B cell depletion therapies in autoimmune disease: advances and mechanistic insights

DSW Lee, OL Rojas, JL Gommerman - Nature reviews Drug discovery, 2021‏ - nature.com
In the past 15 years, B cells have been rediscovered to be not merely bystanders but rather
active participants in autoimmune aetiology. This has been fuelled in part by the clinical …

Extrafollicular responses in humans and SLE

SA Jenks, KS Cashman, MC Woodruff… - Immunological …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Chronic autoimmune diseases, and in particular Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE), are
endowed with a long‐standing autoreactive B‐cell compartment that is presumed to …

TLR7 gain-of-function genetic variation causes human lupus

GJ Brown, PF Cañete, H Wang, A Medhavy, J Bones… - Nature, 2022‏ - nature.com
Although circumstantial evidence supports enhanced Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) signalling
as a mechanism of human systemic autoimmune disease,,,,,–, evidence of lupus-causing …

Distinct effector B cells induced by unregulated toll-like receptor 7 contribute to pathogenic responses in systemic lupus erythematosus

SA Jenks, KS Cashman, E Zumaquero, UM Marigorta… - Immunity, 2018‏ - cell.com
Summary Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by B cells lacking IgD and
CD27 (double negative; DN). We show that DN cell expansions reflected a subset of CXCR5 …

TLR7 escapes X chromosome inactivation in immune cells

M Souyris, C Cenac, P Azar, D Daviaud, A Canivet… - Science …, 2018‏ - science.org
Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) is critical to the induction of antiviral immunity, but TLR7 dosage
is also a key pathogenic factor in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune …

X-linked recessive TLR7 deficiency in~ 1% of men under 60 years old with life-threatening COVID-19

T Asano, B Boisson, F Onodi, D Matuozzo… - Science …, 2021‏ - science.org
Autosomal inborn errors of type I IFN immunity and autoantibodies against these cytokines
underlie at least 10% of critical COVID-19 pneumonia cases. We report very rare …

Digestion of chromatin in apoptotic cell microparticles prevents autoimmunity

V Sisirak, B Sally, V d'Agati, W Martinez-Ortiz… - Cell, 2016‏ - cell.com
Antibodies to DNA and chromatin drive autoimmunity in systemic lupus erythematosus
(SLE). Null mutations and hypomorphic variants of the secreted deoxyribonuclease …

Genetics of SLE: mechanistic insights from monogenic disease and disease-associated variants

CG Vinuesa, N Shen, T Ware - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2023‏ - nature.com
The past few years have provided important insights into the genetic architecture of systemic
autoimmunity through aggregation of findings from genome-wide association studies …

Immunogenicity of In Vitro-Transcribed RNA

X Mu, S Hur - Accounts of chemical research, 2021‏ - ACS Publications
Conspectus In vitro-transcribed RNAs are emerging as new biologics for therapeutic
innovation, as exemplified by their application recently in SARS-CoV-2 vaccinations. RNAs …

Autoantibodies in systemic autoimmune diseases: specificity and pathogenicity

J Suurmond, B Diamond - The Journal of clinical investigation, 2015‏ - jci.org
In this Review we focus on the initiation of autoantibody production and autoantibody
pathogenicity, with a special emphasis on the targeted antigens. Release of intracellular …