HLA-G: at the interface of maternal–fetal tolerance

LMR Ferreira, TB Meissner, T Tilburgs… - Trends in …, 2017 - cell.com
During pregnancy, semiallogeneic fetal extravillous trophoblasts (EVT) invade the uterine
mucosa without being rejected by the maternal immune system. Several mechanisms were …

Tissue-Resident Memory CD8+ T Cells: From Phenotype to Function

DJ Topham, EC Reilly - Frontiers in immunology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells are an important first line of defense from infection in
peripheral non-lymphoid tissues, such as the mucosal tissues of the respiratory, digestive …

Microglia remodel synapses by presynaptic trogocytosis and spine head filopodia induction

L Weinhard, G Di Bartolomei, G Bolasco… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Microglia are highly motile glial cells that are proposed to mediate synaptic pruning during
neuronal circuit formation. Disruption of signaling between microglia and neurons leads to …

The transcription factor RFX5 coordinates antigen-presenting function and resistance to nutrient stress in synovial macrophages

Z Hu, TV Zhao, T Huang, S Ohtsuki, K Jin… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Tissue macrophages (Mϕ) are essential effector cells in rheumatoid arthritis (RA),
contributing to autoimmune tissue inflammation through diverse effector functions. Their …

Proinflammatory CD20+ T cells contribute to CNS-directed autoimmunity

J Ochs, N Nissimov, S Torke, M Freier… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
The origin and function of CD20+ T cells are poorly understood. Here, we characterized
CD20+ T cells in mice and humans and investigated how they are affected by anti-CD20 …

Appropriation of GPIbα from platelet-derived extracellular vesicles supports monocyte recruitment in systemic inflammation

M Chimen, A Evryviadou, CL Box, MJ Harrison… - …, 2019 - pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Interactions between platelets, leukocytes and the vessel wall provide alternative
pathological routes of thrombo-inflammatory leukocyte recruitment. We found that when …

Antigen presentation by MHC-dressed cells

M Nakayama - Frontiers in immunology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Professional antigen-presenting cells (APCs) such as conventional dendritic cells (DCs)
process protein antigens to MHC-bound peptides and then present the peptide–MHC …

Discovery of CD80 and CD86 as recent activation markers on regulatory T cells by protein-RNA single-cell analysis

D Trzupek, M Dunstan, AJ Cutler, M Lee, L Godfrey… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Traditionally, the transcriptomic and proteomic characterisation of CD4+ T cells
at the single-cell level has been performed by two largely exclusive types of technologies …

Neutrophils kill the parasite Trichomonas vaginalis using trogocytosis

F Mercer, SH Ng, TM Brown, G Boatman… - PLoS biology, 2018 - journals.plos.org
T. vaginalis, a human-infective parasite, causes the most common nonviral sexually
transmitted infection (STI) worldwide and contributes to adverse inflammatory disorders. The …

Lymphocytes and trogocytosis-mediated signaling

J Reed, M Reichelt, SA Wetzel - Cells, 2021 - mdpi.com
Trogocytosis is the intercellular transfer of membrane and membrane-associated molecules.
This underappreciated process has been described in a variety of biological settings …