The importance of dendritic cells in maintaining immune tolerance

C Audiger, MJ Rahman, TJ Yun, KV Tarbell… - The Journal of …, 2017 - journals.aai.org
Immune tolerance is necessary to prevent the immune system from reacting against self, and
thus to avoid the development of autoimmune diseases. In this review, we discuss key …

Redox regulation of m6A methyltransferase METTL3 in β-cells controls the innate immune response in type 1 diabetes

DF De Jesus, Z Zhang, NK Brown, X Li, L Xiao, J Hu… - Nature cell …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract Type 1 diabetes (T1D) is characterized by the destruction of pancreatic β-cells.
Several observations have renewed the interest in β-cell RNA sensors and editors. Here, we …

Inflammation versus regulation: how interferon-gamma contributes to type 1 diabetes pathogenesis

DJ De George, T Ge, B Krishnamurthy… - Frontiers in Cell and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease with onset from early childhood. The insulin-
producing pancreatic beta cells are destroyed by CD8+ cytotoxic T cells. The disease is …

[HTML][HTML] AIRE-deficient patients harbor unique high-affinity disease-ameliorating autoantibodies

S Meyer, M Woodward, C Hertel, P Vlaicu, Y Haque… - Cell, 2016 - cell.com
APS1/APECED patients are defined by defects in the autoimmune regulator (AIRE) that
mediates central T cell tolerance to many self-antigens. AIRE deficiency also affects B cell …

A type I interferon transcriptional signature precedes autoimmunity in children genetically at risk for type 1 diabetes

RC Ferreira, H Guo, RMR Coulson, DJ Smyth… - Diabetes, 2014 - Am Diabetes Assoc
Diagnosis of the autoimmune disease type 1 diabetes (T1D) is preceded by the appearance
of circulating autoantibodies to pancreatic islets. However, almost nothing is known about …

Single-cell RNA sequencing of murine islets shows high cellular complexity at all stages of autoimmune diabetes

PN Zakharov, H Hu, X Wan, ER Unanue - Journal of Experimental …, 2020 - rupress.org
Tissue-specific autoimmune diseases are driven by activation of diverse immune cells in the
target organs. However, the molecular signatures of immune cell populations over time in an …

Resident macrophages of pancreatic islets have a seminal role in the initiation of autoimmune diabetes of NOD mice

JA Carrero, DP McCarthy, ST Ferris… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Treatment of C57BL/6 or NOD mice with a monoclonal antibody to the CSF-1 receptor
resulted in depletion of the resident macrophages of pancreatic islets of Langerhans that …

Autoimmune CD4+ T cells fine-tune TCF1 expression to maintain function and survive persistent antigen exposure during diabetes

N Aljobaily, D Allard, B Perkins, A Raugh, T Galland… - Immunity, 2024 - cell.com
Self-reactive T cells experience chronic antigen exposure but do not exhibit signs of
exhaustion. Here, we investigated the mechanisms for sustained, functioning autoimmune …

[HTML][HTML] Abnormal neutrophil signature in the blood and pancreas of presymptomatic and symptomatic type 1 diabetes

F Vecchio, NL Buono, A Stabilini, L Nigi, MJ Dufort… - JCI insight, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND. Neutrophils and their inflammatory mediators are key pathogenic
components in multiple autoimmune diseases, while their role in human type 1 diabetes …

A minor subset of Batf3-dependent antigen-presenting cells in islets of Langerhans is essential for the development of autoimmune diabetes

ST Ferris, JA Carrero, JF Mohan, B Calderon… - Immunity, 2014 - cell.com
Autoimmune diabetes is characterized by inflammatory infiltration; however, the initiating
events are poorly understood. We found that the islets of Langerhans in young nonobese …