Fig. 5: The integrated stress response pathway is downregulated in TRM cells in patients with inflammatory diseases. | Nature Immunology

Fig. 5: The integrated stress response pathway is downregulated in TRM cells in patients with inflammatory diseases.

From: The integrated stress response pathway controls cytokine production in tissue-resident memory CD4+ T cells

Fig. 5: The integrated stress response pathway is downregulated in TRM cells in patients with inflammatory diseases.The alternative text for this image may have been generated using AI.

a, UMAP plot showing the distribution of CD4+KLF2CD69+ TRM cells, CD4+SELL KLF2+CD69 TEM cells and CD4+SELL+KLF2+CD69 TCM/TN cells isolated from the kidney of healthy controls (n = 3) and patients with ANCA-GN (n = 5) (left) and heatmap showing the expression of CD69, CCR7, CD62L and CD45RA protein and KLF2, S1PR1, CCR7, SELL, IFNG, TNF, IL17A, IL17F and CSF2 mRNA in the CD4+ TRM, TEM and TCM/TN cell clusters defined in the UMAP (right). b, Violin plot showing cytokine scores based on the expression of IL2, IL17A, IL17F, IL22, IFNG, TNF, CSF2 and LTA in kidney CD4+ TRM cells from healthy controls and patients with ANCA-GN as in a. c, Reactome analysis showing downregulated pathways in kidney CD4+ TRM cells from patients with ANCA-GN compared to kidney CD4+ TRM cells from healthy controls. d, Violin plot showing ISR-associated gene scores based on the expression of PPP1R15A, PPP1R15B, ATF3, ATF4, ATF5, ATF6, DDIT3, DNAJB1, DUSP1, FOS, JUN, FOSB and JUNB in kidney CD4+ TRM cells from patients with ANCA-GN and healthy controls. e, Violin plot showing cytokine-responsive gene scores based on transcriptome data of kidney biopsies from patients with ANCA-GN (n = 22) and healthy controls (n = 21)26. f, UMAP plot showing the distribution of CD4+S1PR1IL17Ahi TRM cells, CD4+SELLS1PR1TNFhi TRM cells, CD4+SELLS1PR1+ TEM cells and CD4+SELL+S1PR1+ TCM/TN cells isolated from the colon of healthy controls (n = 2) and patients with Crohn’s disease (n = 2) (left) and heatmap showing the expression of KLF2, S1PR1, CCR7, SELL, RORC, IL17A, IL22 and TNF mRNA in CD4+ TCM/TN, TEM, TNFhi TRM and IL17Ahi TRM cells (right). g, Violin plot showing cytokine scores in colon CD4+TNFhi and CD4+IL17Ahi TRM cells from healthy controls and patients with Crohn’s disease as in f. h, Reactome analysis showing pathways downregulated in colon CD4+TNFhi and CD4+IL17Ahi TRM cells from patients with Crohn’s disease compared to colon CD4+TNFhi and CD4+IL17Ahi TRM cells from healthy controls as in f. i, Violin plots showing ISR-associated gene scores in colon CD4+TNFhi and CD4+IL17Ahi TRM cells from healthy controls and patients with Crohn’s disease as in f. j, Violin plot showing cytokine-responsive gene scores based on transcriptome data of colon biopsies from patients with Crohn’s disease (n = 92) and healthy controls (n = 55). Data are mean + s.e.m. Statistical analysis was performed using unpaired two-tailed t-test with Welch’s correction (d,e,i,j); **P < 0.01.

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