Abstracts tagged "T Cell"

Abstract Number: 2140 • ACR Convergence 2025
Identification of immune phenotypes in systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis associated lung disease (SJIA-LD) using high parameter flow cytometry
Haeja Kessler¹, Noel Gibson¹, Alyssa Sproles², Celine Lages¹, Paul Dascani³, Sherry Thornton⁴ and Grant Schulert⁴, ¹Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, ²Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH, ³Cytek Biosciences, Pittsburgh, ⁴Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH
Background/Purpose: Systemic Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (sJIA) is a unique subtype of juvenile idiopathic arthritis with life threatening complications including macrophage activation syndrome and chronic lung…
Abstract Number: 0997 • ACR Convergence 2025
Identification of Novel HLA Class II–Restricted Autoantigens in Scleroderma and Ulcerative Colitis Using TargetScan 
Olivia Pryor¹, Catalina Burbano², Nathaniel Bagge², Rutuja Kulkarni², Heather F. Jones², Livio Dukaj², Shoshana M.K. Bloom², Jackson Lirette², Rachel Lent², Prachi Dhanania², Nicole A. Ladd², Ryan Kritzer², Hana Husic², Shobitha Jillella², Candace R. Perullo², Jinyu Zhu², Teagan J. Parsons², Ira Jain², Rakshika Balasubramaniyam², Kenneth L. Jahan², Vivin Karthik², Alexander Cristofaro¹, Chandan K. Pavuluri², Jenna LaBelle², Laurie Barefoot², Shrikanta Chattopadhyay², Kim M. Cirelli², Mollie M. Jurewicz², Andrew P. Ferretti² and Cagan Gurer², ¹TScan Therapeutics, Waltham, ²TScan Therapeutics, Waltham, MA
Background/Purpose: Selective modulation of autoimmune responses through antigen-specific therapies represents a promising direction for improving treatment specificity and safety. Genetic associations with HLA class II…
Abstract Number: 0920 • ACR Convergence 2025
Functional Characterization of NEMO-NDAS Causing Variants in Patients’ PBMCs and in Wildtype and Mutant U937 Cells
Elizabeth Morgan¹, Bin Lin², Sara alehashemi¹, Adriana de Jesus¹, Keith Kauffman³, Christopher Friend¹, Farzana Bhuyan¹, Kader Gedik¹, Kat Uss¹, Lauren Krausfeldt⁴, Jason Brenchley⁵, Zoran Gucev⁶, Kathryn Cook⁷, Vafa Mammadova⁸, Gulnara Nasrullayeva⁸, Mariana Correia Marques⁹, Abigail Bosk¹⁰, Brian Nolan¹¹, Scott Canna¹², Maude Tusseau¹³, Andrea Bohrer¹⁴, Katrin Mayer-Barber¹⁵, Timothy Moran¹⁶, Andrew Oler⁴, Daniel Barber³ and Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky¹, ¹Translational Autoinflammatory Diseases Section (TADS), Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology (LCIM), NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ²NIH, Bethesda, MD, ³T-Lymphocyte Biology Section, Laboratory of Parasitic Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁴Bioinformatics and Computational Biosciences Branch, Office of Cyber Infrastructure and Computational Biology, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Barrier Immunity Section, Laboratory of Viral Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ⁶University Children's Hospital, Medical Faculty Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia, ⁷Akron Children’s Hospital, Akron, OH, ⁸Azerbaijan Medical University, Baku, Azerbaijan, ⁹Translational Genetics and Genomics Section, National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁰Children’s National Hospital, Washington DC, ¹¹Lurie Children’s Hospital, Chicago, ¹²Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, ¹³Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Bron, France, ¹⁴Inflammation and Innate Immunity Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology (LCIM), NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD, ¹⁵Inflammation and Innate Immunity Unit, Laboratory of Clinical Immunology and Microbiology (LCIM), Bethesda, MD, ¹⁶University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
Background/Purpose: NEMO-deleted 5 autoinflammatory syndrome (NEMO-NDAS) is an inflammatory disease caused by mosaic splice-site variants that lead to exon 5 skipping in IKBKG, encoding NEMO.…
Abstract Number: 0085 • ACR Convergence 2025
Single Cell RNA-seq Revealed Immune/epithelial Cell Abnormalities Underlying the Pathogenesis of Rheumatoid Arthritis-related Interstitial Lung Disease
Kensuke Suga¹, Amara Seng², Changfu Yao³, Tanyalak Parimon³, Youn Jung Choi², Justyna Fert-Bober⁴, Barry Stripp³, Jon Giles⁵, Peter Chen³ and Nunzio Bottini⁶, ¹Kao Autoimmunity Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, ²Kao Autoimmunity Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ³Women's Guild Lung Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁴Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁵Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA
Background/Purpose: Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is one of the extra-articular manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) characterized by inflammation and/or fibrosis. Clinically relevant RA-ILD occurs in…
