Nature Communications (May 2020)

Toll-like receptor signaling in thymic epithelium controls monocyte-derived dendritic cell recruitment and Treg generation

  • Matouš Vobořil,
  • Tomáš Brabec,
  • Jan Dobeš,
  • Iva Šplíchalová,
  • Jiří Březina,
  • Adéla Čepková,
  • Martina Dobešová,
  • Aigerim Aidarova,
  • Jan Kubovčiak,
  • Oksana Tsyklauri,
  • Ondřej Štěpánek,
  • Vladimír Beneš,
  • Radislav Sedláček,
  • Ludger Klein,
  • Michal Kolář,
  • Dominik Filipp

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16081-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Immune tolerance is mediated by the deletion of autoreactive T cells via medullary thymic epithelial cells (mTEC) and dendritic cells (DC), and by the induction of regulatory T cells (Treg). Here the authors show that mTEC receiving toll-like receptor signaling control the recruitment of CD14+Sirpα+ DC population that is capable of inducing Treg for establishing tolerance.