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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-021-22589-z
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- DFG [GE 3062/1-1]
- NIH [R37 AI039560]
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Conventional T cell subsets are selected in the thymus by peptide bearing MHC expressed by cortical epithelial cells, while cortical thymocytes express non-peptide bearing MHC molecules including CD1d and MR1 and select iNKT and MAIT cell populations respectively. The authors have generated a novel inducible MHC class-I transactivator murine system and suggest the absence of peptide-MHC on thymocytes is involved in the selection of non-peptide specific lymphocytes.
Conventional T cells are selected by peptide-MHC expressed by cortical epithelial cells in the thymus, and not by cortical thymocytes themselves that do not express MHC I or MHC II. Instead, cortical thymocytes express non-peptide presenting MHC molecules like CD1d and MR1, and promote the selection of PLZF(+) iNKT and MAIT cells, respectively. Here, we report an inducible class-I transactivator mouse that enables the expression of peptide presenting MHC I molecules in different cell types. We show that MHC I expression in DP thymocytes leads to expansion of peptide specific PLZF(+) innate-like (PIL) T cells. Akin to iNKT cells, PIL T cells differentiate into three functional effector subsets in the thymus, and are dependent on SAP signaling. We demonstrate that PIL and NKT cells compete for a narrow niche, suggesting that the absence of peptide-MHC on DP thymocytes facilitates selection of non-peptide specific lymphocytes. Conventional T cell subsets are selected in the thymus by peptide bearing MHC expressed by cortical epithelial cells, in contrast cortical thymocytes express non-peptide bearing MHC molecules including CD1d and MR1 and select iNKT and MAIT cell populations respectively. Here, the authors generate a novel inducible MHC class-I trasnactivator murine system and suggest the absence of peptide-MHC on thymocytes is involved in the selection of non-peptide specific lymphocytes.
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