NF-κB: at the borders of autoimmunity and inflammation

L Barnabei, E Laplantine, W Mbongo… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The transcription factor NF-κB regulates multiple aspects of innate and adaptive immune
functions and serves as a pivotal mediator of inflammatory response. In the first part of this …

Autophagy in immunity and inflammation

B Levine, N Mizushima, HW Virgin - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Autophagy is an essential, homeostatic process by which cells break down their own
components. Perhaps the most primordial function of this lysosomal degradation pathway is …

Complex genetic signatures in immune cells underlie autoimmunity and inform therapy

V Orrù, M Steri, C Sidore, M Marongiu, V Serra, S Olla… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
We report on the influence of~ 22 million variants on 731 immune cell traits in a cohort of
3,757 Sardinians. We detected 122 significant (P< 1.28× 10− 11) independent association …

Autophagy in infection, inflammation and immunity

V Deretic, T Saitoh, S Akira - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2013 - nature.com
Autophagy is a fundamental eukaryotic pathway that has multiple effects on immunity.
Autophagy is induced by pattern recognition receptors and, through autophagic adaptors, it …

Map** and analysis of chromatin state dynamics in nine human cell types

J Ernst, P Kheradpour, TS Mikkelsen, N Shoresh… - Nature, 2011 - nature.com
Chromatin profiling has emerged as a powerful means of genome annotation and detection
of regulatory activity. The approach is especially well suited to the characterization of non …

Systematic identification of trans eQTLs as putative drivers of known disease associations

HJ Westra, MJ Peters, T Esko, H Yaghootkar… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Identifying the downstream effects of disease-associated SNPs is challenging. To help
overcome this problem, we performed expression quantitative trait locus (eQTL) meta …

HaploReg: a resource for exploring chromatin states, conservation, and regulatory motif alterations within sets of genetically linked variants

LD Ward, M Kellis - Nucleic acids research, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The resolution of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) is limited by the linkage
disequilibrium (LD) structure of the population being studied. Selecting the most likely …

[HTML][HTML] Molecular mimicry and autoimmunity

M Rojas, P Restrepo-Jiménez, DM Monsalve… - Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
Molecular mimicry is one of the leading mechanisms by which infectious or chemical agents
may induce autoimmunity. It occurs when similarities between foreign and self-peptides …

Management strategies and future directions for systemic lupus erythematosus in adults

L Durcan, T O'Dwyer, M Petri - The Lancet, 2019 - thelancet.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an autoimmune disease characterised by the loss of
self-tolerance and formation of nuclear autoantigens and immune complexes resulting in …

Genetic association analyses implicate aberrant regulation of innate and adaptive immunity genes in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus

J Bentham, DL Morris, DS Cunninghame Graham… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is a genetically complex autoimmune disease
characterized by loss of immune tolerance to nuclear and cell surface antigens. Previous …