Nature Communications (Jan 2018)

NF-κB inducing kinase is a therapeutic target for systemic lupus erythematosus

  • Hans D. Brightbill,
  • Eric Suto,
  • Nicole Blaquiere,
  • Nandhini Ramamoorthi,
  • Swathi Sujatha-Bhaskar,
  • Emily B. Gogol,
  • Georgette M. Castanedo,
  • Benjamin T. Jackson,
  • Youngsu C. Kwon,
  • Susan Haller,
  • Justin Lesch,
  • Karin Bents,
  • Christine Everett,
  • Pawan Bir Kohli,
  • Sandra Linge,
  • Laura Christian,
  • Kathy Barrett,
  • Allan Jaochico,
  • Leonid M. Berezhkovskiy,
  • Peter W. Fan,
  • Zora Modrusan,
  • Kelli Veliz,
  • Michael J. Townsend,
  • Jason DeVoss,
  • Adam R. Johnson,
  • Robert Godemann,
  • Wyne P. Lee,
  • Cary D. Austin,
  • Brent S. McKenzie,
  • Jason A. Hackney,
  • James J. Crawford,
  • Steven T. Staben,
  • Moulay H. Alaoui Ismaili,
  • Lawren C. Wu,
  • Nico Ghilardi

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02672-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Clinical trials of BAFF blockade with belimumab have shown partial efficacy for the treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), so other therapeutic options are required. Here, the authors present a new small molecule inhibitor that targets NIK with a similar efficacy to BAFF inhibition in two mouse models of SLE.