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Arthritis & Clinical Immunology Research Program

What We Do

The human immune system is critical for protection against infections and cancer, but diseases of the immune system can be devastating. These include allergic responses, immunodeficiencies and immune reactions directed against self, called autoimmunity. Autoimmune diseases afflict at least one in twelve Americans and are a leading cause of disability and early death in young women of child-bearing age. Our mission is to improve the lives of patients through a continuum of basic mechanistic studies, clinical research, industry collaborations and clinical care.

Scientists in Arthritis and Clinical Immunology focus on understanding systemic autoimmunity and deciphering basic immunologic concepts. Our studies address the etiology, pathogenesis and molecular mechanisms of complex human autoimmune diseases, such as systemic lupus erythematosus, Sjögren’s syndrome, rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory myositis, multiple sclerosis (MS) and thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura. Our studies on immune development and mechanisms of immune protection or perturbation have broad impact on immune responses to vaccination or infection.

Our investigators use a wide range of genetic, genomic, proteomic, immunologic and molecular approaches. To facilitate these patient-oriented research activities, some of our scientists are also developing novel methods to mine large datasets and evaluate complex human genetic diseases.

In addition, the Arthritis and Clinical Immunology program houses resources that are essential for many investigators in our program and in the larger autoimmune disease research community. These include the Biorepository Core, Clinical Immunology Laboratory, Myositis Testing Laboratory, Human Antibody Core, Quantitative Analysis Core, Clinical Genomics Center and Phenotyping Core. Many of these cores were established and funded through ongoing federal grants, leveraging equipment purchased and serviced by OMRF. Our investigators also benefit from departmental journal clubs, seminar series, intentional mentorship and collaborative, multi-investigator scientific projects.

Our Publications

2020

Ratliff ML, Garton J, James JA, Webb CF. ARID3a expression in human hematopoietic stem cells is associated with distinct gene patterns in aged individuals. Immun Ageing 17:24, 2020 September, PMID: 32905435, PMCID: PMC7469297

Bernatsky S, Ramsey-Goldman R, Urowitz MB, Hanly JG, Gordon C, Petri MA, Ginzler EM, Wallace DJ, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Dooley MA, Peschken CA, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Manzi S, Jacobsen S, Lim SS, van Vollenhoven R, Nived O, Kamen DL, Aranow C, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Gladman DD, Fortin PR, Alarcón GS, Merrill JT, Kalunian KC, Ramos-Casals M, Steinsson K, Zoma A, Askanase A, Khamashta MA, Bruce I, Inanc M, Clarke AE. Cancer risk in a large inception SLE cohort: Effects of demographics, smoking, and medications. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 August, PMID: 32813314

Igoe A, Merjanah S, Scofield RH. Sjögren Syndrome and Cancer. Rheum Dis Clin North Am 46:513-532, 2020 August, PMID: 32631601

Merrill JT, Erkan D, Winakur J, James JA. Emerging evidence of a COVID-19 thrombotic syndrome has treatment implications. Nat Rev Rheumatol, 2020 July, PMID: 32733003, PMCID: PMC7391481

Chitrakar A, Budda SA, Henderson JG, Axtell RC, Zenewicz LA. E3 Ubiquitin Ligase Von Hippel-Lindau Protein Promotes Th17 Differentiation. J Immunol, 2020 July, PMID: 32690659

Chakka S, Krain RL, Ahmed S, Concha JSS, Feng R, Merrill JT, Werth VP. Evaluating Change in Disease Activity Needed to Reflect Meaningful Improvement in Quality of Life for Clinical Trials in Cutaneous Lupus Erythematosus. J Am Acad Dermatol, 2020 July, PMID: 32682879

Shah HB, Smith K, Scott Ii EJ, Larabee JL, James JA, Ballard JD, Lang ML. Human C. difficile toxin-specific memory B cell repertoires encode poorly-neutralizing antibodies. JCI Insight, 2020 July, PMID: 32663199, PMCID: PMC7455132

Popescu NI, Keshari RS, Cochran J, Coggeshall KM, Lupu F. C3 Opsonization of Anthrax Bacterium and Peptidoglycan Supports Recognition and Activation of Neutrophils. Microorganisms 8, 2020 July, PMID: 32668703, PMCID: PMC7409185

Joachims ML, Leehan KM, Dozmorov MG, Georgescu C, Pan Z, Lawrence C, Marlin MC, Macwana S, Rasmussen A, Radfar L, Lewis DM, Stone DU, Grundahl K, Scofield RH, Lessard CJ, Wren JD, Thompson LF, Guthridge JM, Sivils KL, Moore JS, Farris AD. Sjögren's Syndrome Minor Salivary Gland CD4 Memory T Cells Associate with Glandular Disease Features and have a Germinal Center T Follicular Helper Transcriptional Profile. J Clin Med 9, 2020 July, PMID: 32650575, PMCID: PMC7408878

Dunn CM, Velasco C, Rivas A, Andrews M, Garman C, Jacob PB, Jeffries MA. Identification of Cartilage Microbial DNA Signatures and Associations With Knee and Hip Osteoarthritis. Arthritis Rheumatol 72:1111-1122, 2020 July, PMID: 31961065, PMCID: PMC7336391

