{"title":"STAT3 gain of function: Too much of a good thing in the skin!","authors":"Cindy S Ma, Stuart G Tangye","doi":"10.1084/jem.20240849","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20240849","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Germline activating mutations in STAT3 cause a multi-systemic autoimmune and autoinflammatory condition. By studying a mouse model, Toth et al. (https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20232091) propose a role for dysregulated IL-22 production by Th17 cells in causing some aspects of immune-mediated skin inflammation in human STAT3 GOF syndrome.</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 8","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11215521/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141468423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Send it, receive it, quick erase it: A mouse model to decipher chemokine communication.","authors":"Leen Hermans, Timothy E O'Sullivan","doi":"10.1084/jem.20240582","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20240582","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A method to precisely determine which cells respond to chemokines in vivo is currently lacking. A novel class of dual fluorescence reporter mice could help identify cells that produce and/or sense a given chemokine in vitro and in vivo (Rodrigo et al. 2024. J. Exp. Med.https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20231814).</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11076807/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140857541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Tamara Kögl, Hsin-Fang Chang, Julian Staniek, Samuel C C Chiang, Gudrun Thoulass, Jessica Lao, Kristoffer Weißert, Viviane Dettmer-Monaco, Kerstin Geiger, Paul T Manna, Vivien Beziat, Mana Momenilandi, Szu-Min Tu, Selina J Keppler, Varsha Pattu, Philipp Wolf, Laurence Kupferschmid, Stefan Tholen, Laura E Covill, Karolina Ebert, Tobias Straub, Miriam Groß, Ruth Gather, Helena Engel, Ulrich Salzer, Christoph Schell, Sarah Maier, Kai Lehmberg, Tatjana I Cornu, Hanspeter Pircher, Mohammad Shahrooei, Nima Parvaneh, Roland Elling, Marta Rizzi, Yenan T Bryceson, Stephan Ehl, Peter Aichele, Sandra Ammann
{"title":"Patients and mice with deficiency in the SNARE protein SYNTAXIN-11 have a secondary B cell defect.","authors":"Tamara Kögl, Hsin-Fang Chang, Julian Staniek, Samuel C C Chiang, Gudrun Thoulass, Jessica Lao, Kristoffer Weißert, Viviane Dettmer-Monaco, Kerstin Geiger, Paul T Manna, Vivien Beziat, Mana Momenilandi, Szu-Min Tu, Selina J Keppler, Varsha Pattu, Philipp Wolf, Laurence Kupferschmid, Stefan Tholen, Laura E Covill, Karolina Ebert, Tobias Straub, Miriam Groß, Ruth Gather, Helena Engel, Ulrich Salzer, Christoph Schell, Sarah Maier, Kai Lehmberg, Tatjana I Cornu, Hanspeter Pircher, Mohammad Shahrooei, Nima Parvaneh, Roland Elling, Marta Rizzi, Yenan T Bryceson, Stephan Ehl, Peter Aichele, Sandra Ammann","doi":"10.1084/jem.20221122","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20221122","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>SYNTAXIN-11 (STX11) is a SNARE protein that mediates the fusion of cytotoxic granules with the plasma membrane at the immunological synapses of CD8 T or NK cells. Autosomal recessive inheritance of deleterious STX11 variants impairs cytotoxic granule exocytosis, causing familial hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis type 4 (FHL-4). In several FHL-4 patients, we also observed hypogammaglobulinemia, elevated frequencies of naive B cells, and increased double-negative DN2:DN1 B cell ratios, indicating a hitherto unrecognized role of STX11 in humoral immunity. Detailed analysis of Stx11-deficient mice revealed impaired CD4 T cell help for B cells, associated with disrupted germinal center formation, reduced isotype class switching, and low antibody avidity. Mechanistically, Stx11-/- CD4 T cells exhibit impaired membrane fusion leading to reduced CD107a and CD40L surface mobilization and diminished IL-2 and IL-10 secretion. Our findings highlight a critical role of STX11 in SNARE-mediated membrane trafficking and vesicle exocytosis in CD4 T cells, important for successful CD4 T cell-B cell interactions. Deficiency in STX11 impairs CD4 T cell-dependent B cell differentiation and humoral responses.