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IMMUNITY
卷 34, 期 1, 页码 50-60出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.immuni.2010.12.014
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- NIH [PO1-AI35297, RO1-AI64677, PA-05-015, R01-DA026065]
- Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service [F32-AI077199]
- W.M. Keck Award
- UCSF
Self-reactive T cell clones that escape negative selection are either deleted or rendered functionally unresponsive (anergic), thus preventing them from propagating host tissue damage. By using an in vivo model, we investigated molecular mechanisms for T cell tolerance, finding that despite a characteristic inability to generate effector cytokine proteins, self-reactive T cells express large amounts of cytokine mRNAs. This disconnect between cytokine message and protein was not observed in T cells mounting productive responses to foreign antigens but, instead, was seen only in those responding to self, where the block in protein translation was shown to involve conserved AU-rich elements within cytokine 3'UTRs. These studies reveal that translation of abundant cytokine mRNAs is limited in self-reactive T cells and, thus, identify posttranscriptional silencing of antigen-driven gene expression as a key mechanism underlying the anergic phenotype of self-reactive T cells.
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