Decreased numbers of circulating plasmablasts and differences in IgA1-plasmablast homing to skin in coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis

AUTOR(ES)

Kantele, J M

FONTE

Blackwell Science Inc

RESUMO

The two clinical phenotypes of gluten enteropathy, coeliac disease (CD) and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH), were characterized for numbers and homing profiles of circulating final effector B cells, plasmablasts, identified as immunoglobulin (Ig)-secreting cells (ISC). In CD, the numbers of ISC were ∼50% lower than in DH or controls. ISC expressed peripheral lymph node homing receptor (HR), L-selectin, less frequently in CD (54%) and DH (52%) patients than in controls (70%). The expression of gut mucosal HR, α4β7, was less frequent in CD (42%) than in DH (65%) or controls (60%). In DH, but not in CD or controls, a higher proportion of IgA1-ISC (40%) than IgA2-ISC (25%) expressed the skin HR, cutaneous lymphocyte-associated antigen. In gluten enteropathy circulating plasmablasts are more mature, but decreased in number, and have distorted homing profiles. Differential IgA1-plasmablast homing could be associated with the development of skin rash with IgA1-deposits in DH but not in CD.

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