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| lymphocyte activationSummarySummary: Morphologic alteration of small lymphocytes in culture into large blast-like cells able to synthesize DNA and RNA and to divide mitotically. It is induced by INTERLEUKINS; MITOGENS such as PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS, and by specific antigens. It may also occur in vivo, as in GRAFT REJECTION and chronic myelogenous leukemia (LEUKEMIA, MYELOID, CHRONIC). Top Publications
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Control of regulatory T cell development by the transcription factor Foxp3Shohei Hori
Laboratory of Immunopathology, Research Center for Allergy and Immunology, Institute for Physical and Chemical Research, Yokohama 230 0045, Japan
Science 299:1057-61. 2003..Thus, Foxp3 is a key regulatory gene for the development of regulatory T cells...
HIV nonprogressors preferentially maintain highly functional HIV-specific CD8+ T cellsMichael R Betts
Immunology Laboratory, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Blood 107:4781-9. 2006..Thus, rather than quantity or phenotype, the quality of the CD8(+) T-cell functional response serves as an immune correlate of HIV disease progression and a potential qualifying factor for evaluation of HIV vaccine efficacy...
Immunobiology of dendritic cellsJ Banchereau
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, Dallas, Texas 75204, USA
Annu Rev Immunol 18:767-811. 2000..Although our understanding of DC biology is still in its infancy, we are now beginning to use DC-based immunotherapy protocols to elicit immunity against cancer and infectious diseases...
Specific recruitment of regulatory T cells in ovarian carcinoma fosters immune privilege and predicts reduced survivalTyler J Curiel
Tulane University Health Science Center, New Orleans, Louisiana 70112, USA
Nat Med 10:942-9. 2004..This specific recruitment of T(reg) cells represents a mechanism by which tumors may foster immune privilege. Thus, blocking T(reg) cell migration or function may help to defeat human cancer...
Reciprocal TH17 and regulatory T cell differentiation mediated by retinoic acidDaniel Mucida
La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology, 9420 Athena Circle, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Science 317:256-60. 2007..These findings indicate that a common metabolite can regulate the balance between pro- and anti-inflammatory immunity...
CD4+ T cell depletion during all stages of HIV disease occurs predominantly in the gastrointestinal tractJason M Brenchley
Human Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, 40 Convent Dr, Room 3509, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 200:749-59. 2004....
Lymphoproliferative disorders with early lethality in mice deficient in Ctla-4P Waterhouse
Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Science 270:985-8. 1995..Thus, CTLA-4 acts as a negative regulator of T cell activation and is vital for the control of lymphocyte homeostasis...
Recognition of double-stranded RNA and activation of NF-kappaB by Toll-like receptor 3L Alexopoulou
Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, 06520, USA
Nature 413:732-8. 2001..Moreover, poly(I:C) can induce activation of NF-kappaB and mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinases independently of MyD88, and cause dendritic cells to mature...
The biology of NKT cellsAlbert Bendelac
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Committee on Immunology, Department of Pathology University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Annu Rev Immunol 25:297-336. 2007....
T cell activationJennifer E Smith-Garvin
Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Annu Rev Immunol 27:591-619. 2009..complex (MHC) complex pSMAC: peripheral supramolecular activation cluster PTK: protein tyrosine kinase Signal transduction: biochemical events linking surface receptor engagement to cellular responses TCR: T cell antigen receptor..
Foxp3+ CD25+ CD4+ natural regulatory T cells in dominant self-tolerance and autoimmune diseaseShimon Sakaguchi
Department of Experimental Pathology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Immunol Rev 212:8-27. 2006....
Differential antigen processing by dendritic cell subsets in vivoDiana Dudziak
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
Science 315:107-11. 2007..This difference in antigen processing is intrinsic to the DC subsets and is associated with increased expression of proteins involved in MHC processing...
Relationship between T cell activation and CD4+ T cell count in HIV-seropositive individuals with undetectable plasma HIV RNA levels in the absence of therapyPeter W Hunt
Positive Health Program, San Francisco General Hospital, Bldg 80, Ward 84, 995 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
J Infect Dis 197:126-33. 2008....
Two subsets of memory T lymphocytes with distinct homing potentials and effector functionsF Sallusto
Basel Institute for Immunology, Switzerland
Nature 401:708-12. 1999....
CD1d-restricted and TCR-mediated activation of valpha14 NKT cells by glycosylceramidesT Kawano
CREST Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology Project, Japan Science and Technology Corporation JST, 1 8 1 Inohana, Chuo, Chiba 260, Japan
Science 278:1626-9. 1997..Thus, this lymphocyte shares distinct recognition systems with either T or NK cells...
Conversion of peripheral CD4+CD25- naive T cells to CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells by TGF-beta induction of transcription factor Foxp3Wanjun Chen
Cellular Immunology Section, Oral Infection and Immunity Branch, National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
J Exp Med 198:1875-86. 2003..Finally, in a murine asthma model, coadministration of these TGF-beta-induced suppressor T cells prevented house dust mite-induced allergic pathogenesis in lungs...
Up on the tightrope: natural killer cell activation and inhibitionLewis L Lanier
Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Cancer Research Institute, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143 0414, USA
Nat Immunol 9:495-502. 2008....
