Continuous T Cell Receptor Signals Maintain a Functional Regulatory T Cell Pool (CROSBI ID 227483)
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Vahl, J. Christoph ; Drees, Christoph ; Heger, Klaus ; Heink, Sylvia ; Fischer, Julius C. ; Nedjić, Jelena ; Ohkura, Naganari ; Morikawa, Hiromasa ; Poeck, Hendrik ; Schallenberg, Sonja ; Rieß, David ; Hein, Marco Y. ; Buch, Thorsten ; Polić, Bojan ; Schoenle, Anne ; Zeiser, Robert ; Schmitt-Graeff, Annette ; Kretschmer, Karsten ; Klein, Ludger ; Korn, Thomas ; Sakaguchi, Shimon ; Schmidt-Supprian, Marc
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Continuous T Cell Receptor Signals Maintain a Functional Regulatory T Cell Pool
Regulatory T (Treg) cells maintain immune homeostasis and prevent inflammatory and autoimmune responses. During development, thymocytes bearing a moderately self-reactive T cell receptor (TCR) can be selected to become Treg cells. Several observations suggest that also in the periphery mature Treg cells continuously receive self-reactive TCR signals. However, the importance of this inherent autoreactivity for Treg cell biology remains poorly defined. To address this open question, we genetically ablated the TCR of mature Treg cells in vivo. These experiments revealed that TCR-induced Treg lineage-defining Foxp3 expression and gene hypomethylation were uncoupled from TCR input in mature Treg cells. However, Treg cell homeostasis, cell-type-specific gene expression and suppressive function critically depend on continuous triggering of their TCR.
Foxp3; TCR; Treg
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Temeljne medicinske znanosti, Biologija