Germline Amino Acid Diversity in B Cell Receptors is a Good Predictor of Somatic Selection Pressures.

abstract：:Fibroblastic reticular cells (FRCs) are the specialized lymphoid stromal cells initially identified as triggering T-cell recruitment and dynamic motion in secondary lymphoid organs. Interestingly, FRCs also display antigen presentation capacities and support lymphocyte survival. CXCR5+CD4+ follicular T cells are impor...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Misiak J,Jean R,Rodriguez S,Deleurme L,Lamy T,Tarte K,Amé-Thomas P

更新日期：2020-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Platelets are anucleate blood cells that play a crucial role in the maintenance of hemostasis. While platelet activation and elevated platelet counts (thrombocytosis) are associated with increased risk of thrombotic complications, low platelet counts (thrombocytopenia) and several platelet function disorders increase ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Assinger A

更新日期：2014-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite continuous exposure and development of specific immunity, Staphylococcus aureus (Sa) remains one of the leading causes of severe infections worldwide. Although innate immune defense mechanisms are well understood, the role of the T cell response has not been fully elucidated. Here, we demonstrate that Sa and o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Uebele J,Habenicht K,Ticha O,Bekeredjian-Ding I

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) exert immunosuppressive effects on immune cells including dendritic cells (DCs). However, many details of the bidirectional interaction of MSCs with DCs are still unsolved and information on key molecules by which DCs can modulate MSC functions is limited. Here, we report that osteopon...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Scutera S,Salvi V,Lorenzi L,Piersigilli G,Lonardi S,Alotto D,Casarin S,Castagnoli C,Dander E,D'Amico G,Sozzani S,Musso T

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy chain-only antibodies (HCAbs) do not associate with light chains and their VH regions are functional as single domains, forming the smallest active antibody fragment. These VH regions are ideal building blocks for a variety of antibody-based biologics because they tolerate fusion to other molecules and may also ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Clarke SC,Ma B,Trinklein ND,Schellenberger U,Osborn MJ,Ouisse LH,Boudreau A,Davison LM,Harris KE,Ugamraj HS,Balasubramani A,Dang KH,Jorgensen B,Ogana HAN,Pham DT,Pratap PP,Sankaran P,Anegon I,van Schooten WC,Brüggem

更新日期：2019-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterial infections are major causes of morbidity and mortality in cattle and are also potential zoonotic agents with implications for human health. Despite the implementation of comprehensive animal surveillance programs, many mycobacterial diseases have remained recalcitrant to eradication in several industrial...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rue-Albrecht K,Magee DA,Killick KE,Nalpas NC,Gordon SV,MacHugh DE

更新日期：2014-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Selenium (Se) levels decrease in the circulation during acute inflammatory states and sepsis, and are inversely associated with morbidity and mortality. A more specific understanding of where selenoproteins and Se processing are compromised during insult is needed. We investigated the acute signaling respons...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sherlock LG,Sjostrom K,Sian L,Delaney C,Tipple TE,Krebs NF,Nozik-Grayck E,Wright CJ

更新日期：2020-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus infection causes 3-5 million cases of severe illness and 250,000-500,000 deaths worldwide annually. Although pneumonia is the most common complication associated with influenza, there are several reports demonstrating increased risk for cardiovascular diseases. Several clinical case reports, as well as...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Gopal R,Marinelli MA,Alcorn JF

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of the ferroportin-hepcidin complex has led to a critical review on the treatment of anemia and anemia of inflammation (AI). Ferroportin, the only known mammalian iron exporter from cells to blood, is negatively regulated by hepcidin, a hormone peptide able to bind to ferroportin, leading to its degradat...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Lepanto MS,Rosa L,Cutone A,Conte MP,Paesano R,Valenti P

更新日期：2018-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Monoclonal antibodies have revolutionized cancer therapy. However, delivery to tumor cells in vivo is hampered by the large size (150 kDa) of conventional antibodies. The minimal target recognition module of a conventional antibody is composed of two non-covalently associated variable domains (VH and VL). The proper o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bannas P,Hambach J,Koch-Nolte F