Bcl6 and Blimp-1 are reciprocal and antagonistic regulators of T follicular helper cell differentiationRobert J Johnston
Division of Vaccine Discovery, La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology LIAI, 9420 Athena Circle, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA
Science 325:1006-10. 2009..These findings demonstrate that T(FH) cells are required for proper B cell responses in vivo and that Bcl6 and Blimp-1 play central but opposing roles in T(FH) differentiation...
Bcl6 mediates the development of T follicular helper cellsRoza I Nurieva
Department of Immunology, M D Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Science 325:1001-5. 2009..Our data thus illustrate that Bcl6 is required for programming of T(FH) cell generation...
Toll-like receptor control of the adaptive immune responsesAkiko Iwasaki
Section of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, New Haven, Connecticut 06520, USA
Nat Immunol 5:987-95. 2004..Recent studies have provided important clues about the mechanisms of TLR-mediated control of adaptive immunity orchestrated by dendritic cell populations in distinct anatomical locations...
Dendritic cells induce peripheral T cell unresponsiveness under steady state conditions in vivoD Hawiger
Laboratory of Molecular Immunology, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10021, USA
J Exp Med 194:769-79. 2001..We conclude that in the absence of additional stimuli DCs induce transient antigen-specific T cell activation followed by T cell deletion and unresponsiveness...
Loss of CTLA-4 leads to massive lymphoproliferation and fatal multiorgan tissue destruction, revealing a critical negative regulatory role of CTLA-4E A Tivol
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Immunity 3:541-7. 1995..In the absence of CTLA-4, peripheral T cells are activated, can spontaneously proliferate, and may mediate lethal tissue injury...
Lymphocyte egress from thymus and peripheral lymphoid organs is dependent on S1P receptor 1Mehrdad Matloubian
Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Microbiology, University of California San Francisco, 513 Parnassus Avenue, San Francisco, California 94143 0414, USA
Nature 427:355-60. 2004..in T-cell development before exit from the thymus, whereas S1P1 is downregulated during peripheral lymphocyte activation, and this is associated with retention in lymphoid organs...
Identification and functional characterization of human CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells with regulatory properties isolated from peripheral bloodH Jonuleit
Department of Dermatology, University of Mainz, D 55101 Mainz, Germany
J Exp Med 193:1285-94. 2001..However, the refractory state of CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells was partially reversible by the addition of IL-2 or IL-4. These data demonstrate that human blood contains a resident T cell population with potent regulatory properties...
CTLA-4 control over Foxp3+ regulatory T cell functionKajsa Wing
Department of Experimental Pathology, Institute for Frontier Medical Sciences, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606 8507, Japan
Science 322:271-5. 2008..Thus, natural Tregs may critically require CTLA-4 to suppress immune responses by affecting the potency of antigen-presenting cells to activate other T cells...
Dendritic cells require a systemic type I interferon response to mature and induce CD4+ Th1 immunity with poly IC as adjuvantM Paula Longhi
Laboratory of Cellular Physiology and Immunology and Chris Browne Center, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
J Exp Med 206:1589-602. 2009..Therefore, the adjuvant action of poly IC requires a widespread innate type I IFN response that directly links antigen presentation by DCs to adaptive immunity...
Severe CD4+ T-cell depletion in gut lymphoid tissue during primary human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection and substantial delay in restoration following highly active antiretroviral therapyMoraima Guadalupe
Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
J Virol 77:11708-17. 2003..Monitoring of the restoration and/or maintenance of CD4(+) T cells in GALT provides a more accurate assessment of the efficacy of antiviral host immune responses as well as HAART...
MAP kinases in the immune responseChen Dong
Department of Immunology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington 98195 7650, USA
Annu Rev Immunol 20:55-72. 2002..In this review, we summarize recent progress in understanding the function and regulation of MAP kinase pathways in these phases of immune responses...
Reciprocal activating interaction between natural killer cells and dendritic cellsFranca Gerosa
Department of Pathology, Section of Immunology, University of Verona, 37100 Verona, Italy
J Exp Med 195:327-33. 2002..These data demonstrated for the first time a bidirectional cross talk between NK cells and DC, in which NK cells activated by IL-2 or by mature DC induce DC maturation...
Interleukin-7 mediates the homeostasis of naïve and memory CD8 T cells in vivoK S Schluns
Department of Medicine, University of Connecticut Health Center, Farmington, CT 06030, USA
Nat Immunol 1:426-32. 2000..Homeostatic proliferation of memory cells was also partially dependent on IL-7. These results point to IL-7 as a pivotal cytokine in T cell homeostasis...
CD40-CD40 ligandC van Kooten
Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, The Netherlands
J Leukoc Biol 67:2-17. 2000....
T cell receptor-proximal signals are sustained in peripheral microclusters and terminated in the central supramolecular activation clusterRajat Varma
Program in Molecular Pathogenesis, Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Department of Pathology, New York University School of Medicine, 540 First Avenue, New York, New York 10016, USA
Immunity 25:117-27. 2006..Our studies reveal a role for F-actin in TCR signaling beyond microcluster formation...
