BAFF and APRIL Inhibitors to study Mice Autoimmunity

The TNF superfamily ligands, BAFF and APRIL, are involved in the pathogenesis of a number of autoimmune diseases by regulating plasma cell survival. AdipoGen Life Sciences provides unique antibodies to study autoimmune diseases in mice by blockade of mouse BAFF or APRIL, such as anti-BAFF (mouse), mAb (blocking) (Sandy-2) or anti-APRIL (mouse), mAb (rec.) (blocking) (Apry-1-1).

In a recent study, Haselmayer et al., tested several inhibitors of BAFF or APRIL in a model of mouse autoimmune disease (SLE) to confirm that inhibition of mouse BAFF and APRIL by the receptor TACI-Fc is more efficient than inhibition of BAFF alone or APRIL alone on long-lived plasma cell survival. To block mouse APRIL in this study, anti-APRIL (mouse), mAb (rec.) (blocking) (Apry-1-1) (AG-27B-0001PF) from Adipogen was injected in C57BL/6 mice.

LIT: A mouse model of systemic lupus erythematosus responds better to soluble TACI than to soluble BAFFR, correlating with depletion of plasma cells: P. Haselmayer, et al.; Eur. J. Immunol. 47, 1075 (2017)