Mechanism of V(D)J recombination.

abstract：:Recent advances in the field of cellular therapy have focused on autologous T cells engineered to express a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) against tumor antigens. Remarkable responses have been observed in patients receiving autologous CD19-redirected T cells for the treatment of B-lymphoid malignancies. However, the...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Daher M,Rezvani K

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The past year has seen the publication of significant new findings on the regulation of CD23 expression, the precise interaction of CD23 with CD21 and its functional consequences. Moreover, new advances have been made in unravelling the biochemical network of events downstream from the triggering of CD23 in human B ce...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Bonnefoy JY,Lecoanet-Henchoz S,Aubry JP,Gauchat JF,Graber P

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T cell exhaustion represents a continuous spectrum of cellular dysfunction induced during chronic viral infection, facilitating viral persistence and associating with poor clinical outcome. Modulation of T cell exhaustion can restore function in exhausted CD8 T cells, promoting viral clearance. Exhaustion has also bee...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： McKinney EF,Smith KG

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infection with helminths has been associated with lower rates of asthma and other allergic diseases. This has been attributed, in part, to the ability of helminths to induce regulatory T cells that suppress inappropriate immune responses to allergens. Recent compelling evidence suggests that helminths may promote regu...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Logan J,Navarro S,Loukas A,Giacomin P

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Follicular helper T cells provide signals that promote B cell development, proliferation, and production of affinity matured and appropriately isotype switched antibodies. In addition to their classical locations within B cell follicles and germinal centers therein, B cell helper T cells are also found in extrafollicu...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Seth A,Craft J

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conceptually, a universal influenza vaccine should elicit broadly protective antibody responses targeting highly conserved epitope(s) shared by various virus strains. Strategically directing antibody immunity to the conserved hemagglutinin stalk has recently emerged as a promising approach that is substantiated by the...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Zhao C,Xu J

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triggers involved in the development of an autoimmune disease, and those that are part of determining its level of severity, are a major focus of current investigative efforts. However, factors that increase the risk to disease may not be similar to those that determine its severity or its pace of progression. The ary...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Veldhoen M,Duarte JH

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals are exposed to influenza viruses throughout their lifetime. Accumulating evidence shows the first viruses an individual is exposed to leaves an imprint on the antibody response induced by subsequent drifted and novel influenza viral exposures. Imprinted humoral immunity against influenza viruses relies on ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Guthmiller JJ,Wilson PC

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A marked increase in the susceptibility to cutaneous infections and malignancies has been observed in older humans indicating that cutaneous immunity becomes defective with age. In this review we will focus on recent developments in the understanding of age-related changes in immune function of the skin with a particu...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Vukmanovic-Stejic M,Rustin MH,Nikolich-Zugich J,Akbar AN

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triggering lymphocyte effector functions is controlled by a diverse array of immune cell coreceptors that dampen or potentiate the primary activation signal from antigen receptors. Attenuation of lymphocyte activation has been shown to be accomplished by immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motifs that upon phosph...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Engels N,Wienands J

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant insight has been gained into constraints on the sensitivity and specificity of staining with class I tetramers. The function of the populations that are defined varies with the clinical situation. Insight has also been gained into the determinants of the CD8(+) T cell response during primary and chronic HI...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Kelleher AD,Rowland-Jones SL

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathogenesis of Crohn's disease (CD) has remained an enigma for at least a century. There was considerable optimism that genetic linkage and genome-wide association (GWA) studies had identified genes causally responsible. However, the realisation that these genes make a relatively minor contribution to the develop...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sewell GW,Marks DJ,Segal AW

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strong skeleton relies on adaptation to varying physical demands and on maintenance of the bone tissue in order to avoid accumulation of micro-damage. In bone, the purinergic P2X7 ion channel receptor is expressed on both cells of the stromal lineage such as the bone forming osteoblasts and the mechano-sensing osteo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Jørgensen NR

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:B-cell antigen receptor (BCR) signals are crucial for initiation of humoral immune responses and must be actively modulated and/or terminated in preparation for receipt of subsequent cues for progression. BCR signaling is also actively inhibited in autoreactive cells in which unresponsiveness is maintained by anergy. ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Gauld SB,Merrell KT,Cambier JC

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast two-hybrid technique provides a general approach for cloning cDNAs merely by exploiting the ability of their encoded proteins to bind to a protein of interest. The technique therefore offered a useful access to the analysis of the mechanisms of cell death at the initial stage of their study, when only a few ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Wallach D,Boldin MP,Kovalenko AV,Malinin NL,Mett IL,Camonis JH

