Selective decrease of donor-reactive Tregs after liver transplantation limits Treg therapy for promoting allograft tolerance in humans

Q Tang, J Leung, Y Peng, A Sanchez-Fueyo… - Science translational …, 2022 - science.org
Promoting immune tolerance to transplanted organs can minimize the amount of
immunosuppressive drugs that patients need to take, reducing lifetime risks of mortality and …

[HTML][HTML] The existence of a nonclassical TCA cycle in the nucleus that wires the metabolic-epigenetic circuitry

X Liu, W Si, L He, J Yang, Y Peng, J Ren… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
The scope and variety of the metabolic intermediates from the mitochondrial tricarboxylic
acid (TCA) cycle that are engaged in epigenetic regulation of the chromatin function in the …

Global crotonylome reveals CDYL-regulated RPA1 crotonylation in homologous recombination–mediated DNA repair

…, T Gong, X Liu, S Liu, X Peng, W Zhang, Y Peng… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Previously, we reported that chromodomain Y–like (CDYL) acts as a crotonyl–coenzyme A
hydratase and negatively regulates histone crotonylation (Kcr). However, the global CDYL-…

[HTML][HTML] Genetically modified pigs are protected from classical swine fever virus

…, M Li, X Chen, T Yu, X Chen, Z Dai, Y Peng… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Classical swine fever (CSF) caused by classical swine fever virus (CSFV) is one of the most
detrimental diseases, and leads to significant economic losses in the swine industry. Despite …

A human mutation in STAT3 promotes type 1 diabetes through a defect in CD8+ T cell tolerance

…, J Wang, AR Gupta, Q Shi, N Skartsis, Y Peng… - Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - rupress.org
Naturally occurring cases of monogenic type 1 diabetes (T1D) help establish direct mechanisms
driving this complex autoimmune disease. A recently identified de novo germline gain-of…

[HTML][HTML] IL-6 and TNFα drive extensive proliferation of human tregs without compromising their lineage stability or function

N Skartsis, Y Peng, LMR Ferreira, V Nguyen… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Treg therapies are being tested in clinical trials in transplantation and autoimmune diseases,
however, the impact of inflammation on Tregs remains controversial. We challenged …

[HTML][HTML] Anti-HLA-A2-CAR Tregs prolong vascularized mouse heterotopic heart allograft survival

JC Wagner, E Ronin, P Ho, Y Peng, Q Tang - American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Alloantigen-specific regulatory T cell (Treg) therapy is a promising approach for suppressing
alloimmune responses and minimizing immunosuppression after solid organ transplantation…

[PDF][PDF] PD-L1-mediated immune evasion in triple-negative breast cancer is linked to the loss of ZNF652

Y Liu, Y Peng, W Du, C Yu, Z Peng, L Qin, Y Ma, X Wu… - Cell Reports, 2023 - cell.com
The intrinsic regulation of programmed death ligand-1 (PD-L1) expression remains unclear.
Here, we report that zinc-finger protein 652 (ZNF652) is a potent transcription repressor of …

[HTML][HTML] NFIB facilitates replication licensing by acting as a genome organizer

…, Y Liu, C Liu, Y Wang, L He, X Cheng, Y Peng… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The chromatin-based rule governing the selection and activation of replication origins in
metazoans remains to be investigated. Here we report that NFIB, a member of Nuclear Factor I (…

RCCD1 promotes breast carcinogenesis through regulating hypoxia-associated mitochondrial homeostasis

Y Peng, X Liu, X Liu, X Cheng, L Xia, L Qin, S Guan… - Oncogene, 2023 - nature.com
Regulator of chromosome condensation domain-containing protein 1 (RCCD1), previously
reported as a partner of histone H3K36 demethylase KDM8 involved in chromosome …