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Genomes and Genes | Federica SallustoSummaryAffiliation: Institute for Research in Biomedicine Country: Switzerland Publications
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Origin and migratory properties of dendritic cells in the skinF Sallusto
Institute for Reseach in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Allergy Clin Immunol 1:441-8. 2001..Therefore dendritic cells within the skin are the key regulators of both quantitative and qualitative aspects of immune responses to local antigenic challenge...
Chemoattractants and their receptors in homeostasis and inflammationFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 16:724-31. 2004..Finally, antagonists (or agonists) of chemoattractant receptors and their signalling pathways represent the most attractive strategy for the treatment of a wide range of inflammatory diseases, including allergy...
Heterogeneity of CD4+ memory T cells: functional modules for tailored immunityFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 39:2076-82. 2009..Here, we review our current understanding of CD4(+) T-cell lineage heterogeneity and flexibility, with emphasis on the human system, and propose an organization of effector and memory T cells based on distinct functional modules...
Central memory and effector memory T cell subsets: function, generation, and maintenanceFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Annu Rev Immunol 22:745-63. 2004..This review addresses the heterogeneity of TCM and TEM, their differentiation stages, and the current models for their generation and maintenance in humans and mice...
Human Th17 cells in infection and autoimmunityFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Microbes Infect 11:620-4. 2009..Since their discovery, efforts have been made in characterizing human Th17 cells and the factors involved in their differentiation and in understanding the role these cells play in protective immunity and autoimmune diseases...
From vaccines to memory and backFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Immunity 33:451-63. 2010..Finally we will discuss how we can learn about antigen design from the interrogation of our memory T and B cells-a journey from vaccines to memory and back...
Understanding dendritic cell and T-lymphocyte traffic through the analysis of chemokine receptor expressionF Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Immunol Rev 177:134-40. 2000..These studies provide insights into the mechanisms that control T-cell priming as well as memory and effector immune responses...
The strength of T cell stimulation determines IL-7 responsiveness, secondary expansion, and lineage commitment of primed human CD4+IL-7Rhi T cellsLaura Lozza
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 38:30-9. 2008..These results show that the strength of stimulation determines properties of activated IL-7R(hi) T cells, and suggest that memory T cell subsets could be derived from CCR7(+) precursors that received different strengths of stimulation...
Production of interleukin 22 but not interleukin 17 by a subset of human skin-homing memory T cellsThomas Duhen
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 10:857-63. 2009..Our findings delineate a previously unknown subset of human CD4(+) effector T cells dedicated to skin pathophysiology...
CD40L+ CD4+ memory T cells migrate in a CD62P-dependent fashion into reactive lymph nodes and license dendritic cells for T cell primingAlfonso MartIn-Fontecha
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 205:2561-74. 2008..These results show that T(EM) cells can behave as endogenous adjuvants and suggest a mechanistic link between lymphocyte traffic in lymph nodes and induction of autoimmunity...
Prostaglandin E2 enhances Th17 responses via modulation of IL-17 and IFN-gamma production by memory CD4+ T cellsGiorgio Napolitani
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 39:1301-12. 2009....
Chemokine receptor expression identifies Pre-T helper (Th)1, Pre-Th2, and nonpolarized cells among human CD4+ central memory T cellsLaura Rivino
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vela 6, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 200:725-35. 2004..Our results also explain how the quality of primary T cell responses could be maintained by T(CM) cells in the absence of antigen...
Interleukins 1beta and 6 but not transforming growth factor-beta are essential for the differentiation of interleukin 17-producing human T helper cellsEva V Acosta-Rodriguez
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 8:942-9. 2007....
Kinetics and expression patterns of chemokine receptors in human CD4+ T lymphocytes primed by myeloid or plasmacytoid dendritic cellsAnja Langenkamp
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 33:474-82. 2003..These results indicate a complex chemokine receptor regulation dependent on both T cell activation and differentiation state. In addition, they reveal the existence of DC-specific cues for the regulation of T cell migratory capacity...
C-C chemokine receptor 6-regulated entry of TH-17 cells into the CNS through the choroid plexus is required for the initiation of EAEAndrea Reboldi
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 10:514-23. 2009..Our results identify distinct molecular requirements and ports of lymphocyte entry into uninflamed versus inflamed CNS and suggest that the CCR6-CCL20 axis in the choroid plexus controls immune surveillance of the CNS...
L-selectin-negative CCR7- effector and memory CD8+ T cells enter reactive lymph nodes and kill dendritic cellsGreta Guarda
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 8:743-52. 2007..The inducible recruitment of blood-borne effector and memory T cells to lymph nodes may represent a mechanism for terminating primary and limiting secondary immune responses...
