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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 12, Pages 1102-U98Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.1956
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- National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases [048632, AR056720]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases [AI071155, AI054456, AI056299]
- Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation
- Burroughs Wellcome Fund
- National Psoriasis Foundation
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CD1 activates T cells, but the function and size of the possible human T cell repertoires that recognize each of the CD1 antigen-presenting molecules remain unknown. Using an experimental system that bypasses major histocompatibility complex (MHC) restriction and the requirement for defined antigens, we show that polyclonal T cells responded at higher rates to cells expressing CD1a than to those expressing CD1b, CD1c or CD1d. Unlike the repertoire of invariant natural killer T (NKT) cells, the CD1a-autoreactive repertoire contained diverse T cell antigen receptors (TCRs). Functionally, many CD1a-autoreactive T cells homed to skin, where they produced interleukin 22 (IL-22) in response to CD1a on Langerhans cells. The strong and frequent responses among genetically diverse donors define CD1a-autoreactive cells as a normal part of the human T cell repertoire and CD1a as a target of the T(H)22 subset of helper T cells.
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