CD4(+)CD25(+) immunoregulatory T cells: gene expression analysis reveals a functional role for the glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptorRebecca S McHugh
Cellular Immunology Section, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Immunity 16:311-23. 2002..Importantly, antibodies to GITR abrogated suppression, demonstrating a functional role for this receptor in regulating the CD4(+)CD25(+) T cell subset...
Tumour-derived soluble MIC ligands impair expression of NKG2D and T-cell activationVeronika Groh
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Clinical Research Division, 1100 Fairview Avenue North, Seattle, Washington 98109, USA
Nature 419:734-8. 2002..This mode of T-cell silencing may promote tumour immune evasion and, by inference, compromise host resistance to infections...
Plasmacytoid dendritic cells from mouse tumor-draining lymph nodes directly activate mature Tregs via indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenaseMadhav D Sharma
Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia, Augusta, Georgia 30912, USA
J Clin Invest 117:2570-82. 2007..We hypothesize that IDO+ pDCs create a profoundly suppressive microenvironment within tumor-draining LNs via constitutive activation of Tregs...
Molecular signature of CD8+ T cell exhaustion during chronic viral infectionE John Wherry
Emory Vaccine Center and Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Emory University School of Medicine, 1510 Clifton Road Room G211, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
Immunity 27:670-84. 2007..Thus, functional exhaustion is probably due to both active suppression and passive defects in signaling and metabolism. These results provide a framework for designing rational immunotherapies during chronic infections...
BLyS: member of the tumor necrosis factor family and B lymphocyte stimulatorP A Moore
Human Genome Sciences, 9410 Key West Avenue, Rockville, MD 20850, USA
Science 285:260-3. 1999..The B cell tropism of BLyS is consistent with its receptor expression on B-lineage cells. The biological profile of BLyS suggests it is involved in monocyte-driven B cell activation...
Maintenance of serological memory by polyclonal activation of human memory B cellsNadia L Bernasconi
Institute for Research in Biomedicine, Via Vela 6, CH 6500 Bellinzona, Switzerland
Science 298:2199-202. 2002..Although antigen boosting leads to a transient increase in specific antibody levels, ongoing polyclonal activation of memory B cells offers a means to maintain serological memory for a human lifetime...
Cancer immunotherapy by dendritic cellsCornelis J M Melief
Department of Immunohematology, Leiden University Medical Center, 2300 RC Leiden, the Netherlands ISA Pharmaceuticals, 3723 MB Bilthoven, The Netherlands
Immunity 29:372-83. 2008..Here, I discuss the considerations for generating promising therapeutic antitumor vaccines that use DCs...
Preferential generation of follicular B helper T cells from Foxp3+ T cells in gut Peyer's patchesMasayuki Tsuji
Laboratory for Mucosal Immunity, RIKEN, Yokohama 1 7 22, Tsurumi, Yokohama, 230 0045, Japan
Science 323:1488-92. 2009..Thus, environmental cues present in gut Peyer's patches promote the selective differentiation of distinct helper T cell subsets, such as TFH cells...
Coregulation of CD8+ T cell exhaustion by multiple inhibitory receptors during chronic viral infectionShawn D Blackburn
Immunology Program and Wistar Vaccine Center, Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Nat Immunol 10:29-37. 2009..Thus, CD8+ T cell responses during chronic viral infections are regulated by complex patterns of coexpressed inhibitory receptors...
Regulatory CD4(+)CD25(+) T cells in tumors from patients with early-stage non-small cell lung cancer and late-stage ovarian cancerE Y Woo
Department of Surgery, Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104, USA
Cancer Res 61:4766-72. 2001..Despite a generalized expression of lymphocyte activation markers in the tumor-associated T-cell populations, the CD8(+) T cells expressed low levels of CD25...
The interaction between NK cells and dendritic cells in bacterial infections results in rapid induction of NK cell activation and in the lysis of uninfected dendritic cellsGuido Ferlazzo
Unità di Immunologia, Istituto Nazionale per la Ricerca sul Cancro, Genova, Italy
Eur J Immunol 33:306-13. 2003..Activated NK cells, by limiting the supply of immature DC, may then exert a control on subsequent innate and adaptive immune responses...
Development of lupus-like autoimmune diseases by disruption of the PD-1 gene encoding an ITIM motif-carrying immunoreceptorH Nishimura
Department of Medical Chemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Japan
Immunity 11:141-51. 1999..Collectively, it is suggested that PD-1 is involved in the maintenance of peripheral self-tolerance by serving as a negative regulator of immune responses...
Exogenous and endogenous glycolipid antigens activate NKT cells during microbial infectionsJochen Mattner
Committee on Immunology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Nature 434:525-9. 2005..These findings identify two novel antigenic targets of NKT cells in antimicrobial defence, and show that glycosylceramides are an alternative to LPS for innate recognition of the Gram-negative, LPS-negative bacterial cell wall...
The B7 family member B7-H6 is a tumor cell ligand for the activating natural killer cell receptor NKp30 in humansCameron S Brandt
Molecular and Cell Based Discovery, ZymoGenetics Inc, Seattle, WA 98102, USA
J Exp Med 206:1495-503. 2009....
