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CD8+ TEMRAs in severe asthma associate with asthma symptom duration and escape proliferation arrest.

Richard P Ramonell, Timothy B Oriss, Jessica C McCreary-Partyka, Sagar L Kale, Nicole R Brandon, Mark A Ross, Marc C Gauthier, Molin Yue, Taylor J Nee, Sudipta Das and 7 more

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Article in JCI insight, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. Federated single-cell QTL meta-analysis reveals novel disease mechanisms.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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17 authors.

Richard P RamonellDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Timothy B OrissDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Jessica C McCreary-PartykaDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Sagar L KaleDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Nicole R BrandonDepartment of Immunology.
Mark A RossDepartment of Cell Biology.
Marc C GauthierDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Molin YueDepartment of Pediatrics.
Taylor J NeeDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Sudipta DasDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Wei ChenDepartment of Pediatrics.
Alok V JoglekarDepartment of Immunology.
Prabir RayDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Claudette M St CroixDepartment of Cell Biology.
Dhivyaa RajasundaramDepartment of Pediatrics.
Sally E WenzelDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.
Anuradha RayDepartment of Medicine, Division of Pulmonary, Allergy and Critical Care Medicine.

Funding

Project 2 Impact of Innate and Adaptive Immunity At the Airway Epithelium in Severe AsthmaP01AI106684 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Timothy B Oriss · 2015 to 2026
$18.9M
Dysregulated Immunometabolism and Premature Senescence in Corticosteroid-Refractory Severe AsthmaR35HL166219 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Anuradha Ray · 2023 to 2026
$2.9M
An Alternative Pathobiology underlying Severe AsthmaK08HL164887 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Marc Gauthier · 2023 to 2026
$653k
High-Throughput Computing for Genomics and Bioinformatics ResearchS10OD028483 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI LEE, ADRIAN V · 2021 to 2021
$574k
NHLBI NIH HHS K08 HL164887NHLBI NIH HHS R35 HL166219NIAID NIH HHS P01 AI106684NIH HHS S10 OD028483
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Aberrant immune response is a hallmark of asthma, with 5%-10% of patients suffering from severe disease exhibiting poor response to standard treatment. A better understanding of the immune responses contributing to disease heterogeneity is critical for improving asthma management. T cells are major players in the orchestration of asthma, in both mild and severe disease, but it is unclear whether specific T cell subsets influence asthma symptom duration. Here we show a significant association of airway CD8+ effector memory T cells re-expressing CD45RA (TEMRAs), but not CD8+CD45RO+ or tissue-resident memory T cells, with asthma duration in patients with severe asthma (SA) but not mild to moderate asthma (MMA). Higher frequencies of IFN-γ+CD8+ TEMRAs compared with IFN-γ+CD45RO+ T cells were detected in SA airways, and the TEMRAs from patients with SA but not MMA proliferated ex vivo, although both expressed cellular senescence-associated biomarkers. Prompted by the transcriptomic profile of SA CD8+ TEMRAs and proliferative response to IL-15, airway IL15 expression was higher in patients with SA compared with MMA. Additionally, IL15 expression in asthmatic airways negatively correlated with lung function. Our findings add what we believe is a new dimension to understanding asthma heterogeneity, identifying IL-15 as a potential target for treatment.

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AsthmaCD8-Positive T-LymphocytesMemory T CellsAdultAgedCell ProliferationFemaleHumansInterferon-gammaInterleukin-15Leukocyte Common AntigensMaleMiddle AgedSeverity of Illness IndexInterferon-gammaInterleukin-15Leukocyte Common AntigensAsthmaCytokinesImmunologyPulmonologyT cells

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PMID40048261
PMCPMC12016929

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