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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

2022

Harley ITW, Allison K, Scofield RH. Polygenic autoimmune disease risk alleles impacting B cell tolerance act in concert across shared molecular networks in mouse and in humans. Front Immunol 13:953439, 2022 August, PMID: 36090990, PMCID: PMC9450536

Cao Z, Zhao M, Sun H, Hu L, Chen Y, Fan Z. Roles of mitochondria in neutrophils. Front Immunol 13:934444, 2022 August, PMID: 36081497, PMCID: PMC9447286

Xu L, Zhao J, Sun Q, Xu X, Wang L, Liu T, Wu Y, Zhu J, Geng L, Deng Y, Awgulewitsch A, Kamen DL, Oates JC, Raj P, Wakeland EK, Scofield RH, Guthridge JM, James JA, Hahn BH, McCurdy DK, Wang F, Zhang M, Tan W, Gilkeson GS, Tsao BP. Loss-of-function variants in SAT1 cause X-linked childhood-onset systemic lupus erythematosus. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 August, PMID: 35977808

Sherman MA, Graf R, Sabbagh SE, Galindo-Feria AS, Pinal-Fernandez I, Pak K, Kishi T, Flegel WA, Targoff IN, Miller FW, Lundberg IE, Rider LG, Mammen AL, Childhood Myositis Heterogeneity Collaborative Study Group.. Anti-FHL1 autoantibodies in juvenile myositis are associated with anti-Ro52 autoantibodies but not with severe disease features. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2022 August, PMID: 35961028

Pankow A, Sun XH. The divergence between T cell and innate lymphoid cell fates controlled by E and Id proteins. Front Immunol 13:960444, 2022 August, PMID: 36032069, PMCID: PMC9399370

Ugarte-Gil MF, Hanly J, Urowitz M, 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, van Vollenhoven RF, Aranow C, Mackay M, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Lim S, Inanc M, Kalunian K, Jacobsen S, Peschken C, Kamen DL, Askanase A, Pons-Estel BA, Alarcón GS. Remission and low disease activity (LDA) prevent damage accrual in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus: results from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) inception cohort. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 August, PMID: 35944946

Khatri B, Tessneer KL, Rasmussen A, Aghakhanian F, Reksten TR, Adler A, Alevizos I, Anaya JM, Aqrawi LA, Baecklund E, Brun JG, Bucher SM, Eloranta ML, Engelke F, Forsblad-d'Elia H, Glenn SB, Hammenfors D, Imgenberg-Kreuz J, Jensen JL, Johnsen SJA, Jonsson MV, Kvarnström M, Kelly JA, Li H, Mandl T, Martín J, Nocturne G, Norheim KB, Palm Ø, Skarstein K, Stolarczyk AM, Taylor KE, Teruel M, Theander E, Venuturupalli S, Wallace DJ, Grundahl KM, Hefner KS, Radfar L, Lewis DM, Stone DU, Kaufman CE, Brennan MT, Guthridge JM, James JA, Scofield RH, Gaffney PM, Criswell LA, Jonsson R, Eriksson P, Bowman SJ, Omdal R, Rönnblom L, Warner B, Rischmueller M, Witte T, Farris AD, Mariette X, Alarcon-Riquelme ME, PRECISESADS Clinical Consortium., Shiboski CH, Sjögren’s International Collaborative Clinical Alliance (SICCA)., Wahren-Herlenius M, Ng WF, UK Primary Sjögren’s Syndrome Registry., Sivils KL, Adrianto I, Nordmark G, Lessard CJ. Genome-wide association study identifies Sjögren's risk loci with functional implications in immune and glandular cells. Nat Commun 13:4287, 2022 July, PMID: 35896530, PMCID: PMC9329286

Guthridge JM, Wagner CA, James JA. The promise of precision medicine in rheumatology. Nat Med, 2022 July, PMID: 35788174

Hoover AR, Liu K, DeVette CI, Krawic JR, Medcalf AD, West CL, Hode T, Lam SSK, Welm AL, Sun XH, Hildebrand WH, Chen WR. Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals localized tumour ablation and intratumoural immunostimulant delivery potentiate T cell mediated tumour killing. Clin Transl Med 12:e937, 2022 July, PMID: 35808806, PMCID: PMC9270578

Bagavant H, Trzeciak M, Biswas I, Papinska JA, Cizio K, Deshmukh US. Antibody deposition on vascular endothelial cells contributes to localized inflammation in salivary glands. J Oral Pathol Med, 2022 June, PMID: 35766433, PMCID: PMC9388553