Papinska J, Bagavant H, Gmyrek GB, Deshmukh US. Pulmonary Involvement in a Mouse Model of Sjögren's Syndrome Induced by STING Activation. Int J Mol Sci 21, 2020 June, PMID: 32630417, PMCID: PMC7349948

Steingo B, Al Malik Y, Bass AD, Berkovich R, Carraro M, Fernández Ó, Ionete C, Massacesi L, Meuth SG, Mitsikostas DD, Pardo G, Simm RF, Traboulsee A, Choudhry Z, Daizadeh N, Compston DAS, CAMMS223, CAMMS03409, and TOPAZ Investigators.. Long-term efficacy and safety of alemtuzumab in patients with RRMS: 12-year follow-up of CAMMS223. J Neurol, 2020 June, PMID: 32583052

Guthridge CJ, Gross T, Quintero M, Kheir JM, Levin J, Bourn RL, Khan S, Peercy M, Saunkeah B, Guthridge JM, James JA. Expanded Autoantibody Profiles for Subsetting of Native American, African American, and European American Patients With Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. ACR Open Rheumatol, 2020 June, PMID: 32567819, PMCID: PMC7368137

Liu C, Yu S, Jin R, Long Y, Lu S, Song Y, Sun X, Sun XH, Zhang Y. Correlation of the levels of DNA-binding inhibitor Id3 and regulatory T cells with SLE disease severity. J Autoimmun:102498, 2020 June, PMID: 32536579

Urowitz MB, Gladman DD, Farewell V, Su J, Romero-Diaz J, Bae SC, Fortin PR, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Clarke AE, Bernatsky S, Gordon C, Hanly JG, Wallace DJ, Isenberg D, Rahman A, Merrill J, Ginzler E, Alarcón GS, Chatham WW, Petri M, Bruce IN, Khamashta M, Aranow C, Dooley M, Manzi S, Ramsey-Goldman R, Nived O, Jönsen A, Steinsson K, Zoma A, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim S, Kalunian KC, Ỉnanç M, van Vollenhoven R, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Jacobsen S, Peschken C, Askanase A, Stoll T. Accrual of atherosclerotic vascular events in a multicentre inception SLE cohort. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2020 June, PMID: 32515554

Hahn J, Leatherwood C, Malspeis S, Liu X, Lu B, Roberts AL, Sparks JA, Karlson EW, Feldman CH, Munroe ME, James JA, Kubzansky LD, Costenbader KH. Associations between daily alcohol consumption and systemic lupus erythematosus-related cytokines and chemokines among US female nurses without SLE. Lupus:961203320929427, 2020 June, PMID: 32507075

Agasing AM, Wu Q, Khatri B, Borisow N, Ruprecht K, Brandt AU, Gawde S, Kumar G, Quinn JL, Ko RM, Mao-Draayer Y, Lessard CJ, Paul F, Axtell RC. Transcriptomics and proteomics reveal a cooperation between interferon and T-helper 17 cells in neuromyelitis optica. Nat Commun 11:2856, 2020 June, PMID: 32503977, PMCID: PMC7275086

Slight-Webb S, Smith M, Bylinska A, Macwana S, Guthridge C, Lu R, Merrill JT, Chakravarty E, Arriens C, Munroe ME, Maecker HT, Utz PJ, Guthridge JM, James JA. Autoantibody-positive healthy individuals with lower lupus risk display a unique immune endotype. J Allergy Clin Immunol, 2020 May, PMID: 32446964

Petri M, Goldman DW, Alarcón GS, Gordon C, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Bruce IN, Isenberg D, Wallace D, Nived O, Ramsey-Goldman R, Bae SC, Hanly JG, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Clarke AE, Aranow C, Manzi S, Urowitz M, Gladman DD, Kalunian K, Werth VP, Zoma A, Bernatsky S, Khamashta M, Jacobsen S, Buyon JP, Dooley MA, van Vollenhoven R, Ginzler E, Stoll T, Peschken C, Jorizzo JL, Callen JP, Lim S, Inanç M, Kamen DL, Rahman A, Steinsson K, Franks AG Jr, Magder LS. A Comparison of 2019 EULAR/ACR SLE Classification Criteria with Two Sets of Earlier SLE Classification Criteria. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2020 May, PMID: 32433832

Dumas EK, Demiraslan H, Ingram RJ, Sparks RM, Muns E, Zamora A, Larabee J, Garman L, Ballard JD, Boons GJ, James JA, Kayabas U, Doganay M, Farris AD. Toxin-neutralizing antibodies elicited by naturally acquired cutaneous anthrax are elevated following severe disease and appear to target conformational epitopes. PLoS One 15:e0230782, 2020 April, PMID: 32294093, PMCID: PMC7159215

Arriens C, Alexander RV, Narain S, Saxena A, Collins CE, Wallace DJ, Massarotti E, Conklin J, Kalunian KC, Putterman C, Ramsey-Goldman R, Buyon JP, Askanase A, Furie RA, James JA, Bello GA, Manzi S, Ahearn J, O'Malley T, Weinstein A, Dervieux T. Cell-bound complement activation products associate with lupus severity in SLE. Lupus Sci Med 7, 2020 April, PMID: 32371480, PMCID: PMC7228655

Arriens C, Aberle T, Carthen F, Kamp S, Thanou A, Chakravarty E, James JA, Merrill JT, Ogunsanya ME. Lupus patient decisions about clinical trial participation: a qualitative evaluation of perceptions, facilitators and barriers. Lupus Sci Med 7:e000360, 2020 March, PMID: 32201595, PMCID: PMC7073780

