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ArticleAmerican journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons2019

Ablation of interferon regulatory factor 4 in T cells induces "memory" of transplant tolerance that is irreversible by immune checkpoint blockade.

Hedong Zhang, Jie Wu, Dawei Zou, Xiang Xiao, Hui Yan, Xian C Li, Wenhao Chen

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Article in American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers.

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18citing papers in PubMed
1.2field-weighted citation impact, top 23% 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

18 citing papers in PubMed, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. CD8Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2026
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  3. CD4Nature immunology · 2024
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  7. Reduced Satb1 expression predisposes CD4Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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  8. Genetically targeting the BATF family transcription factors BATF and BATF3 in the mouse abrogates effector T cell activities and enables long-term heart allograft survival.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2022
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  9. IRF4 ablation in B cells abrogates allogeneic B cell responses and prevents chronic transplant rejection.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2021
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  12. T cell exhaustion is associated with antigen abundance and promotes transplant acceptance.American journal of transplantation : official journal of the American Society of Transplantation and the American Society of Transplant Surgeons · 2020
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  14. T follicular helper and memory cell responses and the mTOR pathway in murine heart transplantation.The Journal of heart and lung transplantation : the official publication of the International Society for Heart Transplantation · 2020
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  15. CD4American journal of cancer research · 2020
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  17. Resilience of T cell-intrinsic dysfunction in transplantation tolerance.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Hedong ZhangImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0001-7924-5067
Jie WuImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-8880-2520
Dawei ZouImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0003-4130-0280
Xiang XiaoImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0001-6644-6118
Hui YanImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-9005-2298
Xian C LiImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-5981-2762
Wenhao ChenImmunobiology & Transplant Science Center, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas.ORCID 0000-0002-0626-3739
Houston Methodist · US

Funding

Control of Treg exhaustion by OX40R01AI106200 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LI, XIAN CHANG · 2014 to 2025
$4.2M
IRF4-dependent T-cell effector programs in governing transplant outcomesR01AI132492 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI CHEN, WENHAO · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
T cell fate decisions and transplant outcomesR01AI129906 · NIAID · METHODIST HOSPITAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE · PI LI, XIAN CHANG · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Houston Methodist Research InstituteNIAID NIH HHS R01 AI106200NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI129906NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI132492
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Achieving transplant tolerance remains the ultimate goal in the field of organ transplantation. We demonstrated previously that ablation of the transcription factor interferon regulatory factor 4 (IRF4) in T cells induced heart transplant acceptance by driving allogeneic CD4

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AllograftsAnimalsCD4-Positive T-LymphocytesGene Expression RegulationGraft RejectionGraft SurvivalHeart TransplantationImmunologic MemoryInterferon Regulatory Factor-4Interferon Regulatory FactorsIsoantigensMaleMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutInterferon Regulatory Factor-4Interferon Regulatory FactorsIsoantigensanimal models: murinebasic (laboratory) research/sciencecellular biologygraft survivalimmunobiologyorgan transplantation in generalT cell biologytolerance

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PMID30468559
PMCPMC6440205
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