JCI Insight:
March 8, 2024, issue
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On the cover:
Kim et al. report that chimeric antigen receptor–modified (CAR-modified) macrophages targeting β amyloid (Aβ) can target and degrade amyloid plaques in vivo in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease. The cover image shows Aβ-targeting CAR macrophages (green) spread within the hippocampus of an aged, amyloid plaque–laden (white) mouse brain. Image credit: Ping Yan.
Bone biology
A Hurler patient-derived cartilaginous pellet-based system recapitulates disease-associated skeletal alterations and highlights dysregulation of molecular pathways that may contribute to the altered phenotype.
Samantha Donsante, Alice Pievani, Biagio Palmisano, Melissa Finamore, Grazia Fazio, Alessandro Corsi, Andrea Biondi, Shunji Tomatsu, Rocco Piazza, Marta Serafini, and Mara Riminucci
COVID-19
A vaccine that iduces only SARS-CoV-2-S-specific T cells provides marked protection against viral challenge, supporting effectiveness of current COVID-19 vaccines against SARS-CoV-2 variants.
Juan Shi, Jian Zheng, Xiujuan Zhang, Wanbo Tai, Ryan Compas, Jack Deno, Natalie Jachym, Abhishek K. Verma, Gang Wang, Xiaoqing Guan, Abby E. Odle, Yushun Wan, Fang Li, Stanley Perlman, Liang Qiao, and Lanying Du
Cardiology
Sectm1a regulates macrophage efferocytosis in ischemic/reperfused hearts.
Xiaohong Wang, Wa Du, Yutian Li, Hui-Hui Yang, Yu Zhang, Rubab Akbar, Hannah Morgan, Tianqing Peng, Jing Chen, Sakthivel Sadayappan, Yueh-Chiang Hu, Yanbo Fan, Wei Huang, and Guo-Chang Fan
The adaptive response of the right ventricle following left ventricle infarction at postnatal day 1 enables marked cardiac regeneration and full functional recovery.
Tianyuan Hu, Mona Malek Mohammadi, Fabian Ebach, Michael Hesse, Michael I. Kotlikoff, and Bernd K. Fleischmann
Genetics
ADAMTSL2 variant-espressing models replicate the phenotypic heterogeneity of geleophysic dysplasia in mice, with severity linked to impaired ADAMTSL2 secretion.
Vladimir Camarena, Monique M. Williams, Alejo A. Morales, Mohammad F. Zafeer, Okan V. Kilic, Ali Kamiar, Clemer Abad, Monica A. Rasmussen, Laurence M. Briski, LéShon Peart, Guney Bademci, Deborah S. Barbouth, Sarah Smithson, Gaofeng Wang, Lina A. Shehadeh, Katherina Walz, and Mustafa Tekin
A2 methylation of GNAS is regulated by STX16 and NESP55 imprinting control regions, and GNAS A2 methylation status enables pseudohypoparathyroidism type 1B categorization.
Yorihiro Iwasaki, Monica Reyes, Harald Jüppner, and Murat Bastepe
SON haploinsufficient mice serve as an animal model of Zhu-Tokita-Takenouchi-Kim syndrome and identify indispensable SON functions in multi-organ development and hematopoiesis.
Lana Vukadin, Bohye Park, Mostafa Mohamed, Huashi Li, Amr Elkholy, Alex Torrelli-Diljohn, Jung-Hyun Kim, Kyuho Jeong, James M. Murphy, Caitlin A. Harvey, Sophia Dunlap, Leah Gehrs, Hanna Lee, Hyung-Gyoon Kim, Jay Prakash Sah, Seth N. Lee, Denise Stanford, Robert A. Barrington, Jeremy B. Foote, Anna G. Sorace, Robert S. Welner, Blake E. Hildreth III, Ssang-Taek Steve Lim, and Eun-Young Erin Ahn
Hematology
HMGB1 increases platelet surface P2Y12 and promotes platelet ADP release, thereby enhancing ADP-mediated platelet activation in healthy subjects and individuals with sickle cell disease.
Deirdre Nolfi-Donegan, Gowtham K. Annarapu, Claudette St. Croix, Michael Calderon, Cheryl A. Hillery, and Sruti Shiva
Immunology
In the aged immune system, naive CD4+ T cells are selected for increased expression of PREX1 that endows them with enhanced IL7 responsiveness.
Huimin Zhang, Hirohisa Okuyama, Abhinav Jain, Rohit R. Jadhav, Bowen Wu, Ines Sturmlechner, Jose Morales, Shozo Ohtsuki, Cornelia M. Weyand, and Jrg J. Goronzy
TNFR2 is a driver of the key characteristics of effector/memory Treg cells in a wide range of non-lymphoid tissues in health and disease.
Mark Mensink, Lotte J. Verleng, Ellen Schrama, George M.C. Janssen, Rayman T.N. Tjokrodirijo, Peter A. van Veelen, Qinyue Jiang, M. Fernanda Pascutti, Marie-Louise van der Hoorn, Michael Eikmans, Sander de Kivit, and Jannie Borst
Iron regulatory proteins 1 and 2 modulate the immune response and tissue damage during uropathogenic Escherichia coli-mediated orchitis.
Niraj Ghatpande, Aileen Harrer, Bar Azoulay-Botzer, Noga Guttmann-Raviv, Sudhanshu Bhushan, Andreas Meinhardt, and Esther G. Meyron-Holtz
Mucosal-associated invariant T cells have an intrinsic regulatory function that suppresses alloreactive T cell responses that protect against GVHD in vitro and in vivo.
