory syndromes results in a rapid and sustained reduction in disease severity, including reversal of inflammation-mediated loss of sight, hearing and organ function.
Journal ArticleDOI

The IL-1 family: regulators of immunity

TL;DR: This Review provides an overview of both the long-established and more recently characterized members of the IL-1 family and their effects on immune cells, their involvement in human disease and disease models is discussed.
Journal ArticleDOI

Anti-inflammatory Agents: Present and Future

TL;DR: The new era of anti-inflammatory agents includes "biologicals" such as anticytokine therapies and small molecules that block the activity of kinases and small RNAs.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI

Genesis: cluster analysis of microarray data

TL;DR: Genesis integrates various tools for microarray data analysis such as filters, normalization and visualization tools, distance measures as well as common clustering algorithms including hierarchical clustering, self-organizing maps, k-means, principal component analysis, and support vector machines.
Journal ArticleDOI

NALP3 Forms an IL-1β-Processing Inflammasome with Increased Activity in Muckle-Wells Autoinflammatory Disorder

TL;DR: It is reported that NALP2 and NalP3 associate with ASC, the CARD-containing protein Cardinal, and caspase-1 (but not casp enzyme-5), thereby forming an inflammasome with high proIL-1beta-processing activity.
Journal ArticleDOI

Mutation of a new gene encoding a putative pyrin-like protein causes familial cold autoinflammatory syndrome and Muckle–Wells syndrome

TL;DR: A gene, called CIAS1, is expressed in peripheral blood leukocytes and encodes a protein with a pyrin domain, a nucleotide-binding site (NBS, NACHT subfamily) domain and a leucine-rich repeat (LRR) motif region, suggesting a role in the regulation of inflammation and apoptosis.
Journal ArticleDOI

Human T Regulatory Cells Can Use the Perforin Pathway to Cause Autologous Target Cell Death

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that activated human CD4(+)CD25(+) natural Treg cells express granzyme A but very little granzyme B, which suggests that the perforin/granzyme pathway is one of the mechanisms that T Reg cells can use to control immune responses.
Related Papers (5)