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Early events in the thymus affect the balance of effector and regulatory T cells
Daniel J. Pennington, Bruno Silva-Santos, Tobias Silberzahn, Mónica Escórcio-Correia, Martin J. Woodward, Scott J. Roberts, Adrian L. Smith, P. Julian Dyson and Adrian C. Hayday
Nature 444, 1073–1077
(21 December 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05368
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Tuning inflammation and immunity by chemokine sequestration: decoys and more
Alberto Mantovani, Raffaella Bonecchi and Massimo Locati
Nature Reviews Immunology 7, 907–918
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1964
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Antimicrobial and host-defense peptides as new anti-infective therapeutic strategies
Robert E W Hancock & Hans-Georg Sahl
Nature Biotechnology 24, 1551–1557
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nbt1267
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Fever-range thermal stress promotes lymphocyte trafficking across high endothelial venules via an interleukin 6 trans-signaling mechanism
Qing Chen, Daniel T Fisher, Kristen A Clancy, Jean-Marc M Gauguet, Wan-Chao Wang, Emily Unger, Stefan Rose-John, Ulrich H von Andrian, Heinz Baumann & Sharon S Evans
Nature Immunology 7, 1293–1298
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1406
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Epidermal RANKL controls regulatory T-cell numbers via activation of dendritic cells
Karin Loser, Annette Mehling, Stefanie Loeser, Jenny Apelt, Annegret Kuhn, Stephan Grabbe, Thomas Schwarz, Josef M Penninger & Stefan Beissert
Nature Medicine 12, 1372–1379
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1518
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Skin controls immune regulators
Tomoyuki Yamaguchi & Shimon Sakaguchi
Nature Medicine 12, 1358–1359
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1206-1358
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Thymic selection threshold defined by compartmentalization of Ras/MAPK signalling
Mark A. Daniels, Emma Teixeiro, Jason Gill, Barbara Hausmann, Dominique Roubaty, Kaisa Holmberg, Guy Werlen, Georg A. Holländer, Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne and Ed Palmer
Nature 444, 724–729
(7 December 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05269
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Maintenance of colonic homeostasis by distinctive apical TLR9 signalling in intestinal epithelial cells
Jongdae Lee, Ji-Hun Mo, Kyoko Katakura, Irit Alkalay, Adam N. Rucker, Yu-Tsueng Liu, Hyun-Ku Lee, Carol Shen, Gady Cojocaru, Steve Shenouda, Martin Kagnoff, Lars Eckmann, Yinon Ben-Neriah & Eyal Raz
Nature Cell Biology 8, 1327–1336
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ncb1500
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Protozoan encounters with Toll-like receptor signalling pathways: implications for host parasitism
Ricardo T. Gazzinelli and Eric Y. Denkers
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 895–906
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1978
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Genetics of autoimmune diseases — disorders of immune homeostasis
Peter K. Gregersen and Timothy W. Behrens
Nature Reviews Genetics 7, 917–928
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nrg1944
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Tumour-mediated upregulation of chemoattractants and recruitment of myeloid cells predetermines lung metastasis
Sachie Hiratsuka, Akira Watanabe, Hiroyuki Aburatani & Yoshiro Maru
Nature Cell Biology 8, 1369–1375
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ncb1507
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S100 chemokines mediate bookmarking of premetastatic niches
Shahin Rafii & David Lyden
Nature Cell Biology 8, 1321–1323
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ncb1206-1321
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Control of thymocyte development and recombination-activating gene expression by the zinc finger protein Zfp608
Feng Zhang, Lance R Thomas, Eugene M Oltz & Thomas M Aune
Nature Immunology 7, 1309–1316
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1397
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Fetal thymocyte development: putting a zinc finger on it?