Nana Talvard-Balland, Marion Lambert, Mathieu F. Chevalier, Norbert Minet, Marion Salou, Marie Tourret, Armelle Bohineust, Idan Milo, Véronique Parietti, Thomas Yvorra, Gérard Socié, Olivier Lantz, and Sophie Caillat-Zucman
The negative mTOR regulator DDIT4L has a developmental role in human neonatal myeloid cell by limiting cytokine production and reconfiguring mitochondrial dynamics.
Christina Michalski, Claire Cheung, Ju Hee Oh, Emma Ackermann, Constantin R. Popescu, Anne-Sophie Archambault, Martin A. Prusinkiewicz, Rachel Da Silva, Abdelilah Majdoubi, Marina Viñeta Paramo, Rui Yang Xu, Frederic Reicherz, Annette E. Patterson, Liam Golding, Ashish A. Sharma, Chinten J. Lim, Paul C. Orban, Ramon I. Klein Geltink, and Pascal M. Lavoie
IL-1 promotes antibody production after germinal center T and B cell interaction, while IL-1 receptor 2 from regulatory cells inhibits IL-1 and reduces antibody generation.
Katerina Pyrillou, Melanie Humphry, Lauren A. Kitt, Amanda Rodgers, Meritxell Nus, Martin R. Bennett, Kenneth G.C. Smith, Paul A. Lyons, Ziad Mallat, and Murray C.H. Clarke
Inflammation
The purine nucleoside phosphorylase inhibitor 8-aminoguanine reduces pain and prevents damage in a rat model of hemorrhagic cystitis.
Amanda Wolf-Johnston, Youko Ikeda, Irina Zabbarova, Anthony J. Kanai, Sheldon Bastacky, Robert Moldwin, Joel N.H. Stern, Edwin K. Jackson, and Lori A. Birder
Microbiology
Excessive gut epithelial cell fucosylation increases the risk of colon cancer in the elderly.
Zhihan Wang, Pan Gao, Kai Guo, Grace Schirrick, Jappreet Singh Gill, Jett Weis, Abby Lund Da Costa, Mansib Rahman, Het Mehta, Julia Fleecs, Shilpi Jain, Trishna Debnath, Junguk Hur, Nadeem Khan, Robert Sticca, Holly M. Brown-Borg, Donald A. Jurivich, and Ramkumar Mathur
Oncology
Norepinephrine exposure promotes a prometastatic phenotype in fallopian tube epithelial cells that potentiates micrometastasis of high grade serous carcinoma precursor lesions to the ovary.
Hunter D. Reavis, Stefan M. Gysler, Grace B. McKenney, Matthew Knarr, Hannah J. Lusk, Priyanka Rawat, Hannah S. Rendulich, Marilyn A. Mitchell, Dara S. Berger, Jamie S. Moon, Suyeon Ryu, Monica Mainigi, Marcin P. Iwanicki, Dave S. Hoon, Laura M. Sanchez, and Ronny Drapkin
Pulmonology
Baseline and activated IL-33 expression can be regulated in the respiratory epithelium and these pathways are dysregulated in chronic airway disease.
Heather E. Raphael, Ghandi F. Hassan, Omar A. Osorio, Lucy S. Cohen, Morgan D. Payne, Ella Katz-Kiriakos, Ishana Tata, Jamie Hicks, Derek E. Byers, Bo Zhang, and Jen Alexander-Brett
Transplantation
Receptor tyrosine kinase AXL drives of early differentiation of allograft-infiltrating monocytes to inflammatory macrophages, and AXL inhibition prolongs allograft survival.
Collin Z. Jordan, Matthew Tunbridge, Irma Husain, Hiroki Kitai, Miriam E. Dilts, Olivia K. Fay, Koki Abe, Catherine Xiang, Jean Kwun, Tomokazu Souma, Edward B. Thorp, and Xunrong Luo
Vaccines
SARS-CoV-2 mRNA vaccination reduces innate, T cell, and B cell immune responses in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, highlighting a need for population-specific vaccination studies.
Kavita Y. Sarin, Hong Zheng, Yashaar Chaichian, Prabhu S. Arunachalam, Gayathri Swaminathan, Alec Eschholz, Fei Gao, Oliver F. Wirz, Brandon Lam, Emily Yang, Lori W. Lee, Allan Feng, Matthew A. Lewis, Janice Lin, Holden T. Maecker, Scott D. Boyd, Mark M. Davis, Kari C. Nadeau, Bali Pulendran, Purvesh Khatri, Paul J. Utz, and Lisa C. Zaba
Vascular biology
Endothelial DNA/RNA-binding protein TDP-43 is essential for formation of a stable and mature vasculature, and loss of TDP-43 results in vascular defects and inflammation.
Víctor Arribas, Yara Onetti, Marina Ramiro-Pareta, Pilar Villacampa, Heike Beck, Mariona Alberola, Anna Esteve-Codina, Angelika Merkel, Markus Sperandio, Ofelia M. Martínez-Estrada, Bettina Schmid, and Eloi Montanez
CDK1 inhibition prevents vascular calcification through induction of E-twenty-six specific sequence variant 2.
Yan Zhao, Yang Yang, Xiuju Wu, Li Zhang, Xinjiang Cai, Jaden Ji, Sydney Chen, Abigail Vera, Kristina I. Boström, and Yucheng Yao
Amruta Naik, Kaitlyn M. Forrest, Oindrila Paul, Yasmine Issah, Utham K. Valekunja, Soon Y. Tang, Akhilesh B. Reddy, Elizabeth J. Hennessy, Thomas G. Brooks, Fatima Chaudhry, Apoorva Babu, Michael Morley, Jarod A. Zepp, Gregory R. Grant, Garret A. FitzGerald, Amita Sehgal, G. Scott Worthen, David B. Frank, Edward E. Morrisey, and Shaon Sengupta
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