Miriam Groß1, Carsten Speckmann2, Annette May3, Tania Gajardo-Carrasco4, Katharina Wustrau5, Sarah Lena Maier5, Marcus Panning6, Daniela Huzly6, Abbas Agaimy7, Yenan T Bryceson8, Sharon Choo9, C W Chow10, Gregor Dückers11, Anders Fasth12, Sylvie Fraitag13, Katja Gräwe14, Sabine Haxelmans15, Dirk Holzinger16, Ole Hudowenz17, Judith M Hübschen18, Claudia Khurana19, Korbinian Kienle20, Roman Klifa21, Klaus Korn22, Heinz Kutzner23, Tim Lämmermann20, Svea Ledig5, Dan Lipsker24, Marie Meeths25, Nora Naumann-Bartsch26, Jelena Rascon27, Anne Schänzer28, Maximilian Seidl29, Bianca Tesi30, Christelle Vauloup-Fellous31, Beate Vollmer-Kary3, Klaus Warnatz32, Claudia Wehr33, Bénédicte Neven34, Pablo Vargas35, Fernando E Sepulveda36, Kai Lehmberg5, Annette Schmitt-Graeff37, Stephan Ehl38. 1. Institute for Immunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Faculty of Biology, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 2. Institute for Immunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Center for Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 3. Institute for Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 4. Molecular Basis of Altered Immune Homeostasis Laboratory, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 1163, Paris, France; Imagine Institute, Université de Paris, Paris, France. 5. Division of Pediatric Stem Cell Transplantation and Immunology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany. 6. Institute of Virology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 7. Institute of Pathology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. 8. Department of Medicine, Center for Hematology and Regenerative Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Broegelmann Research Laboratory, Department of Clinical Sciences, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway. 9. Department of Allergy and Immunology, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. 10. Department of Anatomical Pathology, The Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia. 11. Helios Klinikum Krefeld, Zentrum für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin, Krefeld, Germany. 12. Department of Pediatrics, Institute of Clinical Sciences, Sahlgrenska Academy University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden. 13. Department of Pathology, Necker-Enfants Malades Hospital, Paris, France. 14. Institute for Immunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 15. Life Imaging Center, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 16. Department of Pediatric Hematology-Oncology, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany. 17. Department of Rheumatology, Immunology, Osteology, and Physical Medicine, Campus Kerckhoff of Justus-Liebig-University Gießen, Bad Nauheim, Germany. 18. World Health Organization European Regional Reference Laboratory for Measles and Rubella, Luxembourg Institute of Health, Department of Infection and Immunity, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg. 19. Department of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Children's Center Bethel, University Hospital Ostwestfalen-Lippe (OWL)/University Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. 20. Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics, Freiburg, Germany. 21. Immunology and Pediatric Hematology Department, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AH-PH), Paris, France. 22. Institute of Virology, University Hospital Erlangen, Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. 23. Dermatopathology, Friedrichshafen, Germany. 24. Faculté de Médecine, Université de Strasbourg and Clinique Dermatologique, Hôpitaux Universitaires, Strasbourg, France. 25. Childhood Cancer Research Unit, Department of Women's and Children's Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Theme of Children's Health, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 26. Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany. 27. Center for Pediatric Oncology and Hematology, Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Vilnius, Lithuania; Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Vilnius, Lithuania. 28. Institute of Neuropathology, Justus Liebig University Gießen, Gießen, Germany. 29. Institute for Surgical Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Institute of Pathology, Heinrich Heine University and University Hospital of Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. 30. Department of Molecular Medicine and Surgery, Center for Molecular Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden; Department of Clinical Genetics, Karolinska University Laboratory, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden. 31. AP-HP, Hôpital Paul-Brousse, Department of Virology, World Health Organization Rubella National Reference Laboratory, Groupe de Recherche sur les Infections pendant la Grossesse, University Paris Saclay, INSERM U1193, Villejuif, France. 32. Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 33. Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany; Department of Medicine I, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 34. Imagine Institute, Université de Paris, Paris, France; Pediatric Hematology-Immunology and Rheumatology Department, Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris (AP-HP), Paris, France; Laboratory of Immunogenetics of Pediatric Autoimmunity, INSERM UMR 1163, Imagine Institute, Université de Paris, Paris, France. 