Foxo1 links homing and survival of naive T cells by regulating L-selectin, CCR7 and interleukin 7 receptorYann M Kerdiles
Molecular Biology Section, Division of Biological Sciences, Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 0377, USA
Nat Immunol 10:176-84. 2009..These data suggest that Foxo1 regulates the homeostasis and life span of naive T cells by sensing growth factor availability and regulating homing and survival signals...
Persistent immune activation in HIV-1 infection is associated with progression to AIDSMette D Hazenberg
Department of Clinical Viro-Immunology, Sanquin Research at CLB, Tropical Medicine and AIDS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
AIDS 17:1881-8. 2003..These data support the hypothesis that persistent hyperactivation of the immune system may lead to erosion of the naive T cell pool and CD4 T cell depletion...
Help for cytotoxic-T-cell responses is mediated by CD40 signallingS R Bennett
Immunology Division, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, PO The Royal Melbourne Hospital, Victoria, Australia
Nature 393:478-80. 1998....
Immune activation set point during early HIV infection predicts subsequent CD4+ T-cell changes independent of viral loadSteven G Deeks
San Francisco General Hospital, 995 Potrero Ave, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA
Blood 104:942-7. 2004..These data indicate that immunologic activation set point is established early in HIV infection, and that this set point determines the rate at which CD4+ T cells are lost over time...
Induction of interleukin 10-producing, nonproliferating CD4(+) T cells with regulatory properties by repetitive stimulation with allogeneic immature human dendritic cellsH Jonuleit
Department of Dermatology, University of Mainz, D 55101 Mainz, Germany
J Exp Med 192:1213-22. 2000..These data show that immature and mature DCs induce different types of T cell responses: inflammatory Th1 cells are induced by mature DCs, and IL-10-producing T cell regulatory 1-like cells by immature DCs...
Heterogeneity and plasticity of T helper cellsJinfang Zhu
Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Cell Res 20:4-12. 2010..In this review, we summarize recent reports on heterogeneity and plasticity of Th cells, and discuss potential mechanisms and implications of such features that Th cells display...
The role of CD28 and cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) in regulatory T-cell biologyDavid M Sansom
MRC Centre for Immune Regulation, University of Birmingham Medical School, Birmingham, UK
Immunol Rev 212:131-48. 2006..Here we review the main features of the CD28 and CTLA-4 system and examine how these impact upon Treg biology...
PD-L2 is a second ligand for PD-1 and inhibits T cell activationY Latchman
Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Nat Immunol 2:261-8. 2001..Taken together, these studies show overlapping functions of PD-L1 and PD-L2 and indicate a key role for the PD-L-PD-1 pathway in regulatingT cell responses...
The function of programmed cell death 1 and its ligands in regulating autoimmunity and infectionArlene H Sharpe
Department of Pathology, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Nat Immunol 8:239-45. 2007..Here we examine the functions of PD-1 and its ligands in regulating antimicrobial and self-reactive T cell responses and discuss the therapeutic potential of manipulating this pathway...
A protective function for interleukin 17A in T cell-mediated intestinal inflammationWilliam O'Connor
Department of Immunobiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Nat Immunol 10:603-9. 2009..Our data demonstrate a protective function for IL-17 and identify T cells as not only the source but also a target of IL-17 in vivo...
Tumor-associated B7-H1 promotes T-cell apoptosis: a potential mechanism of immune evasionHaidong Dong
Department of Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
Nat Med 8:793-800. 2002..These findings have implications for the design of T cell-based cancer immunotherapy...
The CD160, BTLA, LIGHT/HVEM pathway: a bidirectional switch regulating T-cell activationGuifang Cai
Department of Medical Oncology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Immunol Rev 229:244-58. 2009..Therapies targeting the CRD1 of HVEM to block BTLA and CD160 binding are being developed to enhance immune responses and vaccination...
IL-4 inhibits TGF-beta-induced Foxp3+ T cells and, together with TGF-beta, generates IL-9+ IL-10+ Foxp3(-) effector T cellsValerie Dardalhon
Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA
Nat Immunol 9:1347-55. 2008..Thus IL-9(+)IL-10(+) T cells lack suppressive function and constitute a distinct population of helper-effector T cells that promote tissue inflammation...
The interleukin 23 receptor is essential for the terminal differentiation of interleukin 17-producing effector T helper cells in vivoMandy J McGeachy
Schering Plough Biopharma, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
Nat Immunol 10:314-24. 2009..These defects were associated with less proliferation; consequently, fewer effector T(H)-17 cells were produced in the lymph nodes and hence available to emigrate to the bloodstream and tissues...
HIV controllers exhibit potent CD8 T cell capacity to suppress HIV infection ex vivo and peculiar cytotoxic T lymphocyte activation phenotypeAsier Saez Cirion
Unité de Régulation des Infections Rétrovirales, Institut Pasteur, 75725 Paris, France
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:6776-81. 2007..This constitutive antiviral capacity of CD8(+) T cells could account for the control of viral replication in HIC...
