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ArticleThe EMBO journal2018

Regulatory T cells constrain the TCR repertoire of antigen-stimulated conventional CD4 T cells.

Martina Fontaine, Isabel Vogel, Yves-Rémi Van Eycke, Adrien Galuppo, Yousra Ajouaou, Christine Decaestecker, George Kassiotis, Muriel Moser, Oberdan Leo

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Article in The EMBO journal, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9citing papers in PubMed
0.9field-weighted citation impact, top 27% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

9 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Martina FontaineLaboratoire d'Immunobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
Isabel VogelLaboratoire d'Immunobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
Yves-Rémi Van EyckeDIAPath, Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
Adrien GaluppoLaboratoire d'Immunobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
Yousra AjouaouLaboratoire d'Immunobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
Christine DecaesteckerDIAPath, Center for Microscopy and Molecular Imaging, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
George KassiotisRetroviral Immunology, The Francis Crick Institute, London, UK.
Muriel MoserLaboratoire d'Immunobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium.
Oberdan LeoLaboratoire d'Immunobiologie, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Gosselies, Belgium oleo@ulb.ac.be.ORCID 0000-0002-3621-4743
Université Libre de Bruxelles · BEThe Francis Crick Institute · GB

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To analyze the potential role of Tregs in controlling the TCR repertoire breadth to a non-self-antigen, a TCRβ transgenic mouse model (EF4.1) expressing a limited, yet polyclonal naïve T-cell repertoire was used. The response of EF4.1 mice to an I-Ab-associated epitope of the F-MuLV envelope protein is dominated by clones expressing a Vα2 gene segment, thus allowing a comprehensive analysis of the TCRα repertoire in a relatively large cohort of mice. Control and Treg-depleted EF4.1 mice were immunized, and the extent of the Vα2-bearing, antigen-specific TCR repertoire was characterized by high-throughput sequencing and spectratyping analysis. In addition to increased clonal expansion and acquisition of effector functions, Treg depletion led to the expression of a more diverse TCR repertoire comprising several private clonotypes rarely observed in control mice or in the pre-immune repertoire. Injection of anti-CD86 antibodies

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AnimalsAntibodies, ViralB7-2 AntigenCells, CulturedFriend murine leukemia virusLymphocyte DepletionMiceMice, Inbred C57BLMice, TransgenicReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-betaT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryViral Envelope ProteinsAntibodies, ViralB7-2 AntigenCd86 protein, mouseReceptors, Antigen, T-Cell, alpha-betaViral Envelope ProteinsCD4+ T‐cell lymphocytesregulatory T cellsTCR repertoire analysis

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PMID29263148
PMCPMC5793804
OpenAlexW2776763348

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