Interferon-Driven Immune Dysregulation in Common Variable Immunodeficiency-Associated Villous Atrophy and Norovirus Infection

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PURPOSE: About 15% of patients with common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) develop a small intestinal enteropathy, which resembles celiac disease with regard to histopathology but evolves from a distinct, poorly defined pathogenesis that has been linked in some cases to chronic norovirus (NV) infection. Interferon-driven inflammation is a prominent feature of CVID enteropathy, but it remains unknown how NV infection may contribute.

METHODS: Duodenal biopsies of CVID patients, stratified according to the presence of villous atrophy (VA), IgA plasma cells (PCs), and chronic NV infection, were investigated by flow cytometry, multi-epitope-ligand cartography, bulk RNA-sequencing, and RT-qPCR of genes of interest.

RESULTS: VA development was connected to the lack of intestinal (IgA+) PC, a T helper 1/T helper 17 cell imbalance, and increased recruitment of granzyme+CD8+ T cells and pro-inflammatory macrophages to the affected site. A mixed interferon type I/III and II signature occurred already in the absence of histopathological changes and increased with the severity of the disease and in the absence of (IgA+) PCs. Chronic NV infection exacerbated this signature when compared to stage-matched NV-negative samples.

CONCLUSIONS: Our study suggests that increased IFN signaling and T-cell cytotoxicity are present already in mild and are aggravated in severe stages (VA) of CVID enteropathy. NV infection preempts local high IFN-driven inflammation, usually only seen in VA, at milder disease stages. Thus, revealing the impact of different drivers of the pathological mixed IFN type I/III and II signature may allow for more targeted treatment strategies in CVID enteropathy and supports the goal of viral elimination.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:43

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Journal of clinical immunology - 43(2023), 2 vom: 18. Feb., Seite 371-390

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Strohmeier, Valentina [VerfasserIn]
Andrieux, Geoffroy [VerfasserIn]
Unger, Susanne [VerfasserIn]
Pascual-Reguant, Anna [VerfasserIn]
Klocperk, Adam [VerfasserIn]
Seidl, Maximilian [VerfasserIn]
Marques, Otavio Cabral [VerfasserIn]
Eckert, Marleen [VerfasserIn]
Gräwe, Katja [VerfasserIn]
Shabani, Michelle [VerfasserIn]
von Spee-Mayer, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Friedmann, David [VerfasserIn]
Harder, Ina [VerfasserIn]
Gutenberger, Sylvia [VerfasserIn]
Keller, Baerbel [VerfasserIn]
Proietti, Michele [VerfasserIn]
Bulashevska, Alla [VerfasserIn]
Grimbacher, Bodo [VerfasserIn]
Provaznik, Jan [VerfasserIn]
Benes, Vladimir [VerfasserIn]
Goldacker, Sigune [VerfasserIn]
Schell, Christoph [VerfasserIn]
Hauser, Anja E [VerfasserIn]
Boerries, Melanie [VerfasserIn]
Hasselblatt, Peter [VerfasserIn]
Warnatz, Klaus [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9008-11-1
CVID
Cytotoxic T cell response
Duodenum
Immunoglobulin A
Interferon response genes
Interferons
Journal Article
Norovirus
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Villous atrophy

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Date Completed 06.02.2023

Date Revised 22.01.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1007/s10875-022-01379-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM347970079