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Epithelial Interleukin‐1 Receptor‐Like‐1 Activation Is Contingent on Interleukin‐33 Isoforms and Asthma‐Related Receptor Variation (2024)
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Portelli, M., Ketelaar, M., Bates, S., Csomor, E., Shaw, D., Emsley, J., Brightling, C., Hall, I., Affleck, K., Edwards, M., Nawijn, M., Koppelman, G., Van Oosterhout, A., & Sayers, I. (2024). Epithelial Interleukin‐1 Receptor‐Like‐1 Activation Is Contingent on Interleukin‐33 Isoforms and Asthma‐Related Receptor Variation. Clinical and Experimental Allergy, 54(12), 984-985. https://doi.org/10.1111/cea.14562

Introduction: The interleukin-33/interleukin-1 receptor-like-1 (IL-33/IL1RL1) signalling pathway is implicated in asthma pathogenesis, with IL1RL1 nonsynonymous genetic polymorphisms associated with disease risk. We aimed to determine these variants'... Read More about Epithelial Interleukin‐1 Receptor‐Like‐1 Activation Is Contingent on Interleukin‐33 Isoforms and Asthma‐Related Receptor Variation.

Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a critical regulator of inflammatory signalling through toll‐like receptors 4 and 7/8 in murine and human lungs (2024)
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Sayers, I., Thakker, D., Billington, C., Kreideweiss, S., Grundl, M. A., Bouyssou, T., Thamm, S., Kreuz, S., & Hall, I. P. (2024). Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a critical regulator of inflammatory signalling through toll‐like receptors 4 and 7/8 in murine and human lungs. British Journal of Pharmacology, 181(22), 4647-4657. https://doi.org/10.1111/bph.16509

Background and Purpose: Toll‐like receptors 4 (TLR4) and TLR7/TLR8 play an important role in mediating the inflammatory effects of bacterial and viral pathogens. Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is an important regulator of signalli... Read More about Interleukin‐1 receptor‐associated kinase 4 (IRAK4) is a critical regulator of inflammatory signalling through toll‐like receptors 4 and 7/8 in murine and human lungs.

IL-33 induced gene expression in activated Th2 effector cells is dependent on IL-1RL1 haplotype and asthma status (2024)
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Saikumar Jayalatha, A. K., Ketelaar, M. E., Hesse, L., Badi, Y. E., Zounemat-Kermani, N., Sharon, B., Dijk, N. F., van den Berge, M., Guryev, V., Sayers, I., Vonk, J. E., Adcock, I. M., Koppelman, G. H., & Nawijn, M. C. (2024). IL-33 induced gene expression in activated Th2 effector cells is dependent on IL-1RL1 haplotype and asthma status. European Respiratory Journal, 63(6), Article 2400005. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.00005-2024

Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity (2023)
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Portelli, M. A., Bhaker, S., Pang, V., Bates, D. O., Johnson, S. R., Mazar, A. P., Shaw, D., Brightling, C., & Sayers, I. (2023). Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity. Clinical and Translational Allergy, 13(10), Article e12293. https://doi.org/10.1002/clt2.12293

AbstractBackgroundExpression of the urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) is elevated in the airway epithelium in asthma; however, the contribution of uPAR to asthma pathogenesis and scope for therapeutic targeting remains unknown.Objective... Read More about Elevated PLAUR is observed in the airway epithelium of asthma patients and blocking improves barrier integrity.

Author Correction: Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk (2023)
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Shrine, N., Izquierdo, A. G., Chen, J., Packer, R., Hall, R. J., Guyatt, A. L., Batini, C., Thompson, R. J., Pavuluri, C., Malik, V., Hobbs, B. D., Moll, M., Kim, W., Tal-Singer, R., Bakke, P., Fawcett, K. A., John, C., Coley, K., Piga, N. N., Pozarickij, A., …Consortium Lead Principal Investigators. (2023). Author Correction: Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk. Nature Genetics, 55, 1778–1779. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01531-7

Correction to: Nature Genetics, published online 13 March 2023. In the version of the article initially published, the sample sizes in the main text and Supplementary Tables 1 and 2 were incorrect. In the abstract, the last paragraph of the Introduct... Read More about Author Correction: Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.

Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation (2023)
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Rajasekar, P., Hall, R. J., Binaya, K., Mahapatra, P. S., Puppala, S. P., Thakker, D., MacIsaac, J. L., Lin, D., Kobor, M., Bolton, C. E., Sayers, I., Hall, I. P., & Clifford, R. L. (2023). Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation. Environmental Pollution, 337, Article 122561. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2023.122561

Household air pollution caused by inefficient cooking practices causes 4 million deaths a year worldwide. In Nepal, 86% of the rural population use solid fuels for cooking. Over 25% of premature deaths associated with air pollution are respiratory in... Read More about Nepalese indoor cookstove smoke extracts alter human airway epithelial gene expression, DNA methylation and hydroxymethylation.

Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection (2023)
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Packer, R. J., Shrine, N., Hall, R., Melbourne, C. A., Thompson, R., Williams, A. T., Paynton, M. L., Guyatt, A. L., Allen, R. J., Lee, P. H., John, C., Campbell, A., Hayward, C., de Vries, M., Vonk, J. M., Davitte, J., Hessel, E., Michalovich, D., Betts, J. C., Sayers, I., …Wain, L. V. (2023). Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection. European Respiratory Journal, 61(6), Article 2201667. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.01667-2022

Chronic sputum production impacts on quality of life and is a feature of many respiratory diseases. Identification of the genetic variants associated with chronic sputum production in a disease agnostic sample could improve understanding of its cause... Read More about Genome-wide association study of chronic sputum production implicates loci involved in mucus production and infection.

Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk (2023)
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Shrine, N., Izquierdo, A. G., Chen, J., Packer, R., Hall, R. J., Guyatt, A. L., Batini, C., Thompson, R. J., Pavuluri, C., Malik, V., Hobbs, B. D., Moll, M., Kim, W., Tal-Singer, R., Bakke, P., Fawcett, K. A., John, C., Coley, K., Piga, N. N., Pozarickij, A., …The Qatar Genome Program Research (QGPR) Consortium. (2023). Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk. Nature Genetics, 55(3), 410-422. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41588-023-01314-0

Lung-function impairment underlies chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and predicts mortality. In the largest multi-ancestry genome-wide association meta-analysis of lung function to date, comprising 580,869 participants, we identified 1,020... Read More about Multi-ancestry genome-wide association analyses improve resolution of genes and pathways influencing lung function and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease risk.