Dimitrios Boumpas and colleagues recently published a study in Clinical Immunology

In this work, we performed a comprehensive transcriptomic, proteomic and functional characterization of the three peripheral monocytic subsets from active SLE patients and healthy individuals. Our data demonstrate extensive molecular disruptions in circulating SLE NCM, characterized by enhanced inflammatory features such as deregulated DNA repair, cell cycle and heightened IFN signaling combined with differentiation and developmental cues. Enhanced DNA damage, elevated expression of p53, G0 arrest of cell cycle and increased autophagy stress the differentiation potential of NCM in SLE. This immunogenic profile is associated with an activated macrophage phenotype of NCM exhibiting M1 characteristics in the circulation, fueling the inflammatory response. Together, these findings identify circulating SLE NCM as a pathogenic cell type in the disease that could represent an additional therapeutic target.

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Transcriptomic and proteomic profiling reveals distinct pathogenic features of peripheral non-classical monocytes in systemic lupus erythematosus.
Stergioti EM, Manolakou T, Sentis G, Samiotaki M, Kapsala N, Fanouriakis A, Boumpas DT, Banos A.
Clin Immunol. 2023 Oct;255:109765. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2023.109765.