Clonal haematopoiesis and dysregulation of the immune system

R Belizaire, WJ Wong, ML Robinette… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Age-related diseases are frequently linked to pathological immune dysfunction, including
excessive inflammation, autoreactivity and immunodeficiency. Recent analyses of human …

Challenges and new technologies in adoptive cell therapy

P Zhang, G Zhang, X Wan - Journal of Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Adoptive cell therapies (ACTs) have existed for decades. From the initial infusion of tumor-
infiltrating lymphocytes to the subsequent specific enhanced T cell receptor (TCR)-T and …

Harnessing the plasticity of CD4+ T cells to treat immune-mediated disease

M DuPage, JA Bluestone - Nature Reviews Immunology, 2016 - nature.com
CD4+ T cells differentiate and acquire distinct functions to combat specific pathogens but
can also adapt their functions in response to changing circumstances. Although this …

Epigenetics and allergy: from basic mechanisms to clinical applications

DP Potaczek, H Harb, S Michel, BA Alhamwe… - …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
Allergic diseases are on the rise in the Western world and well-known allergy-protecting and-
driving factors such as microbial and dietary exposure, pollution and smoking mediate their …

Improving CAR T-cell persistence

V Pietrobon, LA Todd, A Goswami, O Stefanson… - International journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Over the last decade remarkable progress has been made in enhancing the efficacy of CAR
T therapies. However, the clinical benefits are still limited, especially in solid tumors. Even in …

The chromatin-modifying enzyme Ezh2 is critical for the maintenance of regulatory T cell identity after activation

M DuPage, G Chopra, J Quiros, WL Rosenthal… - Immunity, 2015 - cell.com
Regulatory T cells (Treg cells) are required for immune homeostasis. Chromatin remodeling
is essential for establishing diverse cellular identities, but how the epigenetic program in …

Antigen receptor control of methionine metabolism in T cells

LV Sinclair, AJM Howden, A Brenes, L Spinelli… - Elife, 2019 - elifesciences.org
Immune activated T lymphocytes modulate the activity of key metabolic pathways to support
the transcriptional reprograming and reshaping of cell proteomes that permits effector T cell …

The polycomb protein Ezh2 regulates differentiation and plasticity of CD4+ T helper type 1 and type 2 cells

DJ Tumes, A Onodera, A Suzuki, K Shinoda, Y Endo… - Immunity, 2013 - cell.com
After antigen encounter by CD4+ T cells, polarizing cytokines induce the expression of
master regulators that control differentiation. Inactivation of the histone methyltransferase …

Role of methylation in pro-and anti-cancer immunity

A Mehdi, SA Rabbani - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Epigenetic mechanisms including methylation play an essential role in
regulating gene expression not only in cancer cells but also in immune cells. Although role …

Epigenetic mechanisms regulating T-cell responses

C Schmidl, M Delacher, J Huehn, M Feuerer - Journal of Allergy and …, 2018 - Elsevier
During the last decade, advances in sequencing technologies allowed production of a
wealth of information on epigenetic modifications in T cells. Epigenome maps, in …