Anti-cytokine autoantibodies: mechanistic insights and disease associations

A Cheng, SM Holland - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Anti-cytokine autoantibodies (ACAAs) are increasingly recognized as modulating disease
severity in infection, inflammation and autoimmunity. By reducing or augmenting cytokine …

Autoantibodies targeting type I interferons: Prevalence, mechanisms of induction, and association with viral disease susceptibility

BG Hale - European Journal of Immunology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The type I IFN (IFN‐I) system is essential to limit severe viral disease in humans.
Thus, IFN‐I deficiencies are associated with serious life‐threatening infections. Remarkably …

[HTML][HTML] Autoantigen profiling reveals a shared post-COVID signature in fully recovered and long COVID patients

A Bodansky, CY Wang, A Saxena, A Mitchell, AF Kung… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Some individuals do not return to baseline health following SARS-CoV-2 infection, leading
to a condition known as long COVID. The underlying pathophysiology of long COVID …

[HTML][HTML] Transient anti-cytokine autoantibodies superimpose the hyperinflammatory response in Kawasaki disease and multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children …

SA Netea, G Biesbroek, D van Stijn, H Ijspeert… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Summary Background Children with SARS-CoV-2 related Multisystem Inflammatory
Syndrome in Children (MIS-C) often present with clinical features that resemble Kawasaki …

Aire in Autoimmunity

CN Miller, MR Waterfield, JM Gardner… - Annual Review of …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
The role of the autoimmune regulator (Aire) in central immune tolerance and thymic self-
representation was first described more than 20 years ago, but fascinating new insights into …

Yin and yang of interferons: lessons from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic

SS Akusjärvi, I Zanoni - Current Opinion in Immunology, 2024 - Elsevier
The host immune response against severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
includes the induction of a group of natural antiviral cytokines called interferons (IFNs) …

[HTML][HTML] Role of autoantibodies targeting interferon type 1 in COVID-19 severity: A systematic review and meta-analysis

A Akbari, A Hadizadeh, M Amiri, NN Najafi… - Journal of Translational …, 2023 - Elsevier
Introduction Impairment of the type I interferon (IFN–I) signaling pathway is associated with
increased severity of COVID-19 disease. Here we have undertaken a systematic review and …

[HTML][HTML] Struggling with Covid-19 in adult inborn errors of immunity patients: A case series of combination therapy and multiple lines of therapy for selected patients

P Bez, G D'ippolito, CM Deiana, R Finco Gambier… - Life, 2023 - mdpi.com
Background: The SARS-CoV-2 infection is now a part of the everyday lives of
immunocompromised patients, but the choice of treatment and the time of viral clearance …

TIGIT+Tfh show poor B-helper function and negatively correlate with SARS-CoV-2 antibody titre

NM Edner, LP Houghton, E Ntavli… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Circulating follicular helper T cells (cTfh) can show phenotypic alterations in disease
settings, including in the context of tissue-damaging autoimmune or anti-viral responses …

[HTML][HTML] Anticytokine Autoantibodies in Infectious Diseases: A Practical Overview

RJW Arts, NAF Janssen… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Anticytokine autoantibodies (ACAAs) are a fascinating group of antibodies that have gained
more and more attention in the field of autoimmunity and secondary immunodeficiencies …