Chronic Immune Activation in Systemic Lupus Erythematosus and the Autoimmune PTPN22 Trp620 Risk Allele Drive the Expansion of FOXP3+ Regulatory T Cells and PD-1 Expression.
Ricardo C Ferreira,
Xaquin Castro Dopico,
João J Oliveira,
Daniel B Rainbow,
Jennie H Yang,
Dominik Trzupek,
Sarah A Todd,
Mhairi McNeill,
Maristella Steri,
Valeria Orrù,
Edoardo Fiorillo,
Daniel JM Crouch,
Marcin L Pekalski,
Francesco Cucca,
Tim I Tree,
Tim J Vyse,
Linda S Wicker,
John A Todd
Jan 03, 2020
In systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), perturbed immunoregulation underpins a pathogenic imbalance between regulatory and effector CD4+ T-cell activity. However, to date, the characterization of the CD4+ regulatory T cell (Treg)...