Multiple sclerosis: Neuroimmune crosstalk and therapeutic targeting

M Charabati, MA Wheeler, HL Weiner, FJ Quintana - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic inflammatory and degenerative disease of the central
nervous system afflicting nearly three million individuals worldwide. Neuroimmune …

[HTML][HTML] T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal Transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Integrated analyses of single-cell atlases reveal age, gender, and smoking status associations with cell type-specific expression of mediators of SARS-CoV-2 viral …

C Muus, MD Luecken, G Eraslan, A Waghray… - BioRxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, creates an urgent
need for identifying molecular mechanisms that mediate viral entry, propagation, and tissue …

Ferroptosis promotes T-cell activation-induced neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis

J Luoqian, W Yang, X Ding, Q Tuo, Z Xiang… - Cellular & molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
While many drugs are effective at reducing the relapse frequency of multiple sclerosis (MS),
there is an unmet need for treatments that slow neurodegeneration resulting from secondary …

[HTML][HTML] Not-so-opposite ends of the spectrum: CD8+ T cell dysfunction across chronic infection, cancer and autoimmunity

JL Collier, SA Weiss, KE Pauken, DR Sen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
CD8+ T cells are critical mediators of cytotoxic effector function in infection, cancer and
autoimmunity. In cancer and chronic viral infection, CD8+ T cells undergo a progressive loss …

m6A demethylase ALKBH5 controls CD4+ T cell pathogenicity and promotes autoimmunity

J Zhou, X Zhang, J Hu, R Qu, Z Yu, H Xu, H Chen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification is dynamically regulated by “writer” and “eraser”
enzymes. m6A “writers” have been shown to ensure the homeostasis of CD4+ T cells, but …

Tissue-resident memory T cells invade the brain parenchyma in multiple sclerosis white matter lesions

NL Fransen, CC Hsiao, M van der Poel… - Brain, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Multiple sclerosis is a chronic inflammatory, demyelinating disease, although it has been
suggested that in the progressive late phase, inflammatory lesion activity declines. We …

[HTML][HTML] Cytotoxic CD8+ T cells target citrullinated antigens in rheumatoid arthritis

JS Moon, S Younis, NS Ramadoss, R Iyer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The immune mechanisms that mediate synovitis and joint destruction in rheumatoid arthritis
(RA) remain poorly defined. Although increased levels of CD8+ T cells have been described …

Roles and regulation of microglia activity in multiple sclerosis: insights from animal models

F Distéfano-Gagné, S Bitarafan, S Lacroix… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
As resident macrophages of the CNS, microglia are critical immune effectors of inflammatory
lesions and associated neural dysfunctions. In multiple sclerosis (MS) and its animal …

[HTML][HTML] Microglia and perivascular macrophages act as antigen presenting cells to promote CD8 T cell infiltration of the brain

EN Goddery, CE Fain, CG Lipovsky… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
CD8 T cell infiltration of the central nervous system (CNS) is necessary for host protection
but contributes to neuropathology. Antigen presenting cells (APCs) situated at CNS borders …