Coit P, Roopnarinesingh X, Ortiz-Fernández L, McKinnon-Maksimowicz K, Lewis EE, Merrill JT, McCune WJ, Wren JD, Sawalha AH. Hypomethylation of miR-17-92 cluster in lupus T cells and no significant role for genetic factors in the lupus-associated DNA methylation signature. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 June, PMID: 35710306

Fazel-Najafabadi M, Rallabandi HR, Singh MK, Maiti GP, Morris J, Looger LL, Nath SK. Discovery and Functional Characterization of Two Regulatory Variants Underlying Lupus Susceptibility at 2p13.1. Genes (Basel) 13, 2022 June, PMID: 35741778, PMCID: PMC9222795

Vanderlinden LA, Bemis EA, Seifert J, Guthridge JM, Young KA, Demoruelle MK, Feser M, DeJager W, Macwana S, Mikuls TR, O'Dell JR, Weisman MH, Buckner J, Keating RM, Gaffney PM, Kelly JA, Langefeld CD, Deane KD, James JA, Holers VM, Norris JM. Relationship Between a Vitamin D Genetic Risk Score and Autoantibodies Among First-Degree Relatives of Probands With Rheumatoid Arthritis and Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. Front Immunol 13:881332, 2022 June, PMID: 35720397, PMCID: PMC9205604

Munroe ME, Young KA, Guthridge JM, Kamen DL, Gilkeson GS, Weisman MH, Ishimori ML, Wallace DJ, Karp DR, Harley JB, Norris JM, James JA. Pre-Clinical Autoimmunity in Lupus Relatives: Self-Reported Questionnaires and Immune Dysregulation Distinguish Relatives Who Develop Incomplete or Classified Lupus From Clinically Unaffected Relatives and Unaffected, Unrelated Individuals. Front Immunol 13:866181, 2022 June, PMID: 35720322, PMCID: PMC9203691

Gawde S, Agasing A, Bhatt N, Toliver M, Kumar G, Massey K, Nguyen A, Mao-Draayer Y, Macwana S, DeJager W, Guthridge JM, Pardo G, Dunn J, Axtell RC. Biomarker panel increases accuracy for identification of an MS relapse beyond sNfL. Mult Scler Relat Disord 63:103922, 2022 May, PMID: 35671674, PMCID: PMC9351348

Yang J, Hamade M, Wu Q, Wang Q, Axtell R, Giri S, Mao-Draayer Y. Current and Future Biomarkers in Multiple Sclerosis. Int J Mol Sci 23, 2022 May, PMID: 35682558, PMCID: PMC9180348

Gunay G, Hamsici S, Lang GA, Lang ML, Kovats S, Acar H. Peptide Aggregation Induced Immunogenic Rupture (PAIIR). Adv Sci (Weinh):e2105868, 2022 May, PMID: 35599386, PMCID: PMC9313945

Bruce IN, Furie RA, Morand EF, Manzi S, Tanaka Y, Kalunian KC, Merrill JT, Puzio P, Maho E, Kleoudis C, Albulescu M, Hultquist M, Tummala R. Concordance and discordance in SLE clinical trial outcome measures: analysis of three anifrolumab phase 2/3 trials. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 May, PMID: 35580976, PMCID: PMC9213793

Lipsky PE, Vollenhoven RV, Dörner T, Werth VP, Merrill JT, Furie R, Petronijevic M, Velasco Zamora B, Majdan M, Irazoque-Palazuelos F, Terbrueggen R, Delev N, Weiswasser M, Korish S, Stern M, Hersey S, Ye Y, Gaudy A, Liu Z, Gagnon R, Tang S, Schafer PH. Biological impact of iberdomide in patients with active systemic lupus erythematosus. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 April, PMID: 35477518, PMCID: PMC9279852

Pardo G, Pineda ED, Ng CD, Sheinson D, Bonine NG. The Association Between Persistence and Adherence to Disease-Modifying Therapies and Healthcare Resource Utilization and Costs in Patients With Multiple Sclerosis. J Health Econ Outcomes Res 9:111-116, 2022 April, PMID: 35586512, PMCID: PMC9043544

