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  • 1
    Publication Date: 2015-07-25
    Description: Mutations in the LRBA gene (encoding the lipopolysaccharide-responsive and beige-like anchor protein) cause a syndrome of autoimmunity, lymphoproliferation, and humoral immune deficiency. The biological role of LRBA in immunologic disease is unknown. We found that patients with LRBA deficiency manifested a dramatic and sustained improvement in response to abatacept, a CTLA4 (cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4)-immunoglobulin fusion drug. Clinical responses and homology of LRBA to proteins controlling intracellular trafficking led us to hypothesize that it regulates CTLA4, a potent inhibitory immune receptor. We found that LRBA colocalized with CTLA4 in endosomal vesicles and that LRBA deficiency or knockdown increased CTLA4 turnover, which resulted in reduced levels of CTLA4 protein in FoxP3(+) regulatory and activated conventional T cells. In LRBA-deficient cells, inhibition of lysosome degradation with chloroquine prevented CTLA4 loss. These findings elucidate a mechanism for CTLA4 trafficking and control of immune responses and suggest therapies for diseases involving the CTLA4 pathway.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Lo, Bernice -- Zhang, Kejian -- Lu, Wei -- Zheng, Lixin -- Zhang, Qian -- Kanellopoulou, Chrysi -- Zhang, Yu -- Liu, Zhiduo -- Fritz, Jill M -- Marsh, Rebecca -- Husami, Ammar -- Kissell, Diane -- Nortman, Shannon -- Chaturvedi, Vijaya -- Haines, Hilary -- Young, Lisa R -- Mo, Jun -- Filipovich, Alexandra H -- Bleesing, Jack J -- Mustillo, Peter -- Stephens, Michael -- Rueda, Cesar M -- Chougnet, Claire A -- Hoebe, Kasper -- McElwee, Joshua -- Hughes, Jason D -- Karakoc-Aydiner, Elif -- Matthews, Helen F -- Price, Susan -- Su, Helen C -- Rao, V Koneti -- Lenardo, Michael J -- Jordan, Michael B -- 1RC2 HG005608/HG/NHGRI NIH HHS/ -- 1ZIAAI000769-14/PHS HHS/ -- Intramural NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2015 Jul 24;349(6246):436-40. doi: 10.1126/science.aaa1663.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Molecular Development of the Immune System Section and Clinical and Molecular Genomics Unit, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. NIAID Clinical Genomics Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. michael.jordan@cchmc.org. ; Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. michael.jordan@cchmc.org. ; Molecular Development of the Immune System Section and Clinical and Molecular Genomics Unit, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. NIAID Clinical Genomics Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. ; NIAID Clinical Genomics Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Human Immunological Diseases Unit, Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. ; Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Systems Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. ; Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. ; Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. ; Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA. ; Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA. ; Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA. ; Section of Allergy and Immunology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA. ; Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. ; Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. ; Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Boston, MA, USA. ; Molecular Development of the Immune System Section and Clinical and Molecular Genomics Unit, Laboratory of Immunology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. NIAID Clinical Genomics Program, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Division of Human Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Human Immunological Diseases Unit, Laboratory of Host Defenses, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Systems Biology, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA. Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Division of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA. Division of Allergy, Immunology, and Pulmonary Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, and Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care, Department of Medicine, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA. Departments of Pathology and Pediatrics, University of California, San Diego and Rady Children's Hospital, San Diego, CA, USA. Section of Allergy and Immunology, Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA. Department of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA. Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Merck Research Laboratories, Merck & Co, Boston, MA, USA. Marmara University, Division of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology, Istanbul, Turkey. ; Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Immune Deficiency, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. Division of Immunobiology, Department of Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center/ University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA. michael.jordan@cchmc.org.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26206937" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Abatacept ; Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing/genetics/*metabolism ; Adolescent ; Autoimmune Diseases/*drug therapy/metabolism ; CTLA-4 Antigen/*deficiency/genetics ; Child ; Chloroquine/pharmacology ; Common Variable Immunodeficiency/*drug therapy/metabolism ; Endosomes/metabolism ; Female ; Forkhead Transcription Factors/analysis ; Gene Knockdown Techniques ; HEK293 Cells ; Humans ; Immunoconjugates/*therapeutic use ; Lung Diseases, Interstitial/drug therapy/metabolism ; Lymphocyte Activation ; Lysosomes/metabolism ; Male ; Proteolysis ; T-Lymphocytes/drug effects/immunology ; Young Adult
    Print ISSN: 0036-8075
    Electronic ISSN: 1095-9203
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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  • 2
    Publication Date: 2015-04-12
    Description: We present the morphology–density and morphology–radius relations ( T – and T – R , respectively) obtained from the WIde-field Nearby Galaxy-cluster Survey (WINGS) data base of galaxies in nearby clusters. Aiming to achieve the best statistics, we exploit the whole sample of galaxies brighter than M V = –19.5 (5504 objects), stacking up the 76 clusters of the WINGS survey altogether. Using this global cluster sample, we find that the T – relation holds only in the inner cluster regions ( R  〈 1/3 R 200 ), while the T – R relation keeps almost unchanged over the whole range of local density. A couple of tests and two sets of numerical simulations support the robustness of these results against the effects of the limited cluster area coverage of the WINGS imaging. The above mentioned results hold for all cluster masses (X-ray luminosity and velocity dispersion) and all galaxy stellar masses ( M * ). The strength of the T – relation (where present) increases with increasing M * , while this effect is not found for the T – R relation. Noticeably, the absence/presence of subclustering determines the presence/absence of the T – relation outside the inner cluster regions, leading us to the general conclusion that the link between morphology and local density is preserved just in dynamically evolved regions. We hypothesize that some mechanism of morphological broadening/redistribution operates in the intermediate/outer regions of substructured (‘non-relaxed’) clusters, producing a strong weakening of the T – relation.
