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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2026

Regulatory T cell therapies: biological foundations, engineering strategies, and clinical translation.

Charleen Plaisse, Séverine Bézie, Carole Guillonneau

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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2citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Nonclinical safety assessment of SBT777101, a CAR-engineered regulatory T cell therapy for autoimmune diseases.Toxicological sciences : an official journal of the Society of Toxicology · 2026
    Article
  2. CD8 regulatory T cell therapy in transplantation: a new path to clinical success?Transplant international : official journal of the European Society for Organ Transplantation · 2026
    Article
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Charleen PlaisseNantes Université, CHU Nantes, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology, UMR 1064, ITUN, Nantes, France.
Séverine BézieNantes Université, CHU Nantes, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology, UMR 1064, ITUN, Nantes, France.
Carole GuillonneauNantes Université, CHU Nantes, Institut national de la santé et de la recherche médicale (INSERM), Center for Research in Transplantation and Translational Immunology, UMR 1064, ITUN, Nantes, France.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Regulatory T cell (Treg) therapy has emerged as a promising strategy to control pathological immune responses in autoimmunity, graft-versus-host disease, and solid organ transplantation. Most clinical studies to date have relied on autologous Tregs expanded ex vivo, an approach that has demonstrated safety and feasibility but remains limited by variable cell quality, restricted scalability, and complex manufacturing requirements. To address these constraints, multiple alternative strategies are being developed, including the induction of regulatory phenotypes in conventional T cells, the engineering of antigen-specific Tregs, and the generation of allogeneic "off-the-shelf" regulatory cell products. In parallel, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) offer a renewable and standardized source for regulatory T cell generation, enabling extensive genetic engineering and batch consistency. Early-phase clinical trials with CD4

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAnimalsGraft vs Host DiseaseHumansInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsTranslational Research, Biomedicalallogeneic immunotherapyCD4+ and CD8+ T cellscell engineeringcell therapyimmune toleranceinduced pluripotent stem cellsregulatory T cells

Identifiers

PMID42079605
PMCPMC13133085

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