Surface phenotype and antigenic specificity of human interleukin 17-producing T helper memory cellsEva V Acosta-Rodriguez
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 8:639-46. 2007..Our results demonstrate that human T(H)-17 cells have distinct migratory capacity and antigenic specificities and establish a link between microbial products, T helper cell differentiation and homing in response to fungal antigens...
Selected Toll-like receptor agonist combinations synergistically trigger a T helper type 1-polarizing program in dendritic cellsGiorgio Napolitani
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Oncology Institute of Southern Switzerland, CH 6500, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 6:769-76. 2005..These results identify a 'combinatorial code' by which DCs discriminate pathogens and suggest new strategies for promoting T helper type 1 responses...
Clonal dissection of the human memory B-cell repertoire following infection and vaccinationDebora Pinna
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 39:1260-70. 2009..These results reveal novel aspects of memory B-cell kinetics and provide a powerful tool to monitor immune responses following infection and vaccination...
Induced recruitment of NK cells to lymph nodes provides IFN-gamma for T(H)1 primingAlfonso MartIn-Fontecha
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 5:1260-5. 2004..Taken together, our results identify an induced pathway of NK cell migration in antigen-stimulated lymph nodes and a mechanism by which some adjuvants may facilitate T(H)1 responses...
Pathogen-induced human TH17 cells produce IFN-γ or IL-10 and are regulated by IL-1βChristina E Zielinski
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nature 484:514-8. 2012..albicans and S. aureus prime TH17 cells that produce either IFN-γ or IL-10, and identify IL-1β and IL-2 as pro- and anti-inflammatory regulators of TH17 cells both at priming and in the effector phase...
CCR6 is expressed on an IL-10-producing, autoreactive memory T cell population with context-dependent regulatory functionLaura Rivino
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 207:565-77. 2010....
T-cell trafficking in the central nervous systemFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Immunol Rev 248:216-27. 2012..In particular, we elaborate on the role of CCR6/CCL20 axis in migration through the choroid plexus and the involvement of this pathway in immune surveillance of and autoimmunity in the CNS...
Heterosubtypic neutralizing antibodies are produced by individuals immunized with a seasonal influenza vaccineDavide Corti
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Clin Invest 120:1663-73. 2010..These findings reveal that seasonal influenza vaccination can induce polyclonal heterosubtypic neutralizing antibodies that cross-react with the swine-origin pandemic H1N1 influenza virus and with the highly pathogenic H5N1 virus...
TCR-independent proliferation and differentiation of human CD4+ T cell subsets induced by cytokinesJens Geginat
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Adv Exp Med Biol 512:107-12. 2002..Thus human naïve and memory T cell pools can be maintained with homeostatic cytokines in the absence of TCR stimulation...
Proliferation and differentiation potential of human CD8+ memory T-cell subsets in response to antigen or homeostatic cytokinesJens Geginat
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Blood 101:4260-6. 2003..Furthermore, they suggest that TEMRA cells are generated from a TCM subset upon homeostatic proliferation in the absence of antigen...
Duration, combination and timing: the signal integration model of dendritic cell activationAnnalisa Macagno
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Trends Immunol 28:227-33. 2007....
A cyanobacterial LPS antagonist prevents endotoxin shock and blocks sustained TLR4 stimulation required for cytokine expressionAnnalisa Macagno
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 203:1481-92. 2006..Collectively, these results indicate that CyP is a potent competitive inhibitor of LPS in vitro and in vivo and reveal the requirement of sustained TLR4 stimulation for induction of cytokine genes in human DCs...
The human immune response to Dengue virus is dominated by highly cross-reactive antibodies endowed with neutralizing and enhancing activityMartina Beltramello
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona 6500, Switzerland
Cell Host Microbe 8:271-83. 2010..Our findings reveal an unexpected degree of cross-reactivity in human antibodies against DENV and illustrate the potential for an antibody-based therapy to control severe dengue...
Understanding and making use of human memory B cellsAntonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Immunol Rev 211:303-9. 2006..This method can be exploited for the production of neutralizing antibodies for serotherapy and for "analytic vaccinology"...
A neutralizing antibody selected from plasma cells that binds to group 1 and group 2 influenza A hemagglutininsDavide Corti
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Science 333:850-6. 2011..This antibody may be used for passive protection and to inform vaccine design because of its broad specificity and neutralization potency...
Coexpression of CD25 and CD27 identifies FoxP3+ regulatory T cells in inflamed synoviaClaudia R Ruprecht
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 201:1793-803. 2005....
