[HTML][HTML] Treg cell-based therapies: challenges and perspectives

C Raffin, LT Vo, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Cellular therapies using regulatory T (Treg) cells are currently undergoing clinical trials for
the treatment of autoimmune diseases, transplant rejection and graft-versus-host disease. In …

Regulatory T cells and human disease

S Sakaguchi, N Mikami, JB Wing… - Annual review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Naturally occurring CD4+ regulatory T cells (Tregs), which specifically express the
transcription factor FoxP3 in the nucleus and CD25 and CTLA-4 on the cell surface, are a …

[HTML][HTML] Scaling single-cell genomics from phenomenology to mechanism

A Tanay, A Regev - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Three of the most fundamental questions in biology are how individual cells differentiate to
form tissues, how tissues function in a coordinated and flexible fashion and which gene …

[HTML][HTML] Enhancer connectome in primary human cells identifies target genes of disease-associated DNA elements

MR Mumbach, AT Satpathy, EA Boyle, C Dai… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The challenge of linking intergenic mutations to target genes has limited molecular
understanding of human diseases. Here we show that H3K27ac HiChIP generates high …

Transcriptional and epigenetic basis of Treg cell development and function: its genetic anomalies or variations in autoimmune diseases

N Ohkura, S Sakaguchi - Cell research, 2020 - nature.com
Naturally arising regulatory CD4+ T (Treg) cells, which specifically express the transcription
factor FoxP3 in the nucleus and CD25 and CTLA-4 on the cell surface, are a T-cell …

Tumor necrosis factor α and regulatory T cells in oncoimmunology

BL Salomon, M Leclerc, J Tosello, E Ronin… - Frontiers in …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tumor necrosis factor α (TNF) is a potent pro-inflammatory cytokine that has deleterious
effect in some autoimmune diseases, which led to the use of anti-TNF drugs in some of …

The transcription factor Foxp3 shapes regulatory T cell identity by tuning the activity of trans-acting intermediaries

J van der Veeken, A Glasner, Y Zhong, W Hu… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cell identity is defined by the lineage-specifying transcription factor (TF)
Foxp3. Here we examined mechanisms of Foxp3 function by leveraging naturally occurring …

Transient mTOR inhibition rescues 4-1BB CAR-Tregs from tonic signal-induced dysfunction

B Lamarthée, A Marchal, S Charbonnier, T Blein… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The use of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered regulatory T cells (Tregs) has
emerged as a promising strategy to promote immune tolerance. However, in conventional T …

Regulatory T cell-specific epigenomic region variants are a key determinant of susceptibility to common autoimmune diseases

N Ohkura, Y Yasumizu, Y Kitagawa, A Tanaka… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
The contribution of FOXP3-expressing naturally occurring regulatory T (Treg) cells to
common polygenic autoimmune diseases remains ambiguous. Here, we characterized …

Conserved human effector Treg cell transcriptomic and epigenetic signature in arthritic joint inflammation

G Mijnheer, L Lutter, M Mokry, M van der Wal… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Treg cells are critical regulators of immune homeostasis, and environment-driven Treg cell
differentiation into effector (e) Treg cells is crucial for optimal functioning. However, human …