Nature Communications (Dec 2018)

Control of Treg cell homeostasis and immune equilibrium by Lkb1 in dendritic cells

  • Song Chen,
  • Lijun Fang,
  • Wei Guo,
  • Yushan Zhou,
  • Gang Yu,
  • Wenwen Li,
  • Kui Dong,
  • Jingru Liu,
  • Yuechen Luo,
  • Bing Wang,
  • Zhonglong Li,
  • Chunxiao Zhao,
  • Zhina Sun,
  • Yue Shen,
  • Qibing Leng,
  • Dongming Zhou,
  • Zhongchao Han,
  • Huifang Huang,
  • He Ren,
  • Guogang Xu,
  • Xiaoming Feng

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-07545-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Regulatory T (Treg) cells are important for maintaining immune homeostasis by suppressing immune cell activation, but how the Treg cell pool is maintained is still unclear. Here the authors show that a kinase, Lkb1, operates in dendritic cells (DC) to inhibit Treg cell expansion and immunosuppression via mechanisms involving NF-kB/OX40L signalling.