David Usharauli

1/ 📢 A new study was recently published in Science Translational Medicine investigating antigen specificity in Treg-mediated suppression of effector T cells in a celiac model. 🔬🍞

#Foxp3
#Tregs
#celiac
#immunology
#science

science.org/doi/10.1126/scitra

David Usharauli

1/ 🧵 What is the TCR specificity of Foxp3+ Tregs? They're as diverse as conventional T cells, but very few antigen-specific Tregs have been described. This lack of specificity leads to many unfounded statements. Let's dive in. 🔬

#science
#Immunology
#Foxp3
#Tregs

David Usharauli

1/ Let's do a deep dive into the best research article on Foxp3+ Tregs this month (January 2025) and highlight its strengths and weaknesses.

#immunology
#Tregs
#allergy
#microbiota
#microbiome
#Foxp3

nature.com/articles/s41586-024

Thiago Carvalho

'We found that up-regulation of a primate-specific short isoform of PRDM1-S induces expression of SGK1 independent from the evolutionarily conserved long PRDM1, which led to destabilization of #FOXP3 & #Treg dysfunction. This aberrant PRDM1-S/SGK1 axis is shared among other autoimmune diseases.'
#Immunology
science.org/doi/10.1126/scitra

katch wreck

"Here, by comprehensively mapping 3D #chromatin organization during #Treg cell differentiation, we show that Treg-specific chromatin structures were progressively established during its lineage specification, and highly associated with Treg signature gene expression. Additionally, the binding sites of #Foxp3, a Treg lineage specifying #transcription factor, were highly enriched at Treg-specific chromatin loop anchors."

nature.com/articles/s41467-023

Thiago Carvalho

"Notably, TCR-M cells that were predifferentiated toward a regulatory phenotype in vitro maintained stable in vivo #FOXP3 (Forkhead box P3) expression and anti-inflammatory activity whereas #th17
partially converted toward a regulatory phenotype in the injured myocardium."

#immunology #Treg

ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI

The EMBO Journal

#BRD4-#PRC2 represses #transcription of T-helper 2-specific negative regulators during #Tcell #differentiation:
Brd4 interacts with #Polycomb repressive complex 2 (PRC2) to repress transcriptional expression of T-helper 2 (Th2)-negative regulators #Foxp3 and E3 #ubiqutin #ligase #Fbxw7 during lineage-specific differentiation of #Th2 cells from mouse primary naïve CD4+ T cells
embopress.org/doi/10.15252/emb