Xiuxiu Liu, Lin Yang, Ling-Xiao Shao, Yang He, Gang Wu, Y. Bao, Nan-nan Lu, Dong-Mei Gong, Yangyang Lu, Tian-Tian Cui, Ninghe Sun, Dan-yang Chen, W. Shi, K. Fukunaga, Hong-Shan Chen, Zhong Chen, Feng Han, Ying-Mei Lu
{"title":"Endothelial Cdk5 deficit leads to the development of spontaneous epilepsy through CXCL1/CXCR2-mediated reactive astrogliosis","authors":"Xiuxiu Liu, Lin Yang, Ling-Xiao Shao, Yang He, Gang Wu, Y. Bao, Nan-nan Lu, Dong-Mei Gong, Yangyang Lu, Tian-Tian Cui, Ninghe Sun, Dan-yang Chen, W. Shi, K. Fukunaga, Hong-Shan Chen, Zhong Chen, Feng Han, Ying-Mei Lu","doi":"10.1084/jem.20180992","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20180992","url":null,"abstract":"Liu et al. reveal a key mechanism that mediating the transition from cerebrovascular damage to epilepsy. They identify the endothelial cyclin-dependent kinase 5 (CDK5) regulates astrocytic glutamate reuptake and increased glutamate synaptic function through CXCL1/CXCR2-mediated astrogliosis.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78339048","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Arkaitz Carracedo: If the scientific question is good, the result will be interesting.","authors":"Stephanie Houston","doi":"10.1084/jem.20191880","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20191880","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Arkaitz Carracedo is a principal investigator at the Association for Cooperative Research in Biosciences (CIC bioGUNE) in Spain; his laboratory focuses on signaling and metabolic alterations in cancer. Arkaitz has investigated the regulation of fatty acid oxidation in cancer cells and how these changes could be manipulated therapeutically. We chatted with Arkaitz to find out about his career in science so far.</p>","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6829601/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73071354","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Saskia Hemmers, Michail Schizas, Elham Azizi, Stanislav Dikiy, Yi Zhong, Yongqiang Feng, Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Alexander Y Rudensky
{"title":"IL-2 production by self-reactive CD4 thymocytes scales regulatory T cell generation in the thymus.","authors":"Saskia Hemmers, Michail Schizas, Elham Azizi, Stanislav Dikiy, Yi Zhong, Yongqiang Feng, Grégoire Altan-Bonnet, Alexander Y Rudensky","doi":"10.1084/jem.20190993","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20190993","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Regulatory T (T reg) cells, a specialized subset of CD4<sup>+</sup> T cells, are essential to prevent fatal autoimmunity. Expression of the T reg lineage-defining transcription factor Foxp3, and therefore their differentiation in the thymus, is dependent upon T cell receptor (TCR) and interleukin-2 (IL-2) signaling. Here, we report that the majority of IL-2-producing cells in the thymus are mature CD4 single-positive (CD4SP) thymocytes and that continuous IL-2 production sustained thymic T reg cell generation and control of systemic immune activation. Furthermore, single-cell RNA sequencing analysis of CD4 thymocyte subsets revealed that IL-2 was expressed in self-reactive CD4SP thymocytes, which also contain T reg precursor cells. Thus, our results suggest that the thymic T reg cell pool size is scaled by a key niche factor, IL-2, produced by self-reactive CD4SP thymocytes. This IL-2-dependent scaling of thymic T reg cell generation by overall self-reactivity of a mature post-selection thymic precursor pool may likely ensure adequate control of autoimmunity.</p>","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6829602/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73267196","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alvin Pratama, Alexandra Schnell, D. Mathis, C. Benoist
{"title":"Developmental and cellular age direct conversion of CD4+ T cells into RORγ+ or Helios+ colon Treg cells","authors":"Alvin Pratama, Alexandra Schnell, D. Mathis, C. Benoist","doi":"10.1084/jem.20190428","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20190428","url":null,"abstract":"Using a polyclonal Treg cell replacement system, Pratama et al. show that naive Tconv cells have the capacity to convert into both RORγ+ and Helios+ Treg cells in the colon. The developmental maturity (or cell states) of the starting Tconv cells determines the phenotype of the resulting pTreg cells.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79360490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Qiaoli Ma, Yann Decker, Andreas Müller, Benjamin V Ineichen, Steven T Proulx
{"title":"Clearance of cerebrospinal fluid from the sacral spine through lymphatic vessels.","authors":"Qiaoli Ma, Yann Decker, Andreas Müller, Benjamin V Ineichen, Steven T Proulx","doi":"10.1084/jem.20190351","DOIUrl":"10.1084/jem.20190351","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The pathways of circulation and clearance of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) in the spine have yet to be elucidated. We have recently shown with dynamic in vivo imaging that routes of outflow of CSF in mice occur along cranial nerves to extracranial lymphatic vessels. Here, we use near-infrared and magnetic resonance imaging to demonstrate the flow of CSF tracers within the spinal column and reveal the major spinal pathways for outflow to lymphatic vessels in mice. We found that after intraventricular injection, a spread of CSF tracers occurs within both the central canal and the spinal subarachnoid space toward the caudal end of the spine. Outflow of CSF tracers from the spinal subarachnoid space occurred predominantly from intravertebral regions of the sacral spine to lymphatic vessels, leading to sacral and iliac LNs. Clearance of CSF from the spine to lymphatic vessels may have significance for many conditions, including multiple sclerosis and spinal cord injury.</p>","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6829589/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82021352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Dehong Yan, Jing-Horng Wang, Honghong Sun, Aliyeh Zamani, Hongling Zhang, Weihong Chen, A. Tang, Qingguo Ruan, Xiaolu Yang, Youhai H. Chen, X. Wan
