Inherited IFNAR1 Deficiency in a Child with Both Critical COVID-19 Pneumonia and Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome

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BACKGROUND: Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) and autoantibodies to type I interferons (IFNs) underlie critical COVID-19 pneumonia in at least 15% of the patients, while the causes of multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C) remain elusive.

OBJECTIVES: To detect causal genetic variants in very rare cases with concomitant critical COVID-19 pneumonia and MIS-C.

METHODS: Whole exome sequencing was performed, and the impact of candidate gene variants was investigated. Plasma levels of cytokines, specific antibodies against the virus, and autoantibodies against type I IFNs were also measured.

RESULTS: We report a 3-year-old child who died on day 56 of SARS-CoV-2 infection with an unusual clinical presentation, combining both critical COVID-19 pneumonia and MIS-C. We identified a large, homozygous loss-of-function deletion in IFNAR1, underlying autosomal recessive IFNAR1 deficiency.

CONCLUSIONS: Our findings confirm that impaired type I IFN immunity can underlie critical COVID-19 pneumonia, while suggesting that it can also unexpectedly underlie concomitant MIS-C. Our report further raises the possibility that inherited or acquired dysregulation of type I IFN immunity might contribute to MIS-C in other patients.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:42

Enthalten in:

Journal of clinical immunology - 42(2022), 3 vom: 29. Apr., Seite 471-483

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Abolhassani, Hassan [VerfasserIn]
Landegren, Nils [VerfasserIn]
Bastard, Paul [VerfasserIn]
Materna, Marie [VerfasserIn]
Modaresi, Mohammadreza [VerfasserIn]
Du, Likun [VerfasserIn]
Aranda-Guillén, Maribel [VerfasserIn]
Sardh, Fabian [VerfasserIn]
Zuo, Fanglei [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Peng [VerfasserIn]
Marcotte, Harold [VerfasserIn]
Marr, Nico [VerfasserIn]
Khan, Taushif [VerfasserIn]
Ata, Manar [VerfasserIn]
Al-Ali, Fatima [VerfasserIn]
Pescarmona, Remi [VerfasserIn]
Belot, Alexandre [VerfasserIn]
Béziat, Vivien [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Qian [VerfasserIn]
Casanova, Jean-Laurent [VerfasserIn]
Kämpe, Olle [VerfasserIn]
Zhang, Shen-Ying [VerfasserIn]
Hammarström, Lennart [VerfasserIn]
Pan-Hammarström, Qiang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

156986-95-7
Autoantibodies
COVID-19
Case Reports
Critical pneumonia
Cytokines
IFNAR1
IFNAR1 protein, human
Inborn errors of immunity (IEI)
Interferon Type I
Journal Article
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C)
Primary immunodeficiency (PID)
Receptor, Interferon alpha-beta

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Date Completed 20.04.2022

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10875-022-01215-7

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM33626268X