Functionally Convergent B Cell Receptor Sequences in Transgenic Rats Expressing a Human B Cell Repertoire in Response to Tetanus Toxoid and Measles Antigens.

abstract：:Vaccination is one of the most cost-effective health interventions and, with the exception of water sanitization, no other action has had such a major effect in mortality reduction. Combined with other approaches, such as clean water, better hygiene, and health education, vaccination contributed to prevent millions of...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Vo HTM,Baudner BC,Sammicheli S,Iannacone M,D'Oro U,Piccioli D

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ebola virus (EBOV) epidemic indicated a great need for prophylactic and therapeutic strategies. The use of plants for the production of biopharmaceuticals is a concept being adopted by the pharmaceutical industry, with an enzyme for human use currently commercialized since 2012 and some plant-based vaccines close ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Rosales-Mendoza S,Nieto-Gómez R,Angulo C

更新日期：2017-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacteria display pro- and anti-inflammatory effects in human and experimental pathology. We show here that both effects are mediated by Toll-like receptor 2 (Tlr2), by exploiting a previously characterized Tlr2 variant (Met82Ile). Tlr2 82ile promoted self-specific proinflammatory polarization as well as expansion ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Piermattei A,Migliara G,Di Sante G,Foti M,Hayrabedyan SB,Papagna A,Geloso MC,Corbi M,Valentini M,Sgambato A,Delogu G,Constantin G,Ria F

更新日期：2016-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of CD4(+)CD25(+)Foxp3(+) regulatory T-cells (Tregs) on cancer progression has been demonstrated in a large number of preclinical models and confirmed in several types of malignancies. Neoplastic processes trigger an increase of Treg numbers in draining lymph nodes, spleen, blood, and tumors, leading to t...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Darrasse-Jèze G,Podsypanina K

更新日期：2013-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-presentation of endocytosed antigen as peptide/class I major histocompatibility complex complexes plays a central role in the elicitation of CD8(+) T cell clones that mediate anti-viral and anti-tumor immune responses. While it has been clear that there are specific subsets of professional antigen presenting cel...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Compeer EB,Flinsenberg TW,van der Grein SG,Boes M

更新日期：2012-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome (aHUS) is a rare disease characterized by microangiopathic hemolytic anemia, thrombocytopenia and renal failure. It is caused by genetic or acquired defects of the complement alternative pathway. Factor H autoantibodies (anti-FHs) have been reported in 10% of aHUS patients and are as...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Valoti E,Alberti M,Iatropoulos P,Piras R,Mele C,Breno M,Cremaschi A,Bresin E,Donadelli R,Alizzi S,Amoroso A,Benigni A,Remuzzi G,Noris M

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Every human possesses millions of distinct antibodies. It is now possible to analyze this diversity via next-generation sequencing of immunoglobulin genes (Ig-seq). This technique produces large volume sequence snapshots of B-cell receptors that are indicative of the antibody repertoire. In this paper, we enrich these...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Krawczyk K,Kelm S,Kovaltsuk A,Galson JD,Kelly D,Trück J,Regep C,Leem J,Wong WK,Nowak J,Snowden J,Wright M,Starkie L,Scott-Tucker A,Shi J,Deane CM

更新日期：2018-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DCs) are specialized antigen presenting cells that are exquisitely adapted to sense pathogens and induce the development of adaptive immune responses. They form a complex network of phenotypically and functionally distinct subsets. Within this network, individual DC subsets display highly specific rol...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Chopin M,Allan RS,Belz GT

更新日期：2012-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibodies can rapidly evolve in specific response to antigens. Affinity maturation drives this evolution through cycles of mutation and selection leading to enhanced antibody specificity and affinity. Elucidating the biophysical mechanisms that underlie affinity maturation is fundamental to understanding B-cell immun...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Jeliazkov JR,Sljoka A,Kuroda D,Tsuchimura N,Katoh N,Tsumoto K,Gray JJ

