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Query: UMLS:C0021051 (immunodeficiency)
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Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD), an immunodeficiency syndrome characterized by extreme susceptibility to bacterial infections, is due to a defect of the respiratory burst in human phagocytes. NADPH oxidase, the enzyme that catalyzes the reduction of oxygen and the release of oxidative radicals, was studied in polymorphonuclear leucocytes (PMNs) in a family affected by an x-linked inheritance form at high penetrance of the disease. The contents of cytochrome b, suggested as the terminal component of the oxidase electron transport chain, and FAD, the hypothetical proximal component of the chain, were determined in patients and in carriers. Cytochrome b showed the typical behaviour of x-linked CGD: total absence in patients, intermediate values in carriers. FAD content evaluated on plasma membranes was less decreased than cytochrome b. Carriers also showed a decrease of this flavoprotein. Cytochrome b and FAD contents were compared to NBT test and superoxide production: a clear correlation was observed for the cytochrome b, but FAD plasma membrane evaluation could also be an interesting tool for the metabolic characterization of the disease in patients and in carriers.
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PMID:Cytochrome b and FAD content in polymorphonuclear leucocytes in a family with X-linked chronic granulomatous disease. 378 83

Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is an inherited immunodeficiency disease caused by defects in leukocyte NADPH oxidase. Various inherited defects in one of the membrane-bound components of NADPH oxidase, gp91-phox, cause X-linked (X91) CGD. Analysis of three patients with X91 CGD revealed that different mechanisms of molecular quality control lead to the common phenotype of absence of mature membrane-bound NADPH oxidase complex in leukocytes. In the first patient, aberrant intron splicing created a premature stop codon. However, the mutant mRNA was degraded prematurely, which prevented the production of truncated protein. In the second patient, a frameshift mutation with the potential to generate a gp91-phox polypeptide, with an aberrant and elongated C-terminus, led to barely detectable levels of gp91-phox, even though the reported functional domains of the protein appeared unaffected. In the third patient, a point mutation created a single amino acid change in the predicted FAD-binding site of gp91-phox. Although gp91-phox was detectable with Western blotting, no cytochrome b(558) was expressed on the cell surface. These analyses showed that molecular quality control machinery plays an important role in the pathogenesis of CGD, not only in the X910 but also in the X91- form of this X-linked disease.
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PMID:Molecular quality control machinery contributes to the leukocyte NADPH oxidase deficiency in chronic granulomatous disease. 1199 79