Guthridge JM, Lu R, Tran LT, Arriens C, Aberle T, Kamp S, Munroe ME, Dominguez N, Gross T, DeJager W, Macwana SR, Bourn RL, Apel S, Thanou A, Chen H, Chakravarty EF, Merrill JT, James JA. Adults with systemic lupus exhibit distinct molecular phenotypes in a cross-sectional study. EClinicalMedicine 20:100291, 2020 March, PMID: 32154507, PMCID: PMC7058913

Simões IT, Aranda F, Casadó-Llombart S, Velasco-de Andrés M, Català C, Álvarez P, Consuegra-Fernández M, Orta-Mascaró M, Merino R, Merino J, Alberola-Ila J, González-Aseguinolaza G, Carreras E, Martínez V, Lozano F. Multifaceted effects of soluble human CD6 in experimental cancer models. J Immunother Cancer 8, 2020 March, PMID: 32217757, PMCID: PMC7174071

Morand EF, Isenberg DA, Wallace DJ, Kao AH, Vazquez-Mateo C, Chang P, Pudota K, Aranow C, Merrill JT. Attainment of treat-to-target endpoints in SLE patients with high disease activity in the atacicept phase 2b ADDRESS II study. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2020 February, PMID: 32107560

Hanly JG, Urowitz MB, Gordon C, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Wallace DJ, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Bruce IN, Petri M, Ginzler EM, Dooley MA, Ramsey-Goldman R, Manzi S, Jönsen A, Alarcón GS, van Vollenhoven RF, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim S, Inanc M, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Kamen DL, Askanase A, Farewell V. Neuropsychiatric events in systemic lupus erythematosus: a longitudinal analysis of outcomes in an international inception cohort using a multistate model approach. Ann Rheum Dis, 2020 January, PMID: 31915121

Meyer A, Troyanov Y, Drouin J, Oligny-Longpré G, Landon-Cardinal O, Hoa S, Hervier B, Bourré-Tessier J, Mansour AM, Hussein S, Morin V, Rich E, Goulet JR, Chartrand S, Hudson M, Nehme J, Makhzoum JP, Zarka F, Villeneuve E, Raynauld JP, Landry M, O'Ferrall EK, Ferreira J, Ellezam B, Karamchandani J, Larue S, Massie R, Isabelle C, Deschênes I, Leclair V, Couture H, Targoff IN, Fritzler MJ, Senécal JL. Statin-induced anti-HMGCR myopathy: successful therapeutic strategies for corticosteroid-free remission in 55 patients. Arthritis Res Ther 22:5, 2020 January, PMID: 31915059, PMCID: PMC6950801

Jeffries MA. The Development of Epigenetics in the Study of Disease Pathogenesis. Adv Exp Med Biol 1253:57-94, 2020 January, PMID: 32445091


2019

Thanou A, James JA, Arriens C, Aberle T, Chakravarty E, Rawdon J, Stavrakis S, Merrill JT, Askanase A. Scoring systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) disease activity with simple, rapid outcome measures. Lupus Sci Med 6:e000365, 2019 December, PMID: 31921432, PMCID: PMC6937422

Berrett H, Qian L, Roman O, Cordova A, Simmons A, Sun XH, Alberola-Ila J. Development of Type 2 Innate Lymphoid Cells Is Selectively Inhibited by Sustained E Protein Activity. Immunohorizons 3:593-605, 2019 December, PMID: 31852728, PMCID: PMC6938226

Allushi B, Bagavant H, Papinska J, Deshmukh US. Hyperglycemia and Salivary Gland Dysfunction in the Non-obese Diabetic Mouse: Caveats for Preclinical Studies in Sjögren's Syndrome. Sci Rep 9:17969, 2019 November, PMID: 31784615, PMCID: PMC6884560

Ramírez-Bello J, Sun C, Valencia-Pacheco G, Singh B, Barbosa-Cobos RE, Saavedra MA, López-Villanueva RF, Nath SK. ITGAM is a risk factor to systemic lupus erythematosus and possibly a protection factor to rheumatoid arthritis in patients from Mexico. PLoS One 14:e0224543, 2019 November, PMID: 31774828, PMCID: PMC6881022

Lu R, Guthridge JM, Chen H, Bourn RL, Kamp S, Munroe ME, Macwana SR, Bean K, Sridharan S, Merrill JT, James JA. Author Correction: Immunologic findings precede rapid lupus flare after transient steroid therapy. Sci Rep 9:17514, 2019 November, PMID: 31745194, PMCID: PMC6863844

M Dunn C, Nevitt MC, Lynch JA, Jeffries MA. A pilot study of peripheral blood DNA methylation models as predictors of knee osteoarthritis radiographic progression: data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative (OAI). Sci Rep 9:16880, 2019 November, PMID: 31727952, PMCID: PMC6856188

Agasing AM, Gawde S, Kumar G, Turner E, Axtell RC. B cell function impacts the efficacy of IFN-β therapy in EAE. J Neuroimmunol 338:577106, 2019 November, PMID: 31715458, PMCID: PMC6911824

