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ArticleEMBO reports2015

The thymic cortical epithelium determines the TCR repertoire of IL-17-producing γδT cells.

Takeshi Nitta, Ryunosuke Muro, Yukiko Shimizu, Sachiko Nitta, Hiroyo Oda, Yuki Ohte, Motohito Goto, Rieko Yanobu-Takanashi, Tomoya Narita, Hiroshi Takayanagi and 4 more

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Article in EMBO reports, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 32 papers.

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32 citing papers in PubMed, 54 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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14 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Takeshi NittaDepartment of Immunology and Pathology, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
Ryunosuke MuroDepartment of Immunology and Pathology, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
Yukiko ShimizuDepartment of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Sachiko NittaDepartment of Immunology and Pathology, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
Hiroyo OdaDepartment of Immunology and Pathology, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan.
Yuki OhteLaboratory of Protein Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Motohito GotoDepartment of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Rieko Yanobu-TakanashiDepartment of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Tomoya NaritaDepartment of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Hiroshi TakayanagiDepartment of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine and Faculty of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Hisataka YasudaBioindustry Division, Oriental Yeast Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan.
Tadashi OkamuraDepartment of Laboratory Animal Medicine, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan Section of Animal Models, Department of Infectious Diseases, Research Institute National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Shigeo MurataLaboratory of Protein Metabolism, Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.
Harumi SuzukiDepartment of Immunology and Pathology, Research Institute, National Center for Global Health and Medicine, Chiba, Japan hsuzuki@ri.ncgm.go.jp.
National Center for Global Health and Medicine · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The thymus provides a specialized microenvironment in which distinct subsets of thymic epithelial cells (TECs) support T-cell development. Here, we describe the significance of cortical TECs (cTECs) in T-cell development, using a newly established mouse model of cTEC deficiency. The deficiency of mature cTECs caused a massive loss of thymic cellularity and impaired the development of αβT cells and invariant natural killer T cells. Unexpectedly, the differentiation of certain γδT-cell subpopulations-interleukin-17-producing Vγ4 and Vγ6 cells-was strongly dysregulated, resulting in the perturbation of γδT-mediated inflammatory responses in peripheral tissues. These findings show that cTECs contribute to the shaping of the TCR repertoire, not only of "conventional" αβT cells but also of inflammatory "innate" γδT cells.

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AnimalsCell DifferentiationCell SurvivalDNA Mutational AnalysisEpithelial CellsEpitheliumFemaleInflammationInterleukin-17MiceMice, KnockoutMice, TransgenicMutationNatural Killer T-CellsProteasome Endopeptidase ComplexReceptors, Antigen, T-CellInterleukin-17Proteasome Endopeptidase ComplexReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, gamma-deltaIL‐17thymic epithelial cellthymusβ5tγδT

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PMID25770130
PMCPMC4428049
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