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Generation of RORγt+ Antigen-Specific T Regulatory 17 Cells from Foxp3+ Precursors in Autoimmunity

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Kim, Byung-Seok, Lu, Huiping, Ichiyama, Kenji, Chen, Xiang, Zhang, Yi-Bing, Mistry, Nipun A., Tanaka, Kentaro, Lee, Young-hee +7 more·2017·Cell Reports

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Th17 cells are potent mediators in autoimmune diseases, and RORγt is required for their development. Recent studies have shown that RORγt + Treg cells in the gut regulate intestinal inflammation by inhibiting effector T cell function. In the current study, we report that RORγt + Treg cells were also found in lymph nodes following immunization. Not only distinct from intestinal RORγt + Treg cells in their transcriptomes, peripheral RORγt + Treg cells were derived from Foxp3 + thymic Treg cells in an antigen-specific manner. Development of these RORγt + Treg cells, coined T regulatory 17 (Tr17) cells, depended on IL-6/Stat3 signaling. Tr17 cells showed suppressive activity against antigen-specific effector T cells in vitro. In addition, Tr17 cells efficiently inhibited myelin-specific Th17-cell-mediated CNS auto-inflammation in a passive EAE model. Collectively, our study demonstrates that Tr17 cells are effector Treg cells that potentially restrict autoimmunity.

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  • Helios, Nrp-1 or ROR-γt are widely accepted for the discrimination of tTreg and pTreg cells under homeostatic conditions.

    “Yet, Helios, Nrp-1 or ROR-γt are widely accepted for the discrimination of tTreg and pTreg cells under homeostatic conditions [364-366, 437-440].”

    From Guidelines for the use of flow cytometry and cell sorting in immunological studies (third edition) (2021) · cites this paper as [439]

    The Discussion (page unavailable) uses Helios and Nrp-1 to distinguish mostly thymic-derived peripheral RORγt+ Treg cells from intestinal RORγt+ cells of peripheral origin. The Results (page unavailable) say RORγt+ Treg cells occur constitutively in the gut, but the paper also finds RORγt+ cells derived from thymic Treg cells after immunization. It therefore supports the marker-based distinction in these settings, not the broader claim that RORγt itself discriminates tTreg from pTreg cells generally under homeostatic conditions. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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Kim, B.-S., Lu, H., Ichiyama, K., Chen, X., Zhang, Y.-B., Mistry, N. A., Tanaka, K., Lee, Y.-H., Nurieva, R., Zhang, L., Yang, X., Chung, Y., Jin, W., Chang, S. H., & Dong, C.
Affiliations
  • The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
  • Chinese Academy of Sciences (CN)
  • University of Cincinnati (US)
  • University of New Mexico (US)
  • Seoul National University (KR)
  • Tsinghua University (CN)
Corresponding author
  • Chang, Seon Hee
  • Dong, Chen
Venue
Cell Reports
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2017-10
Volume
21
Issue
1
Pages
195-207
ISSN
2211-1247 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2762184317
Cited by
137
References
45
Citations by year
2026: 12 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 15 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 21 · 2020: 20 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 12 · 2017: 2
FWCI
6.67
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Cell Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
  • Institute of Hydrobiology, CAS Institutional Repository (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • U.S. Department of Defense (W81XWH-16-1-0100)
  • Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas (RP130078)
  • Ministry of Education (2016R1A6A3A11933284)
  • National Research Foundation of Korea
  • National Institutes of Health (R01AR050772)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Nuclear Receptors and Signaling
Keywords
RORγt, regulatory T cells, Th17 cells, IL-6/STAT3 signaling, experimental autoimmune encephalitis, Treg suppressive function, autoimmunity
MeSH terms
Animals, Cell Differentiation, Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, Experimental, Gene Expression Regulation, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Mice, Transgenic, Peptide Fragments, Signal Transduction, Autoimmunity, Interleukin-6, Genes, Reporter, Adoptive Transfer, Green Fluorescent Proteins, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, STAT3 Transcription Factor, Mice, Forkhead Transcription Factors, Receptors, CCR6, Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3, Th17 Cells, Inducible T-Cell Co-Stimulator Protein, Myelin-Oligodendrocyte Glycoprotein

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