A biclonal large granular lymphocyte (LGL)/NK-associated (NKa) disorder of CD4+ and CD8+ lymphocyte subpopulations characterized by the simultaneous presence of distinct TCR rearrangements |
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Authors: | Stephen J Richards Michael Short Andrew J Steed Colin Stephen Scott |
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Institution: | Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service, Institute of Pathology Leeds General Infirmary, Leeds;Department of Haematology, Halifax General Infirmary, Halifax |
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Abstract: | Summary. This communication reports a patient with concomitant expansions of CD4+ and CD8+ large granular lymphocytes. Immunological analyses revealed that the abnomally increased CD4+ LGL fraction was phenotypically similar to other reported persistent CD4+ LGL expansions, whereas the phenotypic profile for the CD8+ LGL component was unusual. of particular note was the finding that both the CD4+ and CD8+ LGL fractions showed high membrane the CD45RO isoform expression, thus suggesting their 'primed' status. Molecular biology studies of immunomagnetically fractionated cells using a Tγ9 TCR gamma gene primer further revealed that the CD4+ and CD8+ components were both clonal but showed different patterns of rearrangement It is suggested that the simultaneous presence of CD4+ and CD8+ clonal populations are unlikely to have been derived from a common progenitor and that they reflect expansions of functionally restricted subpopulations |
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Keywords: | large granular lymphocytes biclonal case study clinical immunophenotypes |
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