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing number of diseases in humans, including trauma, certain cancers, and infection, are known to be associated with l-arginine deficiency. In addition, l-arginine must be supplemented by diet during pregnancy to aid fetal development. In conditions of l-arginine depletion, T cell proliferation is impaired. We ha...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Yu HR,Tsai CC,Chang LS,Huang HC,Cheng HH,Wang JY,Sheen JM,Kuo HC,Hsieh KS,Huang YH,Yang KD,Hsu TY

更新日期：2017-04-25 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

abstract：:Impairment or stimulation of the immune system by ionizing radiation (IR) impacts on immune surveillance of tumor cells and non-malignant cells and can either foster therapy response or side effects/toxicities of radiation therapy. For a better understanding of the mechanisms by which IR modulates T-cell activation an...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Voos P,Fuck S,Weipert F,Babel L,Tandl D,Meckel T,Hehlgans S,Fournier C,Moroni A,Rödel F,Thiel G

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the past two decades, heat shock proteins (HSPs) have been implicated in inflammatory responses and autoimmunity. HSPs were originally believed to maintain protein quality control in the cytosol. However, they also exist extracellularly and appear to act as inflammatory factors. Recently, a growing body of eviden...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Morito D,Nagata K

更新日期：2012-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal ischemia reperfusion injury (IRI), a common event after renal transplantation, causes acute kidney injury (AKI), increases the risk of delayed graft function (DGF), primes the donor kidney for rejection, and contributes to the long-term risk of graft loss. In the last decade, epidemiological studies have linked ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Tammaro A,Kers J,Scantlebery AML,Florquin S

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapy has been proved effective in a stream of clinical trials, especially in hematologic malignancies. However, current CAR therapy is highly personalized as cells used are derived from patients themselves, which can be costly, time-consuming, and sometimes fails to achieve optimal t...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Zhang Y,Li P,Fang H,Wang G,Zeng X

更新日期：2020-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Major trauma-induced tissue injury causes a dysregulation of the immune system. Severe systemic inflammation occurs early after the insult. Later on, an enhanced risk for life-threatening opportunistic infections develops that culminates at the end of the first week after trauma. CD56bright Natural killer (NK) cells p...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Bösken B,Hepner-Schefczyk M,Vonderhagen S,Dudda M,Flohé SB

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, the chemokine receptor XCR1 has been found to be exclusively expressed on a subset of dendritic cell (DC) known to be involved in antigen cross-presentation. This review aims to summarize the known biology of the XCR1 receptor and its chemokine ligand XCL1, both in the mouse and the human. Further, any invol...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kroczek RA,Henn V

更新日期：2012-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Defensins represents an integral part of the innate immune system serving to ward off potential pathogens and to protect the intestinal barrier from microbial encroachment. In addition to their antimicrobial activities, defensins in general, and human β-defensin 2 (hBD2) in particular, also exhibit immunomodulatory ca...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Koeninger L,Armbruster NS,Brinch KS,Kjaerulf S,Andersen B,Langnau C,Autenrieth SE,Schneidawind D,Stange EF,Malek NP,Nordkild P,Jensen BAH,Wehkamp J

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Food allergy is an atopic disease that is caused by the immune system targeting harmless food antigens that can result in life-threatening anaphylaxis. As humans and microbes have co-evolved, inevitably commensal microbes have a tremendous impact on our health. As such, the gut with its enormous microbial richness ref...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Kreft L,Hoffmann C,Ohnmacht C

更新日期：2020-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Serotype-specific antibody responses to unconjugated pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine (PPV) evaluated by a World Health Organization (WHO)-standardized enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) are the gold standard for diagnosis of specific polysaccharide antibody deficiency (SAD). The American Academy o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Schaballie H,Bosch B,Schrijvers R,Proesmans M,De Boeck K,Boon MN,Vermeulen F,Lorent N,Dillaerts D,Frans G,Moens L,Derdelinckx I,Peetermans W,Kantsø B,Jørgensen CS,Emonds MP,Bossuyt X,Meyts I

