Immunology

Antiviral immune responses, cellular metabolism and adhesion are differentially modulated by SARS-CoV-2 ORF7a or ORF7b

1. Tránsito García-García
2. Raúl Fernández-Rodríguez
3. Natalia Redondo
4. Ana de Lucas-Rius
5. Sara Zaldívar-López
6. Blanca Dies López-Ayllón
7. José M. Suárez-Cárdenas
8. Ángeles Jiménez-Marín
9. María Montoya
10. Juan J. Garrido

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Plasmacytoid dendritic cells regulate megakaryocyte and platelet homeostasis

1. Florian Gaertner
2. Hellen Ishikawa-Ankerhold
3. Susanne Stutte
4. Wenwen Fu
5. Chenglong Guo
6. Jutta Weitz
7. Anne Dueck
8. Zhe Zhang
9. Dominic van den Heuvel
10. Valeria Fumagalli
11. Michael Lorenz
12. Louisa von Baumgarten
13. Konstantin Stark
14. Tobias Straub
15. Saskia von Stillfried
16. Peter Boor
17. Marco Colonna
18. Christian Schulz
19. Thomas Brocker
20. Barbara Walzog
21. Christoph Scheiermann
22. Stefan Engelhardt
23. William C. Aird
24. Tobias Petzold
25. Michael Sixt
26. Martina Rudelius
27. Claus Nerlov
28. Matteo Iannacone
29. Robert A. J. Oostendorp
30. Steffen Massberg

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Potentiating the cross-reactive IFN-γ T cell and polyfunctional T cell responses by heterologous GX-19N DNA booster in mice primed with either a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine or inactivated vaccine

1. Yong Bok Seo
2. Ara Ko
3. Duckhyang Shin
4. Junyoung Kim
5. You Suk Suh
6. Juyoung Na
7. Ji In Ryu
8. Young Chul Sung

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Respiratory mucosal vaccination of peptide-poloxamine-DNA nanoparticles provides complete protection against lethal SARS-CoV-2 challenge

1. Si Sun
2. Entao Li
3. Gan Zhao
4. Jie Tang
5. Qianfei Zuo
6. Larry Cai
7. Chuanfei Xu
8. Cheng Sui
9. Yangxue Ou
10. Chang Liu
11. Haibo Li
12. Yuan Ding
13. Chao Li
14. Dongshui Lu
15. Weijun Zhang
16. Ping Luo
17. Ping Cheng
18. Yuwei Gao
19. Changchun Tu
20. Bruno Pitard
21. Joseph Rosenecker
22. Bin Wang
23. Yan Liu
24. Quanming Zou
25. Shan Guan

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Dendritic cell Piezo1 directs the differentiation of TH1 and Treg cells in cancer

1. Yuexin Wang
2. Hui Yang
3. Anna Jia
4. Yufei Wang
5. Qiuli Yang
6. Yingjie Dong
7. Yueru Hou
8. Yejin Cao
9. Lin Dong
10. Yujing Bi
11. Guangwei Liu

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Wang and colleagues report that the expression of Piezo1 (an ion channel and mechanical sensor) is upregulated on dendritic cells (DC) under conditions of inflammation/high environmental stiffness resulting in DC activation, maturation, and skewing in DC functional polarity and metabolism. They show that Piezo1 knockout results in faster tumor progression and accumulation of more regulatory T cells, and that Smad3 and STAT4 are involved in DC-mediated differentiation of Th1 and Treg. Overall this represents a mechanistic advance in our understanding of DC biology as it relates to cancer and other human pathologies.

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Nuclear receptor corepressor 1 controls regulatory T cell subset differentiation and effector function

1. Valentina Stolz
2. Rafael de Freitas e Silva
3. Ramona Rica
4. Ci Zhu
5. Teresa Preglej
6. Patricia Hamminger
7. Daniela Hainberger
8. Marlis Alteneder
9. Lena Müller
10. Monika Waldherr
11. Darina Waltenberger
12. Anastasiya Hladik
13. Benedikt Agerer
14. Michael Schuster
15. Tobias Frey
16. Thomas Krausgruber
17. Sylvia Knapp
18. Clarissa Campbell
19. Klaus Schmetterer
20. Michael Trauner
21. Andreas Bergthaler
22. Christoph Bock
23. Nicole Boucheron
24. Wilfried Ellmeier

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The study shows that the LXRbeta - NCOR1 axis restricts the terminal differentiation of Treg cells into effector Tregs. It also suggests that, in addition to an impact on effector Treg differentiation, loss of NCOR1 leads to impaired suppression function in Treg cells. The results may contribute to our understanding of Treg cell differentiation and function.

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Homeostatic interferon-lambda response to bacterial microbiota stimulates preemptive antiviral defense within discrete pockets of intestinal epithelium

1. Jacob A Van Winkle
2. Stefan T Peterson
3. Elizabeth A Kennedy
4. Michael J Wheadon
5. Harshad Ingle
6. Chandni Desai
7. Rachel Rodgers
8. David A Constant
9. Austin P Wright
10. Lena Li
11. Maxim N Artyomov
12. Sanghyun Lee
13. Megan T Baldridge
14. Timothy J Nice

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The paper provides information about the relative importance of the type I and type III interferon-driven gene expression and anti-viral responses, particularly focused on the role of the Intestinal microbiota to maintain background levels of type III (interferon lambda) signaling. Type III-driven gene expression is highly discontinuous in the epithelial layer and mainly at the villous tips with consequent effects on the kinetics of rotavirus model infections.

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Towards a unified model of naive T cell dynamics across the lifespan

1. Sanket Rane
2. Thea Hogan
3. Edward Lee
4. Benedict Seddon
5. Andrew J Yates

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper is of broad interest to cellular biologists and immunologists. It offers new insights into how T cell compartments are regulated in vivo defining a new perspective on how the T cell compartment is regulated to maintain immune homeostasis and afford long-term immune protection. By assessing data from a range of mouse model systems, the key deduction is that a simple hypothesis, one which notably does not have complex feedback regulation of cell numbers, provides a remarkably good explanation of the data.

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Development of a Novel SARS-CoV-2 Immune Complex Vaccine Candidate (CRCx) with Broad Immune Responses: A Preclinical Trial in Animal Model

1. Sherif Salah
2. Abdula Mubarki
3. Khalid Zayed
4. Khaled Omar

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RAGE engagement by SARS-CoV-2 enables monocyte infection and underlies COVID-19 severity

1. Roberta Angioni
2. Matteo Bonfanti
3. Nicolò Caporale
4. Ricardo Sánchez-Rodríguez
5. Fabio Munari
6. Aurora Savino
7. Sebastiano Pasqualato
8. Damiano Buratto
9. Isabel Pagani
10. Nicole Bertoldi
11. Carlo Zanon
12. Paolo Ferrari
13. Eugenia Ricciardelli
14. Cristina Putaggio
15. Silvia Ghezzi
16. Francesco Elli
17. Luca Rotta
18. Alessandro Scardua
19. Janine Weber
20. Valentina Cecatiello
21. Francesco Iorio
22. Francesco Zonta
23. Anna Maria Cattelan
24. Elisa Vicenzi
25. Alessandro Vannini
26. Barbara Molon
27. Carlo Emanuele Villa
28. Antonella Viola
29. Giuseppe Testa

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