Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome patient reveals species-dependent requirements for neutrophil defenses
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Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome patient reveals species-dependent requirements for neutrophil defenses.
Papillon-Lefèvre syndrome (PLS) results from mutations that inactivate cysteine protease cathepsin C (CTSC), which processes a variety of serine proteases considered essential for antimicrobial defense. Despite serine protease-deficient immune cell populations, PLS patients do not exhibit marked immunodeficiency. Here, we characterized a 24-year-old woman who had suffered from severe juvenile p...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Investigation
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0021-9738
DOI: 10.1172/jci76009