Mechanisms underlying T cell ageing

JJ Goronzy, CM Weyand - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2019 - nature.com
T cell ageing has a pivotal role in rendering older individuals vulnerable to infections and
cancer and in impairing the response to vaccination. Easy accessibility to peripheral human …

Age-associated remodeling of T cell immunity and metabolism

SJ Han, P Georgiev, AE Ringel, AH Sharpe, MC Haigis - Cell metabolism, 2023 - cell.com
Aging results in remodeling of T cell immunity and is associated with poor clinical outcomes
in age-related diseases such as cancer. Among the hallmarks of aging, changes in host and …

Cytokines drive the formation of memory-like NK cell subsets via epigenetic rewiring and transcriptional regulation

JA Foltz, J Tran, P Wong, C Fan, E Schmidt, B Fisk… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
Activation of natural killer (NK) cells with the cytokines interleukin-12 (IL-12), IL-15, and IL-18
induces their differentiation into memory-like (ML) NK cells; however, the underlying …

Significance of bystander T cell activation in microbial infection

H Lee, S Jeong, EC Shin - Nature Immunology, 2022 - nature.com
During microbial infection, pre-existing memory CD8+ T cells that are not specific for the
infecting pathogens can be activated by cytokines without cognate antigens, termed …

CD8+ Regulatory T Cell – A Mystery to Be Revealed

S Mishra, S Srinivasan, C Ma, N Zhang - Frontiers in immunology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Regulatory T cells (Treg) are essential to maintain immune homeostasis and prevent
autoimmune disorders. While the function and molecular regulation of Foxp3+ CD4+ Tregs …

A virtual memory CD8+ T cell-originated subset causes alopecia areata through innate-like cytotoxicity

J Seok, SD Cho, J Lee, Y Choi, SY Kim, SM Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Virtual memory T (TVM) cells are a T cell subtype with a memory phenotype but no prior
exposure to foreign antigen. Although TVM cells have antiviral and antibacterial functions …

CD8 memory T cells have a bioenergetic advantage that underlies their rapid recall ability

GJW Van Der Windt, D O'Sullivan… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
A characteristic of memory T (TM) cells is their ability to mount faster and stronger responses
to reinfection than naïve T (TN) cells do in response to an initial infection. However, the …

Naive T cell maintenance and function in human aging

JJ Goronzy, F Fang, MM Cavanagh, Q Qi… - The Journal of …, 2015 - journals.aai.org
In studies of immune aging, naive T cells frequently take center stage. Describing the
complexity of the human naive T cell repertoire remains a daunting task; however, emerging …

The gene regulatory basis of bystander activation in CD8+ T cells

NB Watson, RK Patel, C Kean, J Veazey… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
CD8+ T cells are classically recognized as adaptive lymphocytes based on their ability to
recognize specific foreign antigens and mount memory responses. However, recent studies …

Longitudinal analysis reveals age-related changes in the T cell receptor repertoire of human T cell subsets

X Sun, T Nguyen, A Achour, A Ko… - The Journal of …, 2022 - Am Soc Clin Investig
A diverse T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire is essential for protection against a variety of
pathogens, and TCR repertoire size is believed to decline with age. However, the precise …