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ArticleNature2025

Precursors of exhausted T cells are pre-emptively formed in acute infection.

Talyn Chu, Ming Wu, Barbara Hoellbacher, Gustavo P de Almeida, Christine Wurmser, Jacqueline Berner, Lara V Donhauser, Ann-Katrin Gerullis, Siran Lin, J Diego Cepeda-Mayorga and 11 more

Abstract read
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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 63 papers.

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63citing papers in PubMed
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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

63 citing papers in PubMed.

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3 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

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

21 authors.

Talyn Chu *Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Ming Wu *Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. ming.wu@tum.de.ORCID 0000-0003-4515-6888
Barbara Hoellbacher *Institute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Neuherberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-9848-7870
Gustavo P de Almeida *Division of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-2424-9818
Christine WurmserDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-0649-6206
Jacqueline BernerDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-9056-8745
Lara V DonhauserDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7690-7501
Ann-Katrin GerullisDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5445-7351
Siran LinDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
J Diego Cepeda-MayorgaDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Iman I KilbDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Lukas BongersDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Fabio ToppetaDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Philipp StroblDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.
Ben YoungbloodDepartment of Immunology, St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1261-9957
Anna M SchulzDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-6550-7206
Alfred ZippeliusCancer Immunology, Department of Biomedicine, University Hospital Basel, Basel, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1933-8178
Percy A KnolleCenter for Infection Prevention (ZIP), School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2983-0414
Matthias HeinigInstitute of Computational Biology, Helmholtz Zentrum München Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Gesundheit und Umwelt, Neuherberg, Germany. matthias.heinig@helmholtz-muenchen.de.ORCID 0000-0002-5612-1720
Carl-Philipp HacksteinDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. carl-philipp.hackstein@tum.de.ORCID 0000-0002-0821-5204
Dietmar ZehnDivision of Animal Physiology and Immunology, School of Life Sciences Weihenstephan, Technical University of Munich, Freising, Germany. dietmar.zehn@tum.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1393-8527

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cell exhaustion limits effector T cell function in chronic infection and tumours

Indexed as

Arenaviridae InfectionsLymphocytic choriomeningitis virusPrecursor Cells, T-LymphoidT-LymphocytesAcute DiseaseAnimalsCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesEpigenesis, GeneticFemaleHepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alphaImmunologic MemoryLigandsMaleMemory T CellsMiceMice, Inbred C57BLHepatocyte Nuclear Factor 1-alphaHnf1a protein, mouseLigandsPdcd1 protein, mouseProgrammed Cell Death 1 Receptor

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PMID39778709
PMCPMC12003159

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