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  • Title: Adult onset immunodeficiency caused by inherited adenosine deaminase deficiency.
    Author: Shovlin CL, Simmonds HA, Fairbanks LD, Deacock SJ, Hughes JM, Lechler RI, Webster AD, Sun XM, Webb JC, Soutar AK.
    Journal: J Immunol; 1994 Sep 01; 153(5):2331-9. PubMed ID: 8051429.
    Abstract:
    Adenosine deaminase (ADA) deficiency is identified here as a cause of adult onset immunodeficiency. Two sisters who noted recurrent, predominantly chest infections in their twenties were found in their thirties to have CD4+ lymphopenia and lymphocyte ADA activity of approximately 5% of the lower limit of normal. Immune function, measured by proliferation of PBMCs in vitro to mitogens and specific Ags, was impaired. Inheritance of a polymorphic marker showed that both patients were heterozygous at the ADA locus. In the paternal allele there was a deletion resulting from homologous recombination between two alu elements that normally flank the first exon and the polymorphic marker. The recombination site was distinct from that in similar deletions described in two infants having severe combined immunodeficiency. This allele is predicted to result in a null phenotype. In the mutant allele inherited from the mother, a C to T transition in a CpG dinucleotide changed the codon for arginine 211, which lies in a conserved sequence close to the active site, to that for cysteine. This mutation has been observed previously in a child in whom the other allele was also a null mutation, but who was diagnosed as having partial ADA deficiency because immune function was apparently normal. The late onset of immunodeficiency in our patients suggests that immune function in children with partial ADA deficiency may deteriorate with time and that ADA deficiency should be regarded as a possible cause of adult onset immune dysfunction of unknown etiology.
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