Legge A, Kirkland S, Rockwood K, Andreou P, Bae SC, Gordon C, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Wallace DJ, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Merrill JT, Ginzler EM, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Urowitz MB, Bruce IN, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Alarcón GS, Petri M, Khamashta MA, Dooley MA, Ramsey-Goldman R, Manzi S, Zoma AA, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim SS, Inanc M, van Vollenhoven RF, Jonsen A, Nived O, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Askanase A, Hanly JG. Prediction of damage accrual in systemic lupus erythematosus using the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics Frailty Index (SLICC-FI). Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019 October, PMID: 31631584, PMCID: PMC7113092

Harris VM, Koelsch KA, Kurien BT, Harley ITW, Wren JD, Harley JB, Scofield RH. Characterization of cxorf21 Provides Molecular Insight Into Female-Bias Immune Response in SLE Pathogenesis. Front Immunol 10:2160, 2019 October, PMID: 31695690, PMCID: PMC6816314

Feldman CH, Speyer C, Ashby R, Bermas B, Bhattacharyya S, Chakravarty E, Everett B, Ferucci E, Hersh AO, Marty FM, Merola JF, Ramsey-Goldman R, Rovin BH, Son MB, Tarter L, Waikar S, Yazdany J, Weissman JS, Costenbader KH. Development of a Set of Lupus-Specific Ambulatory Care Sensitive, Potentially Preventable Adverse Conditions: A Delphi Consensus Study. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2019 October, PMID: 31628721, PMCID: PMC7165052

Enocsson H, Wirestam L, Dahle C, Padyukov L, Jönsen A, Urowitz MB, Gladman DD, Romero-Diaz J, Bae SC, Fortin PR, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Clarke AE, Bernatsky S, Gordon C, Hanly JG, Wallace DJ, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Merrill JT, Ginzler E, Alarcón GS, Chatham WW, Petri M, Khamashta M, Aranow C, Mackay M, Dooley MA, Manzi S, Ramsey-Goldman R, Nived O, Steinsson K, Zoma AA, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim SS, Kalunian KC, Inanc M, van Vollenhoven RF, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Askanase A, Stoll T, Bruce IN, Wetterö J, Sjöwall C. Soluble urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (suPAR) levels predict damage accrual in patients with recent-onset systemic lupus erythematosus. J Autoimmun:102340, 2019 October, PMID: 31629628

Bocharnikov AV, Keegan J, Wacleche VS, Cao Y, Fonseka CY, Wang G, Muise ES, Zhang KX, Arazi A, Keras G, Li ZJ, Qu Y, Gurish MF, Petri M, Buyon JP, Putterman C, Wofsy D, James JA, Guthridge JM, Diamond B, Anolik JH, Mackey MF, Alves SE, Nigrovic PA, Costenbader KH, Brenner MB, Lederer JA, Rao DA, Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) RA/SLE Network.. PD-1hiCXCR5- T peripheral helper cells promote B cell responses in lupus via MAF and IL-21. JCI Insight 4, 2019 October, PMID: 31536480, PMCID: PMC6824311

Barber MRW, Hanly JG, Su L, Urowitz MB, St Pierre Y, Romero-Diaz J, Gordon C, Bae SC, Bernatsky S, Wallace DJ, Merrill JT, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Ginzler EM, Petri M, Bruce IN, Dooley MA, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Steinsson K, Ramsey-Goldman R, Khamashta MA, Aranow C, Mackay M, Alarcón GS, Manzi S, Nived O, Jönsen A, Zoma AA, van Vollenhoven RF, Ramos-Casals M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim SS, Kalunian KC, Inanc M, Kamen DL, Peschken CA, Jacobsen S, Askanase A, Farewell V, Stoll T, Buyon J, Clarke AE. Economic evaluation of damage accrual in an international SLE inception cohort using a multi-state model approach. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2019 October, PMID: 31609532

Der E, Suryawanshi H, Morozov P, Kustagi M, Goilav B, Ranabothu S, Izmirly P, Clancy R, Belmont HM, Koenigsberg M, Mokrzycki M, Rominieki H, Graham JA, Rocca JP, Bornkamp N, Jordan N, Schulte E, Wu M, Pullman J, Slowikowski K, Raychaudhuri S, Guthridge J, James J, Buyon J, Tuschl T, Putterman C, Accelerating Medicines Partnership Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (AMP RA/SLE) Consortium.. Author Correction: Tubular cell and keratinocyte single-cell transcriptomics applied to lupus nephritis reveal type I IFN and fibrosis relevant pathways. Nat Immunol, 2019 October, PMID: 31605099

Kim M, Merrill JT, Wang C, Viswanathan S, Kalunian K, Hanrahan L, Izmirly P. SLE clinical trials: impact of missing data on estimating treatment effects. Lupus Sci Med 6:e000348, 2019 October, PMID: 31649825, PMCID: PMC6784820

Slight-Webb S, Bourn RL, Holers VM, James JA. Shared and unique immune alterations in pre-clinical autoimmunity. Curr Opin Immunol 61:60-68, 2019 September, PMID: 31557691, PMCID: PMC6901719

Farrell JW 3rd, Bemben DA, Black CD, Larson DJ, Pardo G, Fjeldstad-Pardo C, Larson RD. Evaluation of Power Production Asymmetry during Cycling in Persons with Multiple Sclerosis. Int J Environ Res Public Health 16, 2019 September, PMID: 31533224, PMCID: PMC6765940

