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Jiménez Reinoso, Anaïs

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Anaïs
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Jiménez Reinoso
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Universidad Complutense de Madrid
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    T-cell receptor signaling in Schimke immunoosseous dysplasia is SMARCAL1-independent
    (Frontiers in Immunology, 2022) Marín Marín, Ana Victoria; Jiménez Reinoso, Anaïs; Mazariegos, Marina S.; Román Ortiz, Elena; Regueiro González-Barros, José Ramón
    Schimke immuno-osseous dysplasia (SIOD) caused by mutations in SMARCAL1 is an ultra-rare disease characterized by specific facial features, skeletal dysplasia, and steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome, which often leads to kidney failure and requires transplantation. Cellular (T-cell) deficiency, lymphopenia, and infections have been frequently reported, but whether they are due to T-cell-intrinsic defects in T-cell receptor (TCR) signaling associated with SMARCAL1 deficiency or to T-cell-extrinsic effects such as the impaired proliferation of hematopoietic precursors or T-cell-specific immunosuppression after renal transplantation remains unknown. We have explored the effects of SMARCAL1 deficiency on T-cell receptor signaling in primary and immortalized T cells from a 9-year-old SIOD patient under immunosuppression treatment when compared to healthy donors. Immortalized T cells recapitulated the SMARCAL1 deficiency of the patient, as judged by their impaired response to gamma irradiation. The results indicated that TCR-mediated signaling was normal in SIOD-derived immortalized T cells but strongly impaired in the primary T cells of the patient, although rescued with TCR-independent stimuli such as PMA + ionomycin, suggesting that SIOD-associated T-cell signaling is not intrinsically defective but rather the result of the impaired proliferation of hematopoietic precursors or of T-cell-specific immunosuppression. The lack of early thymic emigrants in our patients may support the former hypothesis.