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HUMAN IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 69, Issue 11, Pages 721-727Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.humimm.2008.08.279
Keywords
Self nonself discrimination; Peripheral T-cell regulation; Avidity of T-cell activation; Qa-1/HLA-E-restricted CD8+T cells; Immunologically relevant clinical problems
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- National Institutes of Health [R01 A1065609, U19 AI46132]
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By discriminating self from nonself and controlling the magnitude and class of immune responses, the immune system mounts effective immunity against virtually any foreign antigens but avoids harmful immune responses to self. These are two equally important and related but distinct processes, which function in concert to ensure an optimal function of the immune system. Immunologically relevant clinical problems often occur because of failure of either process, especially the former. Currently, there is no unified conceptual framework to characterize the precise relationship between thymic negative selection and peripheral immune regulation, which is the basis for understanding self-nonself discrimination versus control of magnitude and class of immune responses. In this article, we explore a novel hypothesis of how the immune system discriminates self from nonself in the periphery during adaptive immunity. This hypothesis permits rational analysis of various seemingly unrelated biomedical problems inherent in immunologic disorders that cannot be uniformly interpreted by any currently existing paradigms. The proposed hypothesis is based on a unified conceptual framework of the avidity model of peripheral T-cell regulation that we originally proposed and tested, in both basic and clinical immunology, to understand how the immune system achieves self-nonself discrimination in the periphery. (c) 2008 American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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