Urowitz MB, Aranow C, Asukai Y, Bass DL, Bruce IN, Chauhan D, Dall'Era M, Furie R, Fox NL, Gilbride JA, Hammer A, Ginzler EM, Gonzalez-Rivera T, Levy RA, Merrill JT, Quasny H, Roth DA, Stohl W, van Vollenhoven R, Wallace DJ, Petri M. Impact of belimumab on organ damage in systemic lupus erythematosus. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2022 April, PMID: 35439360

Scalabrini JC, Schiffenbauer AI, Farhadi PN, Volochayev R, Bayat N, Jansen A, Targoff IN, Miller FW, Rider LG. Environmental factors associated with juvenile idiopathic inflammatory myopathy clinical and serologic phenotypes. Pediatr Rheumatol Online J 20:28, 2022 April, PMID: 35414090, PMCID: PMC9004071

Dunn CM, Jeffries MA. The Microbiome in Osteoarthritis: a Narrative Review of Recent Human and Animal Model Literature. Curr Rheumatol Rep, 2022 April, PMID: 35389162

Bagavant H, Cizio K, Araszkiewicz AM, Papinska JA, Garman L, Li C, Pezant N, Drake WP, Montgomery CG, Deshmukh US. Systemic immune response to vimentin and granuloma formation in a model of pulmonary sarcoidosis. J Transl Autoimmun 5:100153, 2022 April, PMID: 35434591, PMCID: PMC9006845

Cheng A, Harikrishna JA, Redwood CS, Lit LC, Nath SK, Chua KH. Genetics Matters: Voyaging from the Past into the Future of Humanity and Sustainability. Int J Mol Sci 23, 2022 April, PMID: 35409335, PMCID: PMC8999725

Scofield RH, Lewis VM, Cavitt J, Kurien BT, Assassi S, Martin J, Gorlova O, Gregersen P, Lee A, Rider LG, O'Hanlon T, Rothwell S, Lilleker J, Myositis Genetics Consortium, Xiaoxi Liu., Kochi Y, Terao C, Igoe A, Stevens W, Sahhar J, Roddy J, Rischmueller M, Lester S, Proudman S, Chen S, Brown MA, Mayes MD, Lamb JA, Miller FW. 47XXY and 47XXX in Scleroderma and Myositis. ACR Open Rheumatol, 2022 March, PMID: 35352506, PMCID: PMC9190224

Choi MY, Clarke AE, Urowitz M, Hanly J, St-Pierre Y, Gordon C, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Bernatsky S, Wallace DJ, Isenberg D, 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 K, Jacobsen S, Peschken C, Kamen DL, Askanase A, Buyon JP, Costenbader KH, Fritzler MJ. Longitudinal analysis of ANA in the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) Inception Cohort. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 March, PMID: 35338033

Vital EM, Merrill JT, Morand EF, Furie RA, Bruce IN, Tanaka Y, Manzi S, Kalunian KC, Kalyani RN, Streicher K, Abreu G, Tummala R. Anifrolumab efficacy and safety by type I interferon gene signature and clinical subgroups in patients with SLE: post hoc analysis of pooled data from two phase III trials. Ann Rheum Dis, 2022 March, PMID: 35338035, PMCID: PMC9213795

Merrill JT, Werth VP, Furie R, van Vollenhoven R, Dörner T, Petronijevic M, Velasco J, Majdan M, Irazoque-Palazuelos F, Weiswasser M, Korish S, Ye Y, Gaudy A, Schafer PH, Liu Z, Agafonova N, Delev N. Phase 2 Trial of Iberdomide in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus. N Engl J Med 386:1034-1045, 2022 March, PMID: 35294813

Carlucci PM, Li J, Fava A, Deonaraine KK, Wofsy D, James JA, Putterman C, Diamond B, Davidson A, Fine DM, Monroy-Trujillo J, Atta MG, DeJager W, Guthridge JM, Haag K, Rao DA, Brenner MB, Lederer JA, Apruzzese W, Belmont HM, Izmirly PM, Zaminski D, Wu M, Connery S, Payan-Schober F, Furie R, Dall'Era M, Cho K, Kamen D, Kalunian K, Anolik J, Barnas J, Ishimori M, Weisman MH, Accelerating Medicines Partnership (AMP) RA/SLE Network., Buyon JP, Petri M. High incidence of proliferative and membranous nephritis in SLE patients with low proteinuria in the Accelerating Medicines Partnership. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2022 February, PMID: 35212719

Merrill JT. Trialist's Reply to the Clinician's Perspective. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2022 February, PMID: 35188717

