Complementarity and redundancy of the binding specificity of HLA-DRB1, -DRB3, -DRB4 and -DRB5 molecules.

abstract：:Intravenous immunoglobulin G (IVIg) therapy is widely used to treat autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Recent evidence suggests that in mice, splenic resident cells might be important for the anti-inflammatory activity of IVIg in a model of serum transfer arthritis. Splenectomized human immunothrombocytopenia (ITP)...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Schwab I,Biburger M,Krönke G,Schett G,Nimmerjahn F

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toll-like receptors (TLRs) are playing important roles in stimulating the innate immune response and intensifying adaptive immune response against invading pathogens. Appropriate regulation of TLR activation is important to maintain a balance between preventing tumor activation and inhibiting autoimmunity. Toll-like r...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Kim TW,Hong S,Talukder AH,Pascual V,Liu YJ

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the innate lymphoid cell (ILC) family have been implicated in the development of thymic microenvironments and the recovery of this architecture after damage. However, a detailed characterization of this family in the thymus is lacking. To better understand the thymic ILC compartment, we have utilized multip...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Jones R,Cosway EJ,Willis C,White AJ,Jenkinson WE,Fehling HJ,Anderson G,Withers DR

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are sentinels of the immune system, transporting antigens from the periphery to secondary lymphoid organs. This study investigates the interactions of DC with B cells for the induction of anti-viral neutralizing antibody responses. Using the vesicular stomatitis virus glycoprotein (VSV-G) as a mod...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Ludewig B,Maloy KJ,López-Macías C,Odermatt B,Hengartner H,Zinkernagel RM

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-encoded transporter associated with antigen processing (TAP) delivers cytosolic peptides to the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) for presentation by MHC class I molecules. For the rat, it has been demonstrated that TAP polymorphism results in the selection of different...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Obst R,Armandola EA,Nijenhuis M,Momburg F,Hämmerling GJ

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have established IgG rheumatoid factor (RF)-secreting hybridoma cell lines from the synovial tissues of three patients from whom we have previously characterized several IgM RF. The IgG RF bind human and rabbit IgG and form intracellular complement-fixing complexes indicative of a self association process in vivo. ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Randen I,Pascual V,Victor K,Thompson KM,Førre O,Capra JD,Natvig JB

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IL-12 is a potent inducer of IFN-gamma production and drives the development of Th1 cells. Human polarized Th2 cells do not express the signaling beta2-subunit of the IL-12R and, therefore, do not signal in response to IL-12. The question was raised as to what extent the loss of the IL-12Rbeta2 chain in Th2 cells has ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Smits HH,van Rietschoten JG,Hilkens CM,Sayilir R,Stiekema F,Kapsenberg ML,Wierenga EA

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leukosialin (CD43) is a major glycoprotein of T lymphocytes which has an extracellular domain of 45 nm in length that is heavily O-glycosylated. Monoclonal antibodies (mAb) to the extracellular domain of human leukosialin induce aggregation of T lymphocytes, monocytes and some cell lines that express leukosialin. The ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Cyster JG,Williams AF

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of the antibody repertoire in newborn mice is greatly influenced by idiotype network interactions. It has been demonstrated that anti-idiotypic antibodies either directly injected or transferred from the mother may alter the repertoire for life. For an elucidation of the underlying mechanisms we have a...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Lemke H,Lange H,Berek C

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasma cells secreting IgG, M, and A abound in the synovium of patients with rheumatoid arthritis, yet their immunoglobulin repertoire and clonal relationship remain to be elucidated. Locally synthesized immunoglobulins probably contribute to the chronic joint inflammatory processes which are characteristic of these p...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Williams DG,Taylor PC

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endoplasmic reticulum (ER) protein tapasin is essential for the loading of high-affinity peptides onto MHC class I molecules. It mediates peptide editing, i.e. the binding of peptides of successively higher affinity until class I molecules pass ER quality control and exit to the cell surface. The molecular mechani...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Praveen PV,Yaneva R,Kalbacher H,Springer S

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasticity and heterogeneity are hallmarks of myelomonocytic differentiation and polarized activation. Evidence published in this issue of the European Journal of Immunology, together with other recent data, add new elements and perspectives to the current understanding of mononuclear phagocyte differentiation and act...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Mantovani A,Sica A,Locati M

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of the ability of the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) to induce relapses of experimental allergic encephalomyelitis (EAE) in SJL mice that had partially or completely recovered from acute EAE. We find that a single injection of 0.05 mg SEB i.v. induces mild relapses in 50% of such mice...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Crisi GM,Santambrogio L,Hochwald GM,Smith SR,Carlino JA,Thorbecke GJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ab-restricted, H-Y-specific T cell clones from C57BL/6 mice were found to use predominantly V beta 6 T cell receptor genes, conferring Mls-1a reactivity. However, the expression of Mls-1a as a self antigen in (DBA/2 x C57BL/6)F1 mice did not turn these mice into nonresponders to H-Y. Instead of V beta 6, they used oth...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Frangoulis B,Pla M,Rammensee HG

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Natural killer (NK) cells in normal mouse spleen have so far been found to lack conventional cell surface markers. Recently, neuraminidase treatment has been shown to uncover receptors for the A hemagglutinin of the snail Helix pomatia (HP) on populations (preferentially T cells) of human blood lymphocytes. We have us...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Haller O,Gidlund M,Hellström U,Hammarström S,Wigzell H