Andrea C Carpenter & Craig H Bassing
Nature Immunology 7, 1285–1286
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1206-1285
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Integrin signaling in neutrophils and macrophages uses adaptors containing immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motifs
Attila Mócsai, Clare L Abram, Zoltán Jakus, Yongmei Hu, Lewis L Lanier & Clifford A Lowell
Nature Immunology 7, 1326–1333
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1407
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Integrins and ITAMs: more than just good neighbors
Mark L Kahn & Gary A Koretzky
Nature Immunology 7, 1286–1288
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1206-1286
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Perforin-mediated target-cell death and immune homeostasis
Ilia Voskoboinik, Mark J. Smyth and Joseph A. Trapani
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 940–952
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1983
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SNAREing immunity: the role of SNAREs in the immune system
Jennifer L. Stow, Anthony P. Manderson and Rachael Z. Murray
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 919–929
(December 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1980
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Apoptotic neutrophils and T cells sequester chemokines during immune response resolution through modulation of CCR5 expression
Amiram Ariel, Gabrielle Fredman, Yee-Ping Sun, Alpdogan Kantarci, Thomas E Van Dyke, Andrew D Luster & Charles N Serhan
Nature Immunology 7, 1209–1216
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1392
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Toll-like receptors in systemic autoimmune disease
Ann Marshak-Rothstein
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 823–835
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1957
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RhoH GTPase recruits and activates Zap70 required for T cell receptor signaling and thymocyte development
Yi Gu, Hee-Don Chae, Jamie E Siefring, Aparna C Jasti, David A Hildeman & David A Williams
Nature Immunology 7, 1182–1190
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1396
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A pathway regulated by cell cycle inhibitor p27Kip1 and checkpoint inhibitor Smad3 is involved in the induction of T cell tolerance
Lequn Li, Yoshiko Iwamoto, Alla Berezovskaya & Vassiliki A Boussiotis
Nature Immunology 7, 1157–1165
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1398
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Spider toxins activate the capsaicin receptor to produce inflammatory pain
Jan Siemens, Sharleen Zhou, Rebecca Piskorowski, Tetsuro Nikai, Ellen A. Lumpkin, Allan I. Basbaum, David King and David Julius
Nature 444, 208–212
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05285
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Physiology: Channelled pain
Lesley Anson
Nature 444, 156
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/444156b
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Structure of C3b reveals conformational changes that underlie complement activity
Bert J. C. Janssen, Agni Christodoulidou, Andrew McCarthy, John D. Lambris and Piet Gros
Nature 444, 213–216
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05172
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Structure of C3b in complex with CRIg gives insights into regulation of complement activation
Christian Wiesmann, Kenneth J. Katschke, JianPing Yin, Karim Y. Helmy, Micah Steffek, Wayne J. Fairbrother, Scott A. McCallum, Lizette Embuscado, Laura DeForge, Philip E. Hass and Menno van Lookeren Campagne
Nature 444, 217–220
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05263
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The structure of complement C3b provides insights into complement activation and regulation
A. Abdul Ajees , K. Gunasekaran , John E. Volanakis , Sthanam. V. L. Narayana , Girish J. Kotwal and H. M. Krishna Murthy
Nature 444, 221–225
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05258
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Immunology: Exposure of an executioner
Michael Carroll
Nature 444, 159–160
(09 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05307
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CD28 interaction with filamin-A controls lipid raft accumulation at the T-cell immunological synapse
Regina Tavano, Rita Lucia Contento, Sonia Jimenez Baranda, Marzia Soligo, Loretta Tuosto, Santos Manes & Antonella Viola
Nature Cell Biology 8, 1270–1276
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ncb1492