Barshad G, Webb LM, Ting HA, Oyesola OO, Onyekwere OG, Lewis JJ, Rice EJ, Matheson MK, Sun XH, von Moltke J, Danko CG, Tait Wojno ED. E-Protein Inhibition in ILC2 Development Shapes the Function of Mature ILC2s during Allergic Airway Inflammation. J Immunol, 2022 February, PMID: 35181641, PMCID: PMC8881320

Pardo G, Pineda ED, Ng CD, Bawa KK, Sheinson D, Bonine NG. Adherence to and Persistence with Disease-Modifying Therapies for Multiple Sclerosis Over 24 Months: A Retrospective Claims Analysis. Neurol Ther, 2022 January, PMID: 35020156, PMCID: PMC8857349

Miller BJ, Kolobe TH, Larson RD, Pribble BA, Pardo G, James SA. Functional intermuscular reduction in spasticity for people with multiple sclerosis. Mult Scler J Exp Transl Clin 8:20552173211061547, 2022 January, PMID: 35024159, PMCID: PMC8743971

Bajana S, Pankow A, Liu K, Michniowska M, Urban JF Jr, Chen WR, Sun XH. Correlation between circulating innate lymphoid cell precursors and thymic function. iScience 25:103732, 2022 January, PMID: 35118353, PMCID: PMC8792071

Sun XH, Bajana S. ILC Differentiation in the Thymus. Adv Exp Med Biol 1365:25-39, 2022 January, PMID: 35567739

Liu K, Hoover AR, Krawic JR, DeVette CI, Sun XH, Hildebrand WH, Lang ML, Axtell RC, Chen WR. Antigen presentation and interferon signatures in B cells driven by localized ablative cancer immunotherapy correlate with extended survival. Theranostics 12:639-656, 2022 January, PMID: 34976205, PMCID: PMC8692917

Alberola-Ila J. Development of αβ T Cells with Innate Functions. Adv Exp Med Biol 1365:149-160, 2022 January, PMID: 35567746


2021

Donahue ND, Kanapilly S, Stephan C, Marlin MC, Francek ER, Haddad M, Guthridge J, Wilhelm S. Quantifying Chemical Composition and Reaction Kinetics of Individual Colloidally Dispersed Nanoparticles. Nano Lett, 2021 December, PMID: 34962815

Almeida-Brasil CC, Hanly JG, Urowitz M, Clarke AE, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Gordon C, Ramsey-Goldman R, Petri M, Ginzler EM, Wallace DJ, Bae SC, Romero-Diaz J, Dooley MA, Peschken C, Isenberg D, Rahman A, Manzi S, Jacobsen S, Lim S, van Vollenhoven RF, Nived O, Jönsen A, Kamen DL, Aranow C, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Gladman DD, Fortin PR, Alarcón GS, Merrill JT, Kalunian K, Ramos-Casals M, Steinsson K, Zoma A, Askanase A, Khamashta MA, Bruce IN, Inanc M, Abrahamowicz M, Bernatsky S. Flares after hydroxychloroquine reduction or discontinuation: results from the Systemic Lupus International Collaborating Clinics (SLICC) inception cohort. Ann Rheum Dis, 2021 December, PMID: 34911705, PMCID: PMC8862090

Kumari S, Bubak M, Schoenberg HM, Davidyan A, Elliehausen CJ, Kuhn KG, VanWagoner TM, Karaman R, Scofield RH, Miller BF, Konopka AR. Antecedent Metabolic Health and Metformin (ANTHEM) Aging study: Rationale and study design for a randomized controlled trial. J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci, 2021 December, PMID: 34865016

Izda V, Martin J, Sturdy C, Jeffries MA. DNA methylation and noncoding RNA in OA: Recent findings and methodological advances. Osteoarthr Cartil Open 3, 2021 December, PMID: 35360044, PMCID: PMC8966627

Karasawa R, Yudoh K, Sato T, Tanaka M, Tamaki M, Sabbagh SE, O'Hanlon TP, Noroozi-Farhadi P, Targoff IN, Flegel WA, Mammen AL, Miller FW, Hicar MD, Rider LG, Jarvis JN. Association of Anti-HSC70 Autoantibodies with Cutaneous Ulceration and Severe Disease in Juvenile Dermatomyositis. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2021 November, PMID: 34791087, PMCID: PMC9258543

