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 …

Autoantibodies in neurological disease

H Prüss - Nature reviews immunology, 2021 - nature.com
The realization that autoantibodies can contribute to dysfunction of the brain has brought
about a paradigm shift in neurological diseases over the past decade, offering up important …

A dynamic COVID-19 immune signature includes associations with poor prognosis

AG Laing, A Lorenc, I Del Molino Del Barrio, A Das… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Improved understanding and management of COVID-19, a potentially life-threatening
disease, could greatly reduce the threat posed by its etiologic agent, SARS-CoV-2. Toward …

[HTML][HTML] Preexisting autoantibodies to type I IFNs underlie critical COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with APS-1

P Bastard, E Orlova, L Sozaeva, R Lévy… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Preexisting autoantibodies to type I IFNs underlie critical COVID-19 pneumonia in patients with
APS-1 | Journal of Experimental Medicine | Rockefeller University Press Skip to Main Content …

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 …

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 life-threatening COVID-19

P Bastard, LB Rosen, Q Zhang, E Michailidis… - Science, 2020 - science.org
INTRODUCTION Interindividual clinical variability is vast in humans infected with severe
acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), ranging from silent infection to …

Mitochondrial double-stranded RNA triggers antiviral signalling in humans

A Dhir, S Dhir, LS Borowski, L Jimenez, M Teitell… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Mitochondria are descendants of endosymbiotic bacteria and retain essential prokaryotic
features such as a compact circular genome. Consequently, in mammals, mitochondrial …

Type 1 diabetes

T Quattrin, LD Mastrandrea, LSK Walker - The Lancet, 2023 - thelancet.com
Type 1 diabetes is a chronic disease caused by autoimmune destruction of pancreatic β
cells. Individuals with type 1 diabetes are reliant on insulin for survival. Despite enhanced …

Autoantibodies neutralizing type I IFNs are present in~ 4% of uninfected individuals over 70 years old and account for~ 20% of COVID-19 deaths

P Bastard, A Gervais, T Le Voyer, J Rosain… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Circulating autoantibodies (auto-Abs) neutralizing high concentrations (10 ng/ml; in plasma
diluted 1: 10) of IFN-α and/or IFN-ω are found in about 10% of patients with critical COVID …