CURRENT PUBLICATIONS Aire’s Partners in the Molecular Control of Immunological Tolerance Screening via Aire-targeted coimmunoprecipitation followed by mass spectrometry, and validating by multiple RNAi-mediated knockdown approaches, researchers identified a large set of proteins that associate with Aire. The findings suggest a model to explain Aire’s widespread targeting and induction of weakly transcribed chromatin regions. [Cell] Effective Collaboration Between Marginal Metallophilic Macrophages and CD8+ Dendritic Cells in the Generation of Cytotoxic T Cells Researchers demonstrate that splenic marginal metallophilic macrophages are essential for cross-presentation of blood-borne antigens by splenic dendritic cells. [PNAS] Crucial Role of Interleukin-7 in T Helper Type 17 Survival and Expansion in Autoimmune Disease IL-7 is essential for survival and expansion of pathogenic T helper type 17 cells in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis. [Nat Med] Invariant Natural Killer T Lymphocytes Control Mouse Spontaneous Carcinoma Independently of Tumor-Specific Cytotoxic T Cells The data argue for a critical role of CD1d-restricted invariant natural killer T cells in the immune surveillance of carcinoma that is independent of tumor-specific cytotoxic T cells. [PLoS One] Expression and Function of TNF and IL-1 Receptors on Human Regulatory T Cells Researchers show that the expression of inflammatory cytokine receptors IL-1R1 and TNFR2 were higher on resting mature regulatory T cells compared to naive or memory T cells. [PLoS One] Modulation of T Cell Activation by Malignant Melanoma Initiating Cells Tumorigenic ABCB5+ malignant melanoma initiating cells possessed the capacity to preferentially inhibit IL-2-dependent T cell activation and to support, in a B7.2-dependent manner, induction of CD4+CD25+FoxP3+ regulatory T cells. [Cancer Res] Immunostimulatory RNA Blocks Suppression by Regulatory T Cells As viral RNA is a crucial mediator for activation of antiviral immunity, researchers examined the effects of immunostimulatory RNA and infection with RNA viruses on regulatory T cell function. [J Immunol] IL-24 Transgenic Mice: In Vivo Evidence of Overlapping Functions for IL-20, IL-22, and IL-24 in the Epidermis IL-24 transgenic mice manifest many similar phenotypes to that of IL-20 and IL-22, including neonatal lethality, epidermal hyperplasia, and abnormality in keratinocyte differentiation. [J Immunol]
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