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May 20, 2026Biomedicines0 citationsOpen Access

Toward Precision Health in Autoimmunity and Immune-Related Adverse Events: The Autoantibody Reactome, Spatial Omics, and Multimodal Data Integration

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ASAllan Stensballe

Key Points

  • The aim is to propose a framework linking autoantibody responses with clinical outcomes in autoimmunity and immune-related adverse events.
  • Describes the autoantibody reactome's role in understanding immune responses.
  • Suggests combining spatial transcriptomics and proteomics for profiling immune states.
  • Advocates for multimodal data integration for better risk prediction and treatment guidance.
  • Demonstrates that the autoantibody reactome can elucidate immune heterogeneity in diseases like RA.
  • Indicates the potential for longitudinal blood-based profiling in treatment-related immune dysregulation.
  • Recommends the development of clinically validated biomarker panels for improved decision-making in therapy.

Abstract

The autoantibody reactome refers to the multidimensional repertoire of antibody reactivities against self-antigens across the human proteome or selected antigenic compartments. This offers a scalable systemic layer for precision immunology across spontaneous autoimmunity and treatment-induced immune toxicity. Autoimmune diseases and immune-related adverse events (irAEs) share major features of dysregulated immunity, yet clinically useful tools for risk stratification, early detection, endotyping, and treatment guidance remain limited and slow. A central challenge is that tissue pathology is highly informative but not uniformly accessible across diseases and organ systems, whereas routine serology captures only a narrow fraction of immune heterogeneity. In this perspective, I argue that a global autoantibody reactome can serve as a central unifying framework linking systemic immune history, tissue pathology, and clinical trajectories across autoimmune disorders and irAEs. Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) provides a strong prototype because its serological diversity, major role of post-translationally modified autoantigens, and marked synovial heterogeneity allow reactome features to be interpreted against tissue biology. Immune checkpoint inhibitor-associated inflammatory arthritis serves as an illustrative rheumatic irAE and a model of treatment-induced immune dysregulation with clear opportunities for longitudinal blood-based profiling. Spatial transcriptomics and proteomics are therefore positioned not as stand-alone solutions, but as mechanistic tools that can decode reactome-defined immune states within tissue microenvironments where tissue is accessible. Clinical translation will require integration of autoantibody reactomes with tissue, circulating proteomic, imaging, genetic, and clinical data through transparent multimodal models, as well as a shift from exploratory resources such as AAgAtlas toward analytically validated and clinically interpretable biomarker panels for risk prediction, endotyping, monitoring, and biomarker-guided intervention. This perspective outlines technical and strategic steps toward clinically actionable decision support, including risk stratification before ICI initiation and treatment guidance for patients who develop ICI-induced inflammatory arthritis, through integration of autoantibody reactome profiling, spatial omics and transparent multimodal AI.

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synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0d5051f03e14405aa9bf8bhttps://doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines14051129
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