ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-15DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.016
Yan Wang, Di Xu, Shaorui Liu, Haoyang Li, Yinsheng Wang, Hui Li, Heping Xu, Danyang He
{"title":"Cognate interaction-dependent pathogenicity of meningeal B cells drives neuroinflammation relapse","authors":"Yan Wang, Di Xu, Shaorui Liu, Haoyang Li, Yinsheng Wang, Hui Li, Heping Xu, Danyang He","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.016","url":null,"abstract":"B cells are central drivers of central nervous system (CNS) autoimmune disorders, including multiple sclerosis (MS). Although the brain meninges normally maintain a stringently non-self-reactive B cell repertoire, how disruption of this local immune tolerance contributes to pathology remains unclear. Here, we demonstrated that autoreactive B cells at the brain border accelerated neuroinflammation by directly engaging encephalitogenic T cells. Intracisterna magna injections, used to selectively manipulate meningeal B cell populations in the 2D2 transfer experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis (EAE) model, revealed that autoreactive B-T interactions in the leptomeninges amplified a local pro-inflammatory loop, promoting neutrophil recruitment and endothelial activation before disease onset. This mechanism required major histocompatibility complex class II (MHC class II) expression by B cells and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) production by T cells. Furthermore, targeted depletion of brain-localized B cells attenuated EAE relapses in a passive EAE model. These findings establish brain-localized autoreactive B cells as crucial initiators of neuroinflammation and promising therapeutic targets in relapsing MS.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144629957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-14DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.014
Maximilian Julius Lautenbach, Katja Wyss, Victor Yman, Fariba Foroogh, Donya Satarvandi, Zaynab Mousavian, Klara Sondén, Jun Wang, María Bueno Álvez, Sofia Bergström, Peter Nilsson, Fredrik Edfors, Petter Brodin, Mathias Uhlén, Christopher Sundling, Anna Färnert
{"title":"Systems analysis of clinical malaria reveals proteomic perturbation and innate-adaptive crosstalk linked to disease severity","authors":"Maximilian Julius Lautenbach, Katja Wyss, Victor Yman, Fariba Foroogh, Donya Satarvandi, Zaynab Mousavian, Klara Sondén, Jun Wang, María Bueno Álvez, Sofia Bergström, Peter Nilsson, Fredrik Edfors, Petter Brodin, Mathias Uhlén, Christopher Sundling, Anna Färnert","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.014","url":null,"abstract":"Malaria presents with varying degrees of severity. To improve clinical management and prevention, it is crucial to understand the pathogenesis and host response. We analyzed 1,463 plasma proteins during and after acute <em>Plasmodium falciparum</em> malaria in adult travelers and linked responses to peripheral immune cells by integrating with single-cell RNA sequencing (RNA-seq) data from a subset of donors. We identified extensive perturbations in over 250 proteins with diverse origins, including many not previously analyzed in malaria patients, such as hormones, circulating receptors, and intracellular or membrane-bound proteins from affected tissues. The protein profiles clustered participants according to disease severity, enabling the identification of a compressed 11-protein signature enriched in severe malaria. Conceptually, this study advances our understanding of malaria by linking systemic proteomic changes to immune cell communication and organ-specific responses. This resource, which includes an interactive platform to explore data, opens new avenues for hypothesis generation, biomarker discovery, and therapeutic target identification.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144622369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.008
Máté Kiss, Mikael J. Pittet
{"title":"Mitochondrial control of macrophage polarity in tumors","authors":"Máté Kiss, Mikael J. Pittet","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.008","url":null,"abstract":"Macrophages can foster pro- or anti-tumor immune environments. In this issue of <em>Immunity</em>, Clark et al. report that altering the composition of the mitochondrial electron transport chain reprograms macrophages toward a CXCL9<sup>hi</sup>SPP1<sup>lo</sup> immunostimulatory phenotype, thus amplifying anti-tumor immunity.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"196 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144578498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.009
