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 …

Enhancing the immunogenicity of lipid-nanoparticle mRNA vaccines by adjuvanting the ionizable lipid and the mRNA

B Li, AY Jiang, I Raji, C Atyeo, TM Raimondo… - Nature Biomedical …, 2023 - nature.com
To elicit optimal immune responses, messenger RNA vaccines require intracellular delivery
of the mRNA and the careful use of adjuvants. Here we report a multiply adjuvanted mRNA …

Human autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs: From 1981 to 2023

P Bastard, A Gervais, T Le Voyer… - Immunological …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Human autoantibodies (auto‐Abs) neutralizing type I IFNs were first discovered in a woman
with disseminated shingles and were described by Ion Gresser from 1981 to 1984. They …

[HTML][HTML] Human genomics of COVID-19 pneumonia: Contributions of rare and common variants

A Cobat, Q Zhang… - Annual review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
SARS-CoV-2 (severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2) infection is silent or benign
in most infected individuals, but causes hypoxemic COVID-19 pneumonia in about 10% of …

[HTML][HTML] Defective activation and regulation of type I interferon immunity is associated with increasing COVID-19 severity

N Smith, C Possémé, V Bondet, J Sugrue… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Host immunity to infection with SARS-CoV-2 is highly variable, dictating diverse clinical
outcomes ranging from asymptomatic to severe disease and death. We previously reported …

[HTML][HTML] Auto-antibodies against type I IFNs in> 10% of critically ill COVID-19 patients: a prospective multicentre study

R Arrestier, P Bastard, T Belmondo, G Voiriot… - Annals of Intensive …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Background Auto-antibodies (auto-Abs) neutralizing type I interferons (IFN) have
been found in about 15% of critical cases COVID-19 pneumonia and less than 1% of mild or …

[HTML][HTML] Warmer ambient air temperatures reduce nasal turbinate and brain infection, but increase lung inflammation in the K18-hACE2 mouse model of COVID-19

T Dumenil, TT Le, DJ Rawle, K Yan, B Tang… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Warmer climatic conditions have been associated with fewer COVID-19 cases. Herein we
infected K18-hACE2 mice housed at the standard animal house temperature of∼ 22° C, or …

[HTML][HTML] Biological mechanisms underpinning the development of long COVID

R Perumal, L Shunmugam, K Naidoo, D Wilkins… - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
As COVID-19 evolves from a pandemic to an endemic disease, the already staggering
number of people that have been or will be infected with SARS-CoV-2 is only destined to …

[HTML][HTML] Correlation between type I interferon associated factors and COVID-19 severity

D Bencze, T Fekete, K Pázmándi - International Journal of Molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Antiviral type I interferons (IFN) produced in the early phase of viral infections effectively
inhibit viral replication, prevent virus-mediated tissue damages and promote innate and …

[HTML][HTML] Immune-mediated inflammatory responses of alveolar epithelial cells: Implications for COVID-19 lung pathology

A Barilli, R Visigalli, F Ferrari, MG Bianchi, V Dall'Asta… - Biomedicines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Background. Clinical and experimental evidence point to a dysregulated immune response
caused by SARS-CoV-2 as the primary mechanism of lung disease in COVID-19. However …