Hoover P, Der E, Berthier CC, Arazi A, Lederer JA, James JA, Buyon J, Petri M, Belmont HM, Izmirly P, Wofsy D, Hacohen N, Diamond B, Putterman C, Davidson A. The Accelerating Medicines Partnership - Organizational Structure and Preliminary Data from the Phase 1 Studies of Lupus Nephritis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2019 September, PMID: 31502417, PMCID: PMC6992476

Jog NR, McClain MT, Heinlen LD, Gross T, Towner R, Guthridge JM, Axtell RC, Pardo G, Harley JB, James JA. Epstein Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 (EBNA-1) peptides recognized by adult multiple sclerosis patient sera induce neurologic symptoms in a murine model. J Autoimmun:102332, 2019 September, PMID: 31515129, PMCID: PMC6930324

James JA, Guthridge JM, Chen H, Lu R, Bourn RL, Bean K, Munroe ME, Smith M, Chakravarty E, Baer AN, Noaiseh G, Parke A, Boyle K, Keyes-Elstein L, Coca A, Utset T, Genovese MC, Pascual V, Utz PJ, Holers VM, Deane KD, Sivils KL, Aberle T, Wallace DJ, McNamara J, Franchimont N, St Clair EW. Unique Sjögren's syndrome patient subsets defined by molecular features. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2019 September, PMID: 31497844, PMCID: PMC7188221

Heinlen L, Chakravarty EF. Lupus Nephritis: Duration of Therapy and Possibility of Withdrawal. Adv Chronic Kidney Dis 26:387-392, 2019 September, PMID: 31733723

Sun XH. Sources of ILC2s: diverse locations and precursors. Aging (Albany NY) 11:5874-5875, 2019 August, PMID: 31480019, PMCID: PMC6738413

Popescu NI, Girton A, Burgett T, Lovelady K, Coggeshall KM. Monocyte procoagulant responses to anthrax peptidoglycan are reinforced by proinflammatory cytokine signaling. Blood Adv 3:2436-2447, 2019 August, PMID: 31416821, PMCID: PMC6712522

Hanly JG, Li Q, Su L, Urowitz MB, Gordon C, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Wallace DJ, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Bruce IN, Petri M, Ginzler EM, Dooley MA, Steinsson K, Ramsey-Goldman R, Zoma AA, Manzi S, Nived O, Jonsen A, Khamashta MA, Alarcón GS, Svenungsson E, van Vollenhoven RF, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Ramos-Casals M, Lim SS, Inanc M, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Kamen DL, Askanase A, Theriault C, Farewell V. Peripheral nervous system disease in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results from an international, inception cohort study. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019 August, PMID: 31390162, PMCID: PMC6935421

Rasmussen A, Stone DU, Kaufman CE, Hefner KS, Fram NR, Siatkowski RL, Huang AJW, Chodosh J, Rasmussen PT, Fife DA, Pezant N, Grundahl K, Radfar L, Lewis DM, Weisman MH, Venuturupalli S, Wallace DJ, Rhodus NL, Brennan MT, Montgomery CG, Lessard CJ, Scofield RH, Sivils KL. Reproducibility of Ocular Surface Staining in the Assessment of Sjögren Syndrome-Related Keratoconjunctivitis Sicca: Implications on Disease Classification. ACR Open Rheumatol 1:292-302, 2019 July, PMID: 31453437, PMCID: PMC6710016

Tsaltskan V, Aldous A, Serafi S, Yakovleva A, Sami H, Mamyrova G, Targoff IN, Schiffenbauer A, Miller FW, Simmens SJ, Curiel R, Jones OY, Rider LG. Long-term outcomes in Juvenile Myositis patients. Semin Arthritis Rheum, 2019 June, PMID: 31303436, PMCID: PMC6934928

Jog NR, Young KA, Munroe ME, Harmon MT, Guthridge JM, Kelly JA, Kamen DL, Gilkeson GS, Weisman MH, Karp DR, Gaffney PM, Harley JB, Wallace DJ, Norris JM, James JA. Association of Epstein-Barr virus serological reactivation with transitioning to systemic lupus erythematosus in at-risk individuals. Ann Rheum Dis, 2019 June, PMID: 31217170, PMCID: PMC6692217

Scofield RH, Sharma R, Pezant N, Kelly JA, Radfar L, Lewis DM, Kaufman CE, Cioli S, Harris J, Grundahl K, Rhodus NL, Wallace DJ, Weisman MH, Venuturupalli S, Brennan MT, Koelsch KA, Lessard CJ, Montgomery CG, Sivils KL, Rasmussen A. American Indians Have A Higher Risk Of Sjögren's Syndrome And More Disease Activity Than Caucasians And African-Americans. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2019 June, PMID: 31199565, PMCID: PMC6911033

Lu R, Guthridge JM, Chen H, Bourn RL, Kamp S, Munroe ME, Macwana SR, Bean K, Sridharan S, Merrill JT, James JA. Immunologic findings precede rapid lupus flare after transient steroid therapy. Sci Rep 9:8590, 2019 June, PMID: 31197240, PMCID: PMC6565690

Askanase AD, Daly RP, Okado M, Neville K, Pong A, Hanrahan LM, Merrill JT. Development and content validity of the Lupus Foundation of America rapid evaluation of activity in lupus (LFA-REAL™): a patient-reported outcome measure for lupus disease activity. Health Qual Life Outcomes 17:99, 2019 June, PMID: 31174541, PMCID: PMC6555910

