Nature Communications (Sep 2019)

Double negative T cells mediate Lag3-dependent antigen-specific protection in allergic asthma

  • Dan Tian,
  • Lu Yang,
  • Song Wang,
  • Yanbing Zhu,
  • Wen Shi,
  • Chunpan Zhang,
  • Hua Jin,
  • Yue Tian,
  • Hufeng Xu,
  • Guangyong Sun,
  • Kai Liu,
  • Zhongtao Zhang,
  • Dong Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-12243-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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Allergic asthma symptoms may be controlled, but currently no effective therapy exist to address the underlying pathology. Here the authors show, using mouse model of adoptive cell transfer, that CD4-CD8- T cells can suppress the function of dendritic cells and T follicular helper cells via Lag3 to provide allergen-specific protection from asthma.