The Journal of Immunology, Vol 152, Issue 1 176-183, Copyright © 1994 by American Association of Immunologists

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Normal V(D)J coding junction formation in DNA ligase I deficiency syndromes

JH Petrini, JW Donovan, C Dimare and DT Weaver
Division of Tumor Immunology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA 02115.

Bloom syndrome and a clinically related syndrome represented by the cell line 46BR have been associated with reduction in DNA ligase I activity. In these syndromes, DNA ligase I deficiency severely impairs the development and function of the immune system. We undertook analysis of DNA ligase I-deficient cells to determine whether the observed immune deficiency is attributable to a perturbation in the process of V(D)J recombination. V(D)J recombination in Bloom syndrome cell lines and 46BR was examined by a transient transfection assay. No effect on the fidelity of coding and signal junction formation in DNA ligase I-deficient cells was observed. The frequency of V(D)J recombination in DNA ligase I-deficient cells was also examined using recombination substrates modified to function in human cells. Similar recombination frequencies were observed in normal and DNA ligase I- deficient cells, demonstrating that the efficiency of the V(D)J recombination process is unaffected by alterations in DNA ligase I activity. Rearranged immunoglobulin loci from Bloom syndrome cell lines and patient material were molecularly cloned by an inverse polymerase chain reaction strategy which should be applicable to a variety of human immunodeficiency syndromes and were indistinguishable from those found in normal bone marrow samples. Our data argue that the immune system defects associated with DNA ligase I deficiency do not result from perturbation of the V(D)J recombination pathway.

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