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The Immune Synapse as a Novel Target for Therapy

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Luis Graca

    1. Unidade de Imunologia Celular Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

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  • Discusses how interfering with T cell activation may lead to immune tolerance
  • Describes immune modulation and the recruitment of regulatory T cells
  • Provides information on the role of monoclonal antibodies in tolerance induction
  • Describes mechanisms maintaining dominant tolerance
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Progress in Inflammation Research (PIR)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. The immune synapse and T cell activation: regulation by chemokines

    • Emmanuel Donnadieu
    Pages 1-13

  3. The induction of regulatory T cells by targeting the immune synapse

    • Luis Graca
    Pages 15-34

  4. Infiltrating the immunological synapse: prospects for the use of altered peptide ligands for the treatment of immune pathology

    • Paul J. Fairchild
    Pages 35-47

  5. Targeting CD4 for the induction of dominant tolerance

    • Herman Waldmann, Elizabeth Adams, Stephen Cobbold
    Pages 49-56

  6. Anti-CD3: from T cell depletion to tolerance induction

    • Damien Bresson, Matthias von Herrath
    Pages 57-70

  7. Immune modulation by CD40L blockade

    • Yuan Zhai, Jerzy W. Kupiec-Weglinski
    Pages 71-86

  8. CTLA-4-immunoglobulin and indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase in dominant tolerance

    • Francesca Fallarino, Carmine Vacca, Claudia Volpi, Maria T. Pallotta, Stefania Gizzi, Ursula Grohmann et al.
    Pages 87-106

  9. Adhesion molecules as therapeutic targets

    • Mark R. Nicolls, Rasa Tamosiuniene
    Pages 107-128

  10. E3 ubiquitin ligases and immune tolerance: Targeting the immune synapse from within?

    • Irene Puga, Fernando Macian
    Pages 129-146

  11. FOXP3 biochemistry will lead to novel drug approaches for vaccines and diseases that lack suppressor T cells

    • Bin Li, Xiaomin Song, Arabinda Samanta, Kathryn Bembas, Amy Brown, Geng Zhang et al.
    Pages 147-154

  12. Transforming growth factor-β: From its effect in T cell activation to a role in dominant tolerance

    • Ramireddy Bommireddy, Thomas Doetschman
    Pages 155-168

  13. From mice to men: the challenges of developing tolerance-inducing biological drugs for the clinic

    • Wan-Fai Ng, John D. Isaacs
    Pages 169-185

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 187-192
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It is now accepted that T cell activation by an antigen-presenting cell requires the organization of a supramolecular structure – the immune synapse. This structure, with different types of molecules spatially segregated, is involved in the delivery of quantitative and qualitative signals critical for T cell activation, and therefore in controlling the nature of the immune response. This volume discusses the progress in manipulating components of the immune synapse as a strategy to regulate the immune response in immune pathology, such as transplantation, autoimmunity and allergy. Donnadieu reviews the current knowledge on the molecular composition and organization of the immune synapse and how the formation of this structure can be modulated by chemokines. It is also known that the immune synapse formation is critical for the activation of naive T cells, as well as their functional polarization. The second chapter discusses the conversion of naive T cells into regulatory T cells (Treg) when components of the immune synapse are manipulated in such a way that the T cells receive suboptimal activation signals.

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  • Unidade de Imunologia Celular Instituto de Medicina Molecular, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Luis Graca

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