Cytokine-induced memory-like natural killer cellsMegan A Cooper
Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO 63110, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 106:1915-9. 2009..Thus, these experiments identify an ability of innate immune cells to retain an intrinsic memory of prior activation, a function until now attributed only to antigen-specific adaptive immune cells...
Mechanism of CD1d-restricted natural killer T cell activation during microbial infectionManfred Brigl
Division of Rheumatology, Immunology, and Allergy, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Nat Immunol 4:1230-7. 2003..We propose this mechanism of activation as a major pathway responsible for the rapid activation of NKT cells in different microbial infections...
T cell activation is associated with lower CD4+ T cell gains in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients with sustained viral suppression during antiretroviral therapyPeter W Hunt
Positive Health Program, San Francisco General Hospital, and San Francisco Veterans Affairs Medical Center, San Francisco, California 94121, USA
J Infect Dis 187:1534-43. 2003..Interventions that directly target T cell activation or the determinants of activation may prove to be useful adjuvants to antiretroviral therapy...
Interleukin 27 negatively regulates the development of interleukin 17-producing T helper cells during chronic inflammation of the central nervous systemJason S Stumhofer
Department of Pathobiology, School of Veterinary Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6008, USA
Nat Immunol 7:937-45. 2006..Thus IL-27, a potent inhibitor of T(H)-17 cell development, may be a useful target for treating inflammatory diseases mediated by these cells...
Foxp3 occupancy and regulation of key target genes during T-cell stimulationAlexander Marson
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, 9 Cambridge Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nature 445:931-5. 2007..Foxp3 suppression of its targets appears to be crucial for the normal function of T(reg) cells, because overactive variants of some target genes are known to be associated with autoimmune disease...
CD107a as a functional marker for the identification of natural killer cell activityGalit Alter
Partners AIDS Research Center, Massachusetts General Hospital and Division of AIDS, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts, USA
J Immunol Methods 294:15-22. 2004..Cumulatively, the data presented here demonstrate that CD107a is a sensitive marker of NK cell activity...
T helper 17 cells promote cytotoxic T cell activation in tumor immunityNatalia Martin-Orozco
Department of Immunology, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX 77030, USA
Immunity 31:787-98. 2009..Thus, Th17 cells elicited a protective inflammation that promotes the activation of tumor-specific CD8(+) T cells. These findings have important implications in antitumor immunotherapies...
Cytomegalovirus immunoevasin reveals the physiological role of "missing self" recognition in natural killer cell dependent virus control in vivoMarina Babic
Department of Histology and Embryology, Medical Faculty, University of Rijeka, 51000 Rijeka, Croatia
J Exp Med 207:2663-73. 2010....
Emerging concepts in the immunopathogenesis of AIDSDaniel C Douek
Human Immunology Section, Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Annu Rev Med 60:471-84. 2009....
Myeloid-derived suppressor cells inhibit T-cell activation by depleting cystine and cysteineMinu K Srivastava
Department of Biological Sciences, University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, Maryland 21250, USA
Cancer Res 70:68-77. 2010..In summary, MDSCs consume cystine and do not return cysteine to their microenvironment, thereby depriving T cells of the cysteine they require for activation and function...
Identification of RANTES, MIP-1 alpha, and MIP-1 beta as the major HIV-suppressive factors produced by CD8+ T cellsF Cocchi
Laboratory of Tumor Cell Biology, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
Science 270:1811-5. 1995..These data may have relevance for the prevention and therapy of AIDS...
Immune activation and inflammation in HIV-1 infection: causes and consequencesV Appay
Cellular Immunology Laboratory, INSERM U543, Hopital Pitie Salpetriere, Universite Pierre et Marie Curie PARIS6, Paris, France
J Pathol 214:231-41. 2008..A simplified model of HIV pathogenesis is proposed, which links together the three major facets of HIV-1 infection: the massive depletion of CD4(+) T cells, the paradoxical immune activation and the exhaustion of regenerative capacity...
Human mesenchymal stem cells modulate allogeneic immune cell responsesSudeepta Aggarwal
Osiris Therapeutics, 2001 Aliceanna St, Baltimore, MD 21231, USA
Blood 105:1815-22. 2005....
Hydrogen peroxide as second messenger in lymphocyte activationMichael Reth
Max Planck Institute für Immunobiologie, Universitat Freiburg, Biologie III, Abteilung Molekulare Immunologie, Stuebeweg 51, Freiburg 79108, Germany
Nat Immunol 3:1129-34. 2002Oxidants such as H2O2 are connected to lymphocyte activation, but the molecular mechanisms behind this phenomenon are less clear...
How are T(H)2-type immune responses initiated and amplified?William E Paul
Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA
Nat Rev Immunol 10:225-35. 2010....
Innate immunity defines the capacity of antiviral T cells to limit persistent infectionDaniel M Andrews
Immunology and Virology Program, Centre for Ophthalmology and Visual Science, University Department of Medicine, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Western Australia 6009, Australia
J Exp Med 207:1333-43. 2010..Our studies provide unexpected insights into novel interplays between innate and adaptive immune effectors, and define the critical requirements for efficient control of viral persistence...
Role of CXCR5 and CCR7 in follicular Th cell positioning and appearance of a programmed cell death gene-1high germinal center-associated subpopulationNicole M Haynes
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of California, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Immunol 179:5099-108. 2007....