    Print ISSN: 0035-8711
    Electronic ISSN: 1365-2966
    Topics: Physics
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    Publication Date: 2015-02-18
    Description: One conspicuous feature of several larger bird species is their annual migration in V-shaped or echelon formation. When birds are flying in these formations, energy savings can be achieved by using the aerodynamic up-wash produced by the preceding bird. As the leading bird in a formation cannot profit from this...
    Print ISSN: 0027-8424
    Electronic ISSN: 1091-6490
    Topics: Biology , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General
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  • 4
    Publication Date: 2015-02-15
    Description: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic phenomena in the Universe; believed to result from the collapse and subsequent explosion of massive stars. Even though it has profound consequences for our understanding of their nature and selection biases, little is known about the dust properties of the galaxies hosting GRBs. We present analysis of the far-infrared properties of an unbiased sample of 20 BeppoSAX and Swift GRB host galaxies (at an average redshift of z  = 3.1) located in the Herschel Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey, the Herschel Virgo Cluster Survey, the Herschel Fornax Cluster Survey, the Herschel Stripe 82 Survey and the Herschel Multi-tiered Extragalactic Survey, totalling 880 deg 2 , or ~3 per cent of the sky in total. Our sample selection is serendipitous, based only on whether the X-ray position of a GRB lies within a large-scale Herschel survey – therefore our sample can be considered completely unbiased. Using deep data at wavelengths of 100–500 μm, we tentatively detected 1 out of 20 GRB hosts located in these fields. We constrain their dust masses and star formation rates (SFRs), and discuss these in the context of recent measurements of submillimetre galaxies and ultraluminous infrared galaxies. The average far-infrared flux of our sample gives an upper limit on SFR of 〈114 M yr –1 . The detection rate of GRB hosts is consistent with that predicted assuming that GRBs trace the cosmic SFR density in an unbiased way, i.e. that the fraction of GRB hosts with SFR 〉 500 M yr –1 is consistent with the contribution of such luminous galaxies to the cosmic star formation density.
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    Publication Date: 2014-03-21
    Description: We study a sample of Herschel selected galaxies within the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey-South and the Cosmic Evolution Survey fields in the framework of the Photodetector Array Camera and Spectrometer (PACS) Evolutionary Probe project. Starting from the rich multiwavelength photometric data sets available in both fields, we perform a broad-band spectral energy distribution decomposition to disentangle the possible active galactic nucleus (AGN) contribution from that related to the host galaxy. We find that 37 per cent of the Herschel -selected sample shows signatures of nuclear activity at the 99 per cent confidence level. The probability of revealing AGN activity increases for bright ( L 1–1000  〉 10 11 L ) star-forming galaxies at z  〉 0.3, becoming about 80 per cent for the brightest ( L 1–1000  〉 10 12 L ) infrared (IR) galaxies at z  ≥ 1. Finally, we reconstruct the AGN bolometric luminosity function and the supermassive black hole growth rate across cosmic time up to z  ~ 3 from a far-IR perspective. This work shows general agreement with most of the panchromatic estimates from the literature, with the global black hole growth peaking at z  ~ 2 and reproducing the observed local black hole mass density with consistent values of the radiative efficiency rad (~0.07).
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    Publication Date: 2016-12-23
    Description: We make an inventory of the interstellar medium material in three low-metallicity dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group (NGC 147, NGC 185 and NGC 205). Ancillary H i , CO, Spitzer Infrared Spectrograph spectra, Hα and X-ray observations are combined to trace the atomic, cold and warm molecular, ionized and hot gas phases. We present new Nobeyama CO(1–0) observations and Herschel SPIRE FTS [C i ] observations of NGC 205 to revise its molecular gas content. We derive total gas masses of M g = 1.9–5.5  x 10 5 M for NGC 185 and M g = 8.6–25.0  x 10 5 M for NGC 205. Non-detections combine to an upper limit on the gas mass of M g ≤ 0.3–2.2  x 10 5 M for NGC 147. The observed gas reservoirs are significantly lower compared to the expected gas masses based on a simple closed-box model that accounts for the gas mass returned by planetary nebulae and supernovae. The gas-to-dust mass ratios GDR ~ 37–107 and 48–139 are also considerably lower compared to the expected GDR ~ 370 and 520 for the low metal abundances in NGC 185 (0.36 Z ) and NGC 205 (0.25 Z ), respectively. To simultaneously account for the gas deficiency and low gas-to-dust ratios, we require an efficient removal of a large gas fraction and a longer dust survival time (~1.6 Gyr). We believe that efficient galactic winds (combined with heating of gas to sufficiently high temperatures in order for it to escape from the galaxy) and/or environmental interactions with neighbouring galaxies are responsible for the gas removal from NGC 147, NGC 185 and NGC 205.
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