Pathogenic cellular and molecular mediators in lupus nephritis

C Mohan, T Zhang, C Putterman - Nature Reviews Nephrology, 2023 - nature.com
Kidney involvement in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus—lupus nephritis (LN)—is
one of the most important and common clinical manifestations of this disease and occurs in …

An update on lupus animal models

W Li, AA Titov, L Morel - Current opinion in rheumatology, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Spontaneous and induced models of lupus models are useful tools for the study of the cause
of the disease, identify therapeutic targets and screen treatments in preclinical studies. Each …

Genetic dissection of TLR9 reveals complex regulatory and cryptic proinflammatory roles in mouse lupus

C Leibler, S John, RA Elsner, KB Thomas, S Smita… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
In lupus, Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) and TLR9 mediate loss of tolerance to RNA and DNA,
respectively. Yet, TLR7 promotes disease, while TLR9 protects from disease, implying …

[HTML][HTML] B cell–intrinsic TLR7 expression drives severe lupus in TLR9-deficient mice

HA Cosgrove, S Gingras, M Kim, S Bastacky, JS Tilstra… - JCI insight, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The endosomal Toll-like receptor 7 (TLR7) is a major driver of murine and human systemic
lupus erythematosus (SLE). The role of TLR7 in lupus pathogenesis is enhanced when the …

Toll-like receptor 9 deficiency induces osteoclastic bone loss via gut microbiota-associated systemic chronic inflammation

P Ding, Q Tan, Z Wei, Q Chen, C Wang, L Qi, L Wen… - Bone Research, 2022 - nature.com
Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play pivotal roles in inflammation and provide important links
between the immune and skeletal systems. Although the activation of TLRs may affect …

New aspects of kidney fibrosis–from mechanisms of injury to modulation of disease

MJ Moeller, R Kramann, T Lammers, B Hoppe… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Organ fibrogenesis is characterized by a common pathophysiological final pathway
independent of the underlying progressive disease of the respective organ. This makes it …

B cell–intrinsic TLR9 expression is protective in murine lupus

JS Tilstra, S John, RA Gordon, C Leibler… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Toll-like receptor 9 (TLR9) is a regulator of disease pathogenesis in systemic lupus
erythematosus (SLE). Why TLR9 represses disease while TLR7 and MyD88 have the …

TLR7/TLR9-and B cell receptor-signaling crosstalk: promotion of potentially dangerous B cells

AN Suthers, S Sarantopoulos - Frontiers in immunology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
B cells are capable of receptor-mediated responses to foreign antigens. Recognition of
microbial-derived nucleic acid (NA) by toll-like receptors (TLRs) 7 and 9 in B cells has been …

Cleavage of DNA and RNA by PLD3 and PLD4 limits autoinflammatory triggering by multiple sensors

AL Gavin, D Huang, TR Blane, TC Thinnes… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Abstract Phospholipase D3 (PLD3) and PLD4 polymorphisms have been associated with
several important inflammatory diseases. Here, we show that PLD3 and PLD4 digest ssRNA …

cGAS-STING pathway does not promote autoimmunity in murine models of SLE

M Motwani, J McGowan, J Antonovitch… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Detection of DNA is an important determinant of host-defense but also a driver of
autoinflammatory and autoimmune diseases. Failure to degrade self-DNA in DNAseII or III …