The Journal of Experimental Medicine publishes immunology, cancer, stem cells, microbial pathogenesis, vascular biology, neurobiology. Est. 1896 -
@RockUPress
Using both mouse and human brain tissue, researchers at
@YaleMed
have discovered that
#SARSCoV2
can directly infect the central nervous system and have begun to unravel some of the virus’s effects on brain cells (). Press release:
Do T cells remember what we eat? Lockhart,
@danmucida
et al
@RockefellerUniv
show that physiological exposure to food protein drives CD4+ T cell accumulation, clonal selection, and transcriptional adaptation at the intestinal epithelium.
#MucosalImmunology
Lim, Lin,
@Jun_Young_Hong
@RMedzhitov
et al suggest that
#glucocorticoids
, classically considered to be broadly immunosuppressive, have a selective immunostimulatory role in B cells.
Part of 2022: The Year in Experimental Medicine
Neurological symptoms are frequently observed in
#COVID19
. Using three independent approaches - mouse model, human brain organoid and autopsies of COVID-19 patients,
@ericsongg
@virusesimmunity
team demonstrates evidence of
#SARSCoV2
neuroinvasion.
NK cells were first described five decades ago and named in 1975. This brief Perspective from Lewis Lanier
@UCSF
highlights a timeline of a few selected advancements in NK cell biology in each decade.
🎥 See video summary:
Neuroinvasion of SARS-CoV-2 in human and mouse brain. Eric Song
@ericsongg
, Akiko Iwasaki
@virusesimmunity
and colleagues demonstrate evidence of
#SARSCOV2
neuroinvasion. Video shows whole-brain view of SARS-CoV-2 infection in mouse.
#COVID19
So, Obata-Ninomiya et al. show that suppression of CD4 effector T cell activation by Tregs is enforced through active mRNA translational control of the protein synthesis machinery.
From our
#Immunology
collection:
#Astrocytes
are strategically positioned to control CNS immunity in the context of health & disease. Sanmarco, Polonio, Wheeler, and Quintana (
@QuintanaLabHMS
) review progress in elucidating astrocyte–immune interactions in
#MultipleSclerosis
Congratulations 🏆 JEM Editor Jonathan Kipnis
@jonykipnis
for being elected as a new member of the National Academy of Medicine, for his breakthrough discovery of meningeal lymphatic vessels. Read more about
@theNAMedicine
announcement here:
We are thrilled to congratulate Yasmine Belkaid (
@BelkaidLab
) on being appointed President of the Institut Pasteur (
@institutpasteur
). Her work and leadership are an inspiration to the community, and we are grateful to have her as a JEM Editor. More here:
In this study, Tanaka et al. provide a general model of how altered TCR signaling evokes autoimmune disease.
Part of our
#Autoimmunity
Collection:
#AUTOIMMSRC
Lockhart,
@danmucida
et al. show that physiological exposure to food protein drives CD4+ T cell accumulation, clonal selection, and transcriptional adaptation at the intestinal epithelium.
From the Year in Experimental Medicine:
Congratulations Akiko Iwasaki, JEM Advisory Editorial Board Member, for winning the 2019 Seymour & Vivian Milstein Award for Excellence in Interferon and Cytokine Research. Read more about the prize and Iwasaki's work:
Dietary protein shapes the profile and repertoire of intestinal CD4+ T cells. From Lockhart,
@danmucida
and colleagues:
In Microbiota, Diet, Metabolites & the Immune System:
#KSMicroImmune24
#KSMetabolites24
This review from Renee Wu & Kenneth Murphy
@WUSTLImmuno
traces the separate discoveries of dendritic cells, cross-priming, and help for cytotoxic T cell responses.
#InnateImmunity
To coincide with
#WHM2021
, Gwen Randolph
@LabRandolph
shares her observations and hopes for faster progress on promoting the status of women in science.
#WomeninSTEM
Lockhart,
@danmucida
et al show that physiological exposure to food protein drives CD4+ T cell accumulation, clonal selection & transcriptional adaptation at the intestinal epithelium
In Barrier Immunity collection:
#KSBarrierReg24
In this review, Jeltema et al.
@nanyanlab
discuss STING trafficking mechanisms and implications on immune and neurodegenerative disease.
From our collection Innate Immune Cells & Signaling:
#KSInnateImmune23
History of NK Cell Discoveries. This brief Perspective by Lewis Lanier
@UCSF
highlights a timeline of a few selected advancements in NK cell biology from a personal perspective of being involved in this quest.
🎥 See video summary:
Lockhart,
@danmucida
et al
@RockefellerUniv
demonstrate that exposure to food protein drives an antigen-specific CD4+ T cell response characterized at steady state by accumulation at the intestinal epithelium & tissue-specialized transcriptional imprinting
Lei, Pereira,
@PaderaLab
@beyazlab
et al. demonstrate that
#cancer
cell MHC-II expression promotes
#metastasis
and immune evasion in tumor-draining lymph nodes.
