EBMT/ESID inborn errors working party guidelines for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for inborn errors of immunity

AC Lankester, MH Albert, C Booth… - Bone Marrow …, 2021 - nature.com
Inborn errors of immunity (IEI) are a group of rare heterogeneous diseases. Currently, more
than 400 monogenetic IEI have been identified and increasingly a genetic diagnosis can be …

FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population

MI Kurki, J Karjalainen, P Palta, TP Sipilä… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Population isolates such as those in Finland benefit genetic research because deleterious
alleles are often concentrated on a small number of low-frequency variants (0.1%≤ minor …

SH2 domains: folding, binding and therapeutical approaches

A Diop, D Santorelli, F Malagrinò, C Nardella… - International Journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
SH2 (Src Homology 2) domains are among the best characterized and most studied protein-
protein interaction (PPIs) modules able to bind and recognize sequences presenting a …

ZAP70, too little, too much can lead to autoimmunity

JF Ashouri, WL Lo, TTT Nguyen, L Shen… - Immunological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Establishing both central and peripheral tolerance requires the appropriate TCR signaling
strength to discriminate self‐from agonist‐peptide bound to self MHC molecules. ZAP70, a …

Clinical, immunological, and genetic features in 938 patients with autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy (APECED): a systematic review

N Sharifinejad, M Zaki-Dizaji, S Tebyanian… - Expert Review of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Autoimmune polyendocrinopathy candidiasis ectodermal dystrophy (APECED)
is a rare inborn immune error characterized by a triad of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis …

Start codon variant in LAG3 is associated with decreased LAG-3 expression and increased risk of autoimmune thyroid disease

S Saevarsdottir, K Bjarnadottir, T Markusson… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) is a common autoimmune disease. In a GWAS meta-
analysis of 110,945 cases and 1,084,290 controls, 290 sequence variants at 225 loci are …

Combined immunodeficiency caused by pathogenic variants in the ZAP70 C-terminal SH2 domain

C Mongellaz, R Vicente, LM Noroski, N Noraz… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction ZAP-70, a protein tyrosine kinase recruited to the T cell receptor (TCR), initiates
a TCR signaling cascade upon antigen stimulation. Mutations in the ZAP70 gene cause a …

Decoding the deactivation mechanism of R192W mutation of ZAP-70 using molecular dynamics simulations and binding free energy calculations

X Zhang, W Liang, G Zheng, B Li - Journal of Molecular Modeling, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Context ZAP-70 (zeta-chain-associated protein of 70 kDa), serving as a critical
regulator for T cell antigen receptor signaling, represents an attractive therapeutic target for …

A cysteine residue within the kinase domain of Zap70 regulates Lck activity and proximal TCR signaling

A Schultz, M Schnurra, A El-Bizri, NM Woessner… - Cells, 2022 - mdpi.com
Alterations in both the expression and function of the non-receptor tyrosine kinase Zap70
are associated with numerous human diseases including immunodeficiency, autoimmunity …

The T cell journey: a tour de force

A Alatoom, M ElGindi, J Sapudom… - Advanced Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
T cells act as the puppeteers in the adaptive immune response, and their dysfunction leads
to the initiation and progression of pathological conditions. During their lifetime, T cells …