JCI Editor’s update: Plan S, JCI Scholars, recent reviews, and more

Dear Colleague,

I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you of the JCI’s longstanding commitment to making all research articles available free of charge. The ASCI adopted this model in 1996 when the journal first went online, and all of our research content, from 1924 to the present, is publicly available. As ever more journals have created open access options, both researchers and funders have become involved in the conversation about publishing models and disseminating journal content. A coalition of European funders recently proposed requirements that research articles funded by their organizations be published in open access publications (see Free access to scientific publications: contrasting the JCI approach to Plan S). While details of Plan S are still emerging, I want to reaffirm the JCI’s continued support for free access for all to scientific research, a tradition that is also carried on in JCI Insight.

I would also like to highlight the JCI Scholars program, an initiative started by the current editorial board when our tenure began in 2017. The program provides physician-scientist trainees a unique opportunity to participate in manuscript evaluation and better understand the peer review and publishing process. We’ve recently expanded the program to include medical fellows as well as MD/PhD students from Johns Hopkins and the University of Maryland, and we have 8 new trainees participating in 2019. A Viewpoint article written by JCI Scholars who recently completed the program shares insights gained during their time shadowing the Editorial Board. I hope that their perspective might be useful to other young scientists in your lab as well. Read their article, as well as others in our Viewpoint series.

Sincerely,

Rexford S. Ahima, MD, PhD
Editor, The Journal of Clinical Investigation


Features for authors

Recent Review Series

ASCI members are indicated in bold.

Biology of familial cancer predisposition syndromes

Series edited by Mary Armanios and Agata Smogorzewska

Hypoxia, angiogenesis, and metabolism in the hereditary kidney cancers
John C. Chappell, Laura Beth Payne, and W. Kimryn Rathmell

PTEN-opathies: from biological insights to evidence-based precision medicine
Lamis Yehia, Joanne Ngeow, and Charis Eng

Misactivation of Hedgehog signaling causes inherited and sporadic cancers
David R. Raleigh and Jeremy F. Reiter

Transcription factor mutations as a cause of familial myeloid neoplasms
Jane E. Churpek and Emery H. Bresnick

Recently published Reviews

Corresponding authors who are ASCI members are indicated in bold.

Mitochondria, OxPhos, and neurodegeneration: cells are not just running out of gas
Estela Area-Gomez, Cristina Guardia-Laguarta, Eric A. Schon, and Serge Przedborski

Molecular imaging of fibrosis: recent advances and future directions
Sydney B. Montesi, Pauline Désogère, Bryan C. Fuchs, and Peter Caravan

Mixing old and young: enhancing rejuvenation and accelerating aging
Ashley Lau, Brian K. Kennedy, James L. Kirkland, and Stefan G. Tullius

Functional significance of the platelet immune receptors GPVI and CLEC-2
Julie Rayes, Steve P. Watson, and Bernhard Nieswandt

Selective tissue targeting of synthetic nucleic acid drugs
Punit P. Seth, Michael Tanowitz, and C. Frank Bennett

Autoimmune seizures and epilepsy
Christian Geis, Jesus Planagumà, Mar Carreño, Francesc Graus, and Josep Dalmau

Environmental exposures and mechanisms in allergy and asthma development
Liza Bronner Murrison, Eric B. Brandt, Jocelyn Biagini Myers, and Gurjit K. Khurana Hershey

Epithelial barrier repair and prevention of allergy
Elena Goleva, Evgeny Berdyshev, and Donald Y.M. Leung

Top-cited JCI research articles

Data from Scopus, February 25, 2019. Corresponding authors who are ASCI members are indicated in bold.

