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This research aims to understand the differences in self-reactive CD4+ T cells in healthy individuals and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).

Self-reactive CD4+ T cells display diverse differentiation in health and gain stem-like features in rheumatoid arthritis 2308930

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Randomized trial reveals diverse states of self-reactive T cells in health, suggesting stem-like features in rheumatoid arthritis.

This research aims to understand the differences in self-reactive CD4+ T cells in healthy individuals and patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA).
Used a ferritin-based peptide-MHC II multimer platform (spheromers) to capture self-reactive T cells.
Performed high-dimensional phenotypic analyses comparing T cells from healthy donors and RA patients.
Conducted in vitro T cell and antigen-matured dendritic cell co-culture assays.
Spheromers captured significantly more self-reactive cells than conventional tetramers.
In healthy individuals, self-reactive CD4+ T cells mainly showed memory phenotypes enriched for Tregs and Tph-like cells.
In RA, self-reactive T cells were enriched for naïve-like subsets, indicating increased stemness and greater differentiation plasticity than in healthy counterparts.

Afroz et al. (2026) studied this question.

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