更新日期：2017-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:An important challenge in cancer immunotherapy is to expand the number of patients that benefit from immune checkpoint inhibitors (CI), a fact that has been related to the pre-existence of an efficient anti-tumor immune response. Different strategies are being proposed to promote tumor immunity and to be used in combi...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Roselli E,Araya P,Núñez NG,Gatti G,Graziano F,Sedlik C,Benaroch P,Piaggio E,Maccioni M

更新日期：2019-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterologous immunity (H.I.) is a consequence of an encounter with a specific antigen, which can alter the subsequent immune response to a different antigen. This can happen at the innate immune system level-often called trained immunity or innate immune memory-and/or at the adaptive immune system level involving T me...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Balz K,Trassl L,Härtel V,Nelson PP,Skevaki C

更新日期：2020-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Most patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) exhibit an indolent disease course and unresponsive B cell receptors (BCRs) exemplified by an anergic phenotype of their leukemic cells. In up to 5% of patients, CLL transforms from an indolent subtype to an aggressive form of B cell lymphoma (Richter's syndrome), ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Märklin M,Fuchs AR,Tandler C,Heitmann JS,Salih HR,Kauer J,Quintanilla-Martinez L,Wirths S,Kopp HG,Müller MR

更新日期：2020-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The complement system plays critical roles in development, homeostasis, and regeneration in the central nervous system (CNS) throughout life; however, complement dysregulation in the CNS can lead to damage and disease. Complement proteins, regulators, and receptors are widely expressed throughout the CNS and, in many ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Carpanini SM,Torvell M,Morgan BP

更新日期：2019-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and other severe non-SCID primary immunodeficiencies (non-SCID PID) can be treated by allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplantation, but when histocompatibility leukocyte antigen-matched donors are lacking, this can be a high-risk procedure. Correcting the patient's o...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Ott de Bruin LM,Volpi S,Musunuru K

更新日期：2015-05-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Dengue is considered the most important emerging, human arboviruses, with worldwide distribution in the tropics. Unfortunately, there are no licensed dengue vaccines available or specific anti-viral drugs. The development of a dengue vaccine faces unique challenges. The four serotypes co-circulate in endemic areas, an...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Sariol CA,White LJ

更新日期：2014-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Human rotavirus remains a major cause of gastroenteritis worldwide despite the availability of effective vaccines. In this study, we investigated the genetic diversity of rotaviruses circulating in Lebanon. We genetically characterized the VP4 and VP7 genes encoding the outer capsid proteins of 132 rotavirus-associate...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Harastani HH,Reslan L,Sabra A,Ali Z,Hammadi M,Ghanem S,Hajar F,Matar GM,Dbaibo GS,Zaraket H

更新日期：2020-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolonged low-grade inflammation or smoldering inflammation is a hallmark of cancer. Mast cells form a heterogeneous population of immune cells with differences in their ultra-structure, morphology, mediator content, and surface receptors. Mast cells are widely distributed throughout all tissues and are stromal compon...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Varricchi G,Galdiero MR,Loffredo S,Marone G,Iannone R,Marone G,Granata F

更新日期：2017-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Elimination of potential self-reactive T cells in the thymus is crucial for preventing the onset of autoimmune diseases. Epithelial cell subsets localized in thymic medulla [medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs)] contribute to this process by supplying a wide range of self-antigens that are otherwise expressed in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Akiyama T,Shinzawa M,Qin J,Akiyama N

更新日期：2013-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-engineered T cells represent a breakthrough in personalized medicine. In this strategy, a patient's own T lymphocytes are genetically reprogrammed to encode a synthetic receptor that binds a tumor antigen, allowing T cells to recognize and kill antigen-expressing cancer cells. As a resu...

journal_title：Frontiers in immunology

authors： Long KB,Young RM,Boesteanu AC,Davis MM,Melenhorst JJ,Lacey SF,DeGaramo DA,Levine BL,Fraietta JA

更新日期：2018-12-03 00:00:00