Basu A, Izuora K, Betts NM, Ebersole JL, Scofield RH. Dietary Strawberries Improve Biomarkers of Antioxidant Status and Endothelial Function in Adults with Cardiometabolic Risks in a Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial. Antioxidants (Basel) 10, 2021 October, PMID: 34829601, PMCID: PMC8614674

Slight-Webb S, Guthridge CJ, Kheir J, Chen H, Tran L, Gross T, Roberts V, Khan S, Peercy M, Saunkeah B, Guthridge JM, James JA. Unique serum immune phenotypes stratify Oklahoma Native American rheumatic disease patients. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken), 2021 October, PMID: 34595847, PMCID: PMC8971136

Figueroa MG, Parker LM, Krol K, Zhao M. Distal Lck Promoter-Driven Cre Shows Cell Type-Specific Function in Innate-like T Cells. Immunohorizons 5:772-781, 2021 September, PMID: 34583938, PMCID: PMC8612026

Liu C, Zeng X, Yu S, Ren L, Sun X, Long Y, Wang X, Lu S, Song Y, Sun XH, Zhang Y. Up-regulated DNA-binding inhibitor Id3 promotes differentiation of regulatory T cell to influence antiviral immunity in chronic hepatitis B virus infection. Life Sci 285:119991, 2021 September, PMID: 34592230

Keshari RS, Popescu NI, Silasi R, Regmi G, Lupu C, Simmons JH, Ricardo A, Coggeshall KM, Lupu F. Complement C5 inhibition protects against hemolytic anemia and acute kidney injury in anthrax peptidoglycan-induced sepsis in baboons. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 118, 2021 September, PMID: 34507997, PMCID: PMC8449412

Witas R, Rasmussen A, Scofield RH, Radfar L, Stone DU, Grundahl K, Lewis D, Sivils KL, Lessard CJ, Farris AD, Nguyen CQ. Defective Efferocytosis in a Murine Model of Sjögren's Syndrome Is Mediated by Dysfunctional Mer Tyrosine Kinase Receptor. Int J Mol Sci 22, 2021 September, PMID: 34575873, PMCID: PMC8466327

Spatz LA, Silverman GJ, James JA. Editorial: Pathogens, Pathobionts, and Autoimmunity. Front Immunol 12:752980, 2021 September, PMID: 34567014, PMCID: PMC8456017

Berndt N, Bippes CC, Michalk I, Bartsch T, Arndt C, Puentes-Cala E, Soto JA, Loureiro LR, Kegler A, Bachmann D, Gross JK, Gross T, Kurien BT, Scofield RH, Farris AD, James JA, Bergmann R, Schmitz M, Feldmann A, Bachmann MP. And Yet It Moves: Oxidation of the Nuclear Autoantigen La/SS-B Is the Driving Force for Nucleo-Cytoplasmic Shuttling. Int J Mol Sci 22, 2021 September, PMID: 34575862, PMCID: PMC8470643

Lee AS, Scofield RH, Hammitt KM, Carsons SE, Carteron NL. Response. Chest 160:e323, 2021 September, PMID: 34488985

Wood RA, Guthridge L, Thurmond E, Guthridge CJ, Kheir JM, Bourn RL, Wagner CA, Chen H, DeJager W, Macwana SR, Kamp S, Lu R, Arriens C, Chakravarty EF, Thanou A, Merrill JT, Guthridge JM, James JA. Serologic markers of Epstein-Barr virus reactivation are associated with increased disease activity, inflammation, and interferon pathway activation in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus. J Transl Autoimmun 4:100117, 2021 August, PMID: 35005588, PMCID: PMC8716608

Blakey GL, McCloskey CB, Guthridge JM, Williams CL, Lu R, Hayes JT, Pinkston KG, Talbert ML. COVID-19 Pandemic Spurs Evolution of an Academic Pathology Department and Laboratory. Acad Pathol 8:23742895211037029, 2021 August, PMID: 34458566, PMCID: PMC8385575

Agasing A, Quinn JL, Kumar G, Axtell RC. Interferon-β Intensifies Interleukin-23-Driven Pathogenicity of T Helper Cells in Neuroinflammatory Disease. Cells 10, 2021 August, PMID: 34440908, PMCID: PMC8392231

Radhakrishna U, Nath SK, Vishweswaraiah S, Uppala LV, Forray A, Muvvala SB, Mishra NK, Siddesh S, Guda C, Govindamangalam H, Vargas D, Gardella WG, Crist RC, Berrettini WH, Metpally RP, Bahado-Singh RO. Maternal opioid use disorder: Placental transcriptome analysis for neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome. Genomics, 2021 August, PMID: 34352367