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T cell anergy is reversed by active Ras and is regulated by diacylglycerol kinase-α
Yuanyuan Zha, Reinhard Marks, Allen W Ho, Amy C Peterson, Sujit Janardhan, Ian Brown, Kesavannair Praveen, Stacey Stang, James C Stone & Thomas F Gajewski
Nature Immunology 7, 1166–1173
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1394
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Disruption of diacylglycerol metabolism impairs the induction of T cell anergy
Benjamin A Olenchock, Rishu Guo, Jeffery H Carpenter, Martha Jordan, Matthew K Topham, Gary A Koretzky & Xiao-Ping Zhong
Nature Immunology 7, 1174–1181
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1400
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Linking diacylglycerol kinase to T cell anergy
Daniel L Mueller
Nature Immunology 7, 1132–1134
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1106-1132
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Interleukin-10 determines viral clearance or persistence in vivo
David G Brooks, Matthew J Trifilo, Kurt H Edelmann, Luc Teyton, Dorian B McGavern & Michael B A Oldstone
Nature Medicine 12, 1301–1309
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1492
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Surface expression of MHC class II in dendritic cells is controlled by regulated ubiquitination
Jeoung-Sook Shin, Melanie Ebersold, Marc Pypaert, Lelia Delamarre, Adam Hartley and Ira Mellman
Nature 444 115–118
(02 November 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05261
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Signals mediated by transforming growth factor-β initiate autoimmune encephalomyelitis, but chronic inflammation is needed to sustain disease
Marc Veldhoen, Richard J Hocking, Richard A Flavell & Brigitta Stockinger
Nature Immunology 7, 1151–1156
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1391
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The CARMA1 signalosome links the signalling machinery of adaptive and innate immunity in lymphocytes
David J. Rawlings, Karen Sommer and Miguel E. Moreno-García
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 799–812
(November 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1944
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Transcription factors TFE3 and TFEB are critical for CD40 ligand expression and thymus-dependent humoral immunity
Chongmin Huan, Matthew L Kelly, Ryan Steele, Iuliana Shapira, Susan R S Gottesman, Christopher A J Roman
Nature Immunology 7, 1082–1091
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni1378
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Receptor editing in lymphocyte development and central tolerance
David Nemazee
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 728–740
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1939
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Adipocytokines: mediators linking adipose tissue, inflammation and immunity
Herbert Tilg and Alexander R. Moschen
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 772–783
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1937
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Smad6 negatively regulates interleukin 1-receptor–Toll-like receptor signaling through direct interaction with the adaptor Pellino-1
Kyung-Chul Choi, Youn Sook Lee, Seunghwan Lim, Hyo Kyoung Choi, Chang-Hun Lee, Eun-Kyung Lee, Suntaek Hong, In-Hoo Kim, Seong-Jin Kim & Seok Hee Park
Nature Immunology 7, 1057–1065
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni1383
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Surface-bound chemokines capture and prime T cells for synapse formation
Rachel S Friedman, Jordan Jacobelli & Matthew F Krummel
Nature Immunology 7, 1101–1108
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni1384
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Reciprocal regulation between natural killer cells and autoreactive T cells
Fu-Dong Shi and Luc Van Kaer
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 751–760
(2006); doi:10.1038/nri1935
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Decidual NK cells regulate key developmental processes at the human fetal-maternal interface
Jacob Hanna, Debra Goldman-Wohl, Yaron Hamani, Inbal Avraham, Caryn Greenfield, Shira Natanson-Yaron, Diana Prus, Leonor Cohen-Daniel, Tal I Arnon, Irit Manaster, Roi Gazit, Vladimir Yutkin, Daniel Benharroch, Angel Porgador, Eli Keshet, Simcha Yagel & Ofer Mandelboim
Nature Medicine 12, 1065–1074
( 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1452
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The human adaptor SARM negatively regulates adaptor protein TRIF-dependent Toll-like receptor signaling
