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ReviewCellular & molecular immunology2013

Multifunctional immune responses of HMBPP-specific Vγ2Vδ2 T cells in M. tuberculosis and other infections.

Zheng W Chen

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Review in Cellular & molecular immunology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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65citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 103 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. Mucosal-associated invariant T cells and Vδ2Clinical and experimental immunology · 2020
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  5. Cell stress activates γ9δ2 T cells via endogenous phosphoantigens and butyrophilin complex dynamics.Biomedicine & pharmacotherapy = Biomedecine & pharmacotherapie · 2026
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  11. γ9δ2 T cells detect mevalonate diphosphate via BTN3A3.Cellular and molecular life sciences : CMLS · 2025
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  16. Vγ9Vδ2 T cells expanded with vitamin C combined with HMBPPFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025
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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Zheng W ChenDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Center for Primate Biomedical Research, University of Illinois College of Medicine Chicago, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. zchen@uic.edu
University of Illinois Chicago · US

Funding

MODEL OF AIDS VIRUS-RELATED PULMONARY TUBERCULOSISR01HL064560 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI CHEN, ZHENG W · 1999 to 2014
$9.5M
Immunotherapeutics and vaccines against anthrax, plague and tularemiaU01AI070426 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI CHEN, ZHENG W · 2006 to 2010
$4.7M
SIV/MYCOBACTERIUM COINFECTIONR01RR013601 · NCRR · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI CHEN, ZHENG W · 1998 to 2008
$4.4M
Ag-specific gamma delta T cells and immunity to TB/AIDS-related TBR01OD015092 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI CHEN, ZHENG W · 2013 to 2017
$3.0M
NCRR NIH HHS R01 RR013601NCRR NIH HHS R01 RR13601NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL064560NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL64560NIAID NIH HHS U01 AI070426NIH HHS R01 OD015092
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vγ2Vδ2 T (also known as Vγ9Vδ2 T) cells exist only in primates, and in humans represent a major γδ T-cell sub-population in the total population of circulating γδ T cells. Results from recent studies suggest that while (E)-4-hydroxy-3-methyl-but-2-enyl pyrophosphate (HMBPP) phosphoantigen from Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and other microbes activates and expands primate Vγ2Vδ2 T cells, the Vγ2Vδ2 T-cell receptor (TCR) recognizes and binds to HMBPP on antigen-presenting cells (APC). In response to HMBPP stimulus, Vγ2Vδ2 TCRs array to form signaling-related nanoclusters or nanodomains during the activation of Vγ2Vδ2 T cells. Primary infections with HMBPP-producing pathogens drive the evolution of multieffector functional responses in Vγ2Vδ2 T cells, although Vγ2Vδ2 T cells display different patterns of responses during the acute and chronic phases of Mtb infection and in other infections. Expanded Vγ2Vδ2 T cells in primary Mtb infection can exhibit a broader TCR repertoire and a greater clonal response than previously assumed, with different distribution patterns of Vγ2Vδ2 T-cell clones in lymphoid and non-lymphoid compartments. Emerging in vivo data suggest that HMBPP activation of Vγ2Vδ2 T cells appears to impact other immune cells during infection.

Indexed as

AnimalsAntigens, BacterialHumansLymphocyte ActivationMycobacterium tuberculosisOrganophosphatesReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-deltaT-LymphocytesTuberculosis4-hydroxy-3-methyl-2-butenyl diphosphateAntigens, BacterialOrganophosphatesReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-delta

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PMID23147720
PMCPMC3664056
OpenAlexW2138692669

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