{"title":"TIPE2 specifies the functional polarization of myeloid-derived suppressor cells during tumorigenesis","authors":"Dehong Yan, Jing-Horng Wang, Honghong Sun, Aliyeh Zamani, Hongling Zhang, Weihong Chen, A. Tang, Qingguo Ruan, Xiaolu Yang, Youhai H. Chen, X. Wan","doi":"10.1084/jem.20182005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20182005","url":null,"abstract":"In this study, Yan et al. demonstrate that TIPE2, which is induced by tumor-derived ROS, promotes the functional polarization of protumoral myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) during tumorigenesis by specifying the expression of MDSC signature genes such as Cebpb.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77515241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Beibei Zhang, Hui Ma, Teka Khan, Ao Ma, Tao Li, Huan Zhang, Jianing Gao, Jianteng Zhou, Yang Li, Changping Yu, Jianqiang Bao, Asim Ali, G. Murtaza, Hao Yin, Qian Gao, Xiaohua Jiang, Feng Zhang, Chunyu Liu, Ihsan Khan, Muhammad Zubair, H. M. Hussain, R. Khan, A. Yousaf, Limin Yuan, Yan Lu, Xiaoling Xu, Yun Wang, Qizhao Tao, QiaoMei Hao, Hui Fang, Hongtao Cheng, Yuanwei Zhang, Qinghua Shi
{"title":"A DNAH17 missense variant causes flagella destabilization and asthenozoospermia","authors":"Beibei Zhang, Hui Ma, Teka Khan, Ao Ma, Tao Li, Huan Zhang, Jianing Gao, Jianteng Zhou, Yang Li, Changping Yu, Jianqiang Bao, Asim Ali, G. Murtaza, Hao Yin, Qian Gao, Xiaohua Jiang, Feng Zhang, Chunyu Liu, Ihsan Khan, Muhammad Zubair, H. M. Hussain, R. Khan, A. Yousaf, Limin Yuan, Yan Lu, Xiaoling Xu, Yun Wang, Qizhao Tao, QiaoMei Hao, Hui Fang, Hongtao Cheng, Yuanwei Zhang, Qinghua Shi","doi":"10.1084/jem.20182365","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20182365","url":null,"abstract":"Using mice modelling patients’ variant, this study demonstrates that a homozygous DNAH17 missense variant causes asthenozoospermia and specifically destabilizes microtubule doublets 4–7 in flagella, which could be largely due to the storage of sperm in epididymis.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80109251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Meng Deng, Haitao Guo, Jason W. Tam, Brandon M. Johnson, W. Brickey, James S. New, Austin R. Lenox, Hexin Shi, D. Golenbock, Beverly H. Koller, Karen P McKinnon, B. Beutler, Jenny P.-Y. Ting
{"title":"Platelet-activating factor (PAF) mediates NLRP3-NEK7 inflammasome induction independently of PAFR","authors":"Meng Deng, Haitao Guo, Jason W. Tam, Brandon M. Johnson, W. Brickey, James S. New, Austin R. Lenox, Hexin Shi, D. Golenbock, Beverly H. Koller, Karen P McKinnon, B. Beutler, Jenny P.-Y. Ting","doi":"10.1084/jem.20190111","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20190111","url":null,"abstract":"Platelet-activating factor (PAF) can drive pathophysiological inflammation, but the mechanism remains incompletely understood. Here, Deng et al. report that PAF activates the canonical NLRP3 inflammasome independently of its receptor PAFR.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72635852","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Yukawa, S. Jagannathan, Sushmitha Vallabh, A. Kartashov, Xiaoting Chen, M. Weirauch, A. Barski
{"title":"AP-1 activity induced by co-stimulation is required for chromatin opening during T cell activation","authors":"M. Yukawa, S. Jagannathan, Sushmitha Vallabh, A. Kartashov, Xiaoting Chen, M. Weirauch, A. Barski","doi":"10.1084/jem.20182009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20182009","url":null,"abstract":"AP-1 transcription factor is recruited to the majority of chromatin remodeling sites during T cell activation. The activity of AP-1 is induced by co-stimulation and is required for chromatin opening. The sites of remodeling overlap with risk loci of immunological diseases.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90262831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
H. Hosokawa, Maile Romero-Wolf, Qi Yang, Y. Motomura, D. Levanon, Y. Groner, K. Moro, Tomoaki Tanaka, E. Rothenberg
{"title":"Cell type–specific actions of Bcl11b in early T-lineage and group 2 innate lymphoid cells","authors":"H. Hosokawa, Maile Romero-Wolf, Qi Yang, Y. Motomura, D. Levanon, Y. Groner, K. Moro, Tomoaki Tanaka, E. Rothenberg","doi":"10.1084/jem.20190972","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.20190972","url":null,"abstract":"Bcl11b binds to distinctive genomic regions with different partners and regulates completely different target genes in pro-T and ILC2 cells. Despite these divergences in Bcl11b function, a shared enhancer supports initial Bcl11b locus opening in both pro-T and ILC2 lineages.","PeriodicalId":23015,"journal":{"name":"The Tokushima journal of experimental medicine","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-10-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82354579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}