Michael Carty, Rory Goodbody, Martina Schröder, Julianne Stack, Paul N Moynagh & Andrew G Bowie
Nature Immunology 7, 1074–1081
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni1382
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DisSARMing Toll-like receptor signaling
Luke A J O'Neill
Nature Immunology 7, 1023–1025
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni1006-1023
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Receptor editing in lymphocyte development and central tolerance
David Nemazee
Nature Reviews Immunology 7, 728–740
(2006); doi:10.1038/nri1939
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TRAF6 is a T cell-intrinsic negative regulator required for the maintenance of immune homeostasis
Carolyn G King, Takashi Kobayashi, Pedro J Cejas, Taesoo Kim, Kwiyeom Yoon, Gregory K Kim, Elise Chiffoleau, Somia P Hickman, Patrick T Walsh, Laurence A Turka & Yongwon Choi
Nature Medicine 12, 1088–1092
(2006); doi:10.1038/nm1449
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Hematopoietic stem cell and multilineage defects generated by constitutive β-catenin activation
Marina Scheller, Joerg Huelsken, Frank Rosenbauer, Makoto M Taketo, Walter Birchmeier, Daniel G Tenen & Achim Leutz
Nature Immunology 7, 1037–1047
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1387
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Activation of the canonical Wnt pathway leads to loss of hematopoietic stem cell repopulation and multilineage differentiation block
Peggy Kirstetter, Kristina Anderson, Bo T Porse, Sten Eirik W Jacobsen & Claus Nerlov
Nature Immunology 7, 1048–1056
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1381
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Hematopoietic stem cell biology: too much of a Wnt thing
Jennifer J Trowbridge, Randall T Moon & Mickie Bhatia
Nature Immunology 7, 1021–1023
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1006-1021
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Immunological mechanisms of allergen-specific immunotherapy
Mark Larché , Cezmi A. Akdis and Rudolf Valenta
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 761–771
(October 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1934
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Lamin B1 duplications cause autosomal dominant leukodystrophy
Quasar S Padiath, Kazumasa Saigoh, Raphael Schiffmann, Hideaki Asahara, Takeshi Yamada, Anulf Koeppen, Kirk Hogan, Louis J Ptác caronek & Ying-Hui Fu
Nature Genetics 38, 1114–1123
(2006); doi:10.1038/ng1872
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Centrosome polarization delivers secretory granules to the immunological synapse
Jane C. Stinchcombe, Endre Majorovits, Giovanna Bossi, Stephen Fuller and Gillian M. Griffiths
Nature 443, 462–465
(28 September 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05071
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IRFs: master regulators of signalling by Toll-like receptors and cytosolic pattern-recognition receptors
Kenya Honda and Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 644–658
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1900
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Cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors enhance the resolution of inflammation by promoting inflammatory cell apoptosis
Adriano G Rossi, Deborah A Sawatzky, Annemieke Walker, Carol Ward, Tara A Sheldrake, Nicola A Riley, Alison Caldicott, Magdalena Martinez-Losa, Trevor R Walker, Rodger Duffin, Mohini Gray, Elvira Crescenzi, Morag C Martin, Hugh J Brady, John S Savill, Ian Dransfield & Christopher Haslett
Nature Medicine 12, 1056–1064
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1468
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TRAF6 is a T cell-intrinsic negative regulator required for the maintenance of immune homeostasis
Carolyn G King, Takashi Kobayashi, Pedro J Cejas, Taesoo Kim, Kwiyeom Yoon, Gregory K Kim, Elise Chiffoleau, Somia P Hickman, Patrick T Walsh, Laurence A Turka & Yongwon Choi
Nature Medicine 12, 1088–1092
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1449
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Supressing the supressors
Pamela S Ohashi & Wen Chen Yeh
Nature Medicine 12, 1000–1002
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/nm0906-1000
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Spatiotemporal regulation of the kinase Mst1 by binding protein RAPL is critical for lymphocyte polarity and adhesion
Koko Katagiri, Masashi Imamura & Tatsuo Kinashi
Nature Immunology 7, 919–928
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1374
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PD-1 expression on HIV-specific T cells is associated with T-cell exhaustion and disease progression
