Patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, myositis, rheumatoid arthritis and scleroderma share activation of a common type I interferon pathway

BW Higgs, Z Liu, B White, W Zhu, WI White… - Annals of the …, 2011 - ard.bmj.com
Objective To characterise activation of the type I interferon (IFN) pathway in patients with
systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), dermatomyositis (DM), polymyositis (PM), rheumatoid …

[HTML][HTML] Type I interferon: potential therapeutic target for psoriasis?

Y Yao, L Richman, C Morehouse, M de los Reyes… - PloS one, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Background Psoriasis is an immune-mediated disease characterized by aberrant epidermal
differentiation, surface scale formation, and marked cutaneous inflammation. To better …

[HTML][HTML] Efficacy and safety of MEDI2070, an antibody against interleukin 23, in patients with moderate to severe Crohn's disease: a phase 2a study

BE Sands, J Chen, BG Feagan, M Penney, WA Rees… - Gastroenterology, 2017 - Elsevier
Background & Aims MEDI2070 is a human monoclonal antibody that selectively inhibits
interleukin 23 (IL23), a cytokine implicated in the pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD). We …

Intratumoral IL12 mRNA therapy promotes TH1 transformation of the tumor microenvironment

SL Hewitt, D Bailey, J Zielinski, A Apte, F Musenge… - Clinical Cancer …, 2020 - AACR
Purpose: While immune checkpoint inhibitors such as anti–PD-L1 are rapidly becoming the
standard of care in the treatment of many cancers, only a subset of treated patients have …

A phase 1b clinical trial evaluating sifalimumab, an anti-IFN-α monoclonal antibody, shows target neutralisation of a type I IFN signature in blood of dermatomyositis …

BW Higgs, W Zhu, C Morehouse, WI White… - Annals of the …, 2014 - ard.bmj.com
Objective To assess the pharmacodynamic effects of sifalimumab, an investigational anti-
IFN-α monoclonal antibody, in the blood and muscle of adult dermatomyositis and …

Interferon‐stimulated gene 15 (ISG15) conjugates proteins in dermatomyositis muscle with perifascicular atrophy

M Salajegheh, SW Kong, JL Pinkus… - Annals of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Objective We investigated interferon‐stimulated gene 15 (ISG15), a poorly understood
ubiquitin‐like modifier, and its enzymatic pathway in dermatomyositis (DM), an autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] Genomic Landscape Survey Identifies SRSF1 as a Key Oncodriver in Small Cell Lung Cancer

L Jiang, J Huang, BW Higgs, Z Hu, Z Xiao, X Yao… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive disease with poor survival. A few
sequencing studies performed on limited number of samples have revealed potential …

EZH2 is required for breast and pancreatic cancer stem cell maintenance and can be used as a functional cancer stem cell reporter

LE van Vlerken, CM Kiefer, C Morehouse… - Stem cells …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Although cancer is largely seen as a disease stemming from genetic mutations, evidence
has implicated epigenetic regulation of gene expression as a driving force for tumorigenesis …

[HTML][HTML] Development of potential pharmacodynamic and diagnostic markers for anti-IFN-α monoclonal antibody trials in systemic lupus erythematosus

Y Yao, BW Higgs, C Morehouse… - Human genomics and …, 2009 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
To identify potential pharmacodynamic biomarkers to guide dose selection in clinical trials
using anti-interferon-alpha (IFN-α) monoclonal antibody (mAb) therapy for systemic lupus …

Characterisation of anifrolumab, a fully human anti-interferon receptor antagonist antibody for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus

JM Riggs, RN Hanna, B Rajan, K Zerrouki… - Lupus science & …, 2018 - lupus.bmj.com
Objective We investigated the mechanistic and pharmacological properties of anifrolumab, a
fully human, effector-null, anti-type I interferon (IFN) alpha receptor 1 (IFNAR1) monoclonal …