Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

Heterozygous missense variant of the proteasome subunit β-type 9 causes neonatal-onset autoinflammation and immunodeficiency

  • Nobuo Kanazawa,
  • Hiroaki Hemmi,
  • Noriko Kinjo,
  • Hidenori Ohnishi,
  • Jun Hamazaki,
  • Hiroyuki Mishima,
  • Akira Kinoshita,
  • Tsunehiro Mizushima,
  • Satoru Hamada,
  • Kazuya Hamada,
  • Norio Kawamoto,
  • Saori Kadowaki,
  • Yoshitaka Honda,
  • Kazushi Izawa,
  • Ryuta Nishikomori,
  • Miyuki Tsumura,
  • Yusuke Yamashita,
  • Shinobu Tamura,
  • Takashi Orimo,
  • Toshiya Ozasa,
  • Takashi Kato,
  • Izumi Sasaki,
  • Yuri Fukuda-Ohta,
  • Naoko Wakaki-Nishiyama,
  • Yutaka Inaba,
  • Kayo Kunimoto,
  • Satoshi Okada,
  • Takeshi Taketani,
  • Koichi Nakanishi,
  • Shigeo Murata,
  • Koh-ichiro Yoshiura,
  • Tsuneyasu Kaisho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27085-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Genetic variants of proteasome subunit genes have been shown to associate with perturbed immune function. Here authors show that a heterozygous missense variant of the immunoproteasome subunit β-type 9 causes an autoinflammatory/immune deficiency syndrome in humans and in a mouse model.