From the Year in Experimental Medicine:
Viral infection early in life can result in autoimmunity later in life. Tarin M. Bigley, Wayne M. Yokoyama et al.
@WUSTLmed
show that neonatal murine roseolovirus infection disrupts central tolerance.
#Autoimmunity
#InfectiousDisease
#HostDefense
Lund, Hunt,
@justZeri
et al.
@PainLab_KI
@karolinskainst
show that the blood–DRG barrier is composed of endothelial cells with high permeability and is monitored by a subset of CD163+ perivascular
#macrophages
, a process that is arteriovenously zonated.
JEM Academic Editor Yasmine Belkaid was selected to receive the
@FNIH_Org
2019 Lurie Prize in Biomedical Sciences (). Belkaid blazed a trail in understanding the microbiome’s significant role in immune regulation.
Tanaka, Sakaguchi et al. provide a general model of how altered TCR signaling evokes autoimmune disease.
Part of our collection on Thymus, T Cell Development, and Inborn Errors:
Nutrients interplay w/ Signals 1-3 to orchestrate T cell activation, differentiation, & function. New review from Raynor and
@hongbo_chi
@StJude
highlights the signaling and functional effects of nutrients as Signal 4 in T cell–mediated immunity.
New study of innate immune dynamics in early
#COVID19
- host response can slow viral replication from low infectious dose, & block replication if defenses boosted by recent common cold infection. From
@EllenFoxman
@cnreddy24
@TimothyAWatkins
et al
@YaleMed
Role of adipose tissue macrophages in obesity-related disorders. In this
#InnateImmunity
focus review,
@SvetoslavChaka1
, Blériot &
@FGinhoux
@sjtu1896
discuss macrophage origin & functions in adipose tissue and how these features are modulated in obesity
Dendritic cells: The first step. Gwendalyn Randolph (
@LabRandolph
) discusses the seminal discovery by Steinman in 1973 (), the first in many steps of important work that revealed the nature of
#DendriticCells
.
#JEM125
Sticky webs of DNA released from immune cells known as neutrophils may cause much of the tissue damage associated with severe
#COVID19
infections, according to 2 new studies ( & ). See press release:
#SARSCoV2
Sara Suliman
@SaraSuliman13
, an assistant professor at
@UCSF
, uses multiple approaches to identify candidate
#tuberculosis
risk pathways and to determine their role in
#TB
progression. Read more about her research in our latest
#PeopleAndIdeas
:
We're thrilled to hear that Akiko Iwasaki (
@VirusesImmunity
), a JEM Advisory Editor, has been elected as the 2023-2024 President of The American Association of Immunologists (AAI)
@ImmunologyAAI
. Congratulations!! 💐
AAI is pleased to announce Akiko Iwasaki, Ph.D. (AAI '00), as its 2023–2024 president. Dr. Iwasaki, a distinguished immunologist and esteemed member of the AAI Council, will assume her role as president on July 1, 2023.
#AAI
#immunology
#womeninstem
Waipan Chan, Ronald Germain et al.
@NIAIDNews
show that PD-1 engagement by T cells inhibits distinct antigen-evoked signals in a nonlinear manner, strongly influenced by the nature of available TCR ligands.
#TumorImmunology
#LymphocyteBiology
Chan et al. show that PD-1 engagement by T cells inhibits distinct antigen-evoked signals in a nonlinear manner, strongly influenced by the nature of available TCR ligands
In our
#Cancer
#Immunotherapy
Update 2024:
#KSCheckpoint24
Oh, Senger, Madireddi, Haley, Rutz et al.
@genentech
describe a nonviral method for CRISPR/Cas9-based gene editing of human T cells that could help advance our understanding of T cell biology and aid the development of next-generation cellular therapies
Min et al.
@FilianoLab
@DukeMedSchool
show mural cells physically contact
#macrophages
in the dura to regulate trafficking of CNS antigen-specific T cells. Partially depleting mural cells activates dural macrophages & increases susceptibility to EAE.
Lei, Pereira,
@PaderaLab
,
@beyazlab
et al. reveal that a subpopulation of
#BreastCancer
cells in the lymph node is marked by MHC-II expression in the absence of costimulatory molecules, which causes the expansion of immunosuppressive regulatory T cells.
Qin, Wang, Xu et al. show that TCR signaling induces STAT3 phosphorylation through Lck/Fyn and, synergistically with cytokine signal, induces optimal STAT3 phosphorylation to drive TH17 cell differentiation.
#Neuroinflammation
Stoler-Barak et al. introduce an approach that enables the visualization of all the germinal center niches and activated B cells within intact lymph nodes.
From the special collection on Germinal Centers and Immune Niches:
Lund et al.
@PainLab_KI
show that the blood–DRG barrier is composed of endothelial cells with high permeability and is monitored by a subset of CD163+ perivascular
#macrophages
.
