OLD Category: immunology

August 21, 2023 / Immunology

  • Tan X, Grice LF, Tran M, Mulay O, Monkman J, Blick T, Vo T, Almeida AC, da Silva Motta J Junior, de Moura KF, Machado-Souza C, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes P, Baena CP, de Noronha L, Guimaraes FSF, Luu HN, Drennon T, Williams S, Stern J, Uytingco C, Pan L, Nam A, Cooper C, Short K, Belz GT, Souza-Fonseca-Guimaraes F, Kulasinghe A, Nguyen Q
The SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) virus has caused a devastating global pandemic of respiratory illness. To understand viral pathogenesis, methods are available for studying dissociated cells in blood, nasal samples, bronchoalveolar lavage…
August 17, 2023 / Lancet

  • Loupy A, Goutaudier V, Giarraputo A, Mezine F, Morgand E, Robin B, Khalil K, Mehta S, Keating B, Dandro A, Certain A, Tharaux PL, Narula N, Tissier R, Giraud S, Hauet T, Pass HI, Sannier A, Wu M, Griesemer A, Ayares D, Tatapudi V, Stern J, Lefaucheur C, Bruneval P, Mangiola M, Montgomery RA
Background: Cross-species immunological incompatibilities have hampered pig-to-human xenotransplantation, but porcine genome engineering recently enabled the first successful experiments. However, little is known about the immune response after the transplantation of…
August 1, 2023 / JCI Insight

  • Little AJ, Chen PM, Vesely MD, Khan RN, Fiedler J, Garritano J, Islam FM, McNiff JM, Craft JE
Cutaneous lupus erythematosus (CLE) is a disfiguring autoimmune skin disease characterized by an inflammatory infiltrate rich in T cells, which are strongly implicated in tissue damage. How these cells adapt…
July 26, 2023 / Nat Commun

  • Garrido-Trigo A, Corraliza AM, Veny M, Dotti I, Melón-Ardanaz E, Rill A, Crowell HL, Corbí Á, Gudiño V, Esteller M, Álvarez-Teubel I, Aguilar D, Masamunt MC, Killingbeck E, Kim Y, Leon M, Visvanathan S, Marchese D, Caratù G, Martin-Cardona A, Esteve M, Panés J, Ricart E, Mereu E, Heyn H, Salas A
Ulcerative colitis and Crohn's disease are chronic inflammatory intestinal diseases with perplexing heterogeneity in disease manifestation and response to treatment. While the molecular basis for this heterogeneity remains uncharacterized, single-cell…
July 13, 2023 / iScience

  • Castaneda DC, Jangra S, Yurieva M, Martinek J, Callender M, Coxe M, Choi A, García-Bernalt Diego J, Lin J, Wu TC, Marches F, Chaussabel D, Yu P, Salner A, Aucello G, Koff J, Hudson B, Church SE, Gorman K, Anguiano E, García-Sastre A, Williams A, Schotsaert M, Palucka K
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be a health crisis with major unmet medical needs. The early responses from airway epithelial cells, the first target of the virus regulating the progression…
July 11, 2023 / J Exp Med

  • Collier JL, Pauken KE, Lee CAA, Patterson DG, Markson SC, Conway TS, Fung ME, France JA, Mucciarone KN, Lian CG, Murphy GF, Sharpe AH
Immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are a notable complication of PD-1 cancer immunotherapy. A better understanding of how these iatrogenic diseases compare with naturally arising autoimmune diseases is needed for treatment…
July 7, 2023 / J Biol Chem

  • Rehan M, Deskin B, Kurundkar AR, Yadav S, Matsunaga Y, Manges J, Smith N, Dsouza KG, Burow ME, Thannickal VJ
Metabolism controls cellular phenotype and fate. In this report, we demonstrate that nicotinamide N-methyltransferase (NNMT), a metabolic enzyme that regulates developmental stem cell transitions and tumor progression, is highly expressed…
June 29, 2023 / J Clin Invest

  • Sharma NS, Patel K, Sari E, Shankar S, Gastanadui MG, Moncada-Giraldo D, Soto-Vázquez YM, Stacks DA, Hecker L, Dsouza KG, Banday M, O'Neill E, Benson P, Payne GA, Margaroli C, Gaggar A
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is the most common manifestation of interstitial lung disease (ILD), with a median survival of 3-5 years after diagnosis. IPF is characterized by progressive fibrosis with…
June 27, 2023 / Nat Commun

  • Tu WJ, Melino M, Dunn J, McCuaig RD, Bielefeldt-Ohmann H, Tsimbalyuk S, Forwood JK, Ahuja T, Vandermeide J, Tan X, Tran M, Nguyen Q, Zhang L, Nam A, Pan L, Liang Y, Smith C, Lineburg K, Nguyen TH, Sng JDJ, Tong ZWM, Chew KY, Short KR, Le Grand R, Seddiki N, Rao S
In vitro, ACE2 translocates to the nucleus to induce SARS-CoV-2 replication. Here, using digital spatial profiling of lung tissues from SARS-CoV-2-infected golden Syrian hamsters, we show that a specific and…
June 16, 2023 / Sci Adv

  • Doloff JC, Ma M, Sadraei A, Tam HH, Farah S, Hollister-Lock J, Vegas AJ, Veiseh O, Quiroz VM, Rakoski A, Aresta-DaSilva S, Bader AR, Griffin M, Weir GC, Brehm MA, Shultz LD, Langer R, Greiner DL, Anderson DG
Biomedical devices comprise a major component of modern medicine, however immune-mediated fibrosis and rejection can limit their function over time. Here, we describe a humanized mouse model that recapitulates fibrosis…
June 8, 2023 / J Inflamm Res

  • Jiang J, Liu Y
Background: A comprehensive study of the distribution and role of immune/inflammatory cells in thrombosis is still lacking because traditional pathology techniques cannot accomplish the analysis of numerous protein and genetic…
June 6, 2023 / J Hepatol

  • Uzun S, Zinner C, Beenen AC, Alborelli I, Bartoszek EM, Yeung J, Calgua B, Reinscheid M, Bonsert P, Stalder AK, Haslbauer J, Vosbeck J, Mazzucchelli L, Hoffmann T, Terracciano LM, Hutter G, Manz M, Panne I, Böttler T, Hofmann M, Bengsch B, Heim MH, Bernsmeier C, Jiang S, Tzankov A, Beretta-Piccoli BT, Matter MS
Background and Aims: Liver injury after COVID-19 vaccination is very rare and shows clinical and histomorphological similarities with autoimmune hepatitis (AIH). Little is known about the pathophysiology of COVID-19 vaccine-induced…