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Translational Immunology

During the year 2023 the activity of our research group focused in our two main research lines:
  1. Expanding the molecular basis of inborn errors of immunity (IEI, also known as primary immunodeficiencies). We finished and published a relevant work about the genetic basis of X linked chronic granulomatous disease (XCGD): we reported how to face atypical genetic mechanisms in the diagnosis of XCGD, including copy number variants, intronic variants, skewed X-chromosome inactivation, and gonosomal mosaicism (PMID: 37597073).
  2. Immune tolerance and autoimmune diseases. We described a novel autoantibody in systemic sclerosis (SSc). Using a new non-radioactive protocol, we discovered a previously unknown autoantibody, called anti-NVL, which is found in 2% of patients and almost 10% of patients in whom no other antibody was initially detected. This discovery will help to make a more accurate diagnosis of patients with SSc (PMID: 37769243).

eCORE

  • Personalized Medicine, Innovative Diagnostics, Molecular Imaging & Digital Health
  • Woman & Child Health & Rare Diseases

Team

Group Leader
Roger Colobran Oriol

Principal Investigator (PI)
Roger Colobran Oriol, Clara Franco Jarava

Researchers
Manuel Hernández González, Mónica Martínez Gallo, Laura Viñas Giménez, Romina Dieli Crimi

PhD Students
Maria Teresa Sanz Martínez, Janire Perurena Prieto, Blanca Urban, Laith Moushib.

Lab Technicians
Aina Aguiló Cucurull, Sandra Salgado Perandrés

Publications

13
Publications
84.6
%Q1
124.70
Impact Factor
9.59
Average Impact Factor

Batlle-Masó L, Rivière JG, Franco-Jarava C, Martín-Nalda A, Garcia-Prat M, Parra-Martínez A, Aguiló-Cucurull A, Castells N, Martinez-Gallo M, Soler-Palacín P, Colobran R.
Molecular Challenges in the Diagnosis of X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease: CNVs, Intronic Variants, Skewed X-Chromosome Inactivation, and Gonosomal Mosaicism.
J Clin Immunol. 2023 Nov;43(8):1953-1963.
DOI: 10.1007/s10875-023-01556-x
IF: 9.1

Perurena-Prieto J, Viñas-Giménez L, Sanz-Martínez MT, Selva-O'Callaghan A, Callejas-Moraga EL, Colobran R, Del-Castillo AG, Simeón-Aznar CP.
Anti-nuclear valosin-containing protein-like autoantibody is associated with calcinosis and higher risk of cancer in systemic sclerosis.
Rheumatology (Oxford). 2023 Sep 28:kead520.
DOI: 10.1093/rheumatology/kead520
IF: 5.5

García-Aznar JM, Maneiro Pampín E, García Ramos M, Acuña Pérez MJ, Paz Gandiaga N, Minguell Domingo L, Calavia O, Soler-Palacin P, Colobran R, Novoa Bolívar EM, Ocejo Vinyals JG.
Novel frameshift variants expand the map of the genetic defects in IRF2BP2.
Front Immunol. 2023 Oct 9:14:1279171
DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2023.1279171
IF: 7.3

