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角膜炎、鱼鳞病、耳聋综合征一例及GJB2基因突变研究
目的 探讨角膜炎、鱼鳞病及耳聋综合征患者临床特征和GJB2基因突变情况,为该病临床与基因诊断提供依据.方法 收集1例角膜炎、鱼鳞病及耳聋综合征患者的临床资料,提取患者及家族成员的外周血DNA,用PCR扩增GJB2基因外显子2及其附近的剪切点,DNA直接测序法进行基因突变检测.结果 该患者存在血管化角膜炎、鱼鳞病及先天性耳聋三联征的典型临床特征,检测到GJB2基因中核苷酸序列外显子2第148位碱基由G突变为A,导致编码的连接蛋白Cx26第50位的天冬氨酸转换成天冬酰胺(D50N).其未患病的母亲及哥哥未检测到突变位点.结论 GJB2基因突变(D50N)可能是引起鱼鳞病、角膜炎及耳聋综合征患者临床表型的原因.
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A novel avian influenza A (H7N9) virus recently emerged in the Yangtze River delta and caused diseases, often severe, in over 130 people. This H7N9 virus appeared to infect humans with greater ease than previous avian inlfuenza virus subtypes such as H5N1 and H9N2. While there are other potential explanations for this large number of human infections with an avian influenza virus, we investigated whether a lack of conserved T-cell epitopes between endemic H1N1 and H3N2 inlfuenza viruses and the novel H7N9 virus contributes to this observation. Here we demonstrate that a number of T cell epitopes are conserved between endemic H1N1 and H3N2 viruses and H7N9 virus. Most of these conserved epitopes are from viral internal proteins. The extent of conservation between endemic human seasonal inlfuenza and avian inlfuenza H7N9 was comparable to that with the highly pathogenic avian inlfuenza H5N1. Thus, the ease of inter-species transmission of H7N9 viruses (compared with avian H5N1 viruses) cannot be attributed to the lack of conservation of such T cell epitopes. On the contrary, our ifndings predict signiifcant T-cell based cross-reactions in the human population to the novel H7N9 virus. Our findings also have implications for H7N9 virus vaccine design.
