Tolerance and exhaustion: defining mechanisms of T cell dysfunction

A Schietinger, PD Greenberg - Trends in immunology, 2014 - cell.com
CD8 T cell activation and differentiation are tightly controlled, and dependent on the context
in which naïve T cells encounter antigen, can either result in functional memory or T cell …

Hallmarks of the aging T‐cell system

H Zhang, CM Weyand, JJ Goronzy - The FEBS journal, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The adaptive immune system has the enormous challenge to protect the host through the
generation and differentiation of pathogen‐specific short‐lived effector T cells while in …

[HTML][HTML] Commensal bacteria calibrate the activation threshold of innate antiviral immunity

MC Abt, LC Osborne, LA Monticelli, TA Doering… - Immunity, 2012 - cell.com
Signals from commensal bacteria can influence immune cell development and susceptibility
to infectious or inflammatory diseases. However, the mechanisms by which commensal …

Epigenetics and bacterial infections

H Bierne, M Hamon, P Cossart - Cold Spring …, 2012 - perspectivesinmedicine.cshlp.org
Epigenetic mechanisms regulate expression of the genome to generate various cell types
during development or orchestrate cellular responses to external stimuli. Recent studies …

[HTML][HTML] Aberrant epigenetic landscape in cancer: how cellular identity goes awry

M Berdasco, M Esteller - Developmental cell, 2010 - cell.com
Appropriate patterns of DNA methylation and histone modifications are required to assure
cell identity, and their deregulation can contribute to human diseases, such as cancer. Our …

Sorting through subsets: which T-cell populations mediate highly effective adoptive immunotherapy?

CA Klebanoff, L Gattinoni, NP Restifo - Journal of immunotherapy, 2012 - journals.lww.com
CD8+ T cells have been described as being naive or one of 4 antigen (Ag)-experienced
subtypes representing a continuum of differentiation and maturation: T memory stem cell …

The future of human DNA vaccines

L Li, F Saade, N Petrovsky - Journal of biotechnology, 2012 - Elsevier
DNA vaccines have evolved greatly over the last 20 years since their invention, but have yet
to become a competitive alternative to conventional protein or carbohydrate based human …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation patterns in CD4+ T-cells separate psoriasis patients from healthy controls, and skin psoriasis from psoriatic arthritis

V Natoli, A Charras, SR Hofmann, S Northey… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Background Psoriasis is an autoimmune/inflammatory disorder primarily affecting the skin.
Chronic joint inflammation triggers the diagnosis of psoriatic arthritis (PsA) in approximately …

[HTML][HTML] DNA methylation and gene expression changes in monozygotic twins discordant for psoriasis: identification of epigenetically dysregulated genes

K Gervin, MD Vigeland, M Mattingsdal… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Monozygotic (MZ) twins do not show complete concordance for many complex diseases; for
example, discordance rates for autoimmune diseases are 20%–80%. MZ discordance …

[HTML][HTML] Attenuation of rheumatoid inflammation by sodium butyrate through reciprocal targeting of HDAC2 in osteoclasts and HDAC8 in T cells

DS Kim, JE Kwon, SH Lee, EK Kim, JG Ryu… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a systemic autoimmune disease caused by both genetic and
environmental factors. Recently, investigators have focused on the gut microbiota, which is …