NIH R01 · 2025
Reprogramming of tissue structural cells by cutaneous CD4+ T cells
Project Summary/Abstract Although long thought to be a unique feature of adaptive cells such as T and B cells, it is now clear that tissue structural cells can also harbor ‘memory’ of prior inflammatory responses in the form of stable epigenetic modifications that alter their transcriptional potential and behavior following subsequent tissue damage, and this is referred to as ‘inflammatory memory’. This highlights key gaps in our knowledge of T cell-tissue cross- talk that this proposal seeks to address. The premise of this proposal is that cutaneous T cells reprogram local keratinocytes and fibroblasts during inflammation, thereby altering their transcriptional and epigenetic landscape,…
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