Nature Communications (Sep 2016)

ICER is requisite for Th17 differentiation

  • Nobuya Yoshida,
  • Denis Comte,
  • Masayuki Mizui,
  • Kotaro Otomo,
  • Florencia Rosetti,
  • Tanya N. Mayadas,
  • José C. Crispín,
  • Sean J. Bradley,
  • Tomohiro Koga,
  • Michihito Kono,
  • Maria P. Karampetsou,
  • Vasileios C. Kyttaris,
  • Klaus Tenbrock,
  • George C. Tsokos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms12993
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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ICER is a CREM splice variant that represses CREM/CREB signalling. Here the authors use human cells and mouse models of various autoimmune diseases to show that ICER is central to pathogenic Th17 cell differentiation in autoimmunity.