José Pedro Loureiro, Gennaro De Libero
{"title":"The Three Graces of T cell receptor Vγ9Vδ2 chain activation","authors":"José Pedro Loureiro, Gennaro De Libero","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.009","url":null,"abstract":"T cells expressing the T cell receptor (TCR) Vγ9Vδ2 chains recognize butyrophilins (BTNs) in the presence of phosphorylated antigens (pAgs). In this issue of <em>Immunity</em>, Zhang et al. and Zhu et al. illustrate the mechanism of TCR-BTN interaction using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM). As pAgs accumulate, BTN heterotetramers assemble to bind to and activate the TCR Vγ9Vδ2.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"109 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144578078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.012
Brian L. Kelsall
{"title":"RORγt+ dendritic cells and regulatory T cells: A couple hiding in the shadows","authors":"Brian L. Kelsall","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.012","url":null,"abstract":"The induction of CD4<sup>+</sup>Foxp3<sup>+</sup> regulatory T cells (pTreg cells) in the intestine is important for preventing allergic and inflammatory disease, but which cells drive their differentiation is less clear. Three manuscripts in <em>Nature</em>, <em>Cell</em>, and <em>Science</em> conclude that one population of RORγt<sup>+</sup> “dendritic cells” (DCs) is essential for both food- and microbe-specific pTreg cell responses in the intestine.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144578337","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.007
Teresa Gerhardt, Cameron S. McAlpine
{"title":"Neuro-immune ChATing protects the heart","authors":"Teresa Gerhardt, Cameron S. McAlpine","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.007","url":null,"abstract":"Autonomic imbalance is central to heart failure (HF), but the mechanistic impact of parasympathetic withdrawal has remained unclear. Li, Zhang, Li, et al. demonstrate that targeted optogenetic stimulation of choline acetyltransferase (ChAT)-expressing neurons in the dorsal vagal motor nucleus (DVMN) protects against HF by reprogramming inflammatory CCRL2<sup>+</sup> cardiac macrophages through nicotinic acetylcholine receptor α7nAChR signaling.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"127 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144578079","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-08DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.013
Artun Bülbül, Julian Hönninger, Veit R. Buchholz
{"title":"Who is who in differentiation of Trm-like TIL","authors":"Artun Bülbül, Julian Hönninger, Veit R. Buchholz","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.013","url":null,"abstract":"Tumor-infiltrating CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells with a tissue-resident memory phenotype have been described in both mice and humans. In this issue of <em>Immunity</em>, Green et al. provide a detailed analysis of the transcriptional and epigenetic regulation of these cells in relation to bona fide tissue-resident and exhausted T cells found in acutely resolving and chronic viral infections.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"153 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144578526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-07DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.001
Etienne Humblin, Isabel Korpas, Nataliya Prokhnevska, Abishek Vaidya, Dan Filipescu, Jiahua Lu, Verena van der Heide, Carlos Alberto de Carvalho Fraga, Tesia Bobrowski, Adam Marks, Matthew D. Park, Helder I. Nakaya, Emily Bernstein, Brian D. Brown, Amaia Lujambio, David Dominguez-Sola, Brad R. Rosenberg, Alice O. Kamphorst
{"title":"The costimulatory molecule ICOS limits memory-like properties and function of exhausted PD-1+CD8+ T cells","authors":"Etienne Humblin, Isabel Korpas, Nataliya Prokhnevska, Abishek Vaidya, Dan Filipescu, Jiahua Lu, Verena van der Heide, Carlos Alberto de Carvalho Fraga, Tesia Bobrowski, Adam Marks, Matthew D. Park, Helder I. Nakaya, Emily Bernstein, Brian D. Brown, Amaia Lujambio, David Dominguez-Sola, Brad R. Rosenberg, Alice O. Kamphorst","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.001","url":null,"abstract":"During persistent antigen stimulation, CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell responses are maintained by progenitor exhausted CD8<sup>+</sup> T (Tpex) cells. Tpex cells respond to blockade of the inhibitory receptor programmed cell death-1 (PD-1), and regulation of their differentiation is critical for immunotherapies. Tpex cells highly express inducible costimulator (ICOS), but how ICOS modulates