T Li, ZJ Chen - Journal of Experimental Medicine, 2018 - rupress.org
Detection of microbial DNA is an evolutionarily conserved mechanism that alerts the host immune system to mount a defense response to microbial infections. However, this detection …
Dissection of the genetic basis of Aicardi–Goutières syndrome has highlighted a fundamental link between nucleic acid metabolism, innate immune sensors and type I …
N König, C Fiehn, C Wolf, M Schuster… - Annals of the …, 2017 - ard.bmj.com
Objectives Familial chilblain lupus is a monogenic form of cutaneous lupus erythematosus caused by loss-of-function mutations in the nucleases TREX1 or SAMHD1. In a family …
K Bartsch, K Knittler, C Borowski… - Human molecular …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Hypomorphic mutations in the DNA repair enzyme RNase H2 cause the neuroinflammatory autoimmune disorder Aicardi-Goutières syndrome (AGS). Endogenous nucleic acids are …
S Maharana, S Kretschmer, S Hunger, X Yan, D Kuster… - Molecular cell, 2022 - cell.com
Recognition of pathogen-derived foreign nucleic acids is central to innate immune defense. This requires discrimination between structurally highly similar self and nonself nucleic acids …
H Okude, D Ori, T Kawai - Frontiers in Immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Recognition of pathogen-derived nucleic acids by pattern-recognition receptors (PRRs) is essential for eliciting antiviral immune responses by inducing the production of type I …
D Sürün, A Schneider, J Mircetic, K Neumann… - Genes, 2020 - mdpi.com
In contrast to CRISPR/Cas9 nucleases, CRISPR base editors (BE) and prime editors (PE) enable predefined nucleotide exchanges in genomic sequences without generating DNA …
HE Volkman, DB Stetson - Nature immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Inappropriate or chronic detection of self nucleic acids by the innate immune system underlies many human autoimmune diseases. We discuss here an unexpected source of …
MA Lee-Kirsch - Annual review of medicine, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Type I interferons (IFNs) play a central role in the immune defense against viral infections. Type I IFN activation is induced by pattern-recognition receptors of the innate immune …