Molineros JE, Singh B, Terao C, Okada Y, Kaplan J, McDaniel B, Akizuki S, Sun C, Webb CF, Looger LL, Nath SK. Mechanistic Characterization of RASGRP1 Variants Identifies an hnRNP-K-Regulated Transcriptional Enhancer Contributing to SLE Susceptibility. Front Immunol 10:1066, 2019 May, PMID: 31164884, PMCID: PMC6536009

Der E, Suryawanshi H, Morozov P, Kustagi M, Goilav B, Ranabathou S, Izmirly P, Clancy R, Belmont HM, Koenigsberg M, Mokrzycki M, Rominieki H, Graham JA, Rocca JP, Bornkamp N, Jordan N, Schulte E, Wu M, Pullman J, Slowikowski K, Raychaudhuri S, Guthridge J, James J, Buyon J, Tuschl T, Putterman C, Accelerating Medicines Partnership Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (AMP RA/SLE) Consortium. Tubular cell and keratinocyte single-cell transcriptomics applied to lupus nephritis reveal type I IFN and fibrosis relevant pathways. Nat Immunol, 2019 May, PMID: 31110316, PMCID: PMC6584054

Ainsua-Enrich E, Hatipoglu I, Kadel S, Turner S, Paul J, Singh S, Bagavant H, Kovats S. IRF4-dependent dendritic cells regulate CD8+ T-cell differentiation and memory responses in influenza infection. Mucosal Immunol, 2019 May, PMID: 31089186, PMCID: PMC6527354

Sharma R, Chaudhari KS, Kurien BT, Grundahl K, Radfar L, Lewis DM, Lessard CJ, Li H, Rasmussen A, Sivils KL, Scofield RH. Sjögren's Syndrome without focal lymphocytic infiltration of the salivary glands. J Rheumatol, 2019 May, PMID: 31092717

Werth VP, Merrill JT. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, phase II trial of baricitinib for systemic lupus erythematosus: how to optimize lupus trials to examine effects on cutaneous lupus erythematosus. Br J Dermatol 180:964-965, 2019 May, PMID: 31025748, PMCID: PMC6768407

Moore C, Blumhagen RZ, Yang IV, Walts A, Powers J, Walker T, Bishop M, Russell P, Vestal B, Cardwell J, Markin CR, Mathai SK, Schwarz MI, Steele MP, Lee J, Brown KK, Loyd JE, Crapo JD, Silverman EK, Cho MH, James JA, Guthridge JM, Cogan JD, Kropski JA, Swigris JJ, Bair C, Soon Kim D, Ji W, Kim H, Song JW, Maier LA, Pacheco KA, Hirani N, Poon AS, Li F, Jenkins RG, Braybrooke R, Saini G, Maher TM, Molyneaux PL, Saunders P, Zhang Y, Gibson KF, Kass DJ, Rojas M, Sembrat J, Wolters PJ, Collard HR, Sundy JS, O'Riordan T, Strek ME, Noth I, Ma SF, Porteous MK, Kreider ME, Patel NB, Inoue Y, Hirose M, Arai T, Akagawa S, Eickelberg O, Fernandez IE, Behr J, Mogulkoc N, Corte TJ, Glaspole I, Tomassetti S, Ravaglia C, Poletti V, Crestani B, Borie R, Kannengiesser C, Parfrey H, Fiddler C, Rassl D, Molina-Molina M, Machahua C, Montes Worboys A, Gudmundsson G, Isaksson HJ, Lederer DJ, Podolanczuk AJ, Montesi SB, Bendstrup E, Danchel V, Selman M, Pardo A, Henry MT, Keane MP, Doran P, Vašáková M, Sterclova M, Ryerson CJ, Wilcox PG, Okamoto T, Furusawa H, Miyazaki Y, Laurent G, Baltic S, Prele C, Moodley Y, Shea BS, Ohta K, Suzukawa M, Narumoto O, Nathan SD, Venuto DC, Woldehanna ML, Kokturk N, de Andrade JA, Luckhardt T, Kulkarni T, Bonella F, Donnelly SC, McElroy A, Armstrong ME, Aranda A, Carbone RG, Puppo F, Beckman KB, Nickerson DA, Fingerlin TE, Schwartz DA. Resequencing Study Confirms Host Defense and Cell Senescence Gene Variants Contribute to the Risk of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis. Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019 April, PMID: 31034279, PMCID: PMC6635791

Molineros JE, Looger LL, Kim K, Okada Y, Terao C, Sun C, Zhou XJ, Raj P, Kochi Y, Suzuki A, Akizuki S, Nakabo S, Bang SY, Lee HS, Kang YM, Suh CH, Chung WT, Park YB, Choe JY, Shim SC, Lee SS, Zuo X, Yamamoto K, Li QZ, Shen N, Porter LL, Harley JB, Chua KH, Zhang H, Wakeland EK, Tsao BP, Bae SC, Nath SK. Amino acid signatures of HLA Class-I and II molecules are strongly associated with SLE susceptibility and autoantibody production in Eastern Asians. PLoS Genet 15:e1008092, 2019 April, PMID: 31022184, PMCID: PMC6504188

