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ArticleFrontiers in immunology2011

Chemokines: a new dendritic cell signal for T cell activation.

Christoph A Thaiss, Verena Semmling, Lars Franken, Hermann Wagner, Christian Kurts

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Article in Frontiers in immunology, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers.

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37 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Christoph A ThaissInstitutes of Molecular Medicine and Experimental Immunology, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University Bonn, Germany.
Verena Semmling
Lars Franken
Hermann Wagner
Christian Kurts

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Dendritic cells (DCs) are the main inducers and regulators of cytotoxic T lymphocyte (CTL) responses against viruses and tumors. One checkpoint to avoid misguided CTL activation, which might damage healthy cells of the body, is the necessity for multiple activation signals, involving both antigenic as well as additional signals that reflect the presence of pathogens. DCs provide both signals when activated by ligands of pattern recognition receptors and "licensed" by helper lymphocytes. Recently, it has been established that such T cell licensing can be facilitated by CD4⁺ T helper cells ("classical licensing") or by natural killer T cells ("alternative licensing"). Licensing regulates the DC/CTL cross-talk at multiple layers. Direct recruitment of CTLs through chemokines released by licensed DCs has recently emerged as a common theme and has a crucial impact on the efficiency of CTL responses. Here, we discuss recent advances in our understanding of DC licensing for cross-priming and implications for the temporal and spatial regulation underlying this process. Future vaccination strategies will benefit from a deeper insight into the mechanisms that govern CTL activation.

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antigen presentationchemokinescostimulationdendritic cellsNKT cellsT cell activation

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PMID22566821
PMCPMC3342358

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