Nature Communications (Jun 2022)

Re-programming mouse liver-resident invariant natural killer T cells for suppressing hepatic and diabetogenic autoimmunity

  • Channakeshava Sokke Umeshappa,
  • Patricia Solé,
  • Jun Yamanouchi,
  • Saswat Mohapatra,
  • Bas G. J. Surewaard,
  • Josep Garnica,
  • Santiswarup Singha,
  • Debajyoti Mondal,
  • Elena Cortés-Vicente,
  • Charlotte D’Mello,
  • Andrew Mason,
  • Paul Kubes,
  • Pau Serra,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Pere Santamaria

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30759-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 19

Abstract

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Invariant natural killer T (iNKT) cells are tissue-resident immune cells recognizing lipid antigens. Here the authors find that liver, but not lung nor spleen, iNKT cells alter their transcriptome upon systemic treatment of lipid nanoparticles for the induction of regulatory B cells and suppression of liver and pancreas autoimmunity in mouse models.