Daniela Matuozzo, Estelle Talouarn, Astrid Marchal, Jeremy Manry, Yoann Seeleuthner, Yu Zhang, Alexandre Bolze, Matthieu Chaldebas, Baptiste Milisavljevic, Peng Zhang, Adrian Gervais, Paul Bastard, Takaki Asano, Lucy Bizien, Federica Barzaghi, Hassan Abolhassani, Ahmad Abou Tayoun, Alessandro Aiuti, Ilad Alavi Darazam, Luis M. Allende, Rebeca Alonso-Arias, Andrés Augusto Arias, Gokhan Aytekin, Peter Bergman, Simone Bondesan, Yenan T. Bryceson, Ingrid G. Bustos, Oscar Cabrera-Marante, Sheila Carcel, Paola Carrera, Giorgio Casari, Khalil Chaïbi, Roger Colobran, Antonio Condino-Neto, Laura E. Covill, Ottavia M Delmonte, Loubna El Zein, Carlos Flores, Peter K. Gregersen, Marta Gut, Filomeen Haerynck, Rabih Halwani, Selda Hancerli, Lennart Hammarström, Nevin Hatipoğlu, Adem Karbuz, Sevgi Keles, Christèle Kyheng, Rafael Leon-Lopez, Jose Luis Franco, Davood Mansouri, Javier Martinez-Picado, Ozge Metin Akcan, Isabelle Migeotte, Pierre-Emmanuel Morange, Guillaume Morelle, Andrea Martin-Nalda, Giuseppe Novelli, Antonio Novelli, Tayfun Ozcelik, Figen Palabiyik, Qian Pan-Hammarström, Rebeca Pérez de Diego, Laura Planas-Serra, Daniel E. Pleguezuelo, Carolina Prando, Aurora Pujol, Luis Felipe Reyes, Jacques G. Rivière, Carlos Rodriguez-Gallego, Julian Rojas, Patrizia Rovere-Querini, Agatha Schlüter, Mohammad Shahrooei, Ali Sobh, Pere Soler-Palacin, Yacine Tandjaoui-Lambiotte, Imran Tipu, Cristina Tresoldi, Jesus Troya, Diederik Van de Beek, Mayana Zatz, Pawel Zawadzki, Saleh Zaid Al-Muhsen, Mohammed Faraj Alosaimi, Fahad M Alsohime, Hagit Baris-Feldman, Manish J. Butte, Stefan N. Constantinescu, Megan A. Cooper, Clifton L. Dalgard, Jacques Fellay, James R. Heath, Yu-Lung Lau, Richard P. Lifton, Tom Maniatis, Trine H. Mogensen, Horst Von Bernuth, Alban Lermine, Michel Vidaud, Anne Boland, Jean-François Deleuze, Robert Nussbaum, Amanda Kahn-Kirby, France Mentre, Sarah Tubiana, Guy Gorochov, Florence Tubach, Pierre Hausfater, Isabelle Meyts, Shen-Ying Zhang, Anne Puel, Luigi D. Notarangelo, Stephanie Boisson-Dupuis, Helen C. Su, Bertrand Boisson, Emmanuelle Jouanguy, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Qian Zhang, Laurent Abel, Aurélie Cobat.
Rare predicted loss-of-function variants of type I IFN immunity genes are associated with life-threatening COVID-19.
Genome Med. 2023 Apr 5;15(1):22.
DOI: 10.1186/s13073-023-01173-8
IF: 15.2

Álvarez-Sierra D, Rodríguez-Grande J, Gómez-Brey A, Bello I, Caubet E, González Ó, Zafón C, Iglesias C, Moreno P, Ruiz N, Marín-Sánchez A, Colobran R, Pujol-Borrell R.
Single cell transcriptomic analysis of Graves’ disease thyroid glands reveals the broad immunoregulatory potential of thyroid follicular and stromal cells and implies a major re-interpretation of the role of aberrant HLA class II expression in autoimmunity.
J Autoimmun. 2023 Sep;139:103072.
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaut.2023.103072
IF: 12.8

Projects

Integrating genome and transcriptome profiling for the identification of novel genetic basis of primary immunodeficiencies
Principal Investigator: Roger Colobran (Co-IP: Clara Franco Jarava)
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). Ref PI20/00761
Funding: 159,720 €
Period: 2021-2023

Identification and functional characterization of genetic variants associated to specific clinical phenotypes in hereditary angioedema due to C1 inhibitor deficiency: an unbiased approach
Principal Investigator: Roger Colobran (Co-IP: Alberto López Lera)
Agency: Takeda Pharmaceutical
Funding: 280,740 €
Period: 2022-2025

The human genetic and immunological determinants of the clinical manifestations of SARS-CoV-2 infection: Towards personalised medicine (UNDINE)
Principal Investigator: Trine Morgensen (coordinator)
Agency: European Commission (HORIZON-HLTH-2021-DISEASE-04). Proposal number: 101057100
Funding: 6,926,262 €
Period: 2022-2026

Estudio de expresión de antígenos en tejido tumoral de pacientes con Esclerosis Sistémica
Principal Investigator: Alfredo Guillén del Castillo
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). Ref PI22/01804
Funding: 75,020 €
Period: 2023-2025

Characterization of Neisseria Meningitis after the introduction of subcapsular meningococcal B vaccine and identification of predisposing factors for invasive meningococcal disease
Principal Investigator: Juan Jose González López
Agency: Instituto de Salud Carlos III (ISCIII). Ref PI21/00132
Funding: 123,420 €
Period: 2022-2024

VHIR Annual Report 2023