Publications by authors named "Han G Duong"

Regulatory T cells (T cells) are instrumental in establishing immunological tolerance. However, the precise effector mechanisms by which T cells control a specific type of immune response in a given tissue remains unresolved. By simultaneously studying T cells from different tissue origins under systemic autoimmunity, in the present study we show that interleukin (IL)-27 is specifically produced by intestinal T cells to regulate helper T17 cell (T17 cell) immunity.

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Article Synopsis
  • Regulatory T (Treg) cells play a crucial role in maintaining immune tolerance, but their specific mechanisms in different tissues are not fully understood.
  • Research shows that intestinal Treg cells produce a protein called IL-27, which helps regulate Th17 immune responses, impacting conditions like intestinal inflammation and colitis-associated cancer.
  • A new Treg cell subset, identified as CD83TCF1, is the primary source of IL-27, highlighting a unique way Treg cells control immune responses in specific tissues.
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Introduction: Crohn's disease (CD) is a major subtype of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), a spectrum of chronic intestinal disorders caused by dysregulated immune responses to gut microbiota. Although transcriptional and functional changes in a number of immune cell types have been implicated in the pathogenesis of IBD, the cellular interactions and signals that drive these changes have been less well-studied.

Methods: We performed Cellular Indexing of Transcriptomes and Epitopes by sequencing on peripheral blood, colon, and ileal immune cells derived from healthy subjects and patients with CD.

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Tissue-resident memory CD8 T (T) cells are a subset of memory T cells that play a critical role in limiting early pathogen spread and controlling infection. T cells exhibit differences across tissues, but their potential heterogeneity among distinct anatomic compartments within the small intestine and colon has not been well recognized. Here, by analyzing T cells from the lamina propria and epithelial compartments of the small intestine and colon, we showed that intestinal T cells exhibited distinctive patterns of cytokine and granzyme expression along with substantial transcriptional, epigenetic, and functional heterogeneity.

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Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses a spectrum of gastrointestinal disorders driven by dysregulated immune responses against gut microbiota. We integrated single-cell RNA and antigen receptor sequencing to elucidate key components, cellular states, and clonal relationships of the peripheral and gastrointestinal mucosal immune systems in health and ulcerative colitis (UC). UC was associated with an increase in IgG1 plasma cells in colonic tissue, increased colonic regulatory T cells characterized by elevated expression of the transcription factor ZEB2, and an enrichment of a γδ T cell subset in the peripheral blood.

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