Pardo G, Coates S, Okuda DT. Outcome measures assisting treatment optimization in multiple sclerosis. J Neurol, 2021 August, PMID: 34338857, PMCID: PMC8857110

Velasco C, Dunn C, Sturdy C, Izda V, Martin J, Rivas A, McNaughton J, Jeffries MA. Ear wound healing in MRL/MpJ mice is associated with gut microbiome composition and is transferable to non-healer mice via microbiome transplantation. PLoS One 16:e0248322, 2021 July, PMID: 34283837, PMCID: PMC8291702

Srinivasan A, Bajana S, Pankow A, Yuen C, Shah RK, Sun XH. Type 2 innate lymphoid cells from Id1 transgenic mice alleviate skin manifestations of graft-versus-host disease. BMC Immunol 22:46, 2021 July, PMID: 34256699, PMCID: PMC8278660

Subrahmanian S, Borczuk A, Salvatore S, Fung KM, Merrill JT, Laurence J, Ahamed J. Tissue Factor upregulation is associated with SARS-CoV-2 in the lungs of COVID-19 patients. J Thromb Haemost, 2021 July, PMID: 34236752, PMCID: PMC8565501

Lin SJ, Vona B, Barbalho PG, Kaiyrzhanov R, Maroofian R, Petree C, Severino M, Stanley V, Varshney P, Bahena P, Alzahrani F, Alhashem A, Pagnamenta AT, Aubertin G, Estrada-Veras JI, Hernández HAD, Mazaheri N, Oza A, Thies J, Renaud DL, Dugad S, McEvoy J, Sultan T, Pais LS, Tabarki B, Villalobos-Ramirez D, Rad A, Genomics England Research Consortium., Galehdari H, Ashrafzadeh F, Sahebzamani A, Saeidi K, Torti E, Elloumi HZ, Mora S, Palculict TB, Yang H, Wren JD, Ben Fowler, Joshi M, Behra M, Burgess SM, Nath SK, Hanna MG, Kenna M, Merritt JL 2nd, Houlden H, Karimiani EG, Zaki MS, Haaf T, Alkuraya FS, Gleeson JG, Varshney GK. Biallelic variants in KARS1 are associated with neurodevelopmental disorders and hearing loss recapitulated by the knockout zebrafish. Genet Med, 2021 June, PMID: 34172899, PMCID: PMC8956360

Zhao M, Quintana A, Zhang C, Andreyev AY, Kiosses W, Kuwana T, Murphy A, Hogan PG, Kronenberg M. Calcium signals regulate the functional differentiation of thymic iNKT cells. EMBO J:e107901, 2021 June, PMID: 34169542, PMCID: PMC8365263

Holloman JP, Axtell RC, Monson NL, Wu GF. The Role of B Cells in Primary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. Front Neurol 12:680581, 2021 June, PMID: 34163430, PMCID: PMC8215437

Smith K, Garman L, Norris K, Muther J, Duke A, Engler RJM, Nelson MR, Collins LC, Spooner C, Guthridge C, James JA. Insufficient Anthrax Lethal Toxin Neutralization Is Associated with Antibody Subclass and Domain Specificity in the Plasma of Anthrax-Vaccinated Individuals. Microorganisms 9, 2021 June, PMID: 34199431, PMCID: PMC8229884

Bagavant H, Araszkiewicz AM, Ingram JK, Cizio K, Merrill JT, Arriens C, Guthridge JM, James JA, Deshmukh US. Immune Response to Enterococcus gallinarum in Lupus Patients Is Associated With a Subset of Lupus-Associated Autoantibodies. Front Immunol 12:635072, 2021 May, PMID: 34122404, PMCID: PMC8193979

Merrill JT. What Did Not Work: The Drug or the Trial? Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 May, PMID: 34042321

Singh B, Maiti GP, Zhou X, Fazel-Najafabadi M, Bae SC, Sun C, Terao C, Okada Y, Chua KH, Kochi Y, Guthridge JM, Zhang H, Weirauch M, James JA, Harley JB, Varshney GK, Looger LL, Nath SK. Lupus susceptibility region containing CDKN1B rs34330 mechanistically influences expression and function of multiple target genes, also linked to proliferation and apoptosis. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 May, PMID: 33982894, PMCID: PMC8589926