35. Institut Curie, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) UMR 144 and Institut Pierre-Gilles de Gennes, and INSERM U932 Immunité et Cancer, Institut Curie, Paris Sciences et Lettres Research University, Paris, France. 36. Molecular Basis of Altered Immune Homeostasis Laboratory, Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale (INSERM), Unite Mixte de Recherche (UMR) 1163, Paris, France; Imagine Institute, Université de Paris, Paris, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France. 37. Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. 38. Institute for Immunodeficiency, Center for Chronic Immunodeficiency, Faculty of Medicine, University Medical Center Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. Electronic address: stephan.ehl@uniklinik-freiburg.de.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Rubella virus-induced granulomas have been described in patients with various inborn errors of immunity. Most defects impair T-cell immunity, suggesting a critical role of T cells in rubella elimination. However, the molecular mechanism of virus control remains elusive. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to understand the defective effector mechanism allowing rubella vaccine virus persistence in granulomas. METHODS: Starting from an index case with Griscelli syndrome type 2 and rubella skin granulomas, this study combined an international survey with a literature search to identify patients with cytotoxicity defects and granuloma. The investigators performed rubella virus immunohistochemistry and PCR and T-cell migration assays. RESULTS: This study identified 21 patients with various genetically confirmed cytotoxicity defects, who presented with skin and visceral granulomas. Rubella virus was demonstrated in all 12 accessible biopsies. Granuloma onset was typically before 2 years of age and lesions persisted from months to years. Granulomas were particularly frequent in MUNC13-4 and RAB27A deficiency, where 50% of patients at risk were affected. Although these proteins have also been implicated in lymphocyte migration, 3-dimensional migration assays revealed no evidence of impaired migration of patient T cells. Notably, patients showed no evidence of reduced control of concomitantly given measles, mumps, or varicella live-attenuated vaccine or severe infections with other viruses. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified lymphocyte cytotoxicity as a key effector mechanism for control of rubella vaccine virus, without evidence for its need in control of live measles, mumps, or varicella vaccines. Rubella vaccine-induced granulomas are a novel phenotype with incomplete penetrance of genetic disorders of cytotoxicity.
BACKGROUND: Rubella virus-induced granulomas have been described in patients with various inborn errors of immunity. Most defects impair T-cell immunity, suggesting a critical role of T cells in rubella elimination. However, the molecular mechanism of virus control remains elusive. OBJECTIVE: This study sought to understand the defective effector mechanism allowing rubella vaccine virus persistence in granulomas. METHODS: Starting from an index case with Griscelli syndrome type 2 and rubella skin granulomas, this study combined an international survey with a literature search to identify patients with cytotoxicity defects and granuloma. The investigators performed rubella virus immunohistochemistry and PCR and T-cell migration assays. RESULTS: This study identified 21 patients with various genetically confirmed cytotoxicity defects, who presented with skin and visceral granulomas. Rubella virus was demonstrated in all 12 accessible biopsies. Granuloma onset was typically before 2 years of age and lesions persisted from months to years. Granulomas were particularly frequent in MUNC13-4 and RAB27A deficiency, where 50% of patients at risk were affected. Although these proteins have also been implicated in lymphocyte migration, 3-dimensional migration assays revealed no evidence of impaired migration of patient T cells. Notably, patients showed no evidence of reduced control of concomitantly given measles, mumps, or varicella live-attenuated vaccine or severe infections with other viruses. CONCLUSIONS: This study identified lymphocyte cytotoxicity as a key effector mechanism for control of rubella vaccine virus, without evidence for its need in control of live measles, mumps, or varicella vaccines. Rubella vaccine-induced granulomas are a novel phenotype with incomplete penetrance of genetic disorders of cytotoxicity.
Authors: Ludmila Perelygina; Raeesa Faisthalab; Emily Abernathy; Min-Hsin Chen; LiJuan Hao; Lionel Bercovitch; Diana K Bayer; Lenora M Noroski; Michael T Lam; Maria Pia Cicalese; Waleed Al-Herz; Arti Nanda; Joud Hajjar; Koen Vanden Driessche; Shari Schroven; Julie Leysen; Misha Rosenbach; Philipp Peters; Johannes Raedler; Michael H Albert; Roshini S Abraham; Hemalatha G Rangarjan; David Buchbinder; Lisa Kobrynski; Anne Pham-Huy; Julie Dhossche; Charlotte Cunningham Rundles; Anna K Meyer; Amy Theos; T Prescott Atkinson; Amy Musiek; Mehdi Adeli; Ute Derichs; Christoph Walz; Renate Krüger; Horst von Bernuth; Christoph Klein; Joseph Icenogle; Fabian Hauck; Kathleen E Sullivan Journal: Front Immunol Date: 2021-12-20 Impact factor: 7.561