Tarke, Alison Sidney, John Kidd, Conner K Dan, Jennifer M Ramirez, Sydney I Yu, Esther Dawen Mateus, Jose da Silva Antunes, Ricardo Moore, Erin Rubiro, Paul
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T cells are involved in control of SARS-CoV-2 infection. To establish the patterns of immunodominance of different SARS-CoV-2 antigens and precisely measure virus-specific CD4+ and CD8+ T cells, we study epitope-specific T cell responses of 99 convalescent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) cases. The SARS-CoV-2 proteome is probed using 1,925 pept...
Tarke, Alison Sidney, John Kidd, Conner K. Dan, Jennifer M. Ramirez, Sydney I. Yu, Esther Dawen Mateus, Jose da Silva Antunes, Ricardo Moore, Erin Rubiro, Paul
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Cell Reports Medicine
Tarke et al. show a broad T cell repertoire, suggesting that viral escape of T cell immunity is unlikely. CD4 immunodominant regions correlate with HLA binding and not with high common cold coronavirus homology. RBD is poorly recognized by CD4s. Epitope pools can be used to optimize detection of T cell responses.
Fisher, Eva Padula, Laura Podack, Kristin O’Neill, Katelyn Seavey, Matthew M. Jayaraman, Padmini Jasuja, Rahul Strbo, Natasa
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Frontiers in Immunology
Given the aggressive spread of COVID-19-related deaths, there is an urgent public health need to support the development of vaccine candidates to rapidly improve the available control measures against SARS-CoV-2. To meet this need, we are leveraging our existing vaccine platform to target SARS-CoV-2. Here, we generated cellular heat shock chaperone...
Przybyla, Anna Lehmann, Alexander A. Zhang, Ting Mackiewicz, Jacek Galus, Łukasz Kirchenbaum, Greg A. Mackiewicz, Andrzej Lehmann, Paul V.
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Cancers
Simple Summary Healthy humans develop spontaneous CD8+ T cell responses to melanoma associated antigens (MA) expressed by normal melanocytes. This natural autoimmunity directed against melanocytes might confer protection against the development of malignant melanoma (MM), where MA are overexpressed tumor-associated antigens. We report that function...
Fuentes, Sigfredo Tongson, Eden Gonzalez Viejo, Claudia
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Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Climate change forecasts higher temperatures in urban environments worsening the urban heat island effect (UHI). Green infrastructure (GI) in cities could reduce the UHI by regulating and reducing ambient temperatures. Forest cities (i.e., Melbourne, Australia) aimed for large-scale planting of trees to adapt to climate change in the next decade. T...
Chen, Zihao Liu, Guojun Liu, Guoqing Bolkov, Mikhail A. Shinwari, Khyber Tuzankina, Irina A. Chereshnev, Valery A. Wang, Zhifeng
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Hereditas
Immunotherapy, especially anti-PD-1, is becoming a pillar of modern muscle-invasive bladder cancer (MIBC) treatment. However, the objective response rates (ORR) are relatively low due to the lack of precise biomarkers to select patients. Herein, the molecular subtype, tumor mutation burden (TMB), and CD8+ T cells were calculated by the gene express...
Behr, Felix M Beumer-Chuwonpad, Ammarina Kragten, Natasja A M Wesselink, Thomas H Stark, Regina van Gisbergen, Klaas P J M
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European journal of immunology
Tissue-resident memory CD8+ T cells (TRM ) localize to barrier tissues and mediate local protection against reinvading pathogens. Circulating central memory (TCM ) and effector memory CD8+ T cells (TEM ) also contribute to tissue recall responses, but their potential to form mucosal TRM remains unclear. Here, we employed adoptive transfer and lymph...
Wei, Zhengping Du, Qiuyang Li, Pingfei Liu, Huicheng Xia, Minghui Chen, Yufei Bi, Guoyu Tang, Zhao-Hui Cheng, Xiang Lu, Youming
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FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Appropriate migration of cytotoxic T effector cells into the tumors is crucial for their antitumor function. Despite the controversial role of PI3K-Akt in CD8+ T cell mTORC1 activation, a link between Akt-mTORC1 signaling and CD8+ trafficking has been demonstrated. We have recently discovered that TCR-induced calcineurin activates DAPK1, which inte...
Tedeschi, Valentina Paldino, Giorgia Paladini, Fabiana Mattorre, Benedetta Tuosto, Loretta Sorrentino, Rosa Fiorillo, Maria Teresa
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International journal of molecular sciences
The strong association with the Major Histocompatibility Complex (MHC) class I genes represents a shared trait for a group of autoimmune/autoinflammatory disorders having in common immunopathogenetic basis as well as clinical features. Accordingly, the main risk factors for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS), prototype of the Spondyloarthropathies (SpA), ...
Zhuang, Hongkai Zhou, Zixuan Zhang, Zedan Chen, Xinming Ma, Zuyi Huang, Shanzhou Gong, Yuanfeng Zhang, Chuanzhao Hou, Baohua
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Aging
Beta-1,3-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase 3 (B3GNT3) has been associated with tumor progression in several solid tumors, and inhibits CD8+ T cell-mediated anti-tumor immunity in breast cancer. However, little is known about the potential functions of B3GNT3 in immunosuppression in pancreatic cancer (PC). This study on B3GNT3 aims to provide novel in...