Isolation of human monoclonal antibodies that potently neutralize human cytomegalovirus infection by targeting different epitopes on the gH/gL/UL128-131A complexAnnalisa Macagno
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Virol 84:1005-13. 2010....
Chemokines and leukocyte trafficFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 9:949-52. 2008....
T cell fitness determined by signal strengthAmanda V Gett
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vela 6, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 4:355-60. 2003..Our results are consistent with the concept that signal strength drives progressive T cell differentiation and the acquisition of fitness...
Dissecting the human immunologic memory for pathogensChristina E Zielinski
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Immunol Rev 240:40-51. 2011..We discuss how these approaches can provide new tools and information for vaccine design, in a process that we define as 'analytic vaccinology'...
T cell priming by dendritic cells: thresholds for proliferation, differentiation and death and intraclonal functional diversificationAnja Langenkamp
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 32:2046-54. 2002....
Human B cell memoryAntonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 21:298-304. 2009..These findings offer new insights into the human B cell response, which are relevant for vaccination and therapeutic intervention...
Understanding the generation and function of memory T cell subsetsAntonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 17:326-32. 2005..Collectively these data point to a critical role of central memory T cells in conferring long-term immunity...
Memory and flexibility of cytokine gene expression as separable properties of human T(H)1 and T(H)2 lymphocytesMara Messi
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 4:78-86. 2003..Thus, most human CD4+ T cells retain both memory and flexibility of cytokine gene expression...
Progressive differentiation and selection of the fittest in the immune responseAntonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vela 6, CH-6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Rev Immunol 2:982-7. 2002....
Analysis of memory B cell responses and isolation of novel monoclonal antibodies with neutralizing breadth from HIV-1-infected individualsDavide Corti
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
PLoS ONE 5:e8805. 2010....
Regulation of dendritic cell migration to the draining lymph node: impact on T lymphocyte traffic and primingAlfonso MartIn-Fontecha
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 198:615-21. 2003..These results indicate that DC number and tissue inflammation are critical parameters for DC-based vaccination...
Human naive and memory CD4+ T cell repertoires specific for naturally processed antigens analyzed using libraries of amplified T cellsRebekka Geiger
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
J Exp Med 206:1525-34. 2009....
Toll-like receptors and innate immunity in B-cell activation and antibody responsesAntonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 19:268-74. 2007..However, the scientific fecundity in this rapidly evolving field will probably give rise to discoveries that could be translated into more effective vaccines and immunotherapies...
Human monoclonal antibodies by immortalization of memory B cellsAntonio Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Biotechnol 18:523-8. 2007....
From synapses to immunological memory: the role of sustained T cell stimulationA Lanzavecchia
Institute of Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, CH 6500, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 12:92-8. 2000..These findings explain the unique capacity of the immune system to discriminate between antigens from infectious and noninfectious agents...
Cytokine-driven proliferation and differentiation of human naive, central memory, and effector memory CD4(+) T cellsJ Geginat
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona 6500, Switzerland
J Exp Med 194:1711-9. 2001..The sustained antigen-independent generation of T(EM) from a pool of T(CM) cells provides a plausible mechanism for the maintenance of a polyclonal and functionally diverse repertoire of human CD4(+) memory T cells...
The instructive role of dendritic cells on T cell responses: lineages, plasticity and kineticsA Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 13:291-8. 2001....
Antigen decoding by T lymphocytes: from synapses to fate determinationA Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 2:487-92. 2001..The nature and availability of DCs bearing antigen and costimulatory molecules shape the T cell response, giving rise to distinct functional outputs such as effector and memory T cell generation or T cell tolerance...
Dynamics of T lymphocyte responses: intermediates, effectors, and memory cellsA Lanzavecchia
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Science 290:92-7. 2000..This results in the generation of both terminally differentiated effector cells and intermediates that play distinctive roles in protection, immunoregulation, and immunological memory...
Cytokine-driven proliferation and differentiation of human naïve, central memory and effector memory CD4+ T cellsJ Geginat
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, 6500, Bellinzona, Suisse
Pathol Biol (Paris) 51:64-6. 2003....
High throughput cellular screens to interrogate the human T and B cell repertoiresDavide Corti
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vincenzo Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Curr Opin Immunol 23:430-5. 2011....
CD4+ CD25+ Treg regulate the contribution of CD8+ T-cell subsets in repopulation of the lymphopenic environmentAfonso R M Almeida
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 40:3478-88. 2010..CD4(+) CD25(+) Treg suppress these responses and lead to controlled repopulation, contributing decisively to the maintenance of recovered T(CM) and T(EM) fractions, and leading to repopulation of each pool with progeny of its own kind...