Abstract Number: 1789 • ACR Convergence 2025
Spatial Analysis of Advanced Osteoarthritis Synovial Tissue
jacob Dickman¹, Stephanie Ruzicka¹, Holub Meaghan², Jutras Brandon³, Adam Edelstein³ and Robert Lochhead⁴, ¹Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, ²Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Mount Pleasant, MI, ³Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, ⁴Medical College of Wisconsin, GERMANTOWN, WI
Background/Purpose: Osteoarthritis (OA) is a joint pathology involving joint cartilage destruction and synovial inflammation. Severe knee OA is often surgically treated with total knee arthroplasty…
Abstract Number: 0995 • ACR Convergence 2025
Resident Memory T Cells Stimulate Pathogenic Activity in Fibroblast-like Synoviocytes
Madison Mangin¹, Yang Yang², Yusuke Miyashita² and Margaret Chang², ¹Boston Children's Hospital, St Simons Island, GA, ²Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA
Background/Purpose: Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease characterized by joint specific memory. We previously demonstrated that joint-specific memory is mediated by CD8+ synovial resident…
Abstract Number: 0663 • ACR Convergence 2025
iPSC-Derived Off-the-Shelf anti-CD19 CAR T cells Deliver Improved Clinical Outcomes in Lupus with Reduced or No Conditioning Chemotherapy
Parastoo Fazeli¹, Jennifer Medlin², Andrew BitMansour³, Debra Zack⁴, Rebecca Elstrom⁵, Bertha Villa⁵, Lilly Wong⁶, John Goulding⁷, Nicholas Brookhouser⁵, Trever Greene⁵, Cara Bickers⁵, Carol Wong⁵, Beatrice Ferguson⁵, Tom Lee⁵, Jode Goodridge⁵, Marie Hu⁸, Veronika Bachanova⁸, Jeffrey Miller⁹, Bahram Valamehr⁶, Matthew Lunning¹⁰ and Vaneet Sandhu⁵, ¹UMN, ST PAUL, MN, ²University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, ³Fate Therapeutics, Inc., San Carlos, CA, ⁴Fate Therapeutics, Inc., Solana Beach, CA, ⁵Fate Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, ⁶Fate Therapeutics, Inc., San Diego, CA, ⁷Fate Therapeutics, San Diego, ⁸University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, ⁹University of Minnesota, Minneaspolis, MN, ¹⁰University of Nebraska, Omaha
Background/Purpose: Anti-CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy shows promise in autoimmune disease. However, autologous CAR T-cell therapy is limited by prolonged pre- and…
Abstract Number: 0067 • ACR Convergence 2025
Identification of Neutrophil Extracellular Traps in Explanted Human Lungs with Rheumatoid Arthritis-related Interstitial Lung Disease
Amara Seng¹, Kensuke Suga², Diana Tran³, Anvita Singaraju⁴, Tanyalak Parimon⁵, Youn Jung Choi⁶, Justyna Fert-Bober⁷, Jon Giles⁸, Peter Chen⁵ and Nunzio Bottini⁹, ¹Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ²Kao Autoimmunity Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA, ³Cedars Sinai Medical Center, La Cañada Flintridge, CA, ⁴Kao Autoimmunity Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, ⁵Women's Guild Lung Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁶Kao Autoimmunity Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁷Smidt Heart Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁸Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, ⁹Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, CA
Background/Purpose: Symptomatic rheumatoid arthritis-related interstitial lung disease (RA-ILD) is prevalent in about 10% of patients with RA and confers a higher mortality compared with RA…
Abstract Number: 1726 • ACR Convergence 2025
Inflammatory arthritis immune related adverse events represent a unique autoimmune disease entity primarily driven by T cells, but likely not autoantibodies
Xingxing Zhu¹, yue Yu¹, Yangfen Li¹, Panwen wang², ying li², Chantal McCabe², shiju chen², Brenna Sharp², Amber Wolzen², Hannah Langenfeld¹, Andrew C. Hanson¹, Cynthia Crowson³, svetomir Markovic², John Davis¹, Haidong Dong², Uma Thanarajasingam¹ and Hu Zeng¹, ¹Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, ²Mayo Clinic, Rochester, ³Mayo Clinic, Stewartvillle, MN
Background/Purpose: The immunological basis of inflammatory arthritis (IA) immune related adverse event (irAE) following anti-PD-1/PD-L1 immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) therapy is incompletely understood. The relationship…
Abstract Number: 0994 • ACR Convergence 2025
UTAA91: An Off-the-Shelf Allogeneic CAR-Vδ1T Therapy Leveraging CD19 Nanoantibody for B-cell Depletion and PD-1 Agonist Nanoantibody for Pathogenic T-cell Elimination in Refractory Autoimmune Diseases
