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MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 2, Issue 6, Pages 472-477Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/mi.2009.111
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- Wellcome Trust Programme
- Medical Research Council [G9818340B] Funding Source: researchfish
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Phylogeny indicates that adaptive immunity evolved first in diffusely distributed lymphoid tissues found in the lamina propria (LP) of the gut. B follicular structures appeared later, probably initially in isolated lymphoid follicles in the LP and then in organized lymphoid tissues such as lymph nodes and Peyer's patches. The development of these new lymphoid structures was enabled by gene duplication and evolution of new tumor necrosis family members. Here, we argue that lymphoid tissue inducer cells (LTis) had a pivotal role, not only in the development of organized lymphoid structures, but also in the subsequent genesis of the CD4-dependent class-switched memory antibody responses. In this review, we concentrate on the latter function: the sustenance by LTis of CD4 T-cell responses for protective immunity.
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