Human Immunology News Volume 9.10 | Mar 16 2021

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    Vol. 9.10 – 16 March, 2021
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    Tumor and Immune Reprogramming during Immunotherapy in Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma

    The authors characterized the single-cell transcriptomes of cancer and immune cells from metastatic renal cell carcinoma patients before or after immune checkpoint blockade exposure.
    [Cancer Cell]

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    Single-Cell Analysis by Mass Cytometry Reveals Metabolic States of Early-Activated CD8+ T Cells during the Primary Immune Response

    To understand the metabolic state of rare, early-activated T cells, scientists adapted mass cytometry to quantify metabolic regulators at single-cell resolution in parallel with cell signaling, proliferation, and effector function.
    [Immunity]

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    TCR β Chain–Directed Bispecific Antibodies for the Treatment of T Cell Cancers

    Investigators describe an approach to target T cell cancers through T cell receptor (TCR) antigens. Each T cell, normal or malignant, expressed a unique TCR β chain generated from 1 of 30 TCR β chain variable gene families.
    [Science Translational Medicine]

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    Circulating Mucosal-Associated Invariant T Cells Identify Patients Responding to Anti-PD-1 Therapy

    Scientists combined single-cell RNA-sequencing and multiparameter flow cytometry to assess changes in circulating CD8+ T cells in 28 patients with metastatic melanoma starting anti-PD-1 therapy.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Tumor Methionine Metabolism Drives T-cell Exhaustion in Hepatocellular Carcinoma

    The authors found T-cell exhaustion linked to overall survival in 675 hepatocellular carcinoma patients with diverse ethnicities and etiologies.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Characterization of a Natural Variant of Human NDP52 and Its Functional Consequences on Mitophagy

    Researchers qualitatively and quantitatively studied the main players in PINK1-mediated mitophagy in peripheral blood mononuclear cells of patients with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis.
    [Cell Death & Differentiation]

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    Placenta-Derived IL-32β Activates Neutrophils to Promote Preeclampsia Development

    Researchers demonstrated that interleukin-32 (IL-32) expression was significantly upregulated in syncytiotrophoblasts and that IL-32β was the major isoform with increased expression in the placenta of severe preeclampsia patients.
    [Cellular & Molecular Immunology]

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    Identification of Human Immune Cell Subtypes Most Responsive to IL-1β–Induced Inflammatory Signaling Using Mass Cytometry

    Researchers identified effector memory CD4+ T cells and CD4CD8low/-CD161+ T cells, specifically those positive for the chemokine receptor CCR6, as the circulating immune subtypes with the greatest response to IL-1β.
    [Science Signaling]

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    Protectin DX Restores Treg/Th17 Cell Balance in Rheumatoid Arthritis by Inhibiting NLRP3 Inflammasome via miR-20a

    Nucleotide-binding domain–like receptor protein 3 (NLRP3) knockout and rescue experiments demonstrated that NLRP3 participated in protectin DX-mediated Treg/Th17 cell balance restoration, joint injury amelioration and inflammatory-response attenuation using Nlrp3-/- mice.
    [Cell Death & Disease]

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    The PI3K∂-Selective Inhibitor Idelalisib Induces T- and NK-Cell Dysfunction Independently of B-Cell Malignancy-Associated Immunosuppression

    PI3K∂ blockade by idelalisib reduced the expression levels of inhibitory checkpoint molecules in T cells isolated from both healthy donors and chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients.
    [Frontiers in Immunology]

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    Personalized Cancer Vaccine Strategy Elicits Polyfunctional T Cells and Demonstrates Clinical Benefits in Ovarian Cancer

    Scientists hypothesized that adding acetylsalicylic acid and low-dose interleukin-2 would increase the vaccine efficacy in a recurrent advanced ovarian cancer Phase I trial.
    [npj Vaccines]

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    Ex Vivo Characterization of Breg Cells in Patients with Chronic Chagas Disease

    Researchers studied the proportion of different B cell subsets and their capacity to secrete IL-10 ex vivo in peripheral blood from patients with or without chronic Chagas disease cardiomyopathy.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    REVIEWS

    Antigen Presentation in Cancer: Insights into Tumor Immunogenicity and Immune Evasion

    Scientists review the tumor-derived factors modulating dendritic cell function.
    [Nature Reviews Cancer]

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    The Basic Immunology of Asthma

    The authors review the underlying immunological basis of various asthma endotypes by discussing results obtained from animal studies as well as results generated in clinical studies targeting specific immune pathways.
    [Cell]

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    NLRP3 Inflammasome in Cancer and Metabolic Diseases

    Scientists cover the mechanisms of NLRP3 inflammasome activation and its divergent roles in the pathogenesis of inflammation-associated diseases such as cancer, atherosclerosis, diabetes and obesity
    [Nature Immunology]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    108Labs Launches Colostrupedicsâ„¢ Whole-Human Infant Formula with Secretory Antibodies

    108Labs announced the discovery of novel secretory antibody biosynthesis in the development of Colostrupedicsâ„¢ whole-human infant formula, the first animal-free infant formula exclusively comprising cell-cultured human milk molecules derived from human mammary cell agriculture and formulated with broadly-neutralizing human secretory antibodies.
    [108Labs (Life Science Newswire, Inc.)]

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    Pathios Therapeutics Boosted by Award of Significant Innovate UK Funding

    Pathios Therapeutics will team up with researchers at The University of Oxford to accelerate cancer immunotherapies targeting GPR65 on immunosuppressive macrophages
    [Pathios Therapeutics (Life Science Newswire, Inc.)]

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