Leukocyte adhesion deficiency II

Rare leukocyte adhesion deficiency type II (LAD II) is due to an inborn error in fucose metabolism caused by mutations in the guanosine diphosphate-fucose transporter gene. There is a failure to express the ligand for E and P selectin, sialyl Lewis-X (CD15s), which is expressed on leukocytes. The patients are unable to fucosylate other glycoproteins, including the H blood group polysaccharide, so they are Bombay phenotype, ie, negative for the O and H blood group antigens and capable of making anti-H antibody. The immunoglobulin M (IgM) and immunoglobulin G (IgG) heavy chains also are not fucosylated, although IgM and IgG are present in normal amounts.

Alternative names

LAD2

Congenital disorder of glycosylation type IIc (CDG-IIc)

Leukocyte adhesion deficiency type 2, GDP-fucose transporter

Rambam-Hasharon syndrome; RHS

Classification

  • Defects of phagocyte function
    • Leukocyte adhesion defects

Inheritance

Autosomal recessive

OMIM

#266265 Congenital disorder of glycosylation, type IIc

605881 GDP-fucose transporter 1

Cross references

Phenotypically related immunodeficiencies

IDR factfile for Leukocyte adhesion deficiency I

Incidence