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ArticleNature communications2025

Single cell suppression profiling of human regulatory T cells.

Jonas Nørskov Søndergaard, Janyerkye Tulyeu, David Priest, Shimon Sakaguchi, James B Wing

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Article in Nature communications, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jonas Nørskov SøndergaardHuman Immunology Team, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University, Suita, Japan. jonas@cider.osaka-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4438-6756
Janyerkye TulyeuHuman Immunology Team, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University, Suita, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1473-5561
David PriestLaboratory of Human Single Cell Immunology, WPI-IFReC, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0095-6718
Shimon SakaguchiLaboratory of Experimental Immunology, WPI-IFReC, Osaka University, Suita, Japan.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8265-6094
James B WingHuman Immunology Team, Center for Infectious Disease Education and Research (CiDER), Osaka University, Suita, Japan. jbwing@ifrec.osaka-u.ac.jp.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3462-1003

Funding

MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 16H06295MEXT | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) 23K11304
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T cells (Treg) play an important role in regulating immune homeostasis in health and disease. Traditionally their suppressive function has been assayed by mixing purified cell populations, which does not provide an accurate picture of a physiologically relevant response. To overcome this limitation, we here develop 'single cell suppression profiling of human Tregs' (scSPOT). scSPOT uses a 52-marker CyTOF panel, a cell division detection algorithm, and a whole PBMC system to assess the effect of Tregs on all other cell types simultaneously. In this head-to-head comparison, we find Tregs having the clearest suppressive effects on effector memory CD8 T cells through partial division arrest, cell cycle inhibition, and effector molecule downregulation. Additionally, scSPOT identifies a Treg phenotypic split previously observed in viral infection and propose modes of action by the FDA-approved drugs Ipilimumab and Tazemetostat. scSPOT is thus scalable, robust, widely applicable, and may be used to better understand Treg immunobiology and screen for therapeutic compounds.

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Single-Cell AnalysisT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesHumansIpilimumabLeukocytes, MononuclearIpilimumab

Identifiers

PMID39900891
PMCPMC11791207

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