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- Kumar, R, et al.
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AUTOREACTIVE CD4+T CELLS AND THEIR TCR REPERTOIRE IN PR3-ANCA ASSOCIATED VASCULITIS
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Ingår i: ANNALS OF THE RHEUMATIC DISEASES. - : BMJ. - 0003-4967 .- 1468-2060. ; 80, s. 1-1
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ANCA-associated vasculitis (AAV) with proteinase 3 (PR3) ANCA is genetically associated with HLA-DP [1], is often relapsing in nature, and has a predisposition for kidneys, lungs and ear-nose-throat involvement [2]. Despite the presence of PR3+ANCA, indicating CD4+T-cell help in the disease, the knowledge about autoreactive CD4+T cells is scarce. Activated T cells have been shown at site of inflammation [3] and involvement of proinflammatory cytokines in circulation is also reported [4, 5].Objectives:Identification of autoreactive T cells may help to identify the drivers of the immune responses and chronicity. We therefore aimed to investigate PR3-specific CD4+T-cell responses in peripheral blood of AAV patients with a focus on both phenotype and T-cell receptor (TCR) repertoires.Methods:The study included sixty-six patients: 26 with active PR3 autoantibody+ AAV, 21 with inactive but PR3+ AAV and 19 with inactive PR3- AAV. In-vitro cultures with PR3 protein were established to assess antigen-specific cytokine responses in a 3-color fluorospot assay. Deep immunophenotyping was performed by flow cytometry. Antigen-responsive CD4+ T cells were isolated and single cell TCRαβ sequences were generated and analyzed from PR3+ AAV patients (n=5) using a previously published protocol [6].Results:PBMCs from AAV patients demonstrated an HLA-DP associated cytokine responses to PR3 stimulation including IFN-γ and IL-10, but not IL-17A. This T-cell autoreactivity was found to be confined to a highly differentiated CD4+ T cell population characterized by perforin and GPR56 expression, implicating a cytotoxic feature of the response. Active disease involved a reduction in expression of several markers associated with cytotoxicity amongst the CD4+GPR56+ T cells. Their frequency was also negatively associated with the doses of prednisolone. A similar phenotype was shared with T cells activated by human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) peptides in the same patient cohort. Single cell sequencing of paired alpha beta T-cell receptors (TCRs) revealed different patterns of gene usage between PR3 and HCMV reactive T cells. Moreover, we could identify shared (public) PR3-reactive T-cell clones between different HLA-DPB1*04:01+ patients.Conclusion:PR3 is an autoantigen which provokes ANCA responses in AAV patients. Our study identified PR3-reactive CD4+ T cells at the level of their phenotype and TCR repertoire. The autoreactive CD4+ T cells, present in both active and inactive disease, implicate chronic antigen exposure and the persistence of long-lived T-cell clones. The presence of public autoreactive clones between HLA-DPB1*04:01+ patients suggests an active role for these cells in pathogenesis of AAV and validates the link with predisposed genotype.References:[1]Lyons PA, Rayner TF, Trivedi S, Holle JU, Watts RA, Jayne DR, et al. Genetically distinct subsets within ANCA-associated vasculitis. New England Journal of Medicine. 2012; 367(3):214-223.[2]Kumar Sharma R, Lövström B, Gunnarsson I, Malmström V. Proteinase 3 autoreactivity in Anti-Neutrophil Cytoplasmic Antibody-associated vasculitis–immunological versus clinical features. Scandinavian Journal of Immunology. 2020:e12958.[3]Wilde B, Thewissen M, Damoiseaux J, van Paassen P, Witzke O, Tervaert JWCJAr, et al. T cells in ANCA-associated vasculitis: what can we learn from lesional versus circulating T cells? 2010; 12(1):204.[4]Hoffmann JC, Patschan D, Dihazi H, Müller C, Schwarze K, Henze E, et al. Cytokine profiling in anti neutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-associated vasculitis: a cross-sectional cohort study. Rheumatology international. 2019; 39(11):1907-1917.[5]Berti A, Warner R, Johnson K, Cornec D, Schroeder D, Kabat B, et al. Circulating Cytokine Profiles and ANCA Specificity in Patients with ANCA-Associated Vasculitis. Arthritis & rheumatology (Hoboken, NJ). 2018; 70(7):1114.[6]Han A, Glanville J, Hansmann L, Davis MM. Linking T-cell receptor sequence to functional phenotype at the single-cell level. Nature biotechnology. 2014; 32(7):684-692.Disclosure of Interests:None declared
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- Bruchfeld, A, et al.
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Macrophage MIF in ANCA-AAV
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Ingår i: CLINICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL IMMUNOLOGY. - 0009-9104. ; 164, s. 143-143
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- Pati, Avik K., et al.
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Tuning the Baird aromatic triplet-state energy of cyclooctatetraene to maximize the self-healing mechanism in organic fluorophores
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. - : National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). - 0027-8424 .- 1091-6490. ; 117:39, s. 24305-24315
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Bright, photostable, and nontoxic fluorescent contrast agents are critical for biological imaging. "Self-healing" dyes, in which triplet states are intramolecularly quenched, enable fluorescence imaging by increasing fluorophore brightness and longevity, while simultaneously reducing the generation of reactive oxygen species that promote phototoxicity. Here, we systematically examine the self-healing mechanism in cyanine-class organic fluorophores spanning the visible spectrum. We show that the Baird aromatic triplet-state energy of cyclooctatetraene can be physically altered to achieve order of magnitude enhancements in fluorophore brightness and signal-to-noise ratio in both the presence and absence of oxygen. We leverage these advances to achieve direct measurements of large-scale conformational dynamics within single molecules at submillisecond resolution using wide-field illumination and camera-based detection methods. These findings demonstrate the capacity to image functionally relevant conformational processes in biological systems in the kilohertz regime at physiological oxygen concentrations and shed important light on the multivariate parameters critical to self-healing organic fluorophore design.
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- Paul, Dirk S., et al.
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Increased DNA methylation variability in type 1 diabetes across three immune effector cell types
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Ingår i: Nature Communications. - : Springer Science and Business Media LLC. - 2041-1723. ; 7
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The incidence of type 1 diabetes (T1D) has substantially increased over the past decade, suggesting a role for non-genetic factors such as epigenetic mechanisms in disease development. Here we present an epigenome-wide association study across 406,365 CpGs in 52 monozygotic twin pairs discordant for T1D in three immune effector cell types. We observe a substantial enrichment of differentially variable CpG positions (DVPs) in T1D twins when compared with their healthy co-twins and when compared with healthy, unrelated individuals. These T1D-associated DVPs are found to be temporally stable and enriched at gene regulatory elements. Integration with cell type-specific gene regulatory circuits highlight pathways involved in immune cell metabolism and the cell cycle, including mTOR signalling. Evidence from cord blood of newborns who progress to overt T1D suggests that the DVPs likely emerge after birth. Our findings, based on 772 methylomes, implicate epigenetic changes that could contribute to disease pathogenesis in T1D.
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