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ReviewJournal of clinical immunology2019

Regulatory T Cells: the Many Faces of Foxp3.

Peter Georgiev, Louis-Marie Charbonnier, Talal A Chatila

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Review in Journal of clinical immunology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 152 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
152citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
9.5field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

152 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 228 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Peter GeorgievDivision of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Louis-Marie CharbonnierDivision of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
Talal A ChatilaDivision of Immunology, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA. talal.chatila@childrens.harvard.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7439-2762
Boston Children's Hospital · USMerck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA (United States) · US

Funding

Molecular Basis of Hyper lgE ImmunodeficiencyR01AI065617 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI Talal Amine Chatila · 2006 to 2026
$10.9M
Immunological and Microbial Mechanisms in Food AllergyR01AI126915 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI Talal Amine Chatila, Seth Rakoff-Nahoum · 2017 to 2026
$4.9M
Mechanisms of Disease Pathogenesis in Regulatory T cell DeficiencyR01AI085090 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES · PI CHATILA, TALAL AMINE, WILLIAMS, CALVIN B · 2010 to 2020
$3.9M
Control of regulatory T cell homeostasis and function by Notch signalingR01AI115699 · NIAID · BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL · PI CHATILA, TALAL AMINE · 2017 to 2021
$2.2M
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI065617NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI085090NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI115699NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI126915
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T (Treg) cells expressing the transcription factor forkhead box P3 (Foxp3) play a requisite role in the maintenance of immunological homeostasis and prevention of peripheral self-tolerance breakdown. Although Foxp3 by itself is neither necessary nor sufficient to specify many aspects of the Treg cell phenotype, its sustained expression in Treg cells is indispensable for their phenotypic stability, metabolic fitness, and regulatory function. In this review, we summarize recent advances in Treg cell biology, with a particular emphasis on the role of Foxp3 as a transcriptional modulator and metabolic gatekeeper essential to an effective immune regulatory response. We discuss these findings in the context of human inborn errors of immune dysregulation, with a focus on FOXP3 mutations, leading to Treg cell deficiency. We also highlight emerging concepts of therapeutic Treg cell reprogramming to restore tolerance in the settings of immune dysregulatory disorders.

Indexed as

AnimalsBiomarkersCell CommunicationCell DifferentiationCellular ReprogrammingDisease SusceptibilityEnergy MetabolismForkhead Transcription FactorsGene Expression RegulationHumansImmune ToleranceImmunomodulationImmunotherapyOrgan SpecificityPhenotypeT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryBiomarkersForkhead Transcription FactorsFOXP3 protein, humanAutoimmunityFoxp3immune dysregulationimmune toleranceimmunometabolisminterleukin 2IPEXrapamycinregulatory T cell reprogrammingregulatory T cells

Identifiers

PMID31478130
PMCPMC6754763
OpenAlexW2970148588

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