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High-throughput Quantitative Real-time RT-PCR Assay for Determining Expression Profiles of Types I and III Interferon Subtypes
Published on: March 24, 2015
Köhlmeier-Degos disease is an interferonopathy characterized by type I and II interferon-driven inflammatory
Cornelia D Cudrici1, Shubham Goel2, Keiko Sakamoto2
1Laboratory of Cardiovascular Regenerative Medicine, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Abstract:
Köhlmeier-Degos disease (Degos disease [DD]) is a rare vasculopathy with characteristic skin lesions and life-threatening gastrointestinal and cerebrovascular involvement. Although DD is often viewed as a thrombo-obliterative disorder, its immunopathology remains poorly defined. Here, single-cell RNA and T cell receptor sequencing of skin, blood, and cerebrospinal fluid from DD patients reveal pervasive type I and type II interferon activation, with an interferon-γ-biased program compared with systemic lupus erythematosus. Cytotoxic CD8A+ T cells show interferon-responsive activation and restricted clonotypic diversity, implicating cellular immunity in the DD inflammatory landscape. In a single-patient interventional study, JAK inhibition with ruxolitinib is associated with suppression of interferon-responsive programs, improvement of cutaneous inflammation, and stabilization of neurological disease. These findings support DD as an interferon-driven inflammatory vasculopathy and provide a rationale for further evaluation of interferon-JAK-STAT signaling. This study has been registered at ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT05998395).
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