Host expression of PD-L1 determines efficacy of PD-L1 pathway blockade–mediated tumor regression
Heng Lin, Shuang Wei, Elaine M. Hurt, Michael D. Green, Lili Zhao, Linda Vatan, Wojciech Szeliga, Ronald Herbst, Paul W. Harms, Leslie A. Fecher, Pankaj Vats, Arul M. Chinnaiyan, Christopher D. Lao, Theodore S. Lawrence, Max Wicha, Junzo Hamanishi, Masaki Mandai, Ilona Kryczek, and Weiping Zou
Times cited: 28

PD-L1 on host cells is essential for PD-L1 blockade–mediated tumor regression
Haidong Tang, Yong Liang, Robert A. Anders, Janis M. Taube, Xiangyan Qiu, Aditi Mulgaonkar, Xin Liu, Susan M. Harrington, Jingya Guo, Yangchun Xin, Yahong Xiong, Kien Nham, William Silvers, Guiyang Hao, Xiankai Sun, Mingyi Chen, Raquibul Hannan, Jian Qiao, Haidong Dong, Hua Peng, and Yang-Xin Fu
Times cited: 25

Mucus plugs in patients with asthma linked to eosinophilia and airflow obstruction
Eleanor M. Dunican, Brett M. Elicker, David S. Gierada, Scott K. Nagle, Mark L. Schiebler, John D. Newell, Wilfred W. Raymond, Marrah E. Lachowicz-Scroggins, Selena Di Maio, Eric A. Hoffman, Mario Castro, Sean B. Fain, Nizar N. Jarjour, Elliot Israel, Bruce D. Levy, Serpil C. Erzurum, Sally E. Wenzel, Deborah A. Meyers, Eugene R. Bleecker, Brenda R. Phillips, David T. Mauger, Erin D. Gordon, Prescott G. Woodruff, Michael C. Peters, John V. Fahy, and The National Heart Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) Severe Asthma Research Program (SARP)
Times cited: 22

Early B cell changes predict autoimmunity following combination immune checkpoint blockade
Rituparna Das, Noffar Bar, Michelle Ferreira, Aaron M. Newman, Lin Zhang, Jithendra Kini Bailur, Antonella Bacchiocchi, Harriet Kluger, Wei Wei, Ruth Halaban, Mario Sznol, Madhav V. Dhodapkar, and Kavita M. Dhodapkar
Times cited: 19

Latent HIV reservoirs exhibit inherent resistance to elimination by CD8+ T cells
Szu-Han Huang, Yanqin Ren, Allison S. Thomas, Dora Chan, Stefanie Mueller, Adam R. Ward, Shabnum Patel, Catherine M. Bollard, Conrad Russell Cruz, Sara Karandish, Ronald Truong, Amanda B. Macedo, Alberto Bosque, Colin Kovacs, Erika Benko, Alicja Piechocka-Trocha, Hing Wong, Emily Jeng, Douglas F. Nixon, Ya-Chi Ho, Robert F. Siliciano, Bruce D. Walker, and R. Brad Jones
Times cited: 18

Hepatitis B virus–specific T cells associate with viral control upon nucleos(t)ide-analogue therapy discontinuation
Laura Rivino, Nina Le Bert, Upkar S. Gill, Kamini Kunasegaran, Yang Cheng, Damien Z.M. Tan, Etienne Becht, Navjyot K. Hansi, Graham R. Foster, Tung-Hung Su, Tai-Chung Tseng, Seng Gee Lim, Jia-Horng Kao, Evan W. Newell, Patrick T.F. Kennedy, and Antonio Bertoletti
Times cited: 17

JAK1/2 inhibition with baricitinib in the treatment of autoinflammatory interferonopathies
Gina A. Montealegre Sanchez, Adam Reinhardt, Suzanne Ramsey, Helmut Wittkowski, Philip J. Hashkes, Yackov Berkun, Susanne Schalm, Sara Murias, Jason A. Dare, Diane Brown, Deborah L. Stone, Ling Gao, Thomas Klausmeier, Dirk Foell, Adriana A. de Jesus, Dawn C. Chapelle, Hanna Kim, Samantha Dill, Robert A. Colbert, Laura Failla, Bahar Kost, Michelle O’Brien, James C. Reynolds, Les R. Folio, Katherine R. Calvo, Scott M. Paul, Nargues Weir, Alessandra Brofferio, Ariane Soldatos, Angelique Biancotto, Edward W. Cowen, John J. Digiovanna, Massimo Gadina, Andrew J. Lipton, Colleen Hadigan, Steven M. Holland, Joseph Fontana, Ahmad S. Alawad, Rebecca J. Brown, Kristina I. Rother, Theo Heller, Kristina M. Brooks, Parag Kumar, Stephen R. Brooks, Meryl Waldman, Harsharan K. Singh, Volker Nickeleit, Maria Silk, Apurva Prakash, Jonathan M. Janes, Seza Ozen, Paul G. Wakim, Paul A. Brogan, William L. Macias, and Raphaela Goldbach-Mansky
Times cited: 15

