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Activation-induced FOXP3 in human T effector cells does not suppress proliferation or cytokine production

2007· article· en· 857 citations· W2139019810 on OpenAlex· 10.1093/intimm/dxm014

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A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

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Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

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Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
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Domain
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Study design
Candidate signal: Bench or experimentalConsensus signal: Bench or experimental
Genre
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Teacher disagreement score
0.055
Threshold uncertainty score
0.998
Validation status
machine_predicted_unvalidated · codex-gemma-dda1882f352a

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Scholarly communication0.0000.001
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Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.279
Teacher spread
0.263 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation status
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Abstract

Forkhead box P3 (FOXP3) is currently thought to be the most specific marker for naturally occurring CD4(+)CD25(+) T regulatory cells (nTregs). In mice, expression of FoxP3 is strictly correlated with regulatory activity, whereas increasing evidence suggests that in humans, activated T effector cells (Teffs) may also express FOXP3. In order to better define the role of FOXP3 in human Teff cells, we investigated the intensity and kinetics of expression in ex vivo Teff cells, suppressed Teff cells and Teff cell lines. We found that all dividing Teff cells expressed FOXP3, but only transiently, and at levels that were significantly lower than those in suppressive nTregs. This temporary expression in Teff cells was insufficient to suppress expression of reported targets of FOXP3 repressor activity, including CD127, IL-2 and IFN-gamma, and was not correlated with induction of a nTreg phenotype. Thus expression of FOXP3 is a normal consequence of CD4(+) T cell activation and, in humans, it can no longer be used as an exclusive marker of nTregs. These data indicate that our current understanding of how FOXP3 contributes to immune tolerance in humans needs to be re-evaluated.

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The record

Venue
International Immunology
Topic
Immune Cell Function and Interaction
Field
Immunology and Microbiology
Canadian institutions
Vancouver Coastal Health Research InstituteUniversity of British ColumbiaVancouver Coastal Health
Funders
not available
Keywords
FOXP3Interleukin-7 receptorIL-2 receptorEffectorCell biologyBiologyCytokineT cellImmune systemImmunology
Has abstract in OpenAlex
yes