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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2021

Treg-expressed CTLA-4 depletes CD80/CD86 by trogocytosis, releasing free PD-L1 on antigen-presenting cells.

Murat Tekguc, James Badger Wing, Motonao Osaki, Jia Long, Shimon Sakaguchi

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 319 papers.

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319citing papers in PubMed
21.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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

319 citing papers in PubMed, 414 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

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Murat TekgucLaboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International (WPI) Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-7570-5898
James Badger WingLaboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International (WPI) Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan.ORCID 0000-0002-3462-1003
Motonao OsakiLaboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International (WPI) Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan.
Jia LongLaboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International (WPI) Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan.ORCID 0000-0001-8311-3163
Shimon SakaguchiLaboratory of Experimental Immunology, World Premier International (WPI) Immunology Frontier Research Center (IFReC), Osaka University, Suita 565-0871, Japan; shimon@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp.
Osaka International University · JPKyoto University · JP

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Foxp3-expressing CD4

Indexed as

TrogocytosisAnimalsAntigen-Presenting CellsB7-1 AntigenB7-2 AntigenB7-H1 AntigenCTLA-4 AntigenDendritic CellsFemaleLymphocyte ActivationMiceMice, Inbred BALB CMice, Inbred C57BLMice, KnockoutT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryB7-1 AntigenB7-2 AntigenB7-H1 AntigenCd274 protein, mouseCd86 protein, mouseCTLA-4 AntigenCD80/CD86CTLA-4PD-L1regulatory T cellstrogocytosis

Identifiers

PMID34301886
PMCPMC8325248
OpenAlexW3185714107

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