Sabbagh S, Pinal-Fernandez I, Kishi T, Targoff IN, Miller FW, Rider LG, Mammen AL, Childhood Myositis Heterogeneity Collaborative Study Group.. Anti-Ro52 autoantibodies are associated with interstitial lung disease and more severe disease in patients with juvenile myositis. Ann Rheum Dis, 2019 April, PMID: 31018961

Legge A, Kirkland S, Rockwood K, Andreou P, Bae SC, Gordon C, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Wallace DJ, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Merrill JT, Ginzler EM, Fortin P, Gladman DD, Urowitz MB, Bruce IN, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Alarcón GS, Petri M, Khamashta MA, Dooley MA, Ramsey-Goldman R, Manzi S, Zoma AA, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim SS, Inanc M, van Vollenhoven RF, Jonsen A, Nived O, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Askanase A, Hanly JG. Construction of a frailty index as a novel health measure in systemic lupus erythematosus. J Rheumatol, 2019 April, PMID: 30988130, PMCID: PMC6800806

Stathopoulos P, Chastre A, Waters P, Irani S, Fichtner ML, Benotti ES, Guthridge JM, Seifert J, Nowak RJ, Buckner JH, Holers VM, James JA, Hafler DA, O'Connor KC. Autoantibodies against Neurologic Antigens in Nonneurologic Autoimmunity. J Immunol 202:2210-2219, 2019 April, PMID: 30824481, PMCID: PMC6452031

Hong S, Banchereau R, Maslow BL, Guerra MM, Cardenas J, Baisch J, Branch DW, Porter TF, Sawitzke A, Laskin CA, Buyon JP, Merrill J, Sammaritano LR, Petri M, Gatewood E, Cepika AM, Ohouo M, Obermoser G, Anguiano E, Kim TW, Nulsen J, Nehar-Belaid D, Blankenship D, Turner J, Banchereau J, Salmon JE, Pascual V. Longitudinal profiling of human blood transcriptome in healthy and lupus pregnancy. J Exp Med, 2019 April, PMID: 30962246, PMCID: PMC6504211

James JA, Chen H, Young KA, Bemis EA, Seifert J, Bourn RL, Deane KD, Demoruelle MK, Feser M, O'Dell JR, Weisman MH, Keating RM, Gaffney PM, Kelly JA, Langefeld CD, Harley JB, Robinson W, Hafler DA, O'Connor KC, Buckner J, Guthridge JM, Norris JM, Holers VM. Latent autoimmunity across disease-specific boundaries in at-risk first-degree relatives of SLE and RA patients. EBioMedicine, 2019 April, PMID: 30952617, PMCID: PMC6491794

Harris VM, Harley ITW, Kurien BT, Koelsch KA, Scofield RH. Lysosomal pH Is Regulated in a Sex Dependent Manner in Immune Cells Expressing CXorf21. Front Immunol 10:578, 2019 April, PMID: 31001245, PMCID: PMC6454867

Young KA, Munroe ME, Guthridge JM, Kamen DL, Gilkensen GS, Harley JB, Weisman MH, Karp DR, Wallace DJ, James JA, Norris JM. Screening characteristics for enrichment of individuals at higher risk for transitioning to classified SLE. Lupus 28:597-606, 2019 April, PMID: 30845880, PMCID: PMC6506346

Qian L, Bajana S, Georgescu C, Peng V, Wang HC, Adrianto I, Colonna M, Alberola-Ila J, Wren JD, Sun XH. Suppression of ILC2 differentiation from committed T cell precursors by E protein transcription factors. J Exp Med 216:884-899, 2019 April, PMID: 30898894, PMCID: PMC6446881

Umare V, Pradhan V, Nath S, Rajadhyaksha A, Ghosh K, Nadkarni AH. Impact of functional IL-18 polymorphisms on genetic predisposition and diverse clinical manifestations of the disease in Indian SLE patients. Lupus 28:545-554, 2019 April, PMID: 30857465

Askanase AD, Merrill JT. Measuring disease activity in SLE is an ongoing struggle. Nat Rev Rheumatol 15:194-195, 2019 April, PMID: 30804539

Yan A, Joachims ML, Thompson LF, Miller AD, Canoll PD, Bynoe MS. CD73 promotes glioblastoma pathogenesis and enhances its chemoresistance via A2B adenosine receptor signaling. J Neurosci, 2019 March, PMID: 30926752, PMCID: PMC6538855

Pan Z, Dumas EK, Lawrence C, Pate L, Longobardi S, Wang X, James JA, Kovats S, Farris AD. Bacillus anthracis Edema Toxin Inhibits Efferocytosis in Human Macrophages and Alters Efferocytic Receptor Signaling. Int J Mol Sci 20, 2019 March, PMID: 30866434, PMCID: PMC6429438

Lang GA, Amadou Amani S, Quinn JL, Axtell RC, Lang ML. Immunization-Expanded NKT Follicular Helper Cells Drive IgG1 Isotype Switch against an Exogenous T-Independent Polysaccharide but Do Not Promote Recall Responses. Immunohorizons 3:88-93, 2019 March, PMID: 31342012, PMCID: PMC6655531

Jeffries MA. Osteoarthritis year in review 2018: genetics and epigenetics. Osteoarthritis Cartilage 27:371-377, 2019 March, PMID: 30808485

Wang Z, Liu X, Muther J, James JA, Smith K, Wu S. Top-down Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Human Serum Autoantibody Antigen-Binding Fragments. Sci Rep 9:2345, 2019 February, PMID: 30787393, PMCID: PMC6382847

