Autoinflammatory disease Autoimmune disease
Pathogenetic basis Innate immunity Adaptive immunity
Competent cells Dendritic cells, Monocytes/Macrophages, Neutrophils CD4+T cells - Th1/Th2/Th17/Treg,  CD8+T cells, Macrophages, B cells
Activators PAMPs/DAMPs Antigens
Receptors TLR/MDA5/RIG-I/NLR TCR
Reaction specificity Comprehensive/Pattern recognition MHC-restricted/Antigen-specific
Gene products Type I interferon Antibodies Inflammatory cytokines
Disease due to gene mutation Congenital innate immunodeficiency (MyD88 deficiency, NEMO, DIRA, IkBα deficiency, IRAK-4 deficiency, etc.) Primary immunodeficiency diseases (CVID, agamma globulinemia, WAS, SCID, HIDS, HIES, CGD, etc.)
Representative Autoinflammatory diseases Periodic fever syndrome ( FMF, PFAPA,TRAPS, MVK, CAPS), Systemic-onset JIA Juvenile dematomyositis, Chronic recurrent multifocal osteomyelitis, Behcet's disease, etc. Autoimmune diseases Systemic lupus erythematosus, Mixed connective tissue disease, Kawasaki disease,   Sjogren syndrome, Juvenile systemic sclerosis, etc.
Therapy Removal of inflammatory cytokines, Suppression of activated macrophages/Dendritic cells Immunosuppressive therapy, Depletion of B cells
Abbreviations: PAMPs: Pathogen-associated molecular patterns; DAMPs: Damage-associated molecular patterns; TLR: Toll-like receptor; MDA5: Melanoma differentiation-associated gene-5; RIG-I: Retinoic acid-inducible gene-I; NLR: Nod-like receptor; NEMO: NF-kB essential modulator; DIRA: Deficiency of the interleukin-1 receptor antagonist; FMF: Familial Mediterranean fever; PFAPA: Periodic fever, aphthous stomatitis, pharyngitis, and cervical adenitis; TRAPS: Tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated periodic syndrome; MVK: Mevalonate kinase deficiency; CAPS: Cryopyrin-associated periodic syndrome; JIA: Juvenile idiopathic arthritis; TCR: T cell receptor; CVID: Common variable immunodeficiency; WAS: Wiscott-Aldrich syndrome; SCID: Severe combined immunodeficiency; HIES: Hyper-immunoglobulin E syndrome; CGD: Chronic granulomatous disease.
Table 1: Differences between autoinflammatory disease and autoimmune disease.