Activating receptors promote NK cell expansion for maintenance, IL-10 production, and CD8 T cell regulation during viral infectionSeung Hwan Lee
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Division of Biology and Medicine, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA
J Exp Med 206:2235-51. 2009..Thus, the studies demonstrate a previously unappreciated critical role for activating receptors in keeping NK cells present during viral infection to regulate adaptive immune responses...
Selective miRNA disruption in T reg cells leads to uncontrolled autoimmunityXuyu Zhou
Diabetes Center, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA
J Exp Med 205:1983-91. 2008..These results support a central role for miRNAs in maintaining the stability of differentiated T reg cell function in vivo and homeostasis of the adaptive immune system...
TCR and Lat are expressed on separate protein islands on T cell membranes and concatenate during activationBjörn F Lillemeier
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, USA
Nat Immunol 11:90-6. 2010..This separation versus physical juxtapositioning of receptor domains and domains containing downstream signaling molecules in quiescent versus activated T cells may be a general feature of plasma membrane-associated signal transduction...
Identification of discrete tumor-induced myeloid-derived suppressor cell subpopulations with distinct T cell-suppressive activityKiavash Movahedi
Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Immunology, Department of Molecular and Cellular Interactions, VIB, Brussels, Belgium
Blood 111:4233-44. 2008..Overall, our data refine tumor-induced MDSC functions by uncovering mechanistically distinct MDSC subpopulations, potentially relevant for MDSC-targeted therapies...
Persistent microbial translocation and immune activation in HIV-1-infected South Africans receiving combination antiretroviral therapyEdana Cassol
MRC Unit for Inflammation and Immunity, Department of Immunology, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Pretoria and the Tshwane Academic Division of the National Health Laboratory Service, Pretoria, South Africa
J Infect Dis 202:723-33. 2010..Here, we investigated the relationship between markers of monocyte activation, plasma lipopolysaccharide (LPS), and HIV-1 RNA in South Africans prioritized to receive combination antiretroviral therapy (cART)...
Inflammation, atherosclerosis, and coronary artery diseaseGoran K Hansson
Karolinska Institute, Center for Molecular Medicine, Department of Medicine, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
N Engl J Med 352:1685-95. 2005
T cell response in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE): role of self and cross-reactive antigens in shaping, tuning, and regulating the autopathogenic T cell repertoireVijay K Kuchroo
Center for Neurologic Diseases, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Annu Rev Immunol 20:101-23. 2002..This provides a mechanism by which the fidelity and specificity of the immune system against foreign antigens is improved without increasing the potential for developing an autoimmune disease...
PD-1:PD-L inhibitory pathway affects both CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells and is overcome by IL-2LauraL Carter
Wyeth Genetics Institute, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA
Eur J Immunol 32:634-43. 2002..However, CD8(+) T cells may be more sensitive to modulation by the PD-1:PD-L pathway because of their intrinsic inability to produce significant levels of IL-2...
Specific and nonspecific NK cell activation during virus infectionA O Dokun
Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Rheumatology Division, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO 63110, USA
Nat Immunol 2:951-6. 2001..These findings indicated that Ly49H+ NK cells were specifically activated by MCMV and that MCMV infection was characterized by nonspecific and specific phases of NK cell activation in vivo...
Genetic reconstitution of systemic lupus erythematosus immunopathology with polycongenic murine strainsL Morel
Departments of Medicine and Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32610, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 97:6670-5. 2000....
Contact-dependent stimulation and inhibition of dendritic cells by natural killer cellsDiego Piccioli
IRIS, Department of Immunology, Chiron S.p.A, 53100 Siena, Italy
J Exp Med 195:335-41. 2002..Resting NK cells also stimulated autologous DC maturation in a TNF-alpha/contact-dependent manner, however, increasing the NK/DC ratio only led to an enhancement of this effect...
SP600125, an anthrapyrazolone inhibitor of Jun N-terminal kinaseB L Bennett
Signal Research Division, Celgene Corporation, 5555 Oberlin Drive, San Diego, CA 92121 USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:13681-6. 2001..Our study supports targeting JNK as an important strategy in inflammatory disease, apoptotic cell death, and cancer...
Tumor recognition following Vgamma9Vdelta2 T cell receptor interactions with a surface F1-ATPase-related structure and apolipoprotein A-IEmmanuel Scotet
INSERM U601, Institut de Biologie, 9 quai Moncousu, F-44035 Nantes Cedex 01, France
Immunity 22:71-80. 2005..This study thus describes an unanticipated tumor recognition mechanism by Vgamma9Vdelta2 lymphocytes and a possible link between gammadelta T cell immunity and lipid metabolism...
Systemic lupus erythematosus: all roads lead to type I interferonsVirginia Pascual
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research, 3434 Live Oak Street, Suite 205, Dallas, TX 75204, USA
Curr Opin Immunol 18:676-82. 2006..This novel information is leading to the development of IFN antagonists as a potential therapeutic intervention in SLE, thus bringing hope to SLE patients...