Influenza-specific lung-resident memory T cells are proliferative and polyfunctional and maintain diverse TCR profiles
Angela Pizzolla, Thi H.O. Nguyen, Sneha Sant, Jade Jaffar, Tom Loudovaris, Stuart I. Mannering, Paul G. Thomas, Glen P. Westall, Katherine Kedzierska, and Linda M. Wakim
Times cited: 15

Insulin resistance causes inflammation in adipose tissue
Mitsugu Shimobayashi, Verena Albert, Bettina Woelnerhanssen, Irina C. Frei, Diana Weissenberger, Anne Christin Meyer-Gerspach, Nicolas Clement, Suzette Moes, Marco Colombi, Jerome A. Meier, Marta M. Swierczynska, Paul Jenö, Christoph Beglinger, Ralph Peterli, and Michael N. Hall
Times cited: 14

Specialized fibroblast differentiated states underlie scar formation in the infarcted mouse heart
Xing Fu, Hadi Khalil, Onur Kanisicak, Justin G. Boyer, Ronald J. Vagnozzi, Bryan D. Maliken, Michelle A. Sargent, Vikram Prasad, Iñigo Valiente-Alandi, Burns C. Blaxall, and Jeffery D. Molkentin
Times cited: 13

CD163+ macrophages promote angiogenesis and vascular permeability accompanied by inflammation in atherosclerosis
Liang Guo, Hirokuni Akahori, Emanuel Harari, Samantha L. Smith, Rohini Polavarapu, Vinit Karmali, Fumiyuki Otsuka, Rachel L. Gannon, Ryan E. Braumann, Megan H. Dickinson, Anuj Gupta, Audrey L. Jenkins, Michael J. Lipinski, Johoon Kim, Peter Chhour, Paul S. de Vries, Hiroyuki Jinnouchi, Robert Kutys, Hiroyoshi Mori, Matthew D. Kutyna, Sho Torii, Atsushi Sakamoto, Cheol Ung Choi, Qi Cheng, Megan L. Grove, Mariem A. Sawan, Yin Zhang, Yihai Cao, Frank D. Kolodgie, David P. Cormode, Dan E. Arking, Eric Boerwinkle, Alanna C. Morrison, Jeanette Erdmann, Nona Sotoodehnia, Renu Virmani, and Aloke V. Finn
Times cited: 13

Recent articles with ASCI members as corresponding authors

Neutrophil extracellular trap production contributes to pathogenesis in SIV-infected nonhuman primates
Ranjit Sivanandham, Egidio Brocca-Cofano, Noah Krampe, Elizabeth Falwell, Sindhuja Murali Kilapandal Venkatraman, Ruy M. Ribeiro, Cristian Apetrei, and Ivona Pandrea

Kidney-infiltrating T cells in murine lupus nephritis are metabolically and functionally exhausted
Jeremy S. Tilstra, Lyndsay Avery, Ashley V. Menk, Rachael A. Gordon, Shuchi Smita, Lawrence P. Kane, Maria Chikina, Greg M. Delgoffe, and Mark J. Shlomchik

The two-pore domain potassium channel TREK-1 mediates cardiac fibrosis and diastolic dysfunction
Dennis M. Abraham, Teresa E. Lee, Lewis J. Watson, Lan Mao, Gurangad Chandok, Hong-Gang Wang, Stephan Frangakis, Geoffrey S. Pitt, Svati H. Shah, Matthew J. Wolf, and Howard A. Rockman

Super-enhancers maintain renin-expressing cell identity and memory to preserve multi-system homeostasis
Maria Florencia Martinez, Silvia Medrano, Evan A. Brown, Turan Tufan, Stephen Shang, Nadia Bertoncello, Omar Guessoum, Mazhar Adli, Brian C. Belyea, Maria Luisa S. Sequeira-Lopez, and R. Ariel Gomez

