How transcription factors drive choice of the T cell fate

H Hosokawa, EV Rothenberg - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2021 - nature.com
Recent evidence has elucidated how multipotent blood progenitors transform their identities
in the thymus and undergo commitment to become T cells. Together with environmental …

TCF1 in T cell immunity: a broadened frontier

X Zhao, Q Shan, HH Xue - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
TCF1 and its homologue LEF1 are historically known as effector transcription factors
downstream of the WNT signalling pathway and are essential for early T cell development …

TOX reinforces the phenotype and longevity of exhausted T cells in chronic viral infection

F Alfei, K Kanev, M Hofmann, M Wu, HE Ghoneim… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Cytotoxic T cells are essential mediators of protective immunity to viral infection and
malignant tumours and are a key target of immunotherapy approaches. However, prolonged …

Integrative bulk and single-cell profiling of premanufacture T-cell populations reveals factors mediating long-term persistence of CAR T-cell therapy

GM Chen, C Chen, RK Das, P Gao, CH Chen… - Cancer Discovery, 2021 - AACR
The adoptive transfer of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells represents a breakthrough
in clinical oncology, yet both between-and within-patient differences in autologously derived …

[HTML][HTML] Master transcription factors and mediator establish super-enhancers at key cell identity genes

WA Whyte, DA Orlando, D Hnisz, BJ Abraham, CY Lin… - Cell, 2013 - cell.com
Summary Master transcription factors Oct4, Sox2, and Nanog bind enhancer elements and
recruit Mediator to activate much of the gene expression program of pluripotent embryonic …

[HTML][HTML] The long noncoding RNA lncTCF7 promotes self-renewal of human liver cancer stem cells through activation of Wnt signaling

Y Wang, L He, Y Du, P Zhu, G Huang, J Luo, X Yan… - Cell stem cell, 2015 - cell.com
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most prevalent subtype of liver cancer, and it is
characterized by a high rate of recurrence and heterogeneity. Liver cancer stem cells …

[HTML][HTML] Immune resilience despite inflammatory stress promotes longevity and favorable health outcomes including resistance to infection

SK Ahuja, MS Manoharan, GC Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Some people remain healthier throughout life than others but the underlying reasons are
poorly understood. Here we hypothesize this advantage is attributable in part to optimal …

WNT signaling in cancer immunosurveillance

L Galluzzi, S Spranger, E Fuchs, A López-Soto - Trends in cell biology, 2019 - cell.com
Deregulated WNT signaling has been shown to favor malignant transformation, tumor
progression, and resistance to conventional cancer therapy in a variety of preclinical and …

[HTML][HTML] LEF-1 and TCF-1 orchestrate TFH differentiation by regulating differentiation circuits upstream of the transcriptional repressor Bcl6

YS Choi, JA Gullicksrud, S Xing, Z Zeng, Q Shan… - Nature …, 2015 - nature.com
Follicular helper T cells (T FH cells) are specialized effector CD4+ T cells that help B cells
develop germinal centers (GCs) and memory. However, the transcription factors that …

Tcf1–CTCF cooperativity shapes genomic architecture to promote CD8+ T cell homeostasis

Q Shan, S Zhu, X Chen, J Liu, S Yuan, X Li… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
CD8+ T cell homeostasis is maintained by the cytokines IL-7 and IL-15. Here we show that
transcription factors Tcf1 and Lef1 were intrinsically required for homeostatic proliferation of …