The Journal of Immunology

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag151. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag151. ABSTRACT Inflammatory diseases arise from complex interactions between immune signaling and cellular stress. Although endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress is a key modulator of immunity, the mechanisms by which it promotes inflammatory pathology remain incompletely understood. Notably, ER stress-induced NF-κB activation alone is insufficient to account for robust IL-6 … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag160. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag160. ABSTRACT The V158F polymorphism found in the human Fc receptor CD16a (also known as FcγRIIIa) is thought to influence autoimmune disorders and responses to IgG-based therapies. V158F is known to influence the IgG affinity, and thereby triggering of the CD16a receptor expressed on various immune cells. In contrast … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag168. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag168. ABSTRACT Forkhead Box P1 (Foxp1) is a transcription factor critical for the proper development of multiple tissues. While Foxp1 has a well-described role in regulating adaptive immunity through modulation of T and B cells, a function in medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) has not been reported. Here we … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag170. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag170. ABSTRACT Memory T-cell inflation is a distinctive immunological phenomenon observed during persistent viral infections such as cytomegalovirus (CMV). Unlike conventional memory T-cell responses, which contract after infection resolution, a subset of CMV-specific T cells undergoes a progressive and sustained expansion, termed “inflation”, which is thought to be critical … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag135. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag135. ABSTRACT Regulators of G protein signaling (RGS) deactivate G proteins associated with G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), a large receptor family with diverse functions. Of the 20 RGS, the Rgs14 single-nucleotide polymorphism is associated with inflammatory bowel disease, and Rgs14 expression is higher in macrophages than in epithelial cells. … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag143. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag143. ABSTRACT Acquired immunity in mammals depends upon capture and presentation of antigens by specialized macrophage populations in splenic marginal zone and lymph node sinuses and follicular dendritic cells within germinal centers. Cells referred to as follicular dendritic cells in chickens express CSF1R, the receptor for CSF1 and IL34. … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag133. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag133. ABSTRACT Reproducible and efficient genetic engineering of human NK cells remains a primary challenge to next-generation chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) therapies, specifically for larger constructs with multiple plasmids and transgenes. Lentiviral vectors (LVs) pseudotyped with baboon envelope (BaEV) outperform vesicular stomatitis virus G protein in transducing hematopoietic stem … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag137. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag137. ABSTRACT In the canonical model of VDJ recombination, a single diversity (D) gene is incorporated into the complementarity-determining region 3 (CDR3) to produce a T cell receptor δ (TCRδ; TRD) or TCRβ (TRB) chain. But by constructing a dataset of more than 2.7 million TRD CDR3 sequences from … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag125. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag125. ABSTRACT Severe trauma triggers a dynamic disturbance of immune function that can progress from early hyperinflammation to prolonged dysregulation, increasing patient vulnerability to infection and chronic critical illness (CCI). To identify immune features linked to different postinjury clinical trajectories, we prospectively evaluated severely injured trauma patients and categorized … Read more

J Immunol. 2026 Jun 7;215(6):vkag139. doi: 10.1093/jimmun/vkag139. ABSTRACT Protective immunity is induced by both, wild-type measles virus (WT MeV) and live-attenuated (LA) measles virus vaccine (LAMV), affording the opportunity to compare common and selective immunological underpinnings of immune protection. Here, peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were collected from rhesus macaques at several timepoints after infection … Read more