Tumor-induced tolerance and immune suppression by myeloid derived suppressor cellsIlaria Marigo
Department of Oncology and Surgical Sciences, Padova University, Padova, Italy, and Venetian Institute for Molecular Medicine, Padova, Italy
Immunol Rev 222:162-79. 2008..Based on observations of MDSCs, we present a time-structured and topologically consistent idea of tumor-dependent tolerance progression in tumor-bearing hosts...
B and T lymphocyte attenuator regulates T cell activation through interaction with herpesvirus entry mediatorJohn R Sedy
Department of Pathology and Center for Immunology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, Missouri 63110, USA
Nat Immunol 6:90-8. 2005..The conservation of the BTLA-HVEM interaction between mouse and human suggests that this system is an important pathway regulating lymphocyte activation and/or homeostasis in the immune response.
IP-10 mediates selective mononuclear cell accumulation and activation in response to intrapulmonary transgenic expression and during adenovirus-induced pulmonary inflammationXianying Zeng
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA
J Interferon Cytokine Res 25:103-12. 2005....
Mechanisms of tolerance induced by donor-specific transfusion and ICOS-B7h blockade in a model of CD4+ T-cell-mediated allograft rejectionSigrid E Sandner
Transplantation Research Center, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Am J Transplant 5:31-9. 2005....
Carbohydrate-mediated targeting of antigen to dendritic cells leads to enhanced presentation of antigen to T cellsEddie W Adams
Center for Immunology and Inflammatory Diseases and Division of Rheumatology, Allergy and Immununology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Building 149, 13th Street, Charlestown, MA 02129, USA
Chembiochem 9:294-303. 2008..Taken together, our data suggest that a DC targeting strategy that is based upon carbohydrate-lectin interactions is a promising approach for enhancing antigen presentation via class I and class II molecules...
Dendritic cells derived from TBP-2-deficient mice are defective in inducing T cell responsesAoi Son
Department of Biological Responses, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
Eur J Immunol 38:1358-67. 2008..In vivo delayed-type hypersensitivity responses in TBP-2(-/-) mice immunized with ovalbumin were significantly reduced compared to WT mice. These results indicate that TBP-2 plays a crucial role in DC to induce T cell responses...
EphrinB1 is essential in T-cell-T-cell co-operation during T-cell activationGuang Yu
Laboratory of Immunology, Notre Dame Hospital, Centre Hospitalier de l Universite de Montreal, Pavilion DeSeve, 1560 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal H2L 4M1, Quebec, Canada
J Biol Chem 279:55531-9. 2004..Our study suggests that EFNB1 is pivotal in T-cell-T-cell costimulation and in reducing T-cell response threshold to antigen stimulation...
Targeting the nuclear antigen 1 of Epstein-Barr virus to the human endocytic receptor DEC-205 stimulates protective T-cell responsesCagan Gurer
Laboratory of Viral Immunobiology, Christopher H Browne Center for Immunology and Immune Diseases, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA
Blood 112:1231-9. 2008....
Induction of impaired antitumor immunity by fusion of MHC class II-deficient dendritic cells with tumor cellsYasuhiro Tanaka
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02118, USA
J Immunol 174:1274-80. 2005..In addition, in vivo results correlated with the induction of Ag-specific CTL. Collectively, the data indicate that MHC class II Ag presentation targeting activation of CD4 T cells is indispensable for antitumor immunity...
Research Grants
- PTPN22 and AutoimmunityNunzio Bottini; Fiscal Year: 2009..tyrosine phosphatase LYP, which is expressed only in white blood cells and acts as a gatekeeper for T lymphocyte activation. We reported what was to us the remarkable and seminal observation that a missense single-nucleotide ..
- Dissecting the Role of IL-12 in Naive CD8+ T cell Activation by Dendritic CellsCURTIS HENRY; Fiscal Year: 2007..A complete understanding of how IL-12, and its antagonist interleukin 10, dictates cytotoxic lymphocyte activation (CTLs) remains to be determined...
- PTPN22 and AutoimmunityNunzio Bottini; Fiscal Year: 2010..tyrosine phosphatase LYP, which is expressed only in white blood cells and acts as a gatekeeper for T lymphocyte activation. We reported what was to us the remarkable and seminal observation that a missense single-nucleotide ..
- PTPN22 and AutoimmunityNunzio Bottini; Fiscal Year: 2010..tyrosine phosphatase LYP, which is expressed only in white blood cells and acts as a gatekeeper for T lymphocyte activation. We reported what was to us the remarkable and seminal observation that a missense single-nucleotide ..
- IMMUNOTOXICITY OF POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONSScott Burchiel; Fiscal Year: 1993..that a methylated PAH (7,12-dimethylbenz(a)anthracene, DMBA) interferes with early events associated with lymphocyte activation in murine B and T cells exposed in vivo and in vitro...
- MicroRNA regulation of human T and B cell activationDaniel R Salomon; Fiscal Year: 2010..of human immunity by targeting key differentially and constitutively expressed genes regulating T and B lymphocyte activation, differentiation and survival...
- Role of TRAF1 in signaling by TNFR2 family membersErdyni Tsitsikov; Fiscal Year: 2007..of biological processes including the acute phase response, cell growth and apoptosis, inflammation and lymphocyte activation. TNF has two receptors: TNFR1and TNFR2...
