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 …

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] An immune-based biomarker signature is associated with mortality in COVID-19 patients

MS Abers, OM Delmonte, EE Ricotta, J Fintzi, DL Fink… - JCI insight, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Immune and inflammatory responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
(SARS-CoV-2) contribute to disease severity of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) …

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 …

[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 …

The cellular and physiological basis for lung repair and regeneration: past, present, and future

MC Basil, J Katzen, AE Engler, M Guo, MJ Herriges… - Cell stem cell, 2020 - cell.com
The respiratory system, which includes the trachea, airways, and distal alveoli, is a complex
multi-cellular organ that intimately links with the cardiovascular system to accomplish gas …

Inborn errors of type I IFN immunity in patients with life-threatening COVID-19

Q Zhang, P Bastard, Z Liu, J Le Pen, M Moncada-Velez… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Clinical outcomes of human severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection range from silent infection to lethal coronavirus …

Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities

AJ Kwok, A Mentzer, JC Knight - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how human genetics influence infectious disease susceptibility offers the
opportunity for new insights into pathogenesis, potential drug targets, risk stratification …

Innate immune inflammatory cell death: PANoptosis and PANoptosomes in host defense and disease

W Chen, JM Gullett, RE Tweedell… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Regulated cell death (RCD) triggered by innate immune activation is an important strategy
for host survival during pathogen invasion and perturbations of cellular homeostasis. There …