Furie R, Morand EF, Askanase AD, Vital EM, Merrill JT, Kalyani RN, Abreu G, Pineda L, Tummala R. Anifrolumab reduces flare rates in patients with moderate to severe systemic lupus erythematosus. Lupus:9612033211014267, 2021 May, PMID: 33977796

Kabeerdoss J, Sandhya P, Kurien BT, Scofield RH, Danda D. Correction to: In vitro effects of curcumin on proinflammatory cytokines and expression of their genes in minor salivary gland tissue of patients with Sjogren's syndrome. Rheumatol Int, 2021 May, PMID: 33963892

Elkhalifa M, Orbai AM, Magder LS, Petri M, Alarcón GS, Gordon C, Merrill J, 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, Vollenhoven RV, Ginzler E, Stoll T, Peschken C, Jorizzo JL, Callen JP, Lim S, Inanc M, Kamen DL, Rahman A, Steinsson K, Franks AG Jr. Anti-beta 2 glycoprotein I IgA in the SLICC classification criteria dataset. Lupus:9612033211014248, 2021 May, PMID: 33957797

Basu A, Izuora K, Betts NM, Kinney JW, Salazar AM, Ebersole JL, Scofield RH. Dietary Strawberries Improve Cardiometabolic Risks in Adults with Obesity and Elevated Serum LDL Cholesterol in a Randomized Controlled Crossover Trial. Nutrients 13, 2021 April, PMID: 33922576, PMCID: PMC8145532

Wu W, Tian L, Zhang W, Booth JL, Ainsua-Enrich E, Kovats S, Brown BR, Metcalf JP. Long-term cigarette smoke exposure dysregulates pulmonary T cell response and IFN-γ protection to influenza virus in mouse. Respir Res 22:112, 2021 April, PMID: 33879121, PMCID: PMC8056367

Kabeerdoss J, Sandhya P, Kurien BT, Scofield RH, Danda D. In vitro effects of curcumin on proinflammatory cytokines and expression of their genes in minor salivary gland tissue of patients with Sjogren's syndrome. Rheumatol Int, 2021 April, PMID: 33861386

Berndt N, Bippes CC, Michalk I, Bachmann D, Bachmann J, Puentes-Cala E, Bartsch T, Loureiro LR, Kegler A, Bergmann R, Gross JK, Gross T, Kurien BT, Scofield RH, Farris AD, James JA, Schmitz M, Fahmy K, Feldmann A, Arndt C, Bachmann MP. Two Be or Not Two Be: The Nuclear Autoantigen La/SS-B Is Able to Form Dimers and Oligomers in a Redox Dependent Manner. Int J Mol Sci 22, 2021 March, PMID: 33806091, PMCID: PMC8036718

Maria Z, Turner E, Agasing A, Kumar G, Axtell RC. Pertussis Toxin Inhibits Encephalitogenic T-Cell Infiltration and Promotes a B-Cell-Driven Disease during Th17-EAE. Int J Mol Sci 22, 2021 March, PMID: 33805762, PMCID: PMC7998427

Tang W, Askanase AD, Khalili L, Merrill JT. SARS-CoV-2 vaccines in patients with SLE. Lupus Sci Med 8, 2021 March, PMID: 33685998, PMCID: PMC7941677

Engmann NJ, Sheinson D, Bawa K, Ng CD, Pardo G. Persistence and adherence to ocrelizumab compared with other disease-modifying therapies for multiple sclerosis in U.S. commercial claims data. J Manag Care Spec Pharm:1-11, 2021 February, PMID: 33624535

Bermel RA, Waubant E, Pardo G, Bass A, Repovic P, Newsome S, Lindsey JW, Kile D, Pradhan A, Musch B, Zabeti A. Safety evaluation of shorter infusion for ocrelizumab in a substudy of the Phase IIIb CHORDS trial. Ann Clin Transl Neurol, 2021 February, PMID: 33621404, PMCID: PMC7951110

Chew C, Reynolds JA, Lertratanakul A, Wu P, Urowitz M, Gladman DD, Fortin PR, Bae SC, Gordon C, Clarke AE, Bernatsky S, Hanly JG, Isenberg D, Rahman A, Sanchez-Guerrero J, Romero-Diaz J, Merrill J, Wallace D, Ginzler E, Khamashta M, Nived O, Jönsen A, Steinsson K, Manzi S, Kalunian K, Dooley MA, Petri M, Aranow C, van Vollenhoven R, Stoll T, Alarcón GS, Lim SS, Ruiz-Irastorza G, Peschken CA, Askanase AD, Kamen DL, İnanç M, Ramsey-Goldman R, Bruce IN. Lower vitamin D is associated with metabolic syndrome and insulin resistance in systemic lupus: data from an international inception cohort. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2021 February, PMID: 33555325, PMCID: PMC8487307