Licui Jiang¹, Fengtao you¹, Kunmin Yan¹, Jianan Yao¹, Hai Wu¹, Jian Wu², Xin Chang², Cheng Peng², Huimin Meng¹, Min Wang³, Ping Zhang³, Bozhen Zhang⁴ and Lin Yang⁵, ¹PersonGen BioTherapeutics(Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Suzhou, China,, Suzhou, China (People's Republic), ²The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China (People's Republic), ³PersonGenAnke Cellular Therapeutics Co., Ltd.,Hefei, China,, Suzhou, China (People's Republic), ⁴PersonGen BioTherapeutics(Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Suzhou, China; PersonGenAnke Cellular Therapeutics Co., Ltd.,Hefei, China,, Suzhou, China (People's Republic), ⁵PersonGen BioTherapeutics(Suzhou) Co., Ltd., Suzhou, China; PersonGenAnke Cellular Therapeutics Co., Ltd.,Hefei, China; Cyrus Tang Medical Institute, Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China, Suzhou, China (People's Republic)
Background/Purpose: Current therapies inadequately restore immune homeostasis due to incomplete pathogenic cell clearance and limited multi-lineage targeting. UTAA91 integrates: 1) PD-1 agonist-targeted cytotoxicity: The PD-1…
Abstract Number: 0890 • ACR Convergence 2025
Granzyme K+ CD8 T cells colocalize with myeloid cells and activate them through several pathways
Julia Nicole Zeid¹, Kaitlyn Arce², Nanxi Guo¹, Kartik Bhamidipati³, Kevin Wei⁴, Larry Moreland⁵, Fan Zhang⁶ and Anna Helena Jonsson², ¹University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, ²University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, ³Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, ⁴Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, ⁵University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ⁶The University of Colorado, Aurora, CO
Background/Purpose: Granzyme K (GZMK)-expressing CD8 T cells have recently been detected in tissues from an increasing number of autoimmune conditions, but their role in disease…
Abstract Number: 0055 • ACR Convergence 2025
TCR Signaling Thresholds Govern Anergy and Tolerance in ZAP70 Hypomorphic Models of Autoimmune Arthritis
Yuka Nakao, Astha Patel, Letitia Yang, Steven yu, Arthur Weiss and Judith Ashouri, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Background/Purpose: T cell receptor (TCR) signaling strength is a key determinant of immune tolerance and autoimmunity, yet the threshold needed to prevent pathogenic self-reactivity remains…
Abstract Number: 1724 • ACR Convergence 2025
Pathogenic role of Mucosal-Associated Invariant T cells in Rheumatoid Arthritis.
Manon LESTURGIE-TALAREK¹, Virginie Gonzalez², Anne Cauvet², Lucie Beaudoin³, Fiona Oudart⁴, Adrien Schvartz⁵, Francesco Carbone⁵, Mickael Menager⁵, Noémie Sénot³, Francoise Tilotta⁶, Yannick Allanore⁷, Agnes Lehuen⁸ and Jérôme AVOUAC⁹, ¹Paris University, Paris, France, ²INSERMU¹⁰¹⁶, Paris, France, ³Institut Cochin, Paris, ⁴APHP - Cochin hospital, Paris, France, ⁵Institut Imagine, Paris, ⁶Université Paris Cité, Montrouge, France, ⁷Université Paris Cité, Paris, France, ⁸Hôpital Cochin, Paris, France, ⁹Rheumatology department, Cochin hospital, Paris, France
Background/Purpose: Mucosal-associated invariant T (MAIT) cells are innate-like lymphocytes that produce cytokines and cytotoxic molecules. Reduced frequencies and altered phenotypes of MAIT cells have been…
Abstract Number: 0993 • ACR Convergence 2025
NOD2 mutations mediate IL-17 predisposition in patients with Blau syndrome
Leah Huey¹, Emily Vance², Bryce Binstadt³ and Ruth Napier², ¹Oregon Health & Science University, Denver, CO, ²University of Colorado Anschutz, Aurora, CO, ³University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
Background/Purpose: Blau syndrome is a pediatric rheumatic disease characterized by dermatitis, arthritis, and uveitis. Blau syndrome is caused by inborn or de novo mutations in…
Abstract Number: 0889 • ACR Convergence 2025
Potentially pathogenic memory CD4 T cells with a B cell helper phenotype expand in ACPA+ individuals during progression to rheumatoid arthritis
Ziyuan He¹, Marla Glass¹, Pravina Venkatesan², Alexandra Ferrannini³, Marie Feser⁴, Christy Bennett¹, David Boyle⁵, Kristen Demoruelle⁶, Kristine Kuhn⁷, Fan Zhang⁸, Thomas Bumol⁹, Ananda Goldrath³, Peter Skene³, V. Michael Holers¹⁰, Xiaojun Li¹, Adam Savage¹, Gary Firestein¹¹, Kevin Deane¹², Troy Torgerson¹³ and Mark Gillespie¹, ¹Allen Institute for Immunology, Seattle, WA, ²Allen Insitute, Seattle, WA, ³Allen Institute for Immunology, Seattle, ⁴University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ⁵UCSD, La Jolla, CA, ⁶University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Golden, CO, ⁷²⁰²² - ²⁰²³ / Adult/ University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁸The University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, ⁹Allen Institute for Immunology, San Diego, CA, ¹⁰University of Colorado, Denver, CO, ¹¹University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA, ¹²University of Colorado Denver Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO, ¹³Allen Institute for Immunology, Enumclaw, WA
Background/Purpose: Prior to the onset of clinically apparent inflammatory arthritis (IA)/synovitis (clinical RA), ACPA+ ‘at-risk’ individuals (ARI) show alterations in the abundance of effector T…

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