T cells in health and disease

L Sun, Y Su, A Jiao, X Wang, B Zhang - Signal transduction and …, 2023 - nature.com
T cells are crucial for immune functions to maintain health and prevent disease. T cell
development occurs in a stepwise process in the thymus and mainly generates CD4+ and …

IL-17 and IL-17-producing cells in protection versus pathology

KHG Mills - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
IL-17 cytokine family members have diverse biological functions, promoting protective
immunity against many pathogens but also driving inflammatory pathology during infection …

Targeted suppression of human IBD-associated gut microbiota commensals by phage consortia for treatment of intestinal inflammation

S Federici, S Kredo-Russo, R Valdés-Mas… - Cell, 2022 - cell.com
Human gut commensals are increasingly suggested to impact non-communicable diseases,
such as inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD), yet their targeted suppression remains a …

ILC3s select microbiota-specific regulatory T cells to establish tolerance in the gut

M Lyu, H Suzuki, L Kang, F Gaspal, W Zhou, J Goc… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Microbial colonization of the mammalian intestine elicits inflammatory or tolerogenic T cell
responses, but the mechanisms controlling these distinct outcomes remain poorly …

Metabolic support of tumour-infiltrating regulatory T cells by lactic acid

MLJ Watson, PDA Vignali, SJ Mullett… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Regulatory T (Treg) cells, although vital for immune homeostasis, also represent a major
barrier to anti-cancer immunity, as the tumour microenvironment (TME) promotes the …

Early-life interactions between the microbiota and immune system: impact on immune system development and atopic disease

K Donald, BB Finlay - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2023 - nature.com
Prenatal and early postnatal life represent key periods of immune system development. In
addition to genetics and host biology, environment has a large and irreversible role in the …

Microbial bile acid metabolites modulate gut RORγ+ regulatory T cell homeostasis

X Song, X Sun, SF Oh, M Wu, Y Zhang, W Zheng… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The metabolic pathways encoded by the human gut microbiome constantly interact with host
gene products through numerous bioactive molecules. Primary bile acids (BAs) are …

Control of immunity by the microbiota

E Ansaldo, TK Farley, Y Belkaid - Annual review of immunology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The immune system has coevolved with extensive microbial communities living on barrier
sites that are collectively known as the microbiota. It is increasingly clear that microbial …

The gut microbiota promotes distal tissue regeneration via RORγ+ regulatory T cell emissaries

BS Hanna, G Wang, S Galván-Peña, AO Mann… - Immunity, 2023 - cell.com
Specific microbial signals induce the differentiation of a distinct pool of RORγ+ regulatory T
(Treg) cells crucial for intestinal homeostasis. We discovered highly analogous populations …

Treg heterogeneity, function, and homeostasis

D Shevyrev, V Tereshchenko - Frontiers in immunology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
T-regulatory cells (Tregs) represent a unique subpopulation of helper T-cells by maintaining
immune equilibrium using various mechanisms. The role of T-cell receptors (TCR) in …