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Early-induced genes of human regulatory CD4+CD25hi Treg and CD4+CD25- Th cells

ABSTRACT: Goals and objectives of this study: to identify genes preferentially induced in human CD4+CD25hi Treg cells following T-cell activation with potential role for stabililization & maintenance of the regulatory program. Keywords: T-cell receptor stimulation, gene-regulation, comparative gene expression profiling Homo sapiens CD4+CD25- and CD4+CD25hi T cells were sorted from healthy individual donors and analyzed ex vivo (non-activated) or 1 day following T-cell receptor activation using anti-CD3/IL2 and anti-CD3/-CD28/IL2 (activated), respectively.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

SUBMITTER: Robert Geffers

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-13017 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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GARP: a key receptor controlling FOXP3 in human regulatory T cells.

Probst-Kepper M M Geffers R R Kröger A A Viegas N N Erck C C Hecht H-J HJ Lünsdorf H H Roubin R R Moharregh-Khiabani D D Wagner K K Ocklenburg F F Jeron A A Garritsen H H Arstila T P TP Kekäläinen E E Balling R R Hauser H H Buer J J Weiss S S

Journal of cellular and molecular medicine 20090513 9B

Recent evidence suggests that regulatory pathways might control sustained high levels of FOXP3 in regulatory CD4(+)CD25(hi) T (T(reg)) cells. Based on transcriptional profiling of ex vivo activated T(reg) and helper CD4(+)CD25(-) T (T(h)) cells we have identified GARP (glycoprotein-A repetitions predominant), LGALS3 (lectin, galactoside-binding, soluble, 3) and LGMN (legumain) as novel genes implicated in human T(reg) cell function, which are induced upon T-cell receptor stimulation. Retroviral ...[more]

PMID: 19453521

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Early-induced genes of human regulatory CD4+CD25hi Treg and CD4+CD25- Th cells

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GARP: a key receptor controlling FOXP3 in human regulatory T cells.

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