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Most deleterious missense <jats:italic>ZAP70<\/jats:italic> mutations in patients are located in the kinase domain but the impact of mutations in the SH2 domains, regulating ZAP-70 recruitment to the TCR, are not well understood.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>Genetic analyses were performed on four patients with CD8 lymphopenia and a high resolution melting screening for <jats:italic>ZAP70<\/jats:italic> mutations was developed. The impact of SH2 domain mutations was evaluated by biochemical and functional analyses as well as by protein modeling.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results and discussion<\/jats:title><jats:p>Genetic characterization of an infant who presented with pneumocystis pneumonia, mycobacterial infection, and an absence of CD8 T cells revealed a novel homozygous mutation in the C-terminal SH2 domain (SH2-C) of the <jats:italic>ZAP70<\/jats:italic> gene (c.C343T, p.R170C). A distantly related second patient was found to be compound heterozygous for the R170C variant and a 13bp deletion in the <jats:italic>ZAP70<\/jats:italic> kinase domain. While the R170C mutant was highly expressed, there was an absence of TCR-induced proliferation, associated with significantly attenuated TCR-induced ZAP-70 phosphorylation and a lack of binding of ZAP-70 to TCR-\u03b6. Moreover, a homozygous ZAP-70 R192W variant was identified in 2 siblings with combined immunodeficiency and CD8 lymphopenia, confirming the pathogenicity of this mutation. Structural modeling of this region revealed the critical nature of the arginines at positions 170 and 192, in concert with R190, forming a binding pocket for the phosphorylated TCR-\u03b6 chain. 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