</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11082451/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140897958","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Stress relief of chemo illness.","authors":"Adam J Rose, Sarah H Lockie","doi":"10.1084/jem.20240545","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20240545","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>New studies (Tang et al. 2024. J. Exp. Med.https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20231395) describe a liver stress pathway that is activated by certain chemotherapeutic drugs, which in turn induces a peptide hormone which partially mediates the lower food intake and body weight loss during chemotherapy treatment.</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11075642/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140851109","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lingzi Hong, Tomasz Herjan, Xing Chen, Leah L Zagore, Katarzyna Bulek, Han Wang, Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, Donny D Licatalosi, Xiaoxia Li, Xiao Li
{"title":"Act1 drives chemoresistance via regulation of antioxidant RNA metabolism and redox homeostasis.","authors":"Lingzi Hong, Tomasz Herjan, Xing Chen, Leah L Zagore, Katarzyna Bulek, Han Wang, Chi-Fu Jeffrey Yang, Donny D Licatalosi, Xiaoxia Li, Xiao Li","doi":"10.1084/jem.20231442","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20231442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The IL-17 receptor adaptor molecule Act1, an RNA-binding protein, plays a critical role in IL-17-mediated cancer progression. Here, we report a novel mechanism of how IL-17/Act1 induces chemoresistance by modulating redox homeostasis through epitranscriptomic regulation of antioxidant RNA metabolism. Transcriptome-wide mapping of direct Act1-RNA interactions revealed that Act1 binds to the 5'UTR of antioxidant mRNAs and Wilms' tumor 1-associating protein (WTAP), a key regulator in m6A methyltransferase complex. Strikingly, Act1's binding sites are located in proximity to m6A modification sites, which allows Act1 to promote the recruitment of elF3G for cap-independent translation. Loss of Act1's RNA binding activity or Wtap knockdown abolished IL-17-induced m6A modification and translation of Wtap and antioxidant mRNAs, indicating a feedforward mechanism of the Act1-WTAP loop. We then developed antisense oligonucleotides (Wtap ASO) that specifically disrupt Act1's binding to Wtap mRNA, abolishing IL-17/Act1-WTAP-mediated antioxidant protein production during chemotherapy. Wtap ASO substantially increased the antitumor efficacy of cisplatin, demonstrating a potential therapeutic strategy for chemoresistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11167376/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141300724","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jonathan J Hodgins, John Abou-Hamad, Colin Edward O'Dwyer, Ash Hagerman, Edward Yakubovich, Christiano Tanese de Souza, Marie Marotel, Ariel Buchler, Saleh Fadel, Maria M Park, Claire Fong-McMaster, Mathieu F Crupi, Olivia Joan Makinson, Reem Kurdieh, Reza Rezaei, Harkirat Singh Dhillon, Carolina S Ilkow, John C Bell, Mary-Ellen Harper, Benjamin H Rotstein, Rebecca C Auer, Barbara C Vanderhyden, Luc A Sabourin, Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault, David P Cook, Michele Ardolino
{"title":"PD-L1 promotes oncolytic virus infection via a metabolic shift that inhibits the type I IFN pathway.","authors":"Jonathan J Hodgins, John Abou-Hamad, Colin Edward O'Dwyer, Ash Hagerman, Edward Yakubovich, Christiano Tanese de Souza, Marie Marotel, Ariel Buchler, Saleh Fadel, Maria M Park, Claire Fong-McMaster, Mathieu F Crupi, Olivia Joan Makinson, Reem Kurdieh, Reza Rezaei, Harkirat Singh Dhillon, Carolina S Ilkow, John C Bell, Mary-Ellen Harper, Benjamin H Rotstein, Rebecca C Auer, Barbara C Vanderhyden, Luc A Sabourin, Marie-Claude Bourgeois-Daigneault, David P Cook, Michele Ardolino","doi":"10.1084/jem.20221721","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20221721","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>While conventional wisdom initially postulated that