T-cell hyperactivation and paralysis in severe COVID-19 infection revealed by single-cell analysis

B Kalfaoglu, J Almeida-Santos, CA Tye… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Severe COVID-19 patients show various immunological abnormalities including T-cell
reduction and cytokine release syndrome, which can be fatal and is a major concern of the …

Steroid-resistant human inflammatory ILC2s are marked by CD45RO and elevated in type 2 respiratory diseases

EK van der Ploeg, K Golebski, M van Nimwegen… - Science …, 2021 - science.org
Group 2 innate lymphoid cells (ILC2s) orchestrate protective type 2 immunity and have been
implicated in various immune disorders. In the mouse, circulatory inflammatory ILC2s …

Epigenetic modifiers: anti-neoplastic drugs with immunomodulating potential

K Maes, A Mondino, JJ Lasarte, X Agirre… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Cancer cells are under the surveillance of the host immune system. Nevertheless, a number
of immunosuppressive mechanisms allow tumors to escape protective responses and …

Does Aging activate T-cells to reduce bone mass and quality?

R Aurora, D Veis - Current osteoporosis reports, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review Aging leads to decline in bone mass and quality starting at age
30 in humans. All mammals undergo a basal age-dependent decline in bone mass …

Strong expansion of human regulatory T cells for adoptive cell therapy results in epigenetic changes which may impact their survival and function

K Ou, D Hamo, A Schulze, A Roemhild… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Adoptive transfer of regulatory T cells (Treg) is a promising new therapeutic option to treat
detrimental inflammatory conditions after transplantation and during autoimmune disease …

CFA: An explainable deep learning model for annotating the transcriptional roles of cis-regulatory modules based on epigenetic codes

TH Yang, YH Yu, SH Wu, FY Zhang - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2023 - Elsevier
Metazoa gene expression is controlled by modular DNA segments called cis-regulatory
modules (CRMs). CRMs can convey promoter/enhancer/insulator roles, generating …

IL-9 secreted by leukemia stem cells induces Th1-skewed CD4+ T cells, which promote their expansion

R Radpour, C Simillion, B Wang, HA Abbas, C Riether… - Blood, 2024 - ashpublications.org
In acute myeloid leukemia (AML), leukemia stem cells (LSCs) and leukemia progenitor cells
(LPCs) interact with various cell types in the bone marrow (BM) microenvironment …

H3K27 methylation dynamics during CD4 T cell activation: regulation of JAK/STAT and IL12RB2 expression by JMJD3

SA LaMere, RC Thompson, X Meng… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
The changes to the epigenetic landscape in response to Ag during CD4 T cell activation
have not been well characterized. Although CD4 T cell subsets have been mapped globally …

pyPAGE: A framework for Addressing biases in gene-set enrichment analysis—A case study on Alzheimer's disease

A Bakulin, NB Teyssier, M Kampmann… - PLOS Computational …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Inferring the driving regulatory programs from comparative analysis of gene expression data
is a cornerstone of systems biology. Many computational frameworks were developed to …

Latent human herpesvirus 6 is reactivated in CAR T cells

CA Lareau, Y Yin, K Maurer, KD Sandor, B Daniel… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Cell therapies have yielded durable clinical benefits for patients with cancer, but the risks
associated with the development of therapies from manipulated human cells are …