- TYROSINE PROTEIN KINASES AND LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATIONROBERT GEAHLEN; Fiscal Year: 1993..The methodologies that we propose to use include: 1) cellular assays of lymphocyte activation using cultured lymphocyte subpopulations and transformed lymphoid cell lines, 2) immunoprecipitations and ..
- The Role of Dendritic Cells in Renal Immune ResponsesKarl Nath; Fiscal Year: 2007..The mechanisms underlying T-lymphocyte activation in kidney disease are poorly understood, as are the mechanisms that prevent immune activation in the ..
- B Cell Lymphoma TherapyYong Choi; Fiscal Year: 2007..Our inducible lymphoma model in vivo offers unprecedented opportunities to evaluate the efficacy of the combined therapy and the genetic analysis of malignant transformation of lymphoma cells. ..
- B Cell Lymphoma TherapyYong Choi; Fiscal Year: 2009..Our inducible lymphoma model in vivo offers unprecedented opportunities to evaluate the efficacy of the combined therapy and the genetic analysis of malignant transformation of lymphoma cells. ..
- B Cell Lymphoma TherapyYong Sung Choi; Fiscal Year: 2010..Our inducible lymphoma model in vivo offers unprecedented opportunities to evaluate the efficacy of the combined therapy and the genetic analysis of malignant transformation of lymphoma cells. ..
- The Role of Dendritic Cells in Renal Immune ResponsesMatthew Griffin; Fiscal Year: 2006..The mechanisms underlying T-lymphocyte activation in kidney disease are poorly understood, as are the mechanisms that prevent immune activation in the ..
- Mechanisms for SIV evasion of vaccine immunity: Role of FasL-mediated cell deathCHARLES PAUZA; Fiscal Year: 2007Acute HIV infection is accompanied by a wave of lymphocyte activation and depletion that likely includes both infected and uninfected cells...
- Mechanisms for SIV evasion of vaccine immunity: Role of FasL-mediated cell deathCHARLES PAUZA; Fiscal Year: 2007Acute HIV infection is accompanied by a wave of lymphocyte activation and depletion that likely includes both infected and uninfected cells...
- Mechanisms for SIV evasion of vaccine immunity: Role of FasL-mediated cell deathCHARLES PAUZA; Fiscal Year: 2009Acute HIV infection is accompanied by a wave of lymphocyte activation and depletion that likely includes both infected and uninfected cells...
- Mechanisms for SIV evasion of vaccine immunity: Role of FasL-mediated cell deathC Pauza; Fiscal Year: 2006Acute HIV infection is accompanied by a wave of lymphocyte activation and depletion that likely includes both infected and uninfected cells...
- Measles Virus Entry: Engagement of the Receptors and Infection ProgressionRoberto Cattaneo; Fiscal Year: 2007..Measles virus (MV) interacts with two cellular receptors: the immune cell-specific protein signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) and the ubiquitous regulator of complement activation membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46)..
- Measles Virus Entry: Engagement of the Receptors and Infection ProgressionRoberto B Cattaneo; Fiscal Year: 2010..Measles virus (MV) interacts with two cellular receptors: the immune cell-specific protein signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) and the ubiquitous regulator of complement activation membrane cofactor protein (MCP;CD46)...
- Measles Virus Entry: Engagement of the Receptors and Infection ProgressionRoberto Cattaneo; Fiscal Year: 2009..Measles virus (MV) interacts with two cellular receptors: the immune cell-specific protein signaling lymphocyte activation molecule (SLAM) and the ubiquitous regulator of complement activation membrane cofactor protein (MCP; CD46)..
- INTERLEUKIN 15 RECEPTOR AND LYMPHOID HOMEOSTASISAveril Ma; Fiscal Year: 2003Lymphoid homeostasis is maintained by the dynamic regulation of lymphocyte activation, proliferation, programmed cell death, and tissue specific homing...
- DEREGULATION OF NFKB/REL BY TAX & ADULT T CELL LEUKEMIAShao Cong Sun; Fiscal Year: 1999..members of the NF- 1kappaBalpha/Rel family, which in turn induces various cellular genes involved in lymphocyte activation and growth...
- SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION IN T LYMPHOCYTE ACTIVATIONAmnon Altman; Fiscal Year: 1993..Understanding the roles of PKC and TPKs in T cell activation may lead to rational design of pharmacological approaches aimed at correcting abnormal T cell responses resulting from defective signaling...
- Shared Mechanisms of Pulmonary Lymphocyte Activation by Bacteria and ToxicantsMichael Borchers; Fiscal Year: 2010..To understand shared roles and mechanisms of lymphocyte activation following bacterial infection and toxicant exposure, we will study epithelial cell lymphocyte interactions ..
- Shared Mechanisms of Pulmonary Lymphocyte Activation by Bacteria and ToxicantsMichael Borchers; Fiscal Year: 2007..To understand shared roles and mechanisms of lymphocyte activation following bacterial infection and toxicant exposure, we will study epithelial cell lymphocyte interactions ..
