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ReviewFrontiers in endocrinology2020

The Role of β Cell Stress and Neo-Epitopes in the Immunopathology of Type 1 Diabetes.

Jon D Piganelli, Mark J Mamula, Eddie A James

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Review in Frontiers in endocrinology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 41 papers.

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41citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

41 citing papers in PubMed, 49 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Jon D PiganelliDivision of Pediatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, United States.
Mark J MamulaSection of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States.
Eddie A JamesTranslational Research Program, Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason, Seattle, WA, United States.
Benaroya Research InstituteChildren's Hospital of Pittsburgh · USYale University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Due to their secretory function, β cells are predisposed to higher levels of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress and greater sensitivity to inflammation than other cell types. These stresses elicit changes in β cells that alter their function and immunogenicity, including defective ribosomal initiation, post-translational modifications (PTMs) of endogenous β cell proteins, and alternative splicing. Multiple published reports confirm the presence of not only CD8+ T cells, but also autoreactive CD4+ T cells within pancreatic islets. Although the specificities of T cells that infiltrate human islets are incompletely characterized, they have been confirmed to include neo-epitopes that are formed through stress-related enzymatic modifications of β cell proteins. This article summarizes emerging knowledge about stress-induced changes in β cells and data supporting a role for neo-antigen formation and cross-talk between immune cells and β cells that provokes autoimmune attack - leading to a breakdown in tissue-specific tolerance in subjects who develop type 1 diabetes.

Indexed as

AnimalsB-LymphocytesDiabetes Mellitus, Type 1Epitopes, B-LymphocyteHumansOxidative StressProtein Processing, Post-TranslationalEpitopes, B-LymphocyteBeta Cell (β cell)ER stressimmune cellsneo-antigenpost-translational modificationtype 1 diabetes (T1D)

Identifiers

PMID33679609
PMCPMC7930070
OpenAlexW3133097487

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