PD-1<sup>+</sup>CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells is not clear. During chronic infection, intrinsic ICOS deficiency increased number and quality of virus-specific CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells. Loss of ICOS potentiated activity of the transcription factor forkhead box O1 (FoxO1) and memory-like features of Tpex cells. ICOS-deficient Tpex cells were poised to generate effecor-like cells with improved survival and cytokine production. ICOS-ligand (ICOSL) blockade expanded effector-like PD-1<sup>+</sup>CD8<sup>+</sup> T cells, reduced viral load, and improved response to PD-1 blockade. Similarly, in a mouse model of hepatocellular carcinoma, ICOS inhibition enhanced tumor-specific CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell responses and tumor control by PD-1 blockade. Overall, we show that sustained ICOS costimulation limits CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell responses during chronic antigen exposure.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"21 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144568951","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-07-02DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.002
Benjamin A. Devlin, Dang M. Nguyen, Diogo Ribeiro, Gabriel Grullon, Madeline J. Clark, Amelie Finn, Alexis M. Ceasrine, Seneca Oxendine, Martha Deja, Ashka Shah, Shomik Ati, Anne Schaefer, Staci D. Bilbo
{"title":"Excitatory-neuron-derived interleukin-34 supports cortical developmental microglia function","authors":"Benjamin A. Devlin, Dang M. Nguyen, Diogo Ribeiro, Gabriel Grullon, Madeline J. Clark, Amelie Finn, Alexis M. Ceasrine, Seneca Oxendine, Martha Deja, Ashka Shah, Shomik Ati, Anne Schaefer, Staci D. Bilbo","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.002","url":null,"abstract":"Neuron-microglia interactions dictate the development of neuronal circuits in the brain. However, the factors that regulate these processes across development are largely unknown. Here, we found that interleukin-34 (IL-34), a neuron-derived cytokine, was upregulated in early development and maintained neuroprotective, mature microglia in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) of mice. IL-34 expression increases in the second week of post-natal life and was primarily produced by excitatory neurons. Excitatory-neuron-specific deletion of IL-34 reduced microglia numbers and microglial TMEM119 expression and increased aberrant microglial phagocytosis of excitatory thalamocortical synapses in the ACC. Acute, low-dose blocking of IL-34 at post-natal day 15 similarly decreased microglial TMEM119 and aberrantly increased microglial phagocytosis of synapses. Viral overexpression of IL-34 induced TMEM119 expression and prevented appropriate microglial phagocytosis of synapses. These findings establish IL-34 as a key regulator of neuron-microglia crosstalk in post-natal brain development, controlling both microglial maturation and synapse engulfment.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"647 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144533905","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ImmunityPub Date : 2025-06-30DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.010
Chirag H. Patel, Jonathan D. Powell
{"title":"More TOR: The expanding role of mTOR in regulating immune responses","authors":"Chirag H. Patel, Jonathan D. Powell","doi":"10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.immuni.2025.06.010","url":null,"abstract":"The mammalian/mechanistic target of rapamycin (mTOR) is an evolutionarily conserved multi-node signaling pathway that integrates critical environmental cues to control cellular growth. Decades worth of studies have intricately dissected the mTOR pathway to identify regulatory signals that are essential for regulating immune cell activation, differentiation, and function. As the mTOR field continues to evolve, so too does our understanding of these new findings in immune cells. Our group and others have previously reviewed the role of mTOR in regulating specific immune responses. Here, we provide an updated review of our current understanding of mTOR’s comprehensive role in immune cell biology. In addition, we offer emerging ideas and areas of investigation where mTOR might be further explored and impactfully targeted to improve overall human health given mTOR’s prominent role in aging and cancer.","PeriodicalId":13269,"journal":{"name":"Immunity","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":32.4,"publicationDate":"2025-06-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144516235","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}