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ReviewImmunological reviews2025

Molecular Insights Into MR1-Mediated T Cell Immunity: Lessons Learned and Unanswered Questions.

Wael Awad, Mohamed R Abdelaal, Victoria Letoga, James McCluskey, Jamie Rossjohn

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Review in Immunological reviews, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Wael AwadInfection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7597-2133
Mohamed R AbdelaalInfection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Victoria LetogaInfection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
James McCluskeyDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Jamie RossjohnInfection and Immunity Program and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.

Funding

Investigating the basis of MAIT cell antigen potencyR01AI148407 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE · PI MCCLUSKEY, JAMES · 2020 to 2024
$2.7M
ARC Discovery Grant DP240102905Australian Academy of science (ARC) DP250102065Australian ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE220101491Monash FMNHS Future Leader FellowshipNational Health and Medical Research Council of Australia NHMRC 2008981NHMRC Investigator 2008616NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI148407US National Institutes of Health (NIH) RO1 AI148407-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The major histocompatibility complex class-I related protein, MR1, is an evolutionarily conserved antigen presenting molecule that binds and displays organic metabolites to T cells, including mucosal associated invariant T (MAIT) cells and diverse MR1-restricted T cells (MR1T). Structural studies have elucidated how MR1 can accommodate a range of chemical scaffolds that arise from foreign, synthetic, and self-metabolites, although the full spectrum of metabolites that MR1 presents remains unclear. Presently, MAIT and MR1T cell recognition of MR1-antigen complexes represents a new immune recognition paradigm and is emerging as a critical player in protective immunity, aberrant immunity, tumor immunity, and tissue repair. Moreover, the limited allelic variation of MR1 makes it an attractive therapeutic target. This review will address the unique features and capability of the MR1 molecule to display several classes of small molecules for T cell surveillance. We will also address the molecular basis underlying MAIT and MR1T TCR recognition of MR1-binding ligands.

Indexed as

Histocompatibility Antigens Class IMinor Histocompatibility AntigensMucosal-Associated Invariant T CellsT-LymphocytesAnimalsAntigen PresentationHumansLigandsLymphocyte ActivationProtein BindingReceptors, Antigen, T-CellHistocompatibility Antigens Class ILigandsMinor Histocompatibility AntigensMR1 protein, humanReceptors, Antigen, T-CellMAIT and MR1‐restricted T cells and structural immunologymetabolite antigensMR1

Identifiers

PMID40338831
PMCPMC12058573

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