2024
“Deficiency in ELF4, X-Linked”: a Monogenic Disease Entity Resembling Behçet’s Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Olyha S, O’Connor S, Kribis M, Bucklin M, Uthaya Kumar D, Tyler P, Alam F, Jones K, Sheikha H, Konnikova L, Lakhani S, Montgomery R, Catanzaro J, Du H, DiGiacomo D, Rothermel H, Moran C, Fiedler K, Warner N, Hoppenreijs E, van der Made C, Hoischen A, Olbrich P, Neth O, Rodríguez-Martínez A, Lucena Soto J, van Rossum A, Dalm V, Muise A, Lucas C. “Deficiency in ELF4, X-Linked”: a Monogenic Disease Entity Resembling Behçet’s Syndrome and Inflammatory Bowel Disease. Journal Of Clinical Immunology 2024, 44: 44. PMID: 38231408, PMCID: PMC10929603, DOI: 10.1007/s10875-023-01610-8.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsDEX patientsClass-switched memory B cellsInborn errors of immunityTreated with anti-inflammatory agentsLow natural killerX-linkedMemory B cellsErrors of immunityCohort of patientsIncreased inflammatory cytokinesLoss-of-function variantsHeterogeneous clinical phenotypesInflammatory bowel diseaseTargeted therapeutic interventionsNatural killerAnti-inflammatory agentsAphthous ulcersTherapeutic responseAutoinflammatory syndromeInflammatory markersClinical manifestationsB cellsBehcet's syndromeGastrointestinal symptomsMechanisms of disease
2020
An RTEL1 Mutation Links to Infantile-Onset Ulcerative Colitis and Severe Immunodeficiency
Ziv A, Werner L, Konnikova L, Awad A, Jeske T, Hastreiter M, Mitsialis V, Stauber T, Wall S, Kotlarz D, Klein C, Snapper SB, Tzfati Y, Weiss B, Somech R, Shouval DS. An RTEL1 Mutation Links to Infantile-Onset Ulcerative Colitis and Severe Immunodeficiency. Journal Of Clinical Immunology 2020, 40: 1010-1019. PMID: 32710398, DOI: 10.1007/s10875-020-00829-z.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInflammatory bowel diseasePeripheral blood mononuclear cellsUlcerative colitisInfantile-onset inflammatory bowel diseasePatients' peripheral blood mononuclear cellsInnate immune subsetsPneumocystis jiroveci pneumoniaUnique clinical manifestationsBlood mononuclear cellsNaïve T cellsMass cytometry analysisHoyeraal-Hreidarsson syndromeAshkenazi Jewish patientsWhole-exome sequencingDifferent monogenic disordersImmunologic alterationsJiroveci pneumoniaBowel diseaseImmune subsetsImmunological alterationsImmune landscapeCarriage rateClinical manifestationsMononuclear cellsControl subjects