PD-L1 serves as the inert ligand for PD-1, an emerging body of literature suggests that PD-L1 has cell-intrinsic functions in immune and cancer cells. In line with these studies, here we show that engagement of PD-L1 via cellular ligands or agonistic antibodies, including those used in the clinic, potently inhibits the type I interferon pathway in cancer cells. Hampered type I interferon responses in PD-L1-expressing cancer cells resulted in enhanced efficacy of oncolytic viruses in vitro and in vivo. Consistently, PD-L1 expression marked tumor explants from cancer patients that were best infected by oncolytic viruses. Mechanistically, PD-L1 promoted a metabolic shift characterized by enhanced glycolysis rate that resulted in increased lactate production. In turn, lactate inhibited type I IFN responses. In addition to adding mechanistic insight into PD-L1 intrinsic function, our results will also help guide the numerous ongoing efforts to combine PD-L1 antibodies with oncolytic virotherapy in clinical trials.</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":12.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11176258/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141310775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ximena León-Lara, Alina S Fichtner, Maike Willers, Tao Yang, Katharina Schaper, Lennart Riemann, Jennifer Schöning, Anna Harms, Vicente Almeida, Anja Schimrock, Anika Janssen, Laura Ospina-Quintero, Constantin von Kaisenberg, Reinhold Förster, Matthias Eberl, Manuela F Richter, Sabine Pirr, Dorothee Viemann, Sarina Ravens
{"title":"γδ T cell profiling in a cohort of preterm infants reveals elevated frequencies of CD83+ γδ T cells in sepsis.","authors":"Ximena León-Lara, Alina S Fichtner, Maike Willers, Tao Yang, Katharina Schaper, Lennart Riemann, Jennifer Schöning, Anna Harms, Vicente Almeida, Anja Schimrock, Anika Janssen, Laura Ospina-Quintero, Constantin von Kaisenberg, Reinhold Förster, Matthias Eberl, Manuela F Richter, Sabine Pirr, Dorothee Viemann, Sarina Ravens","doi":"10.1084/jem.20231987","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20231987","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Preterm infants are at high risk of developing neonatal sepsis. γδ T cells are thought to be an important set of effector cells in neonates. Here, γδ T cells were investigated in a longitudinal cohort of preterm neonates using next-generation sequencing, flow cytometry, and functional assays. During the first year of life, the Vγ9Vδ2 T cell subset showed dynamic phenotypic changes and elevated levels of fetal-derived Vγ9Vδ2 T cells were evident in infants with sepsis. Single-cell transcriptomics identified HLA-DRhiCD83+ γδ T cells in neonatal sepsis, which expressed genes related to antigen presentation. In vitro assays showed that CD83 was expressed on activated Vγ9Vδ2 T cells in preterm and term neonates, but not in adults. In contrast, activation of adult Vγ9Vδ2 T cells enhanced CD86 expression, which was presumably the key receptor to induce CD4 T cell proliferation. Together, we provide a map of the maturation of γδ T cells after preterm birth and highlight their phenotypic diversity in infections.</p>","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11098939/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140944456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Clarissa Campbell, Maja C Funk, Yuki Hattori, Wei Hu, Jana Jeschke, Colleen M Lau, Guang Sheng Ling, Siqi Liu, Verónica Lloréns-Rico, Elisa Nemes
{"title":"Women in STEM becoming independent: The journey to independence is an immensely gratifying odyssey.","authors":"Clarissa Campbell, Maja C Funk, Yuki Hattori, Wei Hu, Jana Jeschke, Colleen M Lau, Guang Sheng Ling, Siqi Liu, Verónica Lloréns-Rico, Elisa Nemes","doi":"10.1084/jem.20240842","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20240842","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":15760,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Experimental Medicine","volume":"221 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":15.3,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11167372/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141300725","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}