Type 1 diabetes mellitus as a disease of the β-cell (do not blame the immune system?)

BO Roep, S Thomaidou, R van Tienhoven… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Type 1 diabetes mellitus is believed to result from destruction of the insulin-producing β-cells
in pancreatic islets that is mediated by autoimmune mechanisms. The classic view is that …

Pancreatic β-cells in type 1 and type 2 diabetes mellitus: different pathways to failure

DL Eizirik, L Pasquali, M Cnop - Nature Reviews Endocrinology, 2020 - nature.com
Loss of functional β-cell mass is the key mechanism leading to the two main forms of
diabetes mellitus—type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) and type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) …

Noncoding regions are the main source of targetable tumor-specific antigens

CM Laumont, K Vincent, L Hesnard… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Tumor-specific antigens (TSAs) represent ideal targets for cancer immunotherapy, but few
have been identified thus far. We therefore developed a proteogenomic approach to enable …

[HTML][HTML] Detailed dissection and critical evaluation of the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines

X Xia - Vaccines, 2021 - mdpi.com
The design of Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines involves many different types
of optimizations. Proper optimization of vaccine mRNA can reduce dosage required for each …

The pathogenic “symphony” in type 1 diabetes: A disorder of the immune system, β cells, and exocrine pancreas

MA Atkinson, RG Mirmira - Cell Metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Summary Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is widely considered to result from the autoimmune
destruction of insulin-producing β cells. This concept has been a central tenet for decades of …

Neoantigens: promising targets for cancer therapy

N Xie, G Shen, W Gao, Z Huang, C Huang… - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
Recent advances in neoantigen research have accelerated the development and regulatory
approval of tumor immunotherapies, including cancer vaccines, adoptive cell therapy and …

T cell-mediated beta cell destruction: autoimmunity and alloimmunity in the context of type 1 diabetes

AL Burrack, T Martinov, BT Fife - Frontiers in endocrinology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from destruction of pancreatic beta cells by T cells of the
immune system. Despite improvements in insulin analogs and continuous blood glucose …

Diabetes relief in mice by glucose-sensing insulin-secreting human α-cells

K Furuyama, S Chera, L van Gurp, D Oropeza, L Ghila… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cell-identity switches, in which terminally differentiated cells are converted into different cell
types when stressed, represent a widespread regenerative strategy in animals, yet they are …

Non-mutational neoantigens in disease

LJ Stern, C Clement, L Galluzzi, L Santambrogio - Nature immunology, 2024 - nature.com
The ability of mammals to mount adaptive immune responses culminating with the
establishment of immunological memory is predicated on the ability of the mature T cell …

Conventional and neo-antigenic peptides presented by β cells are targeted by circulating naïve CD8+ T cells in type 1 diabetic and healthy donors

S Gonzalez-Duque, ME Azoury, ML Colli, G Afonso… - Cell metabolism, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Although CD8+ T-cell-mediated autoimmune β cell destruction occurs in type 1
diabetes (T1D), the target epitopes processed and presented by β cells are unknown. To …