Immunology II
Mary Wilson
April 8-20, 2004: T Cell Differentiation

T Cell Development
April 8

Required Readings:

Liew FY. TH1 and TH2 cells: a historical perspective. Nature Reviews Immunology 2:55-60.

Usui T, R Nishikomori, A Kitani, and W Strober. GATA-3 suppresses Th1 development by down-regulation of Stat4 and not through effects of IL-12R?2 chain or T-bet. Immunity 18:415-428, 2003.

April 13

Required Readings:

Ho I-C and LH Glimcher. Transcription: tantalizing times for T cells. Cell 109:S109-S120.

Lee GR, PE Fields, TJ Griffin IV, and RA Flavell. Regulation of the Th2 cytokine locus by a locus control region. Immunity 19:145-153, 2003.

(companion editorial for the Lee article) Smale ST. A Th2 cytokine LCR: adding a new piece to the regulatory puzzle. Immunity 19:1-2, 2003.


Optional Readings:

Pearce EL, AC Mullen, GA Martins, CM Krawczyk, AS Hutchins, VP Zediak, M Banica, CB DiCioccio, DA Gross, C-a Mao, H Shen, N Cereb, SY Yang, T Lindsten, J Rossanty, CA Hunter, and SL Reiner. Control of effector CD8+ T cell function by the transcription factor Eomesodermin. Science 302(7):1041-1043.

(companion editorial for Pearce article) Hatton RD and CT Weaver. T-bet or not T-bet. Science 302(7):993-994, 2003.

April 15

Required Readings:

Shevach EM., CD4+CD25+ suppressor T cells: more questions than answers. Nature Reviews 2:389-400, 2002.

Optional Readings:

Neurath, M. F., B. Weigmann, S. Finotto, J. Glickman, E. Nieuwenhuis, H. Iijima, A. Mizoguchi, E. Mizoguchi, J. Mudter, P. R. Galle, A. Bhan, F. Autschbach, B. M. Sullivan, S. J. Szabo, L. H. Glimcher, R. S. Blumberg. The transcription factor T-bet regulates mucosal T cell activation in experimental colitis and Crohn’s disease. J. Exp. Med. 195 (9):1129-1143, 2002.

S Hori, T Nomura, S Sakaguchi. Control of regulatory T cell development by the transcription factor Foxp3. Science 299:1057, 2003

Immunoparasitology
April 20

Required Readings:

Sacks D and N Noben-Trauth. The immunology of susceptibility and resistance to Leishmania major in mice. Nature Reviews Immunology 2:845-858, 2002.

Yazdanbakhsh M., PG Kremsner and R van Ree. Allergy, parasites, and the hygiene hypothesis. Science 296:490-494, 2002.

Belkaid Y, KF Hoffmann, S Mendez, S Kamhavi, TA Wynn, and D Sacks. 2001. The role of interleukin (IL)-10 in the persistence of Leishmania major in the skin after healing and the therapeutic potential of anti-IL-10 receptor antibody for sterile cure. J. Exp. Med. 194:1497-1506.

Optional Readings:

(companion editorial with Belkaid article) Trinchieri G. Regulatory role of T cells producing both Interferon gamma and interleukin 10 in persistent infection. 2001. J. Exp. Med. 194 (10):F53-F57.

Cervi L, AS MacDonald, C Kane, F Dzierszinski, EJ Pearce. Cutting edge: Dendritic cells copulsed with microbial and helminth antigens undergo modified maturation, segregate the antigens to distinct intracellular compartments, and concurrently induce microbe-specific Th1 and helminth-specific Th2 responses. J. Immunology 172:2016-2020, 2004.


Vaccine Development
April 22, 2004

Required Readings:

1. Janeway CA, P Travers, M Walport, MJ Shlomchik (editors); “Immunobiology: The Immune System in Health and Disease”, volume 5, 2001. Chapter 14-16 through 14-28, pages 577-591.

2. Uzonna JE, G Wei, D Yurkowski, P Bretscher. Immune elimination of Leishmania major in mice: implications for immune memory, vaccination, and reactivation disease. J. Immunol. 167:6967-6974, 2001.