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 …

The immunology of systemic lupus erythematosus

GC Tsokos - Nature Immunology, 2024 - nature.com
Understanding the pathogenesis and clinical manifestations of systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE) has been a great challenge. Reductionist approaches to understand …

Evolution of immune genes is associated with the Black Death

J Klunk, TP Vilgalys, CE Demeure, X Cheng… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Infectious diseases are among the strongest selective pressures driving human evolution,.
This includes the single greatest mortality event in recorded history, the first outbreak of the …

Single-cell eQTL map** identifies cell type–specific genetic control of autoimmune disease

S Yazar, J Alquicira-Hernandez, K Wing, A Senabouth… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The human immune system displays substantial variation between individuals, leading to
differences in susceptibility to autoimmune disease. We present single-cell RNA sequencing …

Emerging concepts of type I interferons in SLE pathogenesis and therapy

A Psarras, M Wittmann, EM Vital - Nature reviews Rheumatology, 2022 - nature.com
Type I interferons have been suspected for decades to have a crucial role in the
pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Evidence has now overturned several …

WhichTF is functionally important in your open chromatin data?

Y Tanigawa, ES Dyer, G Bejerano - PLoS computational biology, 2022 - journals.plos.org
We present WhichTF, a computational method to identify functionally important transcription
factors (TFs) from chromatin accessibility measurements. To rank TFs, WhichTF applies an …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical and immunological biomarkers for systemic lupus erythematosus

H Yu, Y Nagafuchi, K Fujio - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is characterized by immune system dysfunction and is
clinically heterogeneous, exhibiting renal, dermatological, neuropsychiatric, and …

Systemic lupus erythematosus and cardiovascular disease

J Frostegård - Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The prognosis in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) has improved due to better treatment
and care, but cardiovascular disease (CVD) still remains an important clinical problem, since …

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 …

Thioredoxin is a metabolic rheostat controlling regulatory B cells

HF Bradford, TCR McDonnell, A Stewart, A Skelton… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Metabolic programming is important for B cell fate, but the bioenergetic requirement for
regulatory B (Breg) cell differentiation and function is unknown. Here we show that Breg cell …