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NATURE IMMUNOLOGY
卷 17, 期 4, 页码 379-+出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ni.3386
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- US National Institutes of Health (F32 grant) [AI074248, AI080619, P30 CA008748]
- Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (Veni grant) [91614038]
The T cell antigen receptor (TCR) is unique in that its affinity for ligand is unknown before encounter and can vary by orders of magnitude. How the immune system regulates individual T cells that display very different reactivity to antigen remains unclear. Here we found that activated CD4(+) T cells, at the peak of clonal expansion, persistently downregulated their TCR expression in proportion to the strength of the initial antigen recognition. This programmed response increased the threshold for cytokine production and recall proliferation in a clone-specific manner and ultimately excluded clones with the highest antigen reactivity. Thus, programmed downregulation of TCR expression represents a negative feedback mechanism for constraining T cell effector function with a suitable time delay to thereby allow pathogen control while avoiding excess inflammatory damage.
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