Plasmacytoid dendritic cells are functionally exhausted while non-haematopoietic sources of type I interferon dominate human autoimmunity
A. Psarras, A. Alase, A. Antanaviciute, I. M. Carr, M. Y. Md Yusof, M. Wittmann, P. Emery, G. C. Tsokos, E. M. Vital
The paper shows that plasmacytoid dendritic cells are functionally exhausted in autoimmunity, and non-haematopoietic sources like keratinocytes drive type I interferon production.
bioRxiv · Dec 20, 2018Immunology