Interaction between smoking and ATG16L1T300A triggers Paneth cell defects in Crohn’s disease
Ta-Chiang Liu, Justin T. Kern, Kelli L. VanDussen, Shanshan Xiong, Gerard E. Kaiko, Craig B. Wilen, Michael W. Rajala, Roberta Caruso, Michael J. Holtzman, Feng Gao, Dermot P.B. McGovern, Gabriel Nunez, Richard D. Head, and Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck

SMAD4 promotes TGF-β–independent NK cell homeostasis and maturation and antitumor immunity
Youwei Wang, Jianhong Chu, Ping Yi, Wejuan Dong, Jennifer Saultz, Yufeng Wang, Hongwei Wang, Steven Scoville, Jianying Zhang, Lai-Chu Wu, Youcai Deng, Xiaoming He, Bethany Mundy-Bosse, Aharon G. Freud, Li-Shu Wang, Michael A. Caligiuri, and Jianhua Yu

Loss of placental growth factor ameliorates maternal hypertension and preeclampsia in mice
Jacqueline G. Parchem, Keizo Kanasaki, Megumi Kanasaki, Hikaru Sugimoto, Liang Xie, Yuki Hamano, Soo Bong Lee, Vincent H. Gattone, Samuel Parry, Jerome F. Strauss, Vesna D. Garovic, Thomas F. McElrath, Karen H. Lu, Baha M. Sibai, Valerie S. LeBleu, Peter Carmeliet, and Raghu Kalluri

Survival signal REG3α prevents crypt apoptosis to control acute gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease
Dongchang Zhao, Yeung-Hyen Kim, Seihwan Jeong, Joel K. Greenson, Mohammed S. Chaudhry, Matthias Hoepting, Erik R. Anderson, Marcel R.M. van den Brink, Jonathan U. Peled, Antonio L.C. Gomes, Ann E. Slingerland, Michael J. Donovan, Andrew C. Harris, John E. Levine, Umut Ozbek, Lora V. Hooper, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, Aaron Ver Heul, Ta-Chiang Liu, Pavan Reddy, and James L.M. Ferrara

Antisense STAT3 inhibitor decreases viability of myelodysplastic and leukemic stem cells
Aditi Shastri, Gaurav Choudhary, Margarida Teixeira, Shanisha Gordon-Mitchell, Nandini Ramachandra, Lumie Bernard, Sanchari Bhattacharyya, Robert Lopez, Kith Pradhan, Orsolya Giricz, Goutham Ravipati, Li-Fan Wong, Sally Cole, Tushar D. Bhagat, Jonathan Feld, Yosman Dhar, Matthias Bartenstein, Victor J. Thiruthuvanathan, Amittha Wickrema, B. Hilda Ye, David A. Frank, Andrea Pellagatti, Jacqueline Boultwood, Tianyuan Zhou, Youngsoo Kim, A. Robert MacLeod, P.K. Epling-Burnette, Minwei Ye, Patricia McCoon, Richard Woessner, Ulrich Steidl, Britta Will, and Amit Verma

Temporal dynamics of Wnt-dependent transcriptome reveal an oncogenic Wnt/MYC/ribosome axis
Babita Madan, Nathan Harmston, Gahyathiri Nallan, Alex Montoya, Peter Faull, Enrico Petretto, and David M. Virshup

PI3K p110δ inactivation antagonizes chronic lymphocytic leukemia and reverses T cell immune suppression
Shuai Dong, Bonnie K. Harrington, Eileen Y. Hu, Joseph T. Greene, Amy M. Lehman, Minh Tran, Ronni L. Wasmuth, Meixiao Long, Natarajan Muthusamy, Jennifer R. Brown, Amy J. Johnson, and John C. Byrd

An airway epithelial IL-17A response signature identifies a steroid-unresponsive COPD patient subgroup
Stephanie A. Christenson, Maarten van den Berge, Alen Faiz, Kai Inkamp, Nirav Bhakta, Luke R. Bonser, Lorna T. Zlock, Igor Z. Barjaktarevic, R. Graham Barr, Eugene R. Bleecker, Richard C. Boucher, Russell P. Bowler, Alejandro P. Comellas, Jeffrey L. Curtis, MeiLan K. Han, Nadia N. Hansel, Pieter S. Hiemstra, Robert J. Kaner, Jerry A. Krishnanm, Fernando J. Martinez, Wanda K. O’Neal, Robert Paine III, Wim Timens, J. Michael Wells, Avrum Spira, David J. Erle, and Prescott G. Woodruff

