Pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus: risks, mechanisms and therapeutic targets

MK Crow - Annals of the rheumatic diseases, 2023 - Elsevier
Research elucidating the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has defined
two critical families of mediators, type I interferon (IFN-I) and autoantibodies targeting nucleic …

A guide to complement biology, pathology and therapeutic opportunity

DC Mastellos, G Hajishengallis… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Complement has long been considered a key innate immune effector system that mediates
host defence and tissue homeostasis. Yet, growing evidence has illuminated a broader …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia and complement mediate early corticostriatal synapse loss and cognitive dysfunction in Huntington's disease

DK Wilton, K Mastro, MD Heller, FW Gergits… - Nature medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Huntington's disease (HD) is a devastating monogenic neurodegenerative disease
characterized by early, selective pathology in the basal ganglia despite the ubiquitous …

Complement C1q-dependent excitatory and inhibitory synapse elimination by astrocytes and microglia in Alzheimer's disease mouse models

B Dejanovic, T Wu, MC Tsai, D Graykowski… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Microglia and complement can mediate neurodegeneration in Alzheimer's disease (AD). By
integrative multi-omics analysis, here we show that astrocytic and microglial proteins are …

Genome-wide association study of more than 40,000 bipolar disorder cases provides new insights into the underlying biology

N Mullins, AJ Forstner, KS O'Connell, B Coombes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Bipolar disorder is a heritable mental illness with complex etiology. We performed a genome-
wide association study of 41,917 bipolar disorder cases and 371,549 controls of European …

The neuronal pentraxin Nptx2 regulates complement activity and restrains microglia-mediated synapse loss in neurodegeneration

J Zhou, SD Wade, D Graykowski, MF ** genomic loci prioritises genes and implicates synaptic biology in schizophrenia
Schizophrenia Working Group of the Psychiatric … - MedRxiv, 2020 - medrxiv.org
Schizophrenia is a psychiatric disorder whose pathophysiology is largely unknown. It has a
heritability of 60-80%, much of which is attributable to common risk alleles, suggesting …