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Benjamin J. Read

Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and HarvardORCID 0000-0002-4056-296XUnclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:cancer & tumor microenvironment· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1

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Alex K. ShalekiD· 1 shared Alexandra N. Pipkin· 1 shared Alice H. LinderiD· 1 shared Alison Epstein RingeliD· 1 shared Amanda M. Hussey· 1 shared Byungji KimiD· 1 shared Darrell J. IrvineiD· 1 shared Douglas S. KwoniD· 1 shared

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PPARγ downregulation in colonic CD8+ T cells results in epithelial barrier disruption in people with HIV on antiretroviral therapy

Upasana Das Adhikari, Leah M. Froehle, Alexandra N. Pipkin, Heeva Baharlou, Alice H. Linder, Palak Shah, Amanda M. Hussey, Qiming Zhang, Sarah K. Nyquist, Saleh Khawaled, Fangtao Chi, Swagata Goswami, Sabhyata Sedhain, Salina Hussain, Thomas J. Diefenbach, , Douglas S. Kwon

This study shows that PPARγ downregulation in colonic CD8+ T cells of people with HIV on ART leads to epithelial barrier disruption by promoting lipid uptake and apoptosis.

Cell · Sep 11, 2025Peer-reviewedImmunology