Legge A, Kirkland S, Rockwood K, Andreou P, Bae SC, Gordon C, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Wallace DJ, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Merrill JT, Ginzler EM, Fortin P, Gladman DD, Urowitz MB, Bruce IN, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Alarcón GS, Petri M, Khamashta MA, Dooley MA, Ramsey-Goldman R, Manzi S, Steinsson K, Zoma AA, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim SS, Inanc M, van Vollenhoven RF, Jonsen A, Nived O, Ramos-Casals M, Kamen DL, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Askanase A, Hanly JG. Evaluating the properties of a frailty index and its association with mortality risk among patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019 February, PMID: 30771242, PMCID: PMC6663648

Wallace DJ, Ginzler EM, Merrill JT, Furie RA, Stohl W, Chatham WW, Weinstein A, McKay JD, McCune WJ, Petri M, Fettiplace J, Roth DA, Ji B, Heath A. Safety and efficacy of belimumab plus standard therapy for up to 13 years in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2019 February, PMID: 30771238, PMCID: PMC6617785

Mendel A, Bernatsky S, Pineau CA, St-Pierre Y, Hanly JG, Urowitz MB, Clarke AE, Romero-Diaz J, Gordon C, Bae SC, Wallace DJ, Merrill JT, Buyon J, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Ginzler EM, Petri M, Dooley MA, Fortin P, Gladman DD, Steinsson K, Ramsey-Goldman R, Khamashta MA, Aranow C, Mackay M, Alarcón G, Manzi S, Nived O, Jönsen A, Zoma AA, van Vollenhoven RF, Ramos-Casals M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim S, Kalunian KC, Inanc M, Kamen DL, Peschken CA, Jacobsen S, Askanase A, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Bruce IN, Costedoat-Chalumeau N, Vinet E. Use of combined hormonal contraceptives among women with systemic lupus erythematosus with and without medical contraindications to oestrogen. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2019 February, PMID: 30753683, PMCID: PMC6821299

Hanly JG, Li Q, Su L, Urowitz MB, Gordon C, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Bernatsky S, Clarke AE, Wallace DJ, Isenberg DA, Rahman A, Merrill JT, Fortin PR, Gladman DD, Bruce IN, Petri M, Ginzler EM, Dooley MA, Steinsson K, Ramsey-Goldman R, Zoma AA, Manzi S, Nived O, Jonsen A, Khamashta MA, Alarcón GS, van Vollenhoven RF, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Ramos-Casals M, Lim SS, Inanc M, Kalunian KC, Jacobsen S, Peschken CA, Kamen DL, Askanase A, Theriault C, Farewell V. Psychosis in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Results From an International Inception Cohort Study. Arthritis Rheumatol 71:281-289, 2019 February, PMID: 30375754, PMCID: PMC6353684

Slight-Webb S, Guthridge JM, Chakravarty EF, Chen H, Lu R, Macwana S, Bean K, Maecker HT, Utz PJ, James JA. Mycophenolate mofetil reduces STAT3 phosphorylation in systemic lupus erythematosus patients. JCI Insight 4, 2019 January, PMID: 30674728, PMCID: PMC6413783

Ghodke-Puranik Y, Imgruet M, Dorschner JM, Shrestha P, McCoy K, Kelly JA, Marion M, Guthridge JM, Langefeld CD, Harley JB, James JA, Sivils KL, Niewold TB. Novel genetic associations with interferon in systemic lupus erythematosus identified by replication and fine-mapping of trait-stratified genome-wide screen. Cytokine, 2019 January, PMID: 30685201

Shah HB, Smith K, Wren JD, Webb CF, Ballard JD, Bourn RL, James JA, Lang ML. Insights From Analysis of Human Antigen-Specific Memory B Cell Repertoires. Front Immunol 9:3064, 2019 January, PMID: 30697210, PMCID: PMC6340933

Kurien BT, Scofield RH. Isoelectric Focusing on Non-Denaturing Flatbed Gels. Methods Mol Biol 1855:93-100, 2019 January, PMID: 30426410

Trieu EP, Targoff IN. SDS-PAGE for 35S Immunoprecipitation and Immunoprecipitation Western Blotting. Methods Mol Biol 1855:417-436, 2019 January, PMID: 30426436

Kurien BT, Scofield RH. Artifacts and Common Errors in Protein Gel Electrophoresis. Methods Mol Biol 1855:511-518, 2019 January, PMID: 30426446

Bagavant H, Dunkleberger ML, Wolska N, Sroka M, Rasmussen A, Adrianto I, Montgomery C, Sivils K, Guthridge JM, James JA, Merrill JT, Deshmukh US. Antibodies to periodontogenic bacteria are associated with higher disease activity in lupus patients. Clin Exp Rheumatol 37:106-111, 2019 January, PMID: 29998833, PMCID: PMC6309750

Singh B, Nath SK. Identification of Proteins Interacting with Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (SNPs) by DNA Pull-Down Assay. Methods Mol Biol 1855:355-362, 2019 January, PMID: 30426431, PMCID: PMC6613650

Kurien BT, Aggarwal R, Scofield RH. Protein Extraction from Gels: A Brief Review. Methods Mol Biol 1855:479-482, 2019 January, PMID: 30426441


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