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study reports on the earliest stages of mononuclear phagocyte differentiation. A crucial question in this developmental process is whether mature macrophage (M phi) heterogeneity is already appointed at the precursor cell level. For this purpose, we produced clonal populations of mononuclear phagocytes from bone ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Leenen PJ,Slieker WA,Melis M,Van Ewijk W

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T-cell activation and the subsequent transformation of activated T cells into T-cell blasts require profound changes in cell volume. However, the impact of cell volume regulation for T-cell immunology has not been characterized. Here we studied the role of the cell-volume regulating osmolyte transporter Taut for T-cel...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Kaesler S,Sobiesiak M,Kneilling M,Volz T,Kempf WE,Lang PA,Lang KS,Wieder T,Heller-Stilb B,Warskulat U,Häussinger D,Lang F,Biedermann T

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of HLA class II genes is under the control of a transcriptional activator, CIITA, encoded by the AIR-1 locus. Here we show that CIITA inhibits HIV-1 LTR transactivation mediated by Tat. The inhibition occurred when CIITA and Tat were transiently expressed in cells after transfection and, most importantl...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Accolla RS,Mazza S,De Lerma Barbaro A,De Maria A,Tosi G

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About one hundred immunologists recently met in Capo Caccia, Sardinia, for the first of three events that will comprise the EMBO Conference Series, organised by the ENII, on Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of Immune Regulation. The 2007 Conference focused on how immunity is shaped in healthy and diseased tissues. ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Borst J,Ricciardi-Castagnoli P

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hypersensitivity to nickel (Ni) represents the most common manifestation of contact allergy in humans. The role of metal-specific T cells in this disease is well established, but the molecular interactions involved in their activation are poorly understood. We examined the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire in T cells a...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Vollmer J,Fritz M,Dormoy A,Weltzien HU,Moulon C

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of naive T cells is tightly controlled and depends on cognate interactions with professional antigen-presenting cells. We analyzed dependency on secondary lymphoid tissues for the activation of naive and memory CD4(+) and CD8(+) T cells following primary and secondary Listeria monocytogenes infection, respe...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Kursar M,Jänner N,Pfeffer K,Brinkmann V,Kaufmann SH,Mittrücker HW

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We generated cell hybrids between mouse T cell lymphoma EL4 cells and mouse fibroblast B82 cells (BELIII and BELIV) to examine the expression of T cell receptor (TcR)/CD3 genes and their lymphoid-specific transcription factor genes, which are normally detected in EL4 cells. In BELIII and BELIV, expression of the TcR a...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Yamada T,Hitomi Y,Satake M,Oikawa T

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A small dose of the IgG1 fraction of anti-idiotypic antibody (aId1) raised in guinea pigs against a strain A/J antibody specific for streptococcal Group A carbohydrate sensitizes A/J mice against Group A streptococci. This is opposed to the previously established suppressive function of anti-idiotypic antibody of the ...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Eichmann K,Rajewsky K

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:F1----parental bone marrow chimeras between CBA and B10 mice were used to show that even after 1 year follicular dendritic cells (FDC), also termed dendritic reticular cells, are not derived from bone marrow stem cells. However clusters of cells wrapped in the dendritic processes of FDC, isolated by enzyme digestion o...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Humphrey JH,Grennan D,Sundaram V

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously shown, through transfection experiments, that the murine B7 (mB7) molecule, a ligand for the CD28 and CTLA-4 receptors, is a sufficient costimulatory signal for the antigen-specific and major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted activation of murine CD4+ T lymphocytes. In addition to mB7, ano...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Razi-Wolf Z,Falo LD Jr,Reiser H

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that in humans the germinal center reactions produce three types of V(D)J mutated B cells in similar proportions, i.e. Ig-switched, IgD-IgM+ (IgM-only) and IgD+IgM+ cells, and that together they form the CD27+ compartment of recirculating B cells. We investigated the Ig isotype switch capacit...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Werner-Favre C,Bovia F,Schneider P,Holler N,Barnet M,Kindler V,Tschopp J,Zubler RH

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptin, a protein produced by adipocytes, exerts several functions, including modulation of the immune response. A report in this issue of the European Journal of Immunology describes for the first time the effect of either leptin receptor deficiency or blockade on murine dendritic cell (DC) maturation, survival and f...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Fantuzzi G

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmacytoid dendritic cells (pDC) are specialized in massive production of type I interferons (IFN) upon viral infections. Activation of IFN regulatory factor (IRF)-7 is critically required for the synthesis of type I IFN in pDC. IRF-7 is highly expressed by resting pDC and translocates into the nucleus to initiate t...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Danis B,George TC,Goriely S,Dutta B,Renneson J,Gatto L,Fitzgerald-Bocarsly P,Marchant A,Goldman M,Willems F,De Wit D

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dendritic cells (DC) are known to support the activation of natural killer (NK) cells. However, little is known about the role for DC in NK-cell homeostasis. In order to investigate this question, a novel bacterial artificial chromosome transgenic mouse model was generated in which the diphtheria toxin receptor is exp...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Hochweller K,Striegler J,Hämmerling GJ,Garbi N

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of B cell tolerance to 2,4-dinitrophenyl conjugates of polysaccharide antigens (levan or dextran) was studied in mice primed with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) or 2,4,6-trinitrophenylated KLH. The relationship of the epitope density of the tolerogen with avidity of B cell receptors (as judged indirectl...

journal_title：European journal of immunology

authors： Desaymard C,Pearce B,Feldmann M

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00