更新日期：2017-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous group of neurodevelopmental disorders, only clinically diagnosed since the lack of reliable biomarkers. Autism etiology is probably attributable to the combination of genetic vulnerability and environmental factors, and recently, maternal immune activation has been...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Balestrieri E,Cipriani C,Matteucci C,Benvenuto A,Coniglio A,Argaw-Denboba A,Toschi N,Bucci I,Miele MT,Grelli S,Curatolo P,Sinibaldi-Vallebona P

更新日期：2019-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Fc γ receptors (FcγR) expressed on the surface of human leukocytes bind clusters of immunoglobulin G (IgG) to induce a variety of responses. Many therapeutic antibodies and vaccine-elicited antibodies prevent or treat infectious diseases, cancers and autoimmune disorders by binding FcγRs, thus there is a need to fully...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Patel KR,Roberts JT,Barb AW

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) is a heterogeneous hyperinflammatory syndrome with different pathways of pathogenesis resulting in similar clinical presentations. It is best defined and understood if presenting in the context of genetic immunodeficiencies associated with defects of lymphocyte cytotoxicity. In...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wegehaupt O,Wustrau K,Lehmberg K,Ehl S

更新日期：2020-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI) is linked with inflammation in kidney transplantation (ktx). The chemokine CXCL13, also known as B lymphocyte chemoattractant, mediates recruitment of B cells within follicles of lymphoid tissues and has recently been identified as a biomarker for acute kidney allograft rejection. The...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kreimann K,Jang MS,Rong S,Greite R,von Vietinghoff S,Schmitt R,Bräsen JH,Schiffer L,Gerstenberg J,Vijayan V,Dittrich-Breiholz O,Wang L,Karsten CM,Gwinner W,Haller H,Immenschuh S,Gueler F

更新日期：2020-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Maternal immune activation (MIA) caused by exposure to pathogens or inflammation during critical periods of neurodevelopment is a major risk factor for behavioral deficits and psychiatric illness in offspring. A spectrum of behavioral abnormalities can be recapitulated in rodents by inducing MIA using the viral mimeti...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Baines KJ,Hillier DM,Haddad FL,Rajakumar N,Schmid S,Renaud SJ

更新日期：2020-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Th17/T-regulatory (Treg) cell imbalance is involved in the occurrence and development of organ inflammation in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Metabolic pathways can regulate T cell differentiation and function, thus contributing to SLE inflammation. Increasingly, data have shown metabolism influences and repr...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Shan J,Jin H,Xu Y

更新日期：2020-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Donor-specific blood transfusion (DST) can lead to significant prolongation of allograft survival in experimental animal models and sometimes human recipients of solid organs. The mechanisms responsible for the beneficial effect on graft survival have been a topic of research and debate for decades and are not yet ful...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mohr Gregoriussen AM,Bohr HG

更新日期：2017-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to the global burden of liver disease there has been a commensurate increase in the demand for liver transplantation. However, due to a paucity of donor organs many centers have moved toward the routine use of marginal allografts, which can be associated with a greater risk of complications and poorer clin...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Owen A,Newsome PN

更新日期：2020-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：:COVID-19 is a global pandemic currently in an acute phase of rapid expansion. While public health measures remain the most effective protection strategy at this stage, when the peak passes, it will leave in its wake important health problems. Historically, very few viruses have ever been eradicated. Instead, the virus...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sviridov D,Miller YI,Ballout RA,Remaley AT,Bukrinsky M

更新日期：2020-09-29 00:00:00

abstract：:SARS-CoV-2 is a novel coronavirus, not encountered before by humans. The wide spectrum of clinical expression of SARS-CoV-2 illness suggests that individual immune responses to SARS-CoV-2 play a crucial role in determining the clinical course after first infection. Immunological studies have focused on patients with m...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Carsetti R,Zaffina S,Piano Mortari E,Terreri S,Corrente F,Capponi C,Palomba P,Mirabella M,Cascioli S,Palange P,Cuccaro I,Milito C,Zumla A,Maeurer M,Camisa V,Vinci MR,Santoro A,Cimini E,Marchioni L,Nicastri E,Palmi

