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 …

The state of complement in COVID-19

B Afzali, M Noris, BN Lambrecht… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
Hyperactivation of the complement and coagulation systems is recognized as part of the
clinical syndrome of COVID-19. Here we review systemic complement activation and local …

Complosome—the intracellular complement system

EE West, C Kemper - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2023 - nature.com
The complement system is a recognized pillar of host defence against infection and noxious
self-derived antigens. Complement is traditionally known as a serum-effective system …

Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells

D Chauss, T Freiwald, R McGregor, B Yan, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms governing orderly shutdown and retraction of CD4+ type 1
helper T (TH1) cell responses remain poorly understood. Here we show that complement …

Immunometabolism: from basic mechanisms to translation

L Makowski, M Chaib, JC Rathmell - Immunological reviews, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Immunometabolism has emerged as a major mechanism central to adaptive and innate
immune regulation. From early observations that inflammatory cytokines were induced in …

[HTML][HTML] The complement system drives local inflammatory tissue priming by metabolic reprogramming of synovial fibroblasts

J Friščić, M Böttcher, C Reinwald, H Bruns, B Wirth… - Immunity, 2021 - cell.com
Arthritis typically involves recurrence and progressive worsening at specific predilection
sites, but the checkpoints between remission and persistence remain unknown. Here, we …

New insights into the immune functions of complement

ES Reis, DC Mastellos, G Hajishengallis… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The recognition of microbial or danger-associated molecular patterns by complement
proteins initiates a cascade of events that culminates in the activation of surface complement …

Innate metabolic responses against viral infections

CS Palmer - Nature Metabolism, 2022 - nature.com
Metabolic adaptation to viral infections critically determines the course and manifestations of
disease. At the systemic level, a significant feature of viral infection and inflammation that …

Context-dependent roles of complement in cancer

LT Roumenina, MV Daugan, F Petitprez… - Nature Reviews …, 2019 - nature.com
The tumour microenvironment (TME) highly influences the growth and spread of tumours,
thus impacting the patient's clinical outcome. In this context, the complement system plays a …

Complement in the brain: contributions to neuroprotection, neuronal plasticity, and neuroinflammation

SS Bohlson, AJ Tenner - Annual Review of Immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The complement system is an ancient collection of proteolytic cascades with well-described
roles in regulation of innate and adaptive immunity. With the convergence of a revolution in …