Amino assets: how amino acids support immunity

B Kelly, EL Pearce - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Amino acids are fundamental building blocks supporting life. Their role in protein synthesis
is well defined, but they contribute to a host of other intracellular metabolic pathways …

Understanding subset diversity in T cell memory

SC Jameson, D Masopust - Immunity, 2018 - cell.com
Considerable advances have been made in recent years in understanding the generation
and function of memory T cells. Memory T cells are typically parsed into discreet subsets …

Effector CD8 T cells dedifferentiate into long-lived memory cells

B Youngblood, JS Hale, HT Kissick, E Ahn, X Xu… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Memory CD8 T cells that circulate in the blood and are present in lymphoid organs are an
essential component of long-lived T cell immunity. These memory CD8 T cells remain …

Heterogenous populations of tissue-resident CD8+ T cells are generated in response to infection and malignancy

JJ Milner, C Toma, Z He, NS Kurd, QP Nguyen… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells (Trm) provide host protection through continuous
surveillance of non-lymphoid tissues. Using single-cell RNA-sequencing (scRNA-seq) and …

CD4 + T-cell subsets in inflammatory diseases: beyond the T h 1/T h 2 paradigm

K Hirahara, T Nakayama - International immunology, 2016 - academic.oup.com
CD4+ T cells are crucial for directing appropriate immune responses during host defense
and for the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. In addition to the classical biphasic …

Cytomegalovirus infection drives adaptive epigenetic diversification of NK cells with altered signaling and effector function

H Schlums, F Cichocki, B Tesi, J Theorell, V Beziat… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
The mechanisms underlying human natural killer (NK) cell phenotypic and functional
heterogeneity are unknown. Here, we describe the emergence of diverse subsets of human …

Molecular regulation of effector and memory T cell differentiation

JT Chang, EJ Wherry, AW Goldrath - Nature immunology, 2014 - nature.com
Immunological memory is a cardinal feature of adaptive immunity and an important goal of
vaccination strategies. Here we highlight advances in the understanding of the diverse T …

S-2-hydroxyglutarate regulates CD8+ T-lymphocyte fate

PA Tyrakis, A Palazon, D Macias, KL Lee, AT Phan… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
R-2-hydroxyglutarate accumulates to millimolar levels in cancer cells with gain-of-function
isocitrate dehydrogenase 1/2 mutations. These levels of R-2-hydroxyglutarate affect 2 …

Heterogeneity and clonal relationships of adaptive immune cells in ulcerative colitis revealed by single-cell analyses

BS Boland, Z He, MS Tsai, JG Olvera, KD Omilusik… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses a spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders
driven by dysregulated immune responses against gut microbiota. We integrated single-cell …

Early precursors and molecular determinants of tissue-resident memory CD8+ T lymphocytes revealed by single-cell RNA sequencing

NS Kurd, Z He, TL Louis, JJ Milner, KD Omilusik… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
During an immune response to microbial infection, CD8+ T cells give rise to distinct classes
of cellular progeny that coordinately mediate clearance of the pathogen and provide long …