Morgan J McCullough, Miriya K Tune, Johnny Castillo Cabrera, Jose Torres-Castillo, Minghong He, Yongqiang Feng, Claire M Doerschuk, Hong Dang, Adriana S Beltran, Robert S Hagan, Jason R Mock
CD4+ forkhead box P3 (FOXP3)+ regulatory T cells (Tregs) are essential in maintaining immune tolerance and suppressing excessive immune responses. Tregs also contribute to tissue repair processes distinct from their roles in immune suppression. For these reasons, Tregs are candidates for targeted therapies for inflammatory and autoimmune diseases, and in diseases where tissue damage occurs. MT-2 cells, an immortalized Treg-like cell line, offer a model to study Treg biology and their therapeutic potential. In the present study, we use clustered regularly interspaced palindromic repeats (CRISPR)-mediated knockdown of FOXP3 in MT-2 cells to understand the transcriptional and functional changes that occur when FOXP3 is lost and to compare MT-2 cells with primary human Tregs...
January 30, 2024: Immunology and Cell Biology