From target discovery to clinical drug development with human genetics

K Trajanoska, C Bhérer, D Taliun, S Zhou, JB Richards… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The substantial investments in human genetics and genomics made over the past three
decades were anticipated to result in many innovative therapies. Here we investigate the …

[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 …

Trans-ancestry analysis reveals genetic and nongenetic associations with COVID-19 susceptibility and severity

JF Shelton, AJ Shastri, C Ye, CH Weldon… - Nature Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
COVID-19 presents with a wide range of severity, from asymptomatic in some individuals to
fatal in others. Based on a study of 1,051,032 23andMe research participants, we report …

A guide to chemokines and their receptors

CE Hughes, RJB Nibbs - The FEBS journal, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The chemokines (or chemotactic cytokines) are a large family of small, secreted proteins that
signal through cell surface G protein‐coupled heptahelical chemokine receptors. They are …

[HTML][HTML] HIV-1 remission and possible cure in a woman after haplo-cord blood transplant

J Hsu, K Van Besien, MJ Glesby, S Pahwa, A Coletti… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Previously, two men were cured of HIV-1 through CCR5Δ32 homozygous (CCR5Δ32/Δ32)
allogeneic adult stem cell transplant. We report the first remission and possible HIV-1 cure in …

Evolution by gene loss

R Albalat, C Cañestro - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
The recent increase in genomic data is revealing an unexpected perspective of gene loss as
a pervasive source of genetic variation that can cause adaptive phenotypic diversity. This …

Improved prime editors enable pathogenic allele correction and cancer modelling in adult mice

P Liu, SQ Liang, C Zheng, E Mintzer, YG Zhao… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Prime editors (PEs) mediate genome modification without utilizing double-stranded DNA
breaks or exogenous donor DNA as a template. PEs facilitate nucleotide substitutions or …

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)

German Advisory Committee Blood … - Transfusion medicine …, 2016 - karger.com
German Advisory Committee Blood (Arbeitskreis Blut), Subgroup 'Assessment of Pathogens
Transmissible by Blood'tein, TM) are derived. In addition to the structural proteins, the HIV …

Immunological mechanisms of human resistance to persistent Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection

JD Simmons, CM Stein, C Seshadri, M Campo… - Nature Reviews …, 2018 - nature.com
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a leading cause of mortality worldwide and establishes a
long-lived latent infection in a substantial proportion of the human population. Multiple lines …

Recent advances targeting CCR5 for cancer and its role in immuno-oncology

X Jiao, O Nawab, T Patel, AV Kossenkov, N Halama… - Cancer research, 2019 - AACR
Experiments of nature have revealed the peculiar importance of the G-protein–coupled
receptor, CC chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5), in human disease since ancient times. The …