The instructive role of dendritic cells on T-cell responsesFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Arthritis Res 4:S127-32. 2002..We discuss how the nature of the DC maturation stimuli and the density and quality of DCs present in the T-cell areas of secondary lymphoid organs determine the magnitude and class of the T-cell response...
Negative regulators take center stageSilvia Monticelli
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Nat Immunol 13:719-20. 2012..This acts as a cell-intrinsic safeguard mechanism for the differentiation of helper T cells into the TH17 subset...
miR-146a and NF-κB1 Regulate Mast Cell Survival and T Lymphocyte DifferentiationNicole Rusca
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Mol Cell Biol 32:4432-44. 2012....
Human Th17 subsetsFederica Sallusto
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Cellular Immunology, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 42:2215-20. 2012..In this review, we discuss recent studies addressing the heterogeneity of human Th17 cells, their differentiation requirements, their migratory capacities, and their role in defense against fungi and extracellular bacteria...
Specialization and complementarity in microbial molecule recognition by human myeloid and plasmacytoid dendritic cellsD Jarrossay
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Eur J Immunol 31:3388-93. 2001..These results reveal a remarkable specialization and complementarity in microbial molecule recognition as well as a flexibility in effector function among myeloid and plasmacytoid DC...
Lead and follow: the dance of the dendritic cell and T cellAntonio Lanzavecchia
Nat Immunol 5:1201-2. 2004
Intrasplenic trafficking of natural killer cells is redirected by chemokines upon inflammationClaude Gregoire
Centre d immunologie de Marseille Luminy, Universite de la Mediterranee, Marseille, France
Eur J Immunol 38:2076-84. 2008..This phenomenon ensures the segregation of NK cells outside of the white pulp and might contribute to the control of immunopathology...
Division of labor with a workforce of one: challenges in specifying effector and memory T cell fateSteven L Reiner
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
Science 317:622-5. 2007....
Prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of human monoclonal antibodies against H5N1 influenzaCameron P Simmons
Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Hospital for Tropical Diseases, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
PLoS Med 4:e178. 2007..We generated neutralizing anti-H5N1 human monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) and tested their efficacy for prophylaxis and therapy in a murine model of infection...
A new role for CCR5 in innate immunity--binding to bacterial heat shock protein 70Charles R Mackay
Immunology and Inflammation Department, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia
Eur J Immunol 36:2293-5. 2006..These findings imply a role for CCR5 in innate immunity, in addition to its more established role as a chemoattractant receptor for adaptive immune responses...
Follicular B helper T cell activity is confined to CXCR5(hi)ICOS(hi) CD4 T cells and is independent of CD57 expressionAta-Ur Rasheed
Department of Tumor Genetics and Immunogenetics, , Berlin, Germany
Eur J Immunol 36:1892-903. 2006....
Identification of T cell-restricted genes, and signatures for different T cell responses, using a comprehensive collection of microarray datasetsTatyana Chtanova
Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Darlinghurst, Australia
J Immunol 175:7837-47. 2005....
Effects of the adjuvant cholera toxin on dendritic cells: stimulatory and inhibitory signals that result in the amplification of immune responsesM Cristina Gagliardi
Laboratory of Bacteriology and Medical Mycology, Istituto Superiore di Sanit, Rome, Italy
Int J Med Microbiol 291:571-5. 2002..CT has immunomodulatory effects on different cell types, however, the interaction of CT with dendritic cells (DCs), which have a primary role in the priming of immune responses, may be crucial for its adjuvant activity...
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells are endowed with the capacity to attract CD4+, CD40L+ T cells by producing CCL22Paolo Ghia
Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Torino, University Division of Clinical Immunology and Hematology, Ospedale Mauriziano Umberto I, Torino, Italy
Eur J Immunol 32:1403-13. 2002....
Human pregnancy-associated malaria-specific B cells target polymorphic, conformational epitopes in VAR2CSALea Barfod
Centre for Medical Parasitology at Department of Infectious Diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital Rigshospitalet and Institute for Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mol Microbiol 63:335-47. 2007....
Dendritic cells as a tool for the predictive identification of skin sensitisation hazardSilvia Casati
ECVAM, Institute for Health and Consumer Protection, European Commission Joint Research Centre, 21020 Ispra (VA, Italy
Altern Lab Anim 33:47-62. 2005
Sliding doors in the immune responseFederica Sallusto
Nat Immunol 6:10-2. 2005
