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MUCOSAL IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 6, Issue 4, Pages 666-677Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/mi.2013.30
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- Institute Strategic Programme Grant from Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BB/J0004332/1]
- National Institutes of Health [DK064730]
- [BB/J014672/1]
- [BB/K021257/1]
- Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council [BBS/E/D/20251968, BB/K021257/1, BBS/E/D/20231759, BB/J014672/1, BBS/E/D/20251967, BB/F019726/1, BB/G003947/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- BBSRC [BB/K021257/1, BB/J014672/1, BBS/E/D/20251968, BB/G003947/1, BB/F019726/1, BBS/E/D/20231759, BBS/E/D/20251967] Funding Source: UKRI
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The transcytosis of antigens across the gut epithelium by microfold cells ( M cells) is important for the induction of efficient immune responses to some mucosal antigens in Peyer's patches. Recently, substantial progress has been made in our understanding of the factors that influence the development and function of M cells. This review highlights these important advances, with particular emphasis on: the host genes which control the functional maturation of M cells; how this knowledge has led to the rapid advance in our understanding of M-cell biology in the steady state and during aging; molecules expressed on M cells which appear to be used as immunosurveillance'' receptors to sample pathogenic microorganisms in the gut; how certain pathogens appear to exploit M cells to infect the host; and finally how this knowledge has been used to specifically target antigens to M cells to attempt to improve the efficacy of mucosal vaccines.
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