[HTML][HTML] Transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of effector and memory CD8 T cell differentiation

Y Chen, R Zander, A Khatun, DM Schauder… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Immune protection and lasting memory are accomplished through the generation of
phenotypically and functionally distinct CD8 T cell subsets. Understanding how these …

[HTML][HTML] IL-21 shapes germinal center polarization via light zone B cell selection and cyclin D3 upregulation

L Petersone, CJ Wang, NM Edner, A Fabri… - Journal of Experimental …, 2023 - rupress.org
Germinal center (GC) dysregulation has been widely reported in the context of
autoimmunity. Here, we show that interleukin 21 (IL-21), the archetypal follicular helper T …

T Follicular Helper Cell Heterogeneity

W Song, J Craft - Annual Review of Immunology, 2023 - annualreviews.org
T follicular helper (Tfh) cells specialize in helping B cells and are therefore critical
contributors to the generation of humoral immunity. Tfh cells aid immunoglobulin class …

[HTML][HTML] Reprogramming T cell differentiation and exhaustion in CAR-T cell therapy

Y Bulliard, BS Andersson, MA Baysal… - Journal of hematology & …, 2023 - Springer
T cell differentiation is a highly regulated, multi-step process necessary for the progressive
establishment of effector functions, immunological memory, and long-term control of …

Reinvigorating exhausted CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes in the tumor microenvironment and current strategies in cancer immunotherapy

MA Hossain, G Liu, B Dai, Y Si, Q Yang… - Medicinal Research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer in recent years and achieved
overall success and long‐term clinical benefit in patients with a wide variety of cancer types …

Exhausted CD8+ T cells face a developmental fork in the road

R Zander, W Cui - Trends in immunology, 2023 - cell.com
Reinvigorating the function of exhausted CD8+ T cells during chronic viral infection and
cancer is a major goal of current immunotherapy regimens. Here, we discuss recent …

New developments implicating IL-21 in autoimmune disease

HM Ren, AE Lukacher, ZSM Rahman, NJ Olsen - Journal of autoimmunity, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Elevated interleukin (IL)-21 is a common finding in the tissues and/or sera of
patients with autoimmune disease. CD4 T cells are the primary producers of IL-21; often the …

[HTML][HTML] Knowns and unknowns about CAR-T cell dysfunction

A Titov, Y Kaminskiy, I Ganeeva, E Zmievskaya… - Cancers, 2022 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The primary issue of adoptive cell therapy is the poor in vivo persistence.
In this context, it is necessary to clarify the fundamental mechanisms of T cell dysfunction …

Choline acetyltransferase–expressing T cells are required to control chronic viral infection

MA Cox, GS Duncan, GHY Lin, BE Steinberg, LX Yu… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Although widely studied as a neurotransmitter, T cell–derived acetylcholine (ACh) has
recently been reported to play an important role in regulating immunity. However, the role of …

[HTML][HTML] New insights into Blimp-1 in T lymphocytes: a divergent regulator of cell destiny and effector function

SH Fu, LT Yeh, CC Chu, BLJ Yen, HK Sytwu - Journal of biomedical …, 2017 - Springer
B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 (Blimp-1) serves as a master regulator of the
development and function of antibody-producing B cells. Given that its function in T …