PMID- 20400961 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20100702 LR - 20220408 IS - 1546-170X (Electronic) IS - 1078-8956 (Print) IS - 1078-8956 (Linking) VI - 16 IP - 5 DP - 2010 May TI - A CD8+ T cell transcription signature predicts prognosis in autoimmune disease. PG - 586-91, 1p following 591 LID - 10.1038/nm.2130 [doi] AB - Autoimmune diseases are common and debilitating, but their severe manifestations could be reduced if biomarkers were available to allow individual tailoring of potentially toxic immunosuppressive therapy. Gene expression-based biomarkers facilitating such tailoring of chemotherapy in cancer, but not autoimmunity, have been identified and translated into clinical practice. We show that transcriptional profiling of purified CD8(+) T cells, which avoids the confounding influences of unseparated cells, identifies two distinct subject subgroups predicting long-term prognosis in two autoimmune diseases, antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody (ANCA)-associated vasculitis (AAV), a chronic, severe disease characterized by inflammation of medium-sized and small blood vessels, and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), characterized by autoantibodies, immune complex deposition and diverse clinical manifestations ranging from glomerulonephritis to neurological dysfunction. We show that the subset of genes defining the poor prognostic group is enriched for genes involved in the interleukin-7 receptor (IL-7R) pathway and T cell receptor (TCR) signaling and those expressed by memory T cells. Furthermore, the poor prognostic group is associated with an expanded CD8(+) T cell memory population. These subgroups, which are also found in the normal population and can be identified by measuring expression of only three genes, raise the prospect of individualized therapy and suggest new potential therapeutic targets in autoimmunity. FAU - McKinney, Eoin F AU - McKinney EF AD - Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK. FAU - Lyons, Paul A AU - Lyons PA FAU - Carr, Edward J AU - Carr EJ FAU - Hollis, Jane L AU - Hollis JL FAU - Jayne, David R W AU - Jayne DR FAU - Willcocks, Lisa C AU - Willcocks LC FAU - Koukoulaki, Maria AU - Koukoulaki M FAU - Brazma, Alvis AU - Brazma A FAU - Jovanovic, Vojislav AU - Jovanovic V FAU - Kemeny, D Michael AU - Kemeny DM FAU - Pollard, Andrew J AU - Pollard AJ FAU - Macary, Paul A AU - Macary PA FAU - Chaudhry, Afzal N AU - Chaudhry AN FAU - Smith, Kenneth G C AU - Smith KG LA - eng GR - 079895/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - G0400929/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - 083650/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom GR - 16305/ARC_/Arthritis Research UK/United Kingdom GR - G0400929(71747)/MRC_/Medical Research Council/United Kingdom GR - 083650/Z/07/Z/WT_/Wellcome Trust/United Kingdom PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't DEP - 20100418 PL - United States TA - Nat Med JT - Nature medicine JID - 9502015 RN - 0 (Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic) RN - 0 (Immunosuppressive Agents) RN - 0 (Interleukin-7) RN - 0 (Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell) SB - IM CIN - Nat Rev Rheumatol. 2010 Jul;6(7):380. PMID: 20614501 MH - Antibodies, Antineutrophil Cytoplasmic/immunology MH - Autoimmune Diseases/*drug therapy/*immunology MH - Autoimmunity/immunology MH - CD8-Positive T-Lymphocytes/*immunology MH - Cohort Studies MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Gene Expression MH - Humans MH - Immunosuppressive Agents/*therapeutic use MH - Inflammation/drug therapy/immunology MH - Interleukin-7/immunology MH - Lupus Erythematosus, Systemic/drug therapy/immunology MH - Prognosis MH - Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell/immunology MH - Signal Transduction/immunology MH - T-Lymphocytes/*immunology MH - Vasculitis/drug therapy/immunology PMC - PMC3504359 MID - EMS29061 OID - NLM: EMS29061 EDAT- 2010/04/20 06:00 MHDA- 2010/07/03 06:00 PMCR- 2012/11/22 CRDT- 2010/04/20 06:00 PHST- 2009/07/08 00:00 [received] PHST- 2010/03/05 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2010/04/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2010/04/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2010/07/03 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2012/11/22 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - nm.2130 [pii] AID - 10.1038/nm.2130 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Nat Med. 2010 May;16(5):586-91, 1p following 591. doi: 10.1038/nm.2130. Epub 2010 Apr 18.