Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36720219›Full record

ArticleImmunity2023

Graft-versus-host disease is locally maintained in target tissues by resident progenitor-like T cells.

Faruk Sacirbegovic, Matthias Günther, Alessandro Greco, Daqiang Zhao, Xi Wang, Meng Zhou, Sarah Rosenberger, Martin H Oberbarnscheidt, Werner Held, Jennifer McNiff and 3 more

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Article in Immunity, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37citing papers in PubMed
11.6field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 40 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.

Faruk SacirbegovicDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Matthias GüntherDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; BioQuant Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Alessandro GrecoDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; BioQuant Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Daqiang ZhaoDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Xi WangDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; BioQuant Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany.
Meng ZhouDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Sarah RosenbergerDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Martin H OberbarnscheidtDepartment of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Werner HeldDepartment of Oncology, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Jennifer McNiffDepartment of Dermatology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Dhanpat JainDepartment of Pathology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Thomas HöferDivision of Theoretical Systems Biology, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany; BioQuant Center, University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Electronic address: t.hoefer@dkfz-heidelberg.de.
Warren D ShlomchikDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Department of Immunology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA; UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Electronic address: warrens@pitt.edu.
University of Pittsburgh · USGerman Cancer Research Center · DEYale University · USUniversity of Lausanne · CH

Funding

Yale Liver CenterP30DK034989 · NIDDK · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI YASUKO IWAKIRI · 1986 to 2026
$31.1M
Graft-versus-Host Disease: Local Maintenance in Target Tissues by Tissue Resident Memory-Type Cells.R01HL143349 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Warren D Shlomchik · 2018 to 2026
$4.0M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL143349NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK034989
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, donor αβ T cells attack recipient tissues, causing graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a major cause of morbidity and mortality. A central question has been how GVHD is sustained despite T cell exhaustion from chronic antigen stimulation. The current model for GVHD holds that disease is maintained through the continued recruitment of alloreactive effectors from blood into affected tissues. Here, we show, using multiple approaches including parabiosis of mice with GVHD, that GVHD is instead primarily maintained locally within diseased tissues. By tracking 1,203 alloreactive T cell clones, we fitted a mathematical model predicting that within each tissue a small number of progenitor T cells maintain a larger effector pool. Consistent with this, we identified a tissue-resident TCF-1

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Graft vs Host DiseaseHematopoietic Stem Cell TransplantationAnimalsMiceT-LymphocytesTransplantation, Homologousallogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantationcomputational modelinggraft-versus-host diseasemouse modelsparabiosissingle-cell RNA sequencingT cell exhaustionTCF-1TCF-7Tpex

Identifiers

PMID36720219
PMCPMC10182785
OpenAlexW4318754282

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