Cheryl L. Day, Daniel E. Kaufmann, Photini Kiepiela, Julia A. Brown, Eshia S. Moodley, Sharon Reddy, Elizabeth W. Mackey, Joseph D. Miller, Alasdair J. Leslie, Chantal DePierres, Zenele Mncube, Jaikumar Duraiswamy, Baogong Zhu, Quentin Eichbaum, Marcus Altfeld, E. John Wherry, Hoosen M. Coovadia, Philip J. R. Goulder, Paul Klenerman, Rafi Ahmed, Gordon J. Freeman and Bruce D. Walker
Nature 443, 350–354
(21 September 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05115
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Inhibition of transcription factor NF-κB in the central nervous system ameliorates autoimmune encephalomyelitis in mice
Geert van Loo, Rossana De Lorenzi, Hauke Schmidt, Marion Huth, Alexander Mildner, Marc Schmidt-Supprian, Hans Lassmann, Marco R Prinz and Manolis Pasparakis
Nature Immunology 7, 954–961
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni1372
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At once harmful and beneficial: the dual properties of NF-κB
Sawsan Youssef & Lawrence Steinman
Nature Immunology 7, 901–902
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni0906-901
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Adoptive transfer of T-cell precursors enhances T-cell reconstitution after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation
Johannes L Zakrzewski, Adam A Kochman, Sydney X Lu, Theis H Terwey, Theo D Kim, Vanessa M Hubbard, Stephanie J Muriglan, David Suh, Odette M Smith, Jeremy Grubin, Neel Patel, Andrew Chow, Javier Cabrera-Perez, Radhika Radhakrishnan, Adi Diab, Miguel-Angel Perales, Gabrielle Rizzuto, Ewa Menet, Eric G Pamer, Glen Heller, Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, Õnder Alpdogan & Marcel R M van den Brink
Nature Medicine 12, 1039–1047
(2006); doi:10.1038/nm1463
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Interleukin 27 limits autoimmune encephalomyelitis by suppressing the development of interleukin 17-producing T cells
Marcel Batten, Ji Li, Sothy Yi, Noelyn M Kljavin, Dimitry M Danilenko, Sophie Lucas, James Lee, Frederic J de Sauvage & Nico Ghilardi
Nature Immunology 7, 929–936
(13 August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1375
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Interleukin 27 negatively regulates the development of interleukin 17-producing T helper cells during chronic inflammation of the central nervous system
Jason S Stumhofer, Arian Laurence, Emma H Wilson, Elaine Huang, Cristina M Tato, Leanne M Johnson, Alejandro V Villarino, Qiulong Huang, Akihiko Yoshimura, David Sehy, Christiaan J M Saris, John J O'Shea, Lothar Hennighausen, Matthias Ernst & Christopher A Hunter
Nature Immunology 7, 937–945
(13 August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1376
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All in the family: IL-27 suppression of TH-17 cells
John Colgan & Paul Rothmanr
Nature Immunology 7, 899–901
(2006); doi:10.1038/ni0906-899
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Mast cells are essential intermediaries in regulatory T-cell tolerance
Li-Fan Lu, Evan F. Lind, David C. Gondek, Kathy A. Bennett, Michael W. Gleeson, Karina Pino-Lagos, Zachary A. Scott, Anthony J. Coyle, Jennifer L. Reed, Jacques Van Snick, Terry B. Strom, Xin Xiao Zheng and Randolph J. Noelle
Nature 442, 997–1002
(31 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05010
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Immunology: Protection and privilege
Herman Waldmann
Nature 442, 987–988
(31 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nature05165
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Key function for the Ubc13 E2 ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme in immune receptor signaling
Masahiro Yamamoto, Toru Okamoto, Kiyoshi Takeda, Shintaro Sato, Hideki Sanjo, Satoshi Uematsu, Tatsuya Saitoh, Naoki Yamamoto, Hiroaki Sakurai, Ken J Ishii, Shoji Yamaoka, Taro Kawai, Yoshiharu Matsuura, Osamu Takeuchi & Shizuo Akirar
Nature Immunology 7, 962–970
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1367
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E2 enzymes: expanding the 'ubi-verse' of immune signaling
Averil Ma & Emre Turer
Nature Immunology 7, 903–904
(September 2006); doi:10.1038/ni0906-903
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The kinase TAK1 integrates antigen and cytokine receptor signaling for T cell development, survival and function
Yisong Y Wan, Hongbo Chi, Min Xie, Michael D Schneider & Richard A Flavell
Nature Immunology 7, 851–858
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1355
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Connexin37 protects against atherosclerosis by regulating monocyte adhesion
