The role of transcription factors in sha** regulatory T cell identity

JL Trujillo-Ochoa, M Kazemian, B Afzali - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Forkhead box protein 3-expressing (FOXP3+) regulatory T cells (Treg cells) suppress
conventional T cells and are essential for immunological tolerance. FOXP3, the master …

Intestinal epithelial glycosylation in homeostasis and gut microbiota interactions in IBD

MR Kudelka, SR Stowell, RD Cummings… - Nature reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) affects 6.8 million people globally. A variety of factors
have been implicated in IBD pathogenesis, including host genetics, immune dysregulation …

Autocrine vitamin D signaling switches off pro-inflammatory programs of TH1 cells

D Chauss, T Freiwald, R McGregor, B Yan, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The molecular mechanisms governing orderly shutdown and retraction of CD4+ type 1
helper T (TH1) cell responses remain poorly understood. Here we show that complement …

Fine-map**, trans-ancestral and genomic analyses identify causal variants, cells, genes and drug targets for type 1 diabetes

CC Robertson, JRJ Inshaw, S Onengut-Gumuscu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
We report the largest and most diverse genetic study of type 1 diabetes (T1D) to date
(61,427 participants), yielding 78 genome-wide-significant (P< 5× 10− 8) regions, including …

Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities

AJ Kwok, A Mentzer, JC Knight - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how human genetics influence infectious disease susceptibility offers the
opportunity for new insights into pathogenesis, potential drug targets, risk stratification …

Mechanisms and functions of SUMOylation in health and disease: a review focusing on immune cells

CH Huang, TT Yang, KI Lin - Journal of Biomedical Science, 2024 - Springer
SUMOylation, which is a type of post-translational modification that involves covalent
conjugation of small ubiquitin-like modifier (SUMO) proteins to target substrates, regulates …

Differential IRF8 transcription factor requirement defines two pathways of dendritic cell development in humans

U Cytlak, A Resteu, S Pagan, K Green, P Milne… - Immunity, 2020 - cell.com
The formation of mammalian dendritic cells (DCs) is controlled by multiple hematopoietic
transcription factors, including IRF8. Loss of IRF8 exerts a differential effect on DC subsets …

BACH2 enforces the transcriptional and epigenetic programs of stem-like CD8+ T cells

C Yao, G Lou, HW Sun, Z Zhu, Y Sun, Z Chen… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
During chronic infection and cancer, a self-renewing CD8+ T cell subset maintains long-term
immunity and is critical to the effectiveness of immunotherapy. These stem-like CD8+ T cells …

Common variable immunodeficiency: more pathways than roads to Rome

XP Peng, A Caballero-Oteyza… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Fifty years have elapsed since the term common variable immunodeficiency (CVID) was
introduced to accommodate the many and varied antibody deficiencies being identified in …

Translating immunology into therapeutic concepts for inflammatory bowel disease

HH Uhlig, F Powrie - Annual review of immunology, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) defines a spectrum of complex disorders. Understanding
how environmental risk factors, alterations of the intestinal microbiota, and polygenetic and …