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Distinct Contributions of Aire and Antigen-Presenting-Cell Subsets to the Generation of Self-Tolerance in the Thymus

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IMMUNITY
Volume 41, Issue 3, Pages 414-426

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2014.08.007

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  1. NIH NIAID [AI079187]
  2. Burroughs Wellcome Fund
  3. NIH NRSA postdoctoral fellowship

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The contribution of thymic antigen-presenting-cell (APC) subsets in selecting a self-tolerant T cell population remains unclear. We show that bone marrow (BM) APCs and medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTECs) played nonoverlapping roles in shaping the T cell receptor (TCR) repertoire by deletion and regulatory T (Treg) cell selection of distinct TCRs. Aire, which induces tissue-specific antigen expression in mTECs, affected the TCR repertoire in a manner distinct from mTEC presentation. Approximately half of Aire-dependent deletion or Treg cell selection utilized a pathway dependent on antigen presentation by BM APCs. Batf3-dependent CD8 alpha(+) dendritic cells (DCs) were the crucial BM APCs for Treg cell selection via this pathway, showing enhanced ability to present antigens from stromal cells. These results demonstrate the division of function between thymic APCs in shaping the selftolerant TCR repertoire and reveal an unappreciated cooperation between mTECs and CD8 alpha(+) DCs for presentation of Aire-induced self-antigens to developing thymocytes.

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