Cindy W Wong, Thomas Christen, Isabelle Roth, Christos E Chadjichristos, Jean-Paul Derouette, Bernard F Foglia, Marc Chanson, Daniel A Goodenough & Brenda R Kwak
Nature Medicine 12, 950–954
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/nm1441
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Signaling protein SWAP-70 is required for efficient B cell homing to lymphoid organs
Glen Pearce, Veronique Angeli, Gwendalyn J Randolph, Tobias Junt, Ulrich von Andrian, Hans-Joachim Schnittler & Rolf Jessberger
Nature Immunology 7, 827–834
(10 August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1365
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Card9 controls a non-TLR signalling pathway for innate anti-fungal immunity
Olaf Gross, Andreas Gewies, Katrin Finger, Martin Schäfer, Tim Sparwasser, Christian Peschel, Irmgard Förster and Jürgen Ruland
Nature 442, 651–656
(10 August 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04926
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SPPL2a and SPPL2b promote intramembrane proteolysis of TNFα in activated dendritic cells to trigger IL-12 production
Elena Friedmann, Ehud Hauben, Kerstin Maylandt, Simone Schleeger, Sarah Vreugde, Stefan F. Lichtenthaler, Peer-Hendrik Kuhn, Daniela Stauffer, Giorgio Rovelli & Bruno Martoglio
Nature Cell Biology 8, 843–848
(10 August 2006); doi:10.1038/ncb1440
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Herpes simplex virus evades natural killer T cell recognition by suppressing CD1d recycling
Weiming Yuan, Anindya Dasgupta & Peter Cresswell
Nature Immunology 7, 835–842
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1364
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Viral evasion of antigen presentation: not just for peptides anymore
Luc Van Kaer & Sebastian Joyce
Nature Immunology 7, 795–797
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni0806-795
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Enrichment of regulatory CD4+CD25+ T cells by inhibition of phospholipase D signaling
Nagendra Singh, Yoichi Seki, Mariko Takami, Babak Baban, Phil R Chandler, Davood Khosravi, Xiangjian Zheng, Mayuko Takezaki, Jeffrey R Lee, Andrew L Mellor, Wendy B Bollag & Makio Iwashima
Nature Methods 3, 629–636
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/nmeth903
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Foxp1 is an essential transcriptional regulator of B cell development
Hui Hu, Bin Wang, Madhuri Borde, Julie Nardone, Shan Maika, Laura Allred, Philip W Tucker & Anjana Rao
Nature Immunology 7, 819–826
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni1358
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FOXtrot and RAGtime in B cells
Fabio Savarese & Rudolf Grosschedl
Nature Immunology 7, 793–794
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/ni0806-793
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The biology of interleukin-2 and interleukin-15: implications for cancer therapy and vaccine design
Thomas A. Waldmann
Nature Reviews Immunology 6, 595–601
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/nri1901
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Targeting the mechanisms of tumoral immune tolerance with small-molecule inhibitors
Alexander J. Muller and Peggy A. Scherle
Nature Reviews Cancer 6, 613–625
(August 2006); doi:10.1038/nrc1929
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IL-23 promotes tumour incidence and growth
John L. Langowski, Xueqing Zhang, Lingling Wu, Jeanine D. Mattson, Taiying Chen, Kathy Smith, Beth Basham, Terrill McClanahan, Robert A. Kastelein and Martin Oft
Nature 442, 461–465
(27 July 2006); doi:10.1038/nature04808
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Neutrophil direction sensing and superoxide production linked by the GTPase-activating protein GIT2
Yuichi Mazaki, Shigeru Hashimoto, Tohru Tsujimura, Masaki Morishige, Ari Hashimoto, Kosuke Aritake, Atsuko Yamada, Jin-Min Nam, Hiroshi Kiyonari, Kazuki Nakao & Hisataka Sabe
Nature Immunology 7, 724–731
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IkB kinase-a is critical for interferon-α production induced by Toll-like receptors 7 and 9
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Evolving knowledge and therapy of inflammatory bowel disease
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Critical role of TRAF3 in the Toll-like receptor-dependent and -independent antiviral response
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IL-13 signaling through the IL-13α2 receptor is involved in induction of TGF-β1 production and fibrosis
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Lymphocyte calcium signaling from membrane to nucleus
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Immune regulation by SLAM family receptors and SAP-related adaptors
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