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ReviewCells2021

DNA Methylation and Immune Memory Response.

Nathalia Noschang Mittelstaedt, André Luiz Becker, Deise Nascimento de Freitas, Rafael F Zanin, Renato T Stein, Ana Paula Duarte de Souza

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Review in Cells, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

26 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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

6 authors.

Nathalia Noschang MittelstaedtLaboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Healthy and Life Science School, Pontifical Catholic University, PUCRS, Porto Alegre 90619-900, RS, Brazil.
André Luiz BeckerLaboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Healthy and Life Science School, Pontifical Catholic University, PUCRS, Porto Alegre 90619-900, RS, Brazil.
Deise Nascimento de FreitasLaboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Healthy and Life Science School, Pontifical Catholic University, PUCRS, Porto Alegre 90619-900, RS, Brazil.
Rafael F ZaninDepartment of Health and Human Development, La Salle University, Canoas 92010-000, RS, Brazil.
Renato T SteinInfant Center, Medical School, Pontifical Catholic University, PUCRS, Porto Alegre 90619-900, RS, Brazil.
Ana Paula Duarte de SouzaLaboratory of Clinical and Experimental Immunology, Healthy and Life Science School, Pontifical Catholic University, PUCRS, Porto Alegre 90619-900, RS, Brazil.

Funding

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior Finantial code 1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The generation of memory is a cardinal feature of the adaptive immune response, involving different factors in a complex process of cellular differentiation. This process is essential for protecting the second encounter with pathogens and is the mechanism by which vaccines work. Epigenetic changes play important roles in the regulation of cell differentiation events. There are three types of epigenetic regulation: DNA methylation, histone modification, and microRNA expression. One of these epigenetic changes, DNA methylation, occurs in cytosine residues, mainly in CpG dinucleotides. This brief review aimed to analyse the literature to verify the involvement of DNA methylation during memory T and B cell development. Several studies have highlighted the importance of the DNA methyltransferases, enzymes that catalyse the methylation of DNA, during memory differentiation, maintenance, and function. The methylation profile within different subsets of naïve activated and memory cells could be an interesting tool to help monitor immune memory response.

Indexed as

ImmunityImmunologic MemoryAnimalsB-LymphocytesDNA MethylationHumansModels, ImmunologicalT-LymphocytesB cellsDNA methylationepigeneticmemory responseT cells

Identifiers

PMID34831166
PMCPMC8616503

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