Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26523868›Full record

ArticleNature immunology2016

Group 2 innate lymphoid cells license dendritic cells to potentiate memory TH2 cell responses.

Timotheus Y F Halim, You Yi Hwang, Seth T Scanlon, Habib Zaghouani, Natalio Garbi, Padraic G Fallon, Andrew N J McKenzie

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Article in Nature immunology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 222 papers.

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222citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

222 citing papers in PubMed, 322 citations in OpenAlex.

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  17. In Asthmatic Patients, Sexual Dimorphism correlates With Androgen Receptor Expression in ILC2s at Single Cell-Resolution.Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology · 2025
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  19. The immunology of asthma.Nature immunology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Timotheus Y F HalimMedical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
You Yi HwangMedical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Seth T ScanlonMedical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Habib ZaghouaniDepartment of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, University of Missouri School of Medicine, Columbia, Missouri, USA.
Natalio GarbiDepartment of Molecular Immunology, Institutes of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology, University of Bonn, Germany.
Padraic G FallonTrinity Biomedical Sciences Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
Andrew N J McKenzieMedical Research Council, Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, UK.
Medical Research Council · GBNational Children’s Research Centre · IEUniversity of Bonn · DEUniversity of Missouri · US

Funding

CIHRMedical Research Council MC_U105178805Medical Research Council UI05178805Wellcome Trust 100963
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Rapid activation of memory CD4(+) T helper 2 (TH2) cells during allergic inflammation requires their recruitment into the affected tissue. Here we demonstrate that group 2 innate lymphoid (ILC2) cells have a crucial role in memory TH2 cell responses, with targeted depletion of ILC2 cells profoundly impairing TH2 cell localization to the lungs and skin of sensitized mice after allergen re-challenge. ILC2-derived interleukin 13 (IL-13) is critical for eliciting production of the TH2 cell-attracting chemokine CCL17 by IRF4(+)CD11b(+)CD103(-) dendritic cells (DCs). Consequently, the sentinel function of DCs is contingent on ILC2 cells for the generation of an efficient memory TH2 cell response. These results elucidate a key innate mechanism in the regulation of the immune memory response to allergens.

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AnimalsDendritic CellsDisease Models, AnimalFlow CytometryHypersensitivityImmunity, InnateImmunologic MemoryLymphocyte ActivationLymphocytesMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicOligonucleotide Array Sequence AnalysisTh2 Cells

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PMID26523868
PMCPMC4685755
OpenAlexW2204818303

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