Wallace DJ, Isenberg DA, Morand EF, Vazquez-Mateo C, Kao AH, Aydemir A, Pudota K, Ona V, Aranow C, Merrill JT. Safety and clinical activity of atacicept in the long-term extension of the Phase IIb ADDRESS II study in systemic lupus erythematosus. Rheumatology (Oxford), 2021 February, PMID: 33547784

Munroe ME, Anderson JR, Gross TF, Stunz LL, Bishop GA, James JA. Epstein-Barr Functional Mimicry: Pathogenicity of Oncogenic Latent Membrane Protein-1 in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and Autoimmunity. Front Immunol 11:606936, 2021 February, PMID: 33613527, PMCID: PMC7886997

Bachmann MP, Bartsch T, Bippes CC, Bachmann D, Puentes-Cala E, Bachmann J, Bartsch H, Arndt C, Koristka S, Loureiro LR, Kegler A, Laube M, Gross JK, Gross T, Kurien BT, Scofield RH, Farris AD, James JA, Schmitz M, Feldmann A. T Cell Mediated Conversion of a Non-Anti-La Reactive B Cell to an Autoreactive Anti-La B Cell by Somatic Hypermutation. Int J Mol Sci 22, 2021 January, PMID: 33530489, PMCID: PMC7865296

Towner RA, Smith N, Zalles M, Morris S, Toliver M, Saunders D, Lerner M, Kumar G, Axtell RC. ELTD1 as a biomarker for multiple sclerosis: Pre-clinical molecular-targeted studies in a mouse experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis model. Mult Scler Relat Disord 49:102786, 2021 January, PMID: 33517175, PMCID: PMC8068591

Oyelakin A, Horeth E, Song EC, Min S, Che M, Marzullo B, Lessard CJ, Rasmussen A, Radfar L, Scofield RH, Lewis DM, Stone DU, Grundahl K, De Rossi SS, Kurago Z, Farris AD, Sivils KL, Sinha S, Kramer JM, Romano RA. Transcriptomic and Network Analysis of Minor Salivary Glands of Patients With Primary Sjögren's Syndrome. Front Immunol 11:606268, 2021 January, PMID: 33488608, PMCID: PMC7821166

McKernan P, Virani NA, Faria GNF, Karch CG, Prada Silvy R, Resasco DE, Thompson LF, Harrison RG. Targeted Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes for Photothermal Therapy Combined with Immune Checkpoint Inhibition for the Treatment of Metastatic Breast Cancer. Nanoscale Res Lett 16:9, 2021 January, PMID: 33411055, PMCID: PMC7790975

Gaines H, Jones KR, Lim J, Medhi NF, Chen S, Scofield RH. Effect of CFTR modulator therapy on cystic fibrosis-related diabetes. J Diabetes Complications:107845, 2021 January, PMID: 33558149, PMCID: PMC8113061

Ortiz Fernández L, Coit P, Yilmaz V, Yentür SP, Alibaz-Oner F, Aksu K, Erken E, Düzgün N, Keser G, Cefle A, Yazici A, Ergen A, Alpsoy E, Salvarani C, Casali B, Kısacık B, Kötter I, Henes J, Çınar M, Schaefer A, Nohutcu RM, Zhernakova A, Wijmenga C, Takeuchi F, Harihara S, Kaburaki T, Messedi M, Song YW, Kaşifoğlu T, Carmona FD, Guthridge JM, James JA, Martin J, González Escribano MF, Saruhan-Direskeneli G, Direskeneli H, Sawalha AH. Genetic association of a gain of function interferon gamma receptor 1 (IFNGR1) polymorphism and the intergenic region LNCAROD/DKK1 with Behçet's disease. Arthritis Rheumatol, 2021 January, PMID: 33393726, PMCID: PMC8238846

Mytych JS, Pan Z, Farris AD. Efferocytosis and Anthrax: Implications for Bacterial Sepsis? J Cell Immunol 3:133-139, 2021 January, PMID: 34708219, PMCID: PMC8547791


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