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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 5, Pages 511-U116Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.2247
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- Core resources supported by the Diabetes Endocrinology Research Center [DK32520]
- National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases of the US National Institutes of Health [R24 AI072073, CA100382]
- eBioscience
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Innate gamma delta T cells function in the early phase of immune responses. Although innate gamma delta T cells have often been studied as one homogenous population, they can be functionally classified into effector subsets on the basis of the production of signature cytokines, analogous to adaptive helper T cell subsets. However, unlike the function of adaptive T cells, gamma delta effector T cell function correlates with genomically encoded T cell antigen receptor (TCR) chains, which suggests that clonal TCR selection is not the main determinant of the differentiation of gamma delta effector cells. A high-resolution transcriptome analysis of all emergent gamma delta thymocyte subsets segregated on the basis of use of the TCR gamma-chain or delta-chain indicated the existence of three separate subtypes of gamma delta effector cells in the thymus. The immature gamma delta subsets were distinguished by unique transcription-factor modules that program effector function.
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