In our
#Immunology
Update Winter 2024:
Combining whole-tissue imaging & single-cell RNA sequencing datasets, Tauber, Basso, Martin et al
@InfinityTLS
present a pan-organ analysis of mast cells (MCs) in mice & humans at steady state, revealing an unexpected heterogeneity of MC populations
The authors describe the clinical features, cellular & molecular mechanisms underlying immune deficiency in 7 patients w/ biallelic germline variants in CD4. This reveals important roles for CD4 in host defense against a range of pathogens, especially HPV.
Thru. single-cell transcriptomic analysis, Feng et al
@Tsinghua_Uni
identified a novel T follicular helper cell subset w/ stem cell–like transcriptional features & long-term survival ability, which gave rise to effector Tfh cells in recall immune responses
Schad, Wolchok, Merghoub
@MSKCancerCenter
and colleagues show that antigen stimulation induces a subset of CD4+ and CD8+ T cells to differentiate into CD4+CD8+ T cell subsets gaining in polyfunctional characteristics within the tumor.
#TumorImmunology
Stensland, Smith and colleagues
@CUAnschutz
identify an antigen-specific B cell subset that may play a role in the rapid progression of young-onset type 1 diabetes.
#Autoimmunity
#Tolerance
Lopez et al
@CHUdeLyon
show that
#SARSCoV2
induces strong type I IFN immunity in the nasopharyngeal cavity of mildly symptomatic
#COVID19
patients, but this response is compromised in critically ill patients w/ autoantibodies against type I IFNs
Petersone et al.
@LucyWalkerlab
@iit_ucl
investigate IL-21–dependent germinal center (GC) regulation and reveal key roles for IL-21 in promoting light zone GC B cell selection and controlling dark zone GC B cell proliferation by upregulation of cyclin D3.
In this
#OpenAccess
perspective,
@megeblad
, Betsy J. Barnes et al present evidence from autopsy results & the literature supporting the hypothesis that
#neutrophil
extracellular traps (NETs) may contribute to organ damage and mortality in
#COVID19
.
Understanding how T cells respond to Signal 4 nutrients in microenvironments will provide insights into context-dependent functions of adaptive immunity and therapeutic interventions. Review from Jana Raynor and Hongbo Chi (
@hongbo_chi
)
@StJude
:
By tracing development of anti-IFN-I autoantibodies in individuals over a 35 year period,
@BenHalePhD
et al suggest that loss of self-tolerance prior to immune-triggering poses a risk for lifelong autoantibody-mediated functional IFN-I deficiency.
DePeaux et al.
@DelgoffeLab
show that an oncolytic virus–delivered TGFβ inhibitor overcomes the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment.
From our
#Immunology
Update Winter 2024:
Markus Feuerer's lab
@uni_regensburg
reveal that human effector CD8 T cells not only mediate cytotoxicity but also promote tissue remodeling.
From our
#Immunology
collection:
#AAI2024
Jacob, Eichmann, Thomas et al
@InstitutCerveau
characterize the 3D anatomy of meningeal lymphatic vasculature & associated CSF drainage in mice and humans, revealing conserved lymphatic circuitries in contact with dural venous sinuses
.
@ADeczk
and Schwartz describe how harnessing the immune system in a well-controlled manner can be used as a universal therapeutic approach to neurodegeneration
.
@elzaevren
@WillingerLab
et al. identify CD116+ fetal liver cells as precursors of human alveolar
#macrophages
in early life & determine the impact of cell origin on lung
#macrophage
identity & function in the human context with a unique in vivo model.
New review:
@stutangye
et al. discuss how the importance of human B cells in host defense against infectious diseases has been established by the discovery of inborn errors of immunity that disrupt B cell development, differentiation or function
At JEM this year we have been highlighting
#WomenInSTEM
in the
#PeopleAndIdeas
Interview series. We are so thankful to everyone who contributed, and we would like to share some of the highlights below. Be sure to check out the interviews here:
.
@RawatKSM
,
@Claudjak
et al. show that dendritic cells use the chemokine receptor CCR7, while monocytes follow chemokines secreted by migratory DCs to reach lymph nodes and control immunity.
From the Year in Experimental Medicine:
Findings from Chan, Germain et al.
@NIAIDNews
help resolve discrepancies in existing data about the site(s) of PD-1 inhibition in T cells while emphasizing the importance of neoantigen potency in controlling the effects of checkpoint therapy:
Golnaz Vahedi
@golnaz_v
@PennMedicine
runs a multidisciplinary lab that uses cutting-edge computational and experimental approaches. We talk about her diverse scientific background, the benefits of integrating molecular biology and immunology, & more:
Although many inflammatory diseases share the feature of elevated IL-17 production, therapeutic targeting of IL-17 has vastly different clinical outcomes. This review summarizes recent progress in understanding the IL-23/IL-17 axis in disease
#JEMcytokines
In this review,
@MaizelsLab
& Gause summarize how type 2 immune responses combat helminth parasites through novel mechanisms:
From our
#Cytokines
Collection:
#Cytokines2023