Nature Communications (Nov 2017)

Unique transcriptome signatures and GM-CSF expression in lymphocytes from patients with spondyloarthritis

  • M. H. Al-Mossawi,
  • L. Chen,
  • H. Fang,
  • A. Ridley,
  • J. de Wit,
  • N. Yager,
  • A. Hammitzsch,
  • I. Pulyakhina,
  • B. P. Fairfax,
  • D. Simone,
  • Yao Yi,
  • S. Bandyopadhyay,
  • K. Doig,
  • R Gundle,
  • B. Kendrick,
  • F. Powrie,
  • J. C. Knight,
  • P. Bowness

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01771-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Spondyloarthritis is an inflammatory disease with Th17 cells implicated in the pathogenesis. Here the authors show that patients with spondyloarthritis have increased numbers of GM-CSF-secreting blood and synovial lymphocytes, Th17 or not, that carry a unique transcriptional profile including enhanced GPR65 expression.