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ReviewImmunological reviews2021

Epigenetic regulation of T cell adaptive immunity.

Adolfo B Frias, Shannon K Boi, Xin Lan, Ben Youngblood

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

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31citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 14% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Adolfo B FriasDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5768-3568
Shannon K BoiDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Xin LanDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.
Ben YoungbloodDepartment of Immunology, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1261-9957
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital · US

Funding

EPIGENETIC REPROGRAMMING OF T CELL EXHAUSTION TO ENHANCE TUMOR IMMUNOTHERAPYR01CA237311 · NCI · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI Benjamin Alan Youngblood · 2020 to 2026
$2.9M
Epigenetic reprogramming of HIV-specific CD8 T cell stemness to enable sustained viral controlR56AI114442 · NIAID · ST. JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL · PI YOUNGBLOOD, BENJAMIN ALAN · 2020 to 2020
$493k
NCI NIH HHS R01 CA237311NIAID NIH HHS R56 AI114442
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The conceptualization of adaptive immunity, founded on the observation of immunological memory, has served as the basis for modern vaccination and immunotherapy approaches. This fundamental concept has allowed immunologists to explore mechanisms that enable humoral and cellular lymphocytes to tailor immune response functions to a wide array of environmental insults and remain poised for future pathogenic encounters. Until recently, for T cells it has remained unclear how memory differentiation acquires and sustains a gene expression program that grants a cell with a capacity for a heightened recall response. Recent investigations into this critical question have identified epigenetic programs as a causal molecular mechanism governing T cell subset specification and immunological memory. Here, we outline the studies that have illustrated this concept and posit on how insights into T cell adaptive immunity can be applied to improve upon existing immunotherapies.

Indexed as

Epigenesis, GeneticImmunologic MemoryAdaptive ImmunityCell DifferentiationT-Lymphocyte SubsetsDNA methylationepigeneticshistone modificationsT cell differentiationT cell exhaustion

Identifiers

PMID33644866
PMCPMC8005453
OpenAlexW3134311619

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