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ArticleScience immunology2022

Tim-3 adapter protein Bat3 acts as an endogenous regulator of tolerogenic dendritic cell function.

Ruihan Tang, Nandini Acharya, Ayshwarya Subramanian, Vinee Purohit, Marcin Tabaka, Yu Hou, Danyang He, Karen O Dixon, Connor Lambden, Junrong Xia and 6 more

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Article in Science immunology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers.

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38citing papers in PubMed
3.9field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

38 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

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  13. The Biology of Dendritic Cells: In Health and Disease.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

16 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ruihan TangEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Nandini AcharyaEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Ayshwarya SubramanianEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Vinee PurohitEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8093-5540
Marcin TabakaKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6166-2820
Yu HouEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7875-7087
Danyang HeEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3613-4188
Karen O DixonEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7811-5439
Connor LambdenEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.
Junrong XiaEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2818-1494
Orit Rozenblatt-RosenKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6313-3570
Raymond A SobelDepartment of Pathology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0477-9002
Chao WangEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3084-6093
Aviv RegevKlarman Cell Observatory, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3293-3158
Ana C AndersonEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0877-2932
Vijay K KuchrooEvergrande Center for Immunologic Diseases, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7177-2110
Brigham and Women's Hospital · USBroad Institute · USStanford University · US

Funding

Role of Negative Costimulation in Regulation of AutoimmunityP01AI039671 · NIAID · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI VIJAY K. KUCHROO · 1996 to 2026
$51.7M
Transgenic/KnockoutP01AI056299 · NIAID · HARVARD UNIVERSITY (MEDICAL SCHOOL) · PI BLAZAR, BRUCE R · 2003 to 2023
$42.5M
Transgenic / Knock-out mouse coreP01AI073748 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI HAFLER, DAVID A. · 2008 to 2019
$17.1M
Project 2: Genes required for dendritic cell responses to pathogens and T cellsU19AI133524 · NIAID · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI SHARPE, ARLENE H. · 2017 to 2021
$12.3M
Role of Tim-3:Bat-3 pathway in inducing tolerogenic DCs and peripheral toleranceR01AI144166 · NIAID · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI VIJAY K. KUCHROO · 2020 to 2026
$3.2M
Steroid hormone regulation of immune responsesR01CA229400 · NCI · BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL · PI ANDERSON, ANA C · 2018 to 2022
$1.9M
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNCI NIH HHS R01 CA229400NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI039671NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI056299NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI073748NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI144166NIAID NIH HHS U19 AI133524
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DCs) sense environmental cues and adopt either an immune-stimulatory or regulatory phenotype, thereby fine-tuning immune responses. Identifying endogenous regulators that determine DC function can thus inform the development of therapeutic strategies for modulating the immune response in different disease contexts. Tim-3 plays an important role in regulating immune responses by inhibiting the activation status and the T cell priming ability of DC in the setting of cancer. Bat3 is an adaptor protein that binds to the tail of Tim-3; therefore, we studied its role in regulating the functional status of DCs. In murine models of autoimmunity (experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis) and cancer (MC38-OVA-implanted tumor), lack of Bat3 expression in DCs alters the T cell compartment-it decreases T

Indexed as

Encephalomyelitis, Autoimmune, ExperimentalHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2Adaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingAnimalsAutoimmunityDendritic CellsMiceMolecular ChaperonesNuclear ProteinsT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAdaptor Proteins, Signal TransducingBag6 protein, mouseHepatitis A Virus Cellular Receptor 2Molecular ChaperonesNuclear Proteins

Identifiers

PMID35275752
PMCPMC9273260
OpenAlexW4220701646

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