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Individual intestinal symbionts induce a distinct population of RORγ + regulatory T cells

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Sefik, Esen, Geva-Zatorsky, Naama, Oh, Sungwhan, Konnikova, Liza, Zemmour, David, McGuire, Abigail Manson, Burzyn, Dalia, Ortiz-Lopez, Adriana +9 more·2015·Science

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Gut microbes make T cells keep the peace: Our guts harbor trillions of microbial inhabitants, some of which regulate the types of immune cells that are present in the gut. For instance, Clostridium species of bacteria induce a type of T cell that promotes tolerance between the host and its microbial contents. Ohnmacht et al. and Sefik et al. characterized a population of gut regulatory T cells in mice, which required gut microbiota to survive. Multiple bacterial species of the microbiota could induce transcription factor–expressing regulatory T cells that helped maintain immune homeostasis. Mice engineered to lack these transcription factors exhibited enhanced susceptibility to colonic inflammation and had elevated amounts of proinflammatory molecules associated with allergies (see the Perspective by Hegazy and Powrie). Science , this issue pp. 989 and 993

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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 [437]

    The paper describes Helios and Nrp1 as markers of thymus-derived Tregs and identifies a Helios−RORγ+ population that differentiates locally in the gut (Abstract, page unavailable). But it says the significance of Helios and Nrp1 as origin markers has been questioned, and it does not establish RORγ as a generally accepted marker for distinguishing thymic from peripheral Tregs across homeostatic settings. (LLM, conf=0.86)

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  • The gut microbiome regulates the activity of RORγ+ Treg cells, and dysregulation of these cells can lead to diseases such as colitis, food allergy, and colon cancer.

    “In addition, the gut microbiome regulates the activity of retinoic acid receptor-related orphan receptor gamma-positive (RORγ+) Treg cells, dysregulation of which can lead to diseases such as colitis, food allergy, and colon cancer.622,701–704”

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Sefik, E., Geva-Zatorsky, N., Oh, S., Konnikova, L., Zemmour, D., McGuire, A. M., Burzyn, D., Ortiz-Lopez, A., Lobera, M., Yang, J., Ghosh, S., Earl, A., Snapper, S. B., Jupp, R., Kasper, D., Mathis, D., & Benoist, C.
Affiliations
  • Harvard University (US)
  • Division of Immunology, Department of Microbiology and Immunobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston 02115, MA, USA.
  • Brigham and Women's Hospital (US)
  • Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
  • Tempero Pharmaceuticals, a GSK Company, Cambridge, MA 02115, USA.
  • Broad Institute (US)
  • UCB Pharma (United Kingdom) (GB)
Corresponding author
  • Mathis, Diane
  • Benoist, Christophe
Venue
Science
Published
2015-08-28
Volume
349
Issue
6251
Pages
993-997
ISSN
  • 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
  • 1095-9203
OpenAlex
W2143889757
Cited by
879
References
60
Citations by year
2026: 54 · 2025: 76 · 2024: 83 · 2023: 96 · 2022: 98 · 2021: 91 · 2020: 90 · 2019: 86 · 2018: 78 · 2017: 69 · 2016: 56 · 2015: 2
FWCI
33.61
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Science (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • NIH (R01-AI51530, R56-AI110630)
  • European Molecular Biology Organization
  • Human Frontier Science Program
  • Helmsley Charitable Trust
  • Boehringer Ingelheim Fonds
  • J.P.B. Foundation
  • UCB Pharma
  • Center for Inflammatory Bowel Disease Treatment and Research
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › T-cell and B-cell Immunology
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Gut microbiota and health
  • Life Sciences › Immunology and Microbiology › Immunology › Psoriasis: Treatment and Pathogenesis
Keywords
RORγ, regulatory T cells, Foxp3, gut microbiota, intestinal symbionts, Th17 cells, colonic inflammation, Th1/Th17 balance, transcriptional regulation, immune homeostasis
MeSH terms
Animals, Bacteria, Colitis, Ulcerative, Colon, Homeostasis, Humans, Intestinal Mucosa, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Symbiosis, Transcription, Genetic, T-Lymphocyte Subsets, Immunity, Mucosal, Bacteroidetes, T-Lymphocytes, Regulatory, Forkhead Transcription Factors, Nuclear Receptor Subfamily 1, Group F, Member 3, Th17 Cells, Transcriptome, Microbiota

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