Autotransporter-mediated display of complement receptor ligands by gram-negative bacteria increases antibody responses and limits disease severity

KM Holland-Tummillo, LE Shoudy, D Steiner, S Kumar… - Pathogens, 2020 - mdpi.com
class of gram-negative OMPs whose transport and insertion into the OM is widely-conserved,
largely self… The increased signaling we observe could also be due to intracellular detection

Harnessing the therapeutic potential of 'Rogue'antibodies

JD Dimitrov - Trends in pharmacological sciences, 2020 - cell.com
… , tendency for self-association, or off-target autoreactivity are … in disruption of receptor–ligand
interaction (ie, interaction of a … where there is a well-identified, and preferably invariable, …

MR1, an immunological periscope of cellular metabolism

A Chancellor, A Vacchini… - International …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
identified so far do not respond to the same microbial antigens as MAIT cells, are self-reactive
the plasma membrane and present self-antigens or microbial ligands acquired in the ER …

Promiscuous recognition of MR1 drives self-reactive mucosal-associated invariant T cell responses

A Chancellor, R Alan Simmons, RC Khanolkar… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
… MR1 is a non-polymorphic MHC class I–like molecule that … in the absence of microbial ligands.
Purified, circulating Vα7.2 + T … whether self-reactive MAIT cells could also be identified ex …

GPU-accelerated discovery of pathogen-derived molecular mimics of a T-cell insulin epitope

T Whalley, G Dolton, PE Brown, A Wall… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
… our understanding of AD by identifying potential targets for … potential pathogen-derived
peptide ligands for the 1E6 TCR … protein databases from pathogenic bacteria and fungi and by …

[HTML][HTML] A structural perspective of how T cell receptors recognise the CD1 family of lipid antigen-presenting molecules

TP Cao, A Shahine, LR Cox, GS Besra… - Journal of Biological …, 2024 - Elsevier
… undergo point mutations to escape detection like peptide, the … Examples of pan-CD1 ligands
that bind multiple human CD1 … of more potent SM blockers that can reduce the autoreactive

Activation pathways that drive CD4+ T cells to break tolerance in autoimmune diseases*

SH Krovi, VK Kuchroo - Immunological reviews, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… Thus, during autoimmunity, T cells bearing self-reactive TCRs … , these microbial antigens
function as self-ligands to promote … also identified TGFβ3 as a potent cytokine that drives high

Staphylococcal phosphatidylglycerol antigens activate human T cells via CD1a

GC Monnot, M Wegrecki, TY Cheng, YL Chen… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
… presents microbial ligands from bacteria colonizing the skin is unclear. Here we identified
testing with a CD1a-autoreactive T cell line originally isolated from human skin (DermT) 17,…

T cell receptor diversity, specificity and promiscuity of functionally heterogeneous human MR1-restricted T cells

M Lepore, DA Lewinsohn, DM Lewinsohn - Molecular immunology, 2021 - Elsevier
… to bind distinct ligands likely accounts for the recent identification of … reactive to alternative
sets of microbial or self MR1 ligands. … In conclusion, self-reactive MR1T cells, seem to be a …

Discovery of natural bispecific antibodies: Is psoriasis induced by a toxigenic Corynebacterium simulans and maintained by CIDAMPs as autoantigens?

JM Schröder - Experimental Dermatology, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
… cationic intrinsically disordered antimicrobial peptides (CIDAMPs), … allows the identification
of antigen epitopes from microbes, … A high percentage of antigenic peptides identified in this …