更新日期：2020-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The human bone marrow (BM) gives rise to all distinct blood cell lineages, including CD1c+ (cDC2) and CD141+ (cDC1) myeloid dendritic cells (DC) and monocytes. These cell subsets are also present in peripheral blood (PB) and lymphoid tissues. However, the difference between the BM and PB compartment in terms of differ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： van Leeuwen-Kerkhoff N,Lundberg K,Westers TM,Kordasti S,Bontkes HJ,Lindstedt M,de Gruijl TD,van de Loosdrecht AA

更新日期：2018-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Developing lymphocytes express the recombination activating genes (RAGs) 1 and 2 products that form a site specific recombinase complex (RAG), introducing double strand DNA breaks (DSBs) at recombination signal sequences (RSSs) flanking the V, D, and J gene segments in the antigen receptor loci. The subsequent steps i...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bonnet M,Sarmento LM,Martins AC,Sobral D,Silva J,Demengeot J

更新日期：2017-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy is highly effective in the treatment of B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) or B-cell lymphoma, providing alternative therapeutic options for patients who failed to respond to conventional treatment or relapse. Moreover, it can bridge other therapeutic strategies an...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Xu X,Sun Q,Liang X,Chen Z,Zhang X,Zhou X,Li M,Tu H,Liu Y,Tu S,Li Y

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Ageing, like obesity, is often associated with alterations in metabolic and inflammatory processes resulting in morbidity from diseases characterised by poor metabolic control, insulin insensitivity, and inflammation. Ageing populations also exhibit a decline in immune competence referred to as immunosenescence, which...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Trim W,Turner JE,Thompson D

更新日期：2018-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Leprosy, a disease caused by the intracellular parasite Mycobacterium leprae or Mycobacterium lepromatosis, has affected humans for more than 4,000 years and is a stigmatized disease even now. Since clinical manifestations of leprosy patients present as an immune-related spectrum, leprosy is regarded as an ideal model...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Mi Z,Liu H,Zhang F

更新日期：2020-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Allergies and asthma are a major cause of chronic disease whose prevalence has been on the rise. Allergic disease including seasonal rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, urticaria, anaphylaxis, and asthma, are associated with activation of tissue-resident mast cells and circulating basophils. Although these cells can be activ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Gomez G

更新日期：2019-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The scavenger receptor SR-F1 binds to and mediates the internalization of a wide range of ligands, and is involved in several immunological processes. We produced recombinant SR-F1 ectodomain and fragments deleted from the last 2 or 5 C-terminal epidermal growth factor-like modules and investigated their role in the b...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Wicker-Planquart C,Dufour S,Tacnet-Delorme P,Bally I,Delneste Y,Frachet P,Housset D,Thielens NM

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Multiple Myeloma (MM) is a hematological cancer characterized by proliferation of malignant plasma cells in the bone marrow (BM). MM represents the second most frequent hematological malignancy, accounting 1% of all cancer and 13% of hematological tumors, with ~9,000 new cases per year. Patients with monoclonal gammop...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Morandi F,Horenstein AL,Costa F,Giuliani N,Pistoia V,Malavasi F

更新日期：2018-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooperation between the innate and adaptive immune responses is critical for enabling protective immunity against various invading microbes. Distinct types of effector T cells have different functions in adaptive immune responses. Th1 cells play important roles in the control of intracellular bacteria by producing IFN...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Koyasu S,Moro K

更新日期：2012-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A balance between co-inhibitory and co-stimulatory signals in the tumor microenvironment (TME) is critical to suppress tumor development and progression, primarily via maintaining effective immunosurveillance. Aberrant expression of immune checkpoints (ICs), including programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1), cytotoxic ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Saleh R,Toor SM,Sasidharan Nair V,Elkord E

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00