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fascinating recent discoveries have focused attention on the nonclassical class I molecules. They can exert their function at most levels of the immune response, being part of both innate and adaptive immune systems. They not only have specialized antigen-presentation functions but also play important immunoregulatory...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Braud VM,Allan DS,McMichael AJ

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of novel vaccine candidates against infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis has highlighted our limited understanding of immune mechanisms required to kill M. tuberculosis. The induction of a Th1 immunity is vital, but new studies are required to identify other mechanisms that may be necessary. Nove...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Izzo AA

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rational selection of individual adjuvants can often be made on the basis of innate molecular interactions of the foreign molecules with pattern recognition receptors such as Toll-like receptors. For example, monophosphoryl lipid A, a family of endotoxic TLR4 agonist molecules from bacteria, has recently been formulat...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Alving CR,Peachman KK,Rao M,Reed SG

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Asthma, one of the most common chronic diseases, is a complex and heterogeneous disorder. The results of genome screens for asthma-related traits in 11 different populations identified at least 18 regions of the genome that probably house asthma/atopy genes. The most consistently replicated regions are on chromosomes ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Hoffjan S,Ober C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptides presented by MHC class I molecules are typically produced through antigen degradation by the proteasome followed by trimming by exopeptidases. According to recent results, these include both aminopeptidases and carboxypeptidases in the cytosol and the endoplasmic reticulum. While cytosolic peptidases have a n...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Weimershaus M,Evnouchidou I,Saveanu L,van Endert P

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current models suggest that continuous antigenic stimulation of memory B cells is required to maintain long-term antibody production. In view of recent developments concerning plasma cell longevity, a new model is described that incorporates the important role of long-lived plasma cells in sustaining persistent antibo...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Slifka MK,Ahmed R

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invariant chain (Ii) has been shown to play a critical role in the assembly, intracellular transport and function of MHC class II molecules. Recent studies suggest that these distinct activities can in many cases be attributed to distinct isoforms of Ii or to specific regions within it. Thus, regulation of Ii synt...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sant AJ,Miller J

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The field of Type 1 diabetes research has been quick to embrace the era of translational medicine in the recent epoch. Building upon some 30 years of intense immunological research, the past decade has been marked by a series of clinical trials designed to evaluate the potential beneficial effects of a range of immune...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Roep BO,Peakman M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The challenge for any vaccine design is to elicit protective humoral and/or cytotoxic immunity against life threatening pathogens while remaining innocuous. Neonatal vaccinology faces additional challenges linked to intrinsic peculiarities of the innate and adaptive neonatal immune system. These include anti-inflammat...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Mohr E,Siegrist CA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Killer Ig-like receptors (KIRs) are surface inhibitory receptors specific for allelic forms of human leukocyte antigen (HLA) class I molecules, which are expressed by natural killer (NK) cells and a subset of T lymphocytes. Upon engagement with HLA class I molecules, KIRs block NK cell activation and function. Cells l...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Moretta L,Moretta A

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Basophils are important effector cells, which contribute to protection against helminths and execute proinflammatory effector function during allergic inflammation. Basophils are also regulators of Th2 responses in helminth-infected hosts and in allergen-injected animals. Recently, three groups using different experim...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Nakanishi K

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Precursor B cells assemble a diverse repertoire of immunoglobulin (Ig) genes by the process of V(D)J recombination. Assembly of IgH genes is regulated in a tissue- and stage-specific manner via the activation and then the inactivation of distinct regions within the one megabase IgH locus. Recent studies have shown tha...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Sen R,Oltz E

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While mutations in human FOXP3 predispose individuals to autoimmune conditions, it is unclear how the mutant protein fails to function as a transcriptional regulator. There is also limited detail of how FOXP3 itself interacts with the transcriptional machinery and which components of the FOXP3 ensembles exert phenotyp...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Li B,Saouaf SJ,Samanta A,Shen Y,Hancock WW,Greene MI

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steep rise in the incidence and prevalence of food allergy (FA) in the last few decades have focused attention of environmental mechanisms which act to promote disease, chief among which is the microbiome. Recent studies have now established the presence of pathogenic dysbiosis in FA that could be precipitated by ...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Stephen-Victor E,Chatila TA

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen-receptor engagement is a complex, highly orchestrated rearrangement of signaling molecules at, and adjacent to, the plasma membrane. Recent discoveries have shown that the plasma membrane itself is differentiated into microdomains of distinct lipid constituents and that the affiliation of lipid-modified protei...

journal_title：Current opinion in immunology

authors： Xavier R,Seed B

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00