The Ministry of Education Key Laboratory of Laboratory Medical Diagnostics, College of Laboratory Medicine, Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, 400016, China.
Department of Epigenetics & Molecular Carcinogenesis, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
Epigenomics. 2024;16(19-20):1301-1313. doi: 10.1080/17501911.2024.2410695. Epub 2024 Oct 15.
Inborn errors of immunity (IEIs) are a group of typically monogenic disorders characterized by dysfunction in the immune system. Individuals with these disorders experience increased susceptibility to infections, autoimmunity and malignancies due to abnormal immune responses. Epigenetic modifications, including DNA methylation, histone modifications and chromatin remodeling, have been well explored in the regulation of immune cell development and effector function. Aberrant epigenetic modifications can disrupt gene expression profiles crucial for immune responses, resulting in impaired immune cell differentiation and function. Dysregulation of these processes caused by mutations in genes involving in epigenetic modifications has been associated with various IEIs. In this review article, we focus on IEIs that are caused by mutations in 13 genes involved in the regulation of DNA methylation, histone modification and chromatin remodeling.
先天性免疫缺陷(IEI)是一组通常由单基因缺陷引起的疾病,其特征是免疫系统功能障碍。这些疾病的个体由于免疫反应异常,容易受到感染、自身免疫和恶性肿瘤的影响。表观遗传修饰,包括 DNA 甲基化、组蛋白修饰和染色质重塑,在免疫细胞发育和效应功能的调控中得到了广泛的研究。异常的表观遗传修饰会破坏免疫反应中关键的基因表达谱,导致免疫细胞分化和功能受损。涉及表观遗传修饰基因的突变引起的这些过程的失调与各种 IEI 有关。在这篇综述文章中,我们重点介绍了由 13 个基因的突变引起的 IEI,这些基因参与 DNA 甲基化、组蛋白修饰和染色质重塑的调控。