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ArticleEvolution, medicine, and public health2018

Linking autoimmunity to the origin of the adaptive immune system.

Robert Bayersdorf, Arrigo Fruscalzo, Francesco Catania

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Article in Evolution, medicine, and public health, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Robert BayersdorfInstitute for Genome Stability in Aging and Disease, Medical Faculty, University of Cologne, 50931 Cologne, Germany.
Arrigo FruscalzoClinic of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Franziskus Hospital, 59227 Ahlen, Germany.
Francesco CataniaInstitute for Evolution and Biodiversity, University of Münster, 48149 Münster, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2652-9397
University Hospital Münster · DEUniversity of Cologne · DEUniversity of Münster · DE

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In jawed vertebrates, the adaptive immune system (AIS) cooperates with the innate immune system (IIS) to protect hosts from infections. Although targeting non-self-components, the AIS also generates self-reactive antibodies which, when inadequately counter-selected, can give rise to autoimmune diseases (ADs). ADs are on the rise in western countries. Why haven't ADs been eliminated during the evolution of a ∼500 million-year old system? And why have they become more frequent in recent decades? Self-recognition is an attribute of the phylogenetically more ancient IIS and empirical data compellingly show that some self-reactive antibodies, which are classifiable as elements of the IIS rather then the AIS, may protect from (rather than cause) ADs. Here, we propose that the IIS's self-recognition system originally fathered the AIS and, as a consequence of this relationship, its activity is dampened in hygienic environments. Rather than a mere breakdown or failure of the mechanisms of self-tolerance, ADs might thus arise from architectural constraints.

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adaptive immune systemimmune toleranceinnate immune systemnatural autoantibodiespregnancyself-recognition

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PMID29423226
PMCPMC5793817
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