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ArticleImmunology2018

Indirect presentation in the thymus limits naive and regulatory T-cell differentiation by promoting deletion of self-reactive thymocytes.

Jin Yan Yap, Rushika C Wirasinha, Anna Chan, Debbie R Howard, Christopher C Goodnow, Stephen R Daley

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Article in Immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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6 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Jin Yan YapDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Rushika C WirasinhaInfection and Immunity Programme, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Anna ChanInfection and Immunity Programme, Monash Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Debbie R HowardDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.
Christopher C GoodnowImmunology Division, Garvan Institute of Medical Research, Sydney, NSW, Australia.
Stephen R DaleyDepartment of Immunology and Infectious Disease, The John Curtin School of Medical Research, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-5870-644X
Australian National University · AUDiscovery Institute · USGarvan Institute of Medical Research · AU

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acquisition of T-cell central tolerance involves distinct pathways of self-antigen presentation to thymocytes. One pathway termed indirect presentation requires a self-antigen transfer step from thymic epithelial cells (TECs) to bone marrow-derived cells before the self-antigen is presented to thymocytes. The role of indirect presentation in central tolerance is context-dependent, potentially due to variation in self-antigen expression, processing and presentation in the thymus. Here, we report experiments in mice in which TECs expressed a membrane-bound transgenic self-antigen, hen egg lysozyme (HEL), from either the insulin (insHEL) or thyroglobulin (thyroHEL) promoter. Intrathymic HEL expression was less abundant and more confined to the medulla in insHEL mice compared with thyroHEL mice. When indirect presentation was impaired by generating mice lacking MHC class II expression in bone marrow-derived antigen-presenting cells, insHEL-mediated thymocyte deletion was abolished, whereas thyroHEL-mediated deletion occurred at a later stage of thymocyte development and Foxp3

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Cell DifferentiationAnimalsAntigen PresentationAntigen-Presenting CellsAutoantigensBiomarkersClonal Selection, Antigen-MediatedGene ExpressionImmune ToleranceImmunophenotypingMiceMice, KnockoutPhenotypeThymocytesThymus GlandT-Lymphocytes, RegulatoryAutoantigensBiomarkerscentral toleranceindirect presentationregulatory T cellsT-cell deletionT-cell tolerance

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PMID29411880
PMCPMC6002238
OpenAlexW2790627551

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