Innate immunity: the first line of defense against SARS-CoV-2

MS Diamond, TD Kanneganti - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Abstract The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, caused by severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus (SARS-CoV)-2, continues to cause substantial morbidity …

Human genetic and immunological determinants of critical COVID-19 pneumonia

Q Zhang, P Bastard, A Cobat, JL Casanova - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
SARS-CoV-2 infection is benign in most individuals but, in around 10% of cases, it triggers
hypoxaemic COVID-19 pneumonia, which leads to critical illness in around 3% of cases …

The risk of COVID-19 death is much greater and age dependent with type I IFN autoantibodies

J Manry, P Bastard, A Gervais… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection fatality rate (IFR)
doubles with every 5 y of age from childhood onward. Circulating autoantibodies …

Sensing of SARS-CoV-2 by pDCs and their subsequent production of IFN-I contribute to macrophage-induced cytokine storm during COVID-19

P Laurent, C Yang, AF Rendeiro… - Science …, 2022 - science.org
Lung-infiltrating macrophages create a marked inflammatory milieu in a subset of patients
with COVID-19 by producing a cytokine storm, which correlates with increased lethality …

Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic: lessons learned

SJR da Silva, JCF do Nascimento… - ACS infectious …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) is a highly transmissible
and virulent human-infecting coronavirus that emerged in late December 2019 in Wuhan …

Mechanisms of viral inflammation and disease in humans

JL Casanova, L Abel - Science, 2021 - science.org
Disease and accompanying inflammation are uncommon outcomes of viral infection in
humans. Clinical inflammation occurs if steady-state cell-intrinsic and leukocytic immunity to …

[HTML][HTML] From rare disorders of immunity to common determinants of infection: Following the mechanistic thread

JL Casanova, L Abel - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
The immense interindividual clinical variability during any infection is a long-standing
enigma. Inborn errors of IFN-γ and IFN-α/β immunity underlying rare infections with weakly …

Human autoantibodies underlying infectious diseases

A Puel, P Bastard, J Bustamante… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
The vast interindividual clinical variability observed in any microbial infection—ranging from
silent infection to lethal disease—is increasingly being explained by human genetic and …

Autoantibodies against type I IFNs in patients with critical influenza pneumonia

Q Zhang, A Pizzorno, L Miorin, P Bastard… - Journal of Experimental …, 2022 - rupress.org
Autoantibodies neutralizing type I interferons (IFNs) can underlie critical COVID-19
pneumonia and yellow fever vaccine disease. We report here on 13 patients harboring …

Specialized interferon action in COVID-19

MD Galbraith, KT Kinning, KD Sullivan… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
The impacts of interferon (IFN) signaling on COVID-19 pathology are multiple, with both
protective and harmful effects being documented. We report here a multiomics investigation …