Olivier Kosmider, Céline Possémé, Marie Templé, Aurélien Corneau, Francesco Carbone, Eugénie Duroyon, Paul Breillat, Twinu-Wilson Chirayath, Bénédicte Oules, Pierre Sohier, Marine Luka, Camille Gobeaux, Estibaliz Lazaro, Roderau Outh, Guillaume Le Guenno, François Lifermann, Marie Berleur, Melchior Le Mene, Chloé Friedrich, Cédric Lenormand, Thierry Weitten, Vivien Guillotin, Barbara Burroni, Jeremy Boussier, Lise Willems, Selim Aractingi, Léa Dionet, Pierre-Louis Tharaux, Béatrice Vergier, Pierre Raynaud, Hang-Korng Ea, Mickael Ménager, Darragh Duffy, Benjamin Terrier
Acquired mutations in the UBA1 gene were recently identified in patients with severe adult-onset auto-inflammatory syndrome called VEXAS (vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X-linked, autoinflammatory, somatic). However, the precise physiological and clinical impact of these mutations remains poorly defined. Here we study a unique prospective cohort of VEXAS patients. We show that monocytes from VEXAS are quantitatively and qualitatively impaired and display features of exhaustion with aberrant expression of chemokine receptors...
January 30, 2024: Nature Communications