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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
2
pubmed:dateCreated
1992-11-27
pubmed:abstractText
Five male patients from four different families presented with a clinical record of chronic granulomatous disease (CGD): recurrent infections of the skin and/or respiratory tract with catalase-positive microorganisms, sometimes in combination with granulomata and/or abscesses in various organs. These patients differed from "classical" forms of the disease in that their neutrophils, although deficient in killing in vitro of Staphylococcus aureus, contained a decreased but measurable amount of cytochrome b558 (10-60% of normal on a heme basis), causing weak staining in the nitroblue tetrazolium dye test and a depressed respiratory burst after contact of the cells with fluid or particulate activators of the NADPH:O2 oxidoreductase. In the cell-free activation system, the defect in the patients' cells was localized in the membrane fraction. In each of the four families, the cellular abnormalities showed an X-linked inheritance. Fusion experiments performed with the monocytes from these patients and those from patients with classical X-linked, cytochrome b558-negative (Xb(0)) or autosomal, cytochrome b558-positive (Ab+) CGD showed complementation of NADPH:O2 oxidoreductase activity in the latter but not in the former combination. Thus, the unusual CGD patients represent variant forms of Xb(0) CGD, with mutations in the gene coding for the beta subunit of cytochrome b558 that do not cause complete loss of this protein.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
0741-5400
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
51
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
164-71
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1992
pubmed:articleTitle
Chronic granulomatous disease with partial deficiency of cytochrome b558 and incomplete respiratory burst: variants of the X-linked, cytochrome b558-negative form of the disease.
pubmed:affiliation
Central Laboratory of the Netherlands Red Cross Blood Transfusion Service, Amsterdam.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't