The link between circulating follicular helper T cells and autoimmunity

LSK Walker - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
Follicular helper T (TFH) cells provide help to B cells, supporting the formation of germinal
centres that allow affinity maturation of antibody responses. Although usually located in …

Antigen presentation by dendritic cells and their instruction of CD4+ T helper cell responses

KL Hilligan, F Ronchese - Cellular & molecular immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Dendritic cells are powerful antigen-presenting cells that are essential for the priming of T
cell responses. In addition to providing T-cell-receptor ligands and co-stimulatory molecules …

[HTML][HTML] Onco-fetal reprogramming of endothelial cells drives immunosuppressive macrophages in hepatocellular carcinoma

A Sharma, JJW Seow, CA Dutertre, R Pai, C Blériot… - Cell, 2020 - cell.com
We employed scRNA sequencing to extensively characterize the cellular landscape of
human liver from development to disease. Analysis of∼ 212,000 cells representing human …

Targeting TFH cells in human diseases and vaccination: rationale and practice

D Yu, LSK Walker, Z Liu, MA Linterman, Z Li - Nature immunology, 2022 - nature.com
The identification of CD4+ T cells localizing to B cell follicles has revolutionized the
knowledge of how humoral immunity is generated. Follicular helper T (TFH) cells support …

[HTML][HTML] Expansion of tumor-associated Treg cells upon disruption of a CTLA-4-dependent feedback loop

F Marangoni, A Zhakyp, M Corsini, SN Geels… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Summary Foxp3+ T regulatory (Treg) cells promote immunological tumor tolerance, but how
their immune-suppressive function is regulated in the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

Treg-expressed CTLA-4 depletes CD80/CD86 by trogocytosis, releasing free PD-L1 on antigen-presenting cells

M Tekguc, JB Wing, M Osaki, J Long… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Foxp3-expressing CD4+ CD25+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) constitutively and highly express
the immune checkpoint receptor cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated antigen-4 (CTLA-4) …

Targeting co-stimulatory molecules in autoimmune disease

NM Edner, G Carlesso, JS Rush… - Nature Reviews Drug …, 2020 - nature.com
Therapeutic targeting of immune checkpoints has garnered significant attention in the area
of cancer immunotherapy, in which efforts have focused in particular on cytotoxic T …

Tumor invasion in draining lymph nodes is associated with Treg accumulation in breast cancer patients

NG Núñez, J Tosello Boari, RN Ramos… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Tumor-draining lymph node (TDLN) invasion by metastatic cells in breast cancer correlates
with poor prognosis and is associated with local immunosuppression, which can be partly …

LXR signaling controls homeostatic dendritic cell maturation

V Bosteels, S Maréchal, C De Nolf, S Rennen… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Dendritic cells (DCs) mature in an immunogenic or tolerogenic manner depending on the
context in which an antigen is perceived, preserving the balance between immunity and …

Regulatory T cell control of systemic immunity and immunotherapy response in liver metastasis

JC Lee, S Mehdizadeh, J Smith, A Young… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Patients with cancer with liver metastasis demonstrate significantly worse outcomes than
those without liver metastasis when treated with anti–PD-1 immunotherapy. The mechanism …