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ArticleCell reports2018

IL-23 and IL-1β Drive Human Th17 Cell Differentiation and Metabolic Reprogramming in Absence of CD28 Costimulation.

Shankar Revu, Jing Wu, Matthew Henkel, Natalie Rittenhouse, Ashley Menk, Greg M Delgoffe, Amanda C Poholek, Mandy J McGeachy

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Article in Cell reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 133 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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133citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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133 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 205 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Shankar RevuDivision of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Jing WuDivision of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Matthew HenkelDivision of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Natalie RittenhouseDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Ashley MenkTumor Microenvironment Center, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Greg M DelgoffeTumor Microenvironment Center, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Amanda C PoholekDepartment of Pediatrics, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Mandy J McGeachyDivision of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: mandymcgeachy@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · USUPMC Hillman Cancer Center · US

Funding

Exploring and exploiting metabolic plasticity in regulatory T cellsDP2AI136598 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI DELGOFFE, GREG M. · 2017 to 2017
$2.3M
NIAID NIH HHS DP2 AI136598
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Th17 cells drive autoimmune disease but also control commensal microbes. A common link among antigens from self-proteins or commensal microbiota is relatively low activation of T cell receptor (TCR) and costimulation signaling. Indeed, strong TCR/CD28 stimulation suppressed Th17 cell differentiation from human naive T cells, but not effector/memory cells. CD28 suppressed the classical Th17 transcriptional program, while inducing known Th17 regulators, and acted through an Akt-dependent mechanism. Th17 cells differentiated without CD28 were not anergic: they showed robust proliferation and maintained Th17 cytokine production following restimulation. Interleukin (IL)-23 and IL-1β promoted glucose uptake and increased glycolysis. Although modestly increased compared to CD28 costimulation, glycolysis was necessary to support Th17 differentiation, indicating that cytokine-mediated metabolic shifts were sufficient to obviate the classical requirement for CD28 in Th17 differentiation. Together, these data propose that, in humans, strength of TCR/CD28/Akt activation serves as a rheostat tuning the magnitude of Th17 development driven by IL-23 and IL-1β.

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Cell DifferentiationAdultCD28 AntigensClonal AnergyGene Expression ProfilingHumansInterleukin-1betaInterleukin-23Lymphocyte ActivationProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktReceptors, Antigen, T-CellTh17 CellsCD28 AntigensInterleukin-1betaInterleukin-23Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktReceptors, Antigen, T-CellCD28differentiationhumanIL-1IL-17IL-23metabolismTh17

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