Principles of regulatory T cell function

S Dikiy, AY Rudensky - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cells represent a distinct lineage of cells of the adaptive immune system
indispensable for forestalling fatal autoimmune and inflammatory pathologies. The role of …

T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

Regulatory T cells in tumor microenvironment: new mechanisms, potential therapeutic strategies and future prospects

C Li, P Jiang, S Wei, X Xu, J Wang - Molecular cancer, 2020 - Springer
Regulatory T cells (Tregs) characterized by the expression of the master transcription factor
forkhead box protein p3 (Foxp3) suppress anticancer immunity, thereby hindering protective …

Synthetic cytokine circuits that drive T cells into immune-excluded tumors

GM Allen, NW Frankel, NR Reddy, HK Bhargava… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are ineffective against solid tumors with
immunosuppressive microenvironments. To overcome suppression, we engineered circuits …

Gut microbiota impact on the peripheral immune response in non-alcoholic fatty liver disease related hepatocellular carcinoma

J Behary, N Amorim, XT Jiang, A Raposo… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The gut microbiota is reported to modulate the immune response in hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC). Here, we employ metagenomic and metabolomic studies to characterise …

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 …

Metabolic coordination of T cell quiescence and activation

NM Chapman, MR Boothby, H Chi - Nature reviews immunology, 2020 - nature.com
Naive T cells are actively maintained in a quiescent state that promotes their survival and
persistence. On antigen stimulation, T cells exit quiescence to initiate clonal expansion and …

[HTML][HTML] Mechanisms of regulatory T cell infiltration in tumors: implications for innovative immune precision therapies

S Koyama, H Nishikawa - Journal for immunotherapy of cancer, 2021 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
With the broad application of cancer immunotherapies such as immune checkpoint inhibitors
in multiple cancer types, the immunological landscape in the tumor microenvironment (TME) …

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 …

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 …