Type 2 deiodinase polymorphism causes ER stress and hypothyroidism in the brain
Sungro Jo, Tatiana L. Fonseca, Barbara M.L.C. Bocco, Gustavo W. Fernandes, Elizabeth A. McAninch, Anaysa P. Bolin, Rodrigo R. Da Conceição, Joao Pedro Werneck-de-Castro, Daniele L. Ignacio, Péter Egri, Dorottya Németh, Csaba Fekete,Maria Martha Bernardi, Victoria D. Leitch, Naila S. Mannan, Katharine F. Curry, Natalie C. Butterfield, J.H. Duncan Bassett, Graham R. Williams, Balázs Gereben, Miriam O. Ribeiro, and Antonio C. Bianco

Osteopontin mediates glioblastoma-associated macrophage infiltration and is a potential therapeutic target
Jun Wei, Anantha Marisetty, Brett Schrand, Konrad Gabrusiewicz, Yuuri Hashimoto, Martina Ott, Zacharia Grami, Ling-Yuan Kong, Xiaoyang Ling, Hillary Caruso, Shouhao Zhou, Y. Alan Wang, Gregory N. Fuller, Jason Huse, Eli Gilboa, Nannan Kang, Xingxu Huang, Roel Verhaak, Shulin Li, and Amy B. Heimberger

Tumor-conditional anti-CTLA4 uncouples antitumor efficacy from immunotherapy-related toxicity
Chien-Chun Steven Pai, Donald M. Simons, Xiaoqing Lu, Michael Evans, Junnian Wei, Yung-hua Wang, Mingyi Chen, John Huang, Chanhyuk Park, Anthony Chang, Jiaxi Wang, Susan Westmoreland, Christine Beam, Dave Banach, Diana Bowley, Feng Dong, Jane Seagal, Wendy Ritacco, Paul L. Richardson, Soumya Mitra, Grace Lynch, Pete Bousquet, John Mankovich, Gillian Kingsbury, and Lawrence Fong

Compound haploinsufficiency of Dok2 and Dusp4 promotes lung tumorigenesis
Ming Chen, Jiangwen Zhang, Alice H. Berger, Moussa S. Diolombi, Christopher Ng, Jacqueline Fung, Roderick T. Bronson, Mireia Castillo-Martin, Tin Htwe Thin, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Robin Plevin, and Pier Paolo Pandolfi

ʟ-Carnitine in omnivorous diets induces an atherogenic gut microbial pathway in humans
Robert A. Koeth, Betzabe Rachel Lam-Galvez, Jennifer Kirsop, Zeneng Wang, Bruce S. Levison, Xiaodong Gu, Matthew F. Copeland, David Bartlett, David B. Cody, Hong J. Dai, Miranda K. Culley, Xinmin S. Li, Xiaoming Fu, Yuping Wu, Lin Li, Joseph A. DiDonato, W.H. Wilson Tang, Jose Carlos Garcia-Garcia, and Stanley L. Hazen

An alternative mitophagy pathway mediated by Rab9 protects the heart against ischemia
Toshiro Saito, Jihoon Nah, Shin-ichi Oka, Risa Mukai, Yoshiya Monden, Yasuhiro Maejima, Yoshiyuki Ikeda, Sebastiano Sciarretta, Tong Liu, Hong Li, Erdene Baljinnyam, Diego Fraidenraich, Luke Fritzky, Peiyong Zhai, Shizuko Ichinose, Mitsuaki Isobe, Chiao-Po Hsu, Mondira Kundu, and Junichi Sadoshima

Cardiac CaV1.2 channels require β subunits for β-adrenergic–mediated modulation but not trafficking
Lin Yang, Alexander Katchman, Jared Kushner, Alexander Kushnir, Sergey I. Zakharov, Bi-xing Chen, Zunaira Shuja, Prakash Subramanyam, Guoxia Liu, Arianne Papa, Daniel Roybal, Geoffrey S. Pitt, Henry M. Colecraft, and Steven O. Marx

Rescue of recurrent deep intronic mutation underlying cell type–dependent quantitative NEMO deficiency
Bertrand Boisson, Yoshitaka Honda, Masahiko Ajiro, Jacinta Bustamante, Matthieu Bendavid, Andrew R. Gennery, Yuri Kawasaki, Jose Ichishima, Mitsujiro Osawa, Hiroshi Nihira, Takeshi Shiba, Takayuki Tanaka, Maya Chrabieh, Benedetta Bigio, Hong Hur, Yuval Itan, Yupu Liang, Satoshi Okada, Kazushi Izawa, Ryuta Nishikomori, Osamu Ohara, Toshio Heike, Laurent Abel, Anne Puel, Megumu K. Saito, Jean-Laurent Casanova, Masatoshi Hagiwara, and Takahiro Yasumi

In vivo hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy ameliorates murine thalassemia intermedia
Hongjie Wang, Aphrodite Georgakopoulou, Nikoletta Psatha, Chang Li, Chrysi Capsali, Himanshu Bhusan Samal, Achilles Anagnostopoulos, Anja Ehrhardt, Zsuzsanna Izsvák, Thalia Papayannopoulou, Evangelia Yannaki, and André Lieber

Gene fitness landscape of group A streptococcus during necrotizing myositis
Luchang Zhu, Randall J. Olsen, Stephen B. Beres, Jesus M. Eraso, Matthew Ojeda Saavedra, Samantha L. Kubiak, Concepcion C. Cantu, Leslie Jenkins, Amelia R. L. Charbonneau, Andrew S. Waller, and James M. Musser

HSP90 inhibitor geldanamycin reverts IL-13– and IL-17–induced airway goblet cell metaplasia
Alejandro A. Pezzulo, Rosarie A. Tudas, Carley G. Stewart, Luis G. Vargas Buonfiglio, Brian D. Lindsay, Peter J. Taft, Nicholas D. Gansemer, and Joseph Zabner

Single-dose radiotherapy disables tumor cell homologous recombination via ischemia/reperfusion injury
Sahra Bodo, Cécile Campagne, Tin Htwe Thin, Daniel S. Higginson, H. Alberto Vargas, Guoqiang Hua, John D. Fuller, Ellen Ackerstaff, James Russell, Zhigang Zhang, Stefan Klingler, HyungJoon Cho, Matthew G. Kaag, Yousef Mazaheri, Andreas Rimner, Katia Manova-Todorova, Boris Epel, Joan Zatcky, Cristian R. Cleary, Shyam S. Rao, Yoshiya Yamada, Michael J. Zelefsky, Howard J. Halpern, Jason A. Koutcher, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Carlo Greco, Adriana Haimovitz-Friedman, Evis Sala, Simon N. Powell, Richard Kolesnick, and Zvi Fuks

Bronchus-associated lymphoid tissue–resident Foxp3+ T lymphocytes prevent antibody-mediated lung rejection
Wenjun Li, Jason M. Gauthier, Ryuji Higashikubo, Hsi-Min Hsiao, Satona Tanaka, Linh Vuong, Jon H. Ritter, Alice Y. Tong, Brian W. Wong, Ramsey R. Hachem, Varun Puri, Ankit Bharat, Alexander S. Krupnick, Chyi S. Hsieh, William M. Baldwin III, Francine L. Kelly, Scott M. Palmer, Andrew E. Gelman, and Daniel Kreisel

Graft-versus-host disease propagation depends on increased intestinal epithelial tight junction permeability
Sam C. Nalle, Li Zuo, Ma. Lora Drizella M. Ong, Gurminder Singh, Alicia M. Worthylake, Wangsun Choi, Mario Cabrero Manresa, Anna P. Southworth, Karen L. Edelblum, Gregory J. Baker, Nora E. Joseph, Peter A. Savage, and Jerrold R. Turner

Lineage-specific events underlie aortic root aneurysm pathogenesis in Loeys-Dietz syndrome
Elena Gallo MacFarlane, Sarah J. Parker, Joseph Y. Shin, Benjamin E. Kang, Shira G. Ziegler, Tyler J. Creamer, Rustam Bagirzadeh, Djahida Bedja, Yichun Chen, Juan F. Calderon, Katherine Weissler, Pamela A. Frischmeyer